who discussed the change at a talk hosted by the alliance for health reform and kaiser family foundation. this is an hour and a half. we re going to go head and get started. i m marilyn serafini. i m with the alliance for health reform. i would like to welcome you to today s briefing on payment and delivery system reforms in medicare. so today we re going to be looking at the evidence behind numerous experiments that are going on across the country to pay medical providers based on quality rather than the quantity of services. i would like to thank our supporter in this event, the kaiser family foundation and in particular our longtime partner, tricia neuman. i wanted to let everybody know that you can tweet with us live with this event. you can tweet your questions. you may tweet your comments. for both the people in the room and also those who are joining us live on c-span. the hash tag is medicare demos. if you would like to access our speaker presentations and you are n
tricia neuman. i wanted to let everybody know that you can tweet with us live with this event. you can tweet your questions. you may tweet your comments. for both the people in the room and also those who are joining us live on c-span. the hash tag is medicare demos. if you would like to access our speaker presentations and you are not in the room with us, you can find them on our website at w www.allhealth.org. i m going to turn this over now to our partner tricia neuman who will tell us more about why we re here today. thank you, marilyn. it s great to be here. before we get started, i just want to congratulate you, marilyn, and sarah dash, wherever you may be, for taking over the helm of the alliance. we miss ed, but it s great to see you both new co-ceos. so welcome. of course, you have been here for a while. i want to thank all of you for coming here today on behalf of the kaiser family foundation. i m excited to be here. i think we re going to all learn quite a bit. a
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High drug costs in the U.S. often prompt patients to order from other countries, and smaller rural and independent pharmacies suffer from requirements for sourcing by Medicare.