Engaging Consumers

Supporting consumers with information and incentives to choose the right care at the right price

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Redesigning Care Delivery

Supporting the health care system to deliver better care at a better price

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Paying for Value

Ensuring providers of health care are rewarded for quality and efficiency

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Advancing Value-Based Policy

Helping policymakers create public policies that improve care and moderate costs

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For over 20 years,
The Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) has helped purchasers nationwide improve the quality of health care and moderate health care cost increases. PBGH serves as a voice for purchasers, leveraging the strength of its members, who spend 12 billion dollars annually to provide health care coverage to more than three million employees, retirees and dependents in California alone.

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Blogs and Publications

Health Plan Quality Improvement Strategy Reporting Under the Affordable Care Act. Read the Commonwealth Fund Report .

PBGH CEO David Lansky proposes important principles for public reporting. Read the Health Affairs blog.

What did PBGH do to impact the cost and quality of health care in 2011? Read the Annual Report .

PBGH co-leads the Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project; read their issue brief Ten Criteria for Meaningful and Useable Measures of Performance.

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