Keynote: The US experience to integrate care through payment reforms - Dr Amol Navathe

The Evolution of the Care Economy Summit was hosted by the University of Sydney and sponsored by the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA), on 3 July 2024.

The event brought together 450 thought leaders, policy makers, and industry professionals from the care economy across the health, aged care and disability sectors. Delegates explored the future of Australia's care economy, with discussions centred on innovative approaches to aged care, health service delivery, and sustainable economic models for the sector.

The keynote speaker was Dr Amol Navathe, Professor of Health Policy, Medicine, and Healthcare Management, University of Pennsylvania.

Dr Navathe spoke about his 25 years of experience in designing, implementing and evaluating payment reforms in delivering better outcomes for patients and improving health system performance. He informed the Summit that the Affordable Care Act was instrumental in facilitating and signalling a commitment to payment reform innovation, experimentation and implementation.

One of Dr Navathe’s key messages was to ‘test with purpose’, which entailed not only identifying a care problem that is modifiable through payment reform, but also incorporating academic rigour in model design and having institutional support to bring the lessons from passed reforms into future ones. He drew out key lessons on the need to be patient centric when anticipating benefits of reform. Other key lessons included the need for a plan for scaling-up, thinking carefully about incentives in the design of reform, and ensuring that all stakeholders are actively informed about progress and results.

To read the event communique visit the IHACPA website:
https://www.ihacpa.gov.au/resources/c...