Press Releases

NEHI (Network for Excellence in Health Innovation) – a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to advancing innovations that improve health, enhance the quality of health care, and achieve greater value for the money spent – announced today that its board of directors has unanimously selected Wendy Warring to serve as the organization’s next President and CEO.

NEHI (The Network for Excellence in Health Innovation) released a white paper today recommending that Massachusetts health care payers, providers, and the state's biopharma industry come together in collaboration to address the unique payment and insurance coverage challenges raised by very highly innovative, "next generation" therapies.

Health Care Without Walls: A Roadmap for Reinventing U.S. Health Care embraces this vision of a more “distributed” health care system extending outside of traditional institutional settings – and that would be more convenient, accessible, and arguably less costly than what the United States has now.

NEHI has submitted the following comments in response to the HHS Request for Information: “Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs.”

Big gaps in the exchange of data and information throughout the health care system are impeding efforts to address the opioid epidemic, NEHI (the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation) reported in a policy brief released today.

NEHI (the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation) yesterday submitted recommendations to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in response to the Request for Information soliciting proposals for “new directions” for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, or CMMI.

NEHI (the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation) called today for a series of regulatory steps and other actions to enable new payment arrangements for high cost cancer drugs. Known as “value-based” or “outcomes-based” contracts, such arrangements tie payments to measurable results in patients, in contrast to prevailing arrangements that tie prices and discounts to the volume of drugs purchased.

NEHI (The Network for Excellence in Health Innovation) has announced work stream leaders for its Health Care Without Walls initiative, which is focused on advancing development of a more distributed and accessible health care system, drawing on current and future technologies.

At its 10th annual Innovators in Health Awards on Thursday, September 28, NEHI (The Network for Excellence in Health Innovation) will honor forward-thinking leaders who have innovated to advance health and health care throughout their careers

Report Calls for Better Tools to Produce Wiser Decisions, Lower Costs, and Improved Outcomes