Will Value-based Care Save the Health Care System?

Value-based health care is one of today’s most pressing topics in health care finance and policy. To explore this important issue, Ropes & Gray and Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics hosted a full-day conference on value-based health care. The event brought together the foremost health care scholars, law practitioners and industry business leaders to provide a variety of viewpoints on challenges posed by the current regulatory framework, innovative value-based health care models and value-based contracting in the pharmaceutical industry, among other topics.

• Can Value-based Contracting Work for Pharma Companies 
• Data in Value-based Health Care
• Defining the Scope of "Value-based" Pricing"
• Prescription Drug Prices and "Value"
• Value-based Health Care

We are pleased to share video footage of the panels at the conference: » Watch Now

These videos include:

A panel titled “Is the Current Regulatory Framework Stifling Value-based Health Care?,” offering the perspectives of:

• Tom Bulleit, Partner, Ropes & Gray 
• Austin Frakt, Associate Professor, Boston University School of Public Health; Visiting Associate Professor, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health 
• Karen Gledhill, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Fresenius Medical Care North America 
• Lee Sacks, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Advocate Health Care and Chief Executive Officer of Advocate Physician Partners 
• Moderator: Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School

A discussion on “The Importance of Data in Value-based Health Care,” featuring: 

• Debbie Gersh, Partner, Ropes & Gray 
• David Peloquin, Associate, Ropes & Gray 
• Charles Safran, Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of Clinical Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 
• Moderator: David O’Brien, Senior Researcher, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University

A panel on “Innovative Business Models in the Emerging Value-based Health Care Landscape,” featuring: 

• Leemore Dafny, Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School 
• Thomas Lee, Chief Medical Officer, Press Ganey Associates 
• Tim McCrystal, Partner, Ropes & Gray 
• Betsy Van Hecke, Vice President, Legal, Cardiac and Vascular Group, Medtronic 
• Moderator: Timothy Layton, Assistant Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

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Ropes & Gray helps clients from every segment of the health care industry at every stage of their transition to value-based health care, from the initial evaluation of appropriate payment models (including all CMS innovation initiatives) to network formation, integration and contracting.

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