ALTARUM INSTITUTE INC.
ARLINGTON, VA

Altarum’s latest Health Sector Economic Indicators provide a second look at spending for the entire 2017 calendar year and suggest that national health spending grew by 4.6% from its 2016 level. Altarum announces MIPScast™, a user-friendly, interactive web-based tool designed to help clinicians predict and improve their Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) scores in order to comply with the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). Payformance Solutions, a leading provider of value-based reimbursement solutions and services, today announced a pilot program with the Michigan Association of Health Plans (MAHP) in which the state's Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) will have the opportunity to use Payformance's TrustHub solution to collaborate through data sharing and strategic planning to uncover the best opportunities in value-based contracting. Altarum responded to the CMS Innovation Center’s informal Request for Information on a new direction to promote patient-centered care and test market-driven reforms that empower beneficiaries as consumers, provide price transparency, increase choices and competition to drive quality, reduce costs, and improve outcomes. Nonprofit research and consulting organization Altarum announces the launch of a new company, Payformance Solutions, an innovative provider of value-based reimbursement solutions and services, to advance payment transformation in the healthcare industry. Most states fail to provide consumers with the information they need to make informed health care choices and even fewer provide data on the price and quality of care together, according to a report by independent nonprofit organizations Altarum and Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR). Altarum today announces that PROMETHEUS Analytics®—the model for all bundled payment programs implemented in the United States—has expanded its product suite to include four new value-based health care analytics platforms. To provide consumers with an affordable alternative to high deductible health plans (HDHPs), Altarum has created an innovative new model for those who use health care the most. Altarum Institute Altarum is committed to hiring, developing, and retaining a flexible, skilled, and engaged workforce that is valued and empowered by the Institute and that, in turn, is actively committed to the Institute’s mission, vision, values, and business model. We behave with integrity in everything that we do. We are accountable for the quality of our work and the manner in which it is performed. We promote the well-being of our employees and encourage a meaningful work-life balance. Who We Are helps us see the broader environment in which these systems operate and in which problems arise. This methodology identifies critical system interactions and focuses on the root causes that can lead a system to fail. Through our systems research and the Systems Change Model, we help you visualize the whole picture – ensuring a more comprehensive and sustainable solution to your problem. Read about our health systems research methodology, the Systems research is the work Altarum performs to help clients understand and solve the underlying issues that cause the health care delivery and financing systems they oversee to become inefficient, ineffective, or unsustainable. The Mission, Vision, & Values Mission President, CEO, and Trustee, Altarum Institute Mr. Armijo provides the leadership, management, and vision necessary to advance Altarum’s mission and ensure operational excellence. He oversees Altarum’s six operating centers (connected health, high value healthcare, behavioral health, healthy women and children, military and veteran’s health, and appropriate care). Ms. Gill leads Altarum’s legal, contracts, human resources, and procurement functions. Selected as part of Washington Business Journal's 2016 Top 40 Business Leaders under 40, Ms. Gill is a recognized expert in government contracting law, governance, corporate strategy, and entrepreneurship. President, KAI Research, Inc., an Altarum company As president for KAI Research, Inc., an Altarum company, Katherine A. Dimeo leads a contract research organization serving multiple clients at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Department of Defense (DoD), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as a wide range of private nonprofit and for-profit life sciences organizations and biopharmaceutical and medical device companies. President, Palladian Partners, Inc., an Altarum Company Trustee, Vice-Chair - Altarum Institute; Automotive Executive, retired June, 2017 Ms. Aldridge-Eason has served on several nonprofit boards and committees, including the Michigan Public Health Institute, the Michigan Community Service Commission, and the advisory committee of CyberMichigan, a former entity of Altarum. Currently, she serves as chair of the board of directors for Genesys Health Systems, an Ascension Health Ministry. She is also a certified community coach for The Harwood Institute, a nonprofit organization devoted to sparking fundamental change in American public life. Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA is President and CEO of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA). HFMA provides the resources health care organizations need to achieve sound fiscal health in order to provide excellent patient care. Guy Fish, MD, has more than 25 years of health care, life sciences, and biotechnology experience. He serves as a Vice President in the Healthcare Practice Group at Fletcher Spaght, the firm’s consulting business. President, CEO, and Trustee, Altarum Institute Altarum Institute First, Altarum is built upon a nonprofit business model through which we provide both objective research and client-centered consulting services. Our internally funded and contract research agenda shapes our core consulting services, ensuring that those services are insightful and technically rigorous. And our consulting practice keeps our research program rooted in the real world – the world that our clients are facing today.