CAPP Perspectives

Employers and other health care purchasers share the same desires as physicians: To keep patients and workers healthy and fix a fragmented health care system. Are there opportunities for direct collaboration? CAPP and the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchasing Coalitions organized a series of listening sessions around this topic.

Interviews with 10 leaders of major medical groups in markets around the U.S. — all members of CAPP — plus insights from the most recent American Medical Group Association (AMGA) survey identify the milestones, incentives, and barriers in the roadmap toward pay-for-performance.

Telehealth tools have the potential to transform health care delivery. CAPP strongly supports the use of these tools to improve access, quality, and efficiency. In this white paper, CAPP physicians offer stakeholders thoughts about the most six most critical issues they must consider as providers, consumers, and regulators of telehealth tools to ease this transition.

In this brief, the third in a three-part series entitled “Implementing Health System Improvement,” the physician leaders of CAPP provide more detailed guidance to elected officials, members of the administration, and other thought leaders about how to move keep the momentum on value-based payment models.

In this brief, the second in a three-part series entitled “Implementing Health System Improvement,” the physician leaders of CAPP provide more detailed guidance to elected officials, members of the administration, and other thought leaders about how to move forward on improving the coordinated use of health information technology, focusing specifically on interoperability.

In this brief, the first in a three-part series entitled “Implementing Health System Improvement,” the physician leaders of CAPP provide more detailed guidance to elected officials, members of the administration, and other thought leaders about how to move forward on quality measurement and reporting.

CAPP and the American Cancer Society (ACS) have come together to examine what can and should be done to close the gaps that now exist in cancer prevention, detection and care coordination.

With thousands of political offices up for election this year in national, state, and local contests, candidates are searching for compelling health care platforms to address voters’ fundamental desire for high-quality, personal, affordable health care.