International Speakers' Travel for Washington DC Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Meeting

This grant would bring an international perspective to a full‐day conference in Washington DC being organized
by The Urban Institute, in partnership with the Brookings Institution, to discuss the state of the Medicare
Physician Fee Schedule. Two leading international experts on provider payment strategies in high income
countries will be invited to provide a cross‐national comparison of provider payment mechanisms, from
population‐based capitation to fee‐for‐service that countries use, as well as, approaches to updating fee
schedules, trends in physician costs, vetting fee schedules for ‘low value’ care, and methods that countries are
employing to link physician payment to quality and efficiency. More in‐depth country experience with pay‐
for–performance, fees for care coordination, risk‐sharing arrangements, and bundled payment approaches,
will be presented. Best practices and transferable lessons for the U.S. health care system will be highlighted
and make an important contribution to the conversation.