Yale Health Care Forum: How Should Doctors Be Paid?

Yale Health Care Forum

“How Should Doctors be Paid? The Future of Physician Compensation and the Role of Government”

The forum will involve four positions. The first position is a defense of Fee-for-service, and holds that FFS functions in every other segment of the economy and would work well in healthcare if not tied to the 3rd party payer system. The second position holds that the free-market should drive the development of innovative payment models, with limited government oversight. The third position states that public policy must play an active role in promoting the development of innovative payment models. The fourth position states that physicians should be paid under a single payer or public utility model. We recognize that some of these positions may overlap, and believe that by highlighting areas of agreement and disagreement, this forum will serve to illustrate the various considerations of current and future payment reform.

Moderator:
Howard Forman, MD, MBA, Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, Public Health (Health Policy), Management, and Economics at Yale University

Panelists:
Zack Cooper, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and of Economics at Yale University, and will represent the position that public policy must drive payment innovation in healthcare.

John R. Graham is a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis and will represent the position that fee-for-service would work well in healthcare if not tied to the 3rd party payer system.

Neil B. Minkoff, MD is a former Commissioner of the Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission and will represent the position that innovative payment models should be developed by the free market.

Robert Nordgren, MD, MBA, MPH, is the CEO of Northeast Medical Group and a Senior Vice President of Yale New Haven Health System, and will represent the position that salaried models work well in healthcare.

Please RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LwAmqeGb9B-td_aoxlUuVNaGca80xAwALcYrc5-Faso/viewform

Hors d’oeuvres served at 5:30pm, debate from 6:00-7:30pm

The event is sponsored by the Yale Health Care Improvement Group and the Benjamin Rush Institute.