Reforming Payment Systems

NEHI’s research and analysis focuses on assessing the impact of new payment models on the development, adoption and availability of innovative therapies and technologies at the point of care. Current NEHI projects include how Accountable Care Organizations, bundled and global payments, pay-for–performance and patient centered medical homes are changing the innovation paradigm, creating new opportunities for some sectors and challenges for others. NEHI’s agenda on payment reforms includes future analysis of the need for continuing innovation in payment methods that will support improved patient outcomes and high-value care.

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Susan Dentzer President and CEO

Susan Dentzer is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the NEHI, the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization composed of more than 100 stakeholder organizations from across all key sectors of health and health care. NEHI’s mission is to advance innovations that improve health, enhance the quality of health care, and achieve greater value for the money spent. With offices in Washington, DC, and Boston, Massachusetts, NEHI conducts independent, objective research and thought leadership to accelerate these innovations and bring about changes within health care and public policy.

One of the nation's most respected health and health policy thought leaders and journalists, and a frequent speaker and commentator on television and radio, including NPR, Dentzer previously served as senior policy adviser to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Prior to that, she was editor-in-chief of the journal Health Affairs, and from 1998 to 2008, she served as the on-air Health Correspondent for the PBS NewsHour.

Dentzer is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Rescue Committee, a leading humanitarian organization; a member of the board of directors of Research!America, which works to advance research to improve health; and a member of the board of directors of the Public Health Institute. She is a fellow of the National Academy of Social Insurance and the Hasting Center, an institution dedicated to bioethics and the public interest. She previously served as a public member of the American Board of Medical Specialties. She serves on multiple advisory boards, including those of the Duke-Margolis Center; the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California-San Francisco; and the March of Dimes public policy advisory group.

A graduate of Dartmouth, Dentzer formerly chaired the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, and is a member of the Board of Advisors of Dartmouth Medical School. She and her husband, Charles Alston, have three grown children.

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NEHI'S Impact

For Our Members

"NEHI’s involvement in the ACO conversation is really about the organization they are, the knowledge that they bring and the platform they provide as the key thought leaders and stakeholders who aren’t specific to oncology. I think you need a neutral party sometimes to have these conversations. And they have done incredible work on bending the curve of healthcare costs and all of their other work that they’ve done to lay the groundwork for healthcare in a new era."-Molly Muldoon, Vice President of Government Affairs and Health Policy, Onyx Pharmaceuticals

In the Media

"ACOs, even at this early stage, are changing the innovation paradigm, creating new opportunities for some sectors and new challenges for others. For payers and providers, ACOs have opened the door for innovative new payment and care delivery models. But at the same time, there are new pressures on the biopharmaceutical and medtech industries to demonstrate the value of their innovations in ways not required in the past."- Network for Excellence in Health Innovation, featured in the Health Affairs Blog

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