Dr. Robert A. Berenson

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  However, Robert Berenson, M.D., Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, advised that "there remains too much uncertainty about the Dartmouth findings to ground public policy on them. According to Dr. Berenson, the Urban Institute is currently studying geographic variations in utilization "using an alternative methodology. He reported that early findings appear to "cast doubt on both the magnitude...and source of the variations that the Dartmouth researchers found."
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  Dr. Berenson suggested using the medical school application process to identify students who are more likely to select a primary care career.

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  However, Robert Berenson, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, said that the information on the Web site about hospital costs for medical services is not beneficial because "it's not what the patient pays" (Hoholik, Columbus Dispatch, 6/10).

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  Robert A. Berenson, Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute, also served as co-chair. "Whatever form the legislation takes," Berenson said, "the challenging issues of implementation will require continued attention.
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  Robert A. Berenson,+ Co-Chair
  
  Urban Institute

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  On Friday, May 16, at 4:30 p.m. in room 206, Robert Berenson, MD, FACP; Carolyn Clancy, MD, MACP; and Eugene Rich, MD, FACP will present "Internists in Government: Insider Views from ACP Members Who Have Changed Health Care by Serving in the Federal Government."

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  Five Questions: Dr. Robert Berenson on the trends and challenges in health care The Urban Institute | Five Questions for Robert Berenson
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  Five Questions for Robert Berenson
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  Dr. Robert A. Berenson, senior fellow in Health Policy at the Urban Institute, has considerable frontline experience. As director of the federal Center for Health Plans and Providers and acting deputy administrator at the Health Care Financing Administration (now the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), Dr. Berenson oversaw policy and operational matters. He co-founded and served as the first medical director of the National Capital Preferred Provider Organization. A board-certified internist, Dr. Berenson practiced for 12 years in a Washington, D.C. group practice.

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  Helen Darling, president of the National Business Group on Health, and Robert Berenson, M.D., a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, discuss physician payment during a recent forum sponsored by the AAFP's Robert Graham Center.
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  Darling and health care policy expert Robert Berenson, M.D., a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, each spoke at the forum, explaining the role of primary care in reducing costs and improving health care while underscoring the impact of payment policies on the provision of primary care.
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  Berenson told the audience that "primary care is dying in this country," mainly because of public and private payment policies that fail to adequately compensate family physicians for their services.
  
  "The decline of people going into primary care positions has been pretty dramatic, (and has been) seriously affected by Medicare's payment system," said Berenson."As it happens, Medicare's payment system for physicians is increasingly and consistently adopted by private health plans."
  
  Physicians, like other members of American society, "go where the money is," he added.
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  This particular policy raised objections from Berenson, who said, "Fee-for-service is not a good payment vehicle for supporting what a good primary practice should be doing in the medical home."
  
  "Fee-for-service is dysfunctional," asserted Berenson."I think it is uniquely dysfunctional in primary care."
  
  Darling agreed with Berenson's overall assessment that the "current fee-for-service system is dysfunctional."

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  In the midst of this partisan impasse, amazingly, a disinterested policy debate broke out last week with the publication of [2] Bob Berenson's compromise proposal in [3] Health Affairs [1-week free access].
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  Berenson, who was head of private-plan contracting in Medicare in the late 1990s, suggested that the simple payment neutrality recommended by MedPAC overlooks a complex set of local-market variables that could tilt the competition, and that a more nuanced formula is in order.
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  Berenson makes his own case too well to attempt an abbreviated paraphrase here.He takes into account geographic variations in health spending, market-specific differences in health plans' bargaining power, Medicare's ability to fix provider reimbursement rates, and Congress's unwillingness to give Medicare the authority to use money-saving care-management techniques.
  
  More importantly, he recognizes the inevitability of a legislative "food fight" if both sides in this recurring argument insist on sticking to their positions regardless of the consequences.
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  [2] Bob Berenson's compromise proposal in : http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.27.2.w156v1

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  Robert A. Berenson, MD, senior fellow at the Urban Institute. From 1998 to 2000, Dr. Berenson served as director of the Center for Health Plans and Providers in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, overseeing payment policy and managed care contracting. He was the founder and medical director of the National Capital Preferred Provider Organization from 1986 to 1996, and he served as an assistant director of the White House Domestic Policy staff during the Carter administration. Dr. Berenson was appointed to a three-year term through 2012.

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  Bob Berenson from the Urban Institute proposed a board-like entity to oversee the Medicare program and relieve some of the political pressure from lawmakers in Congress. (PowerPoint Presentation) After listening to luncheon keynote speakers, Congressman Ron Kind (D-WI) and former Congresswoman Nancy Johnson (R-CT), attendees heard from two panels about the possibilities for Medicare reform.

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  Robert A. Berenson

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