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2016 Payer Forum: "Implementing Quality and Value in HCT" View summary (PDF) and slides: 

• Implementing Quality and Value in HCT
• Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: Moving Beyond Survival to the Patient's Perspective
• Quality of Life after HCT - What can an outcomes registry do?
• Quality Across a Network of HCT Programs
• Corrective Action Strategies to Improve Care
• ASBMT Quality Outcomes Committee
• Center Specific Outcomes Reporting
• Value Based Purchasing & Access
• Brass Tracks: The Money Problem
• Center Specific Outcomes Reporting
• Moving Forward
• Brass Tracks: HCT & The Money Problem
• Implementing Quality & Value in HCT WrapUp

2015 Payer Forum: "Aligning Quality and Value in Stem Cell Transplantation"
Summary to come. View slides: 

• Meeting Orientation (PDF)
• Linking Registries, EHRs and Comprehensive Care Programs to Drive Quality in Cancer Care (PDF)
• A Perspective on Transparency (PDF)
• Overview of ASH Quality Improvement Activities (PDF)
• Facilitating Care Improvement Practices via Accreditation (PDF)
• Center Outcomes Reporting in HCT - Progression Recommendations from the Center Outcome Forum 2014 (PDF)
• History and Status of Quality Measurement in SCT (PDF)
• HCT and the Costs of Care - Improving the Value of HCT - A System Perspective (PDF)
• The Medical Neighborhood - Value of the Home - Neighbor Relationship (PDF)
• Creating High-Value Health Care in HCT - Moving Forward Together (PDF)

2014 Payer Forum: “Quality and Value in Stem Cell Transplantation”
View summary (PDF) and slides:

• Defining Quality and Value in Stem Cell Transplant (PDF) 
• Applying the Triple Aim to Specialty Care: Understanding Cost,Quality and the Patient Experience in Complex Care Settings (PDF) 
• Measurement Evolution (PDF) 
• Center Outcomes Reporting and the CIBMTR (PDF)
• Incorporating Clinical Outcomes into Accreditation Requirements(PDF)
• Quality Through Benchmarking: Leveraging UHC Data Capabilities (PDF) 
• Transplant Center Survey (PDF)
• The Integration of Palliative Care in Stem Cell Transplantation:A New Language for Palliative Care (PDF) 
• Creative Thinking: Bundled Payment Models in Complex MedicalSettings (PDF)  
• Quality and Value in Stem Cell Transplant: What do employers andpayers want to see? (PDF) 
• Defining Value and Quality in Stem Cell Transplant Beyond theDollars (PDF) 
• Pay for Performance in Blood and Marrow Transplant (PDF)
• Moving Forward: What’s Next? (PDF) 
• Better Than Expected: City of Hope Case Study (PDF)  

2013 Payer Forum: “Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplant: A Forum on Quality, Transparency, Cost and Value”
View summary (PDF) and slides:   

• Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation Costs and Trends (PDF)
• Moving Forward:Helping Employers and Other Payers Make Informed Decisions about Benefit Design (PDF)
• Sarah Cannon Blood Cancer Network (PDF)
• Determining the “Real” Costs of Transplant: The Health Services Research Perspective (PDF)
• Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplant: How to Appeal to Self Funded& Stop Loss Markets (PDF)
• Center specific outcome reporting for HCT 2013 Quality, Transparency and Patient  Safety in BMT (PDF)
• BMT Community Report to Third-Party Payers (PDF)

Other Resources

• Standardization of Terminology for Episodes of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Patient Transplant Care: Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2013
• Recommended Benefit Plan Design (PDF)
  
• Standardized Transplant Authorization Form (PDF) for Transplant Centers and Payors

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