Healthcare DIVE June 20, 2019
NASHVILLE — A panel of top executives, including a major provider, payer and former CMS chief opened America’s Health Insurance Plan’s annual meeting with some soul searching and a call for the industry to disrupt itself.
“Unless we have the will and we are willing to break some real glass, that is not going to happen,” Stephen Klasko, CEO at Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health, said at the insurance trade group’s conference Wednesday, concluding a discussion on the biggest barriers to fixing the cost and quality challenges within the U.S. system.
Disruption is needed across a range of areas, from fixing financial incentives to the need for partnerships across the sector, between providers and payers but also with genetics companies and...