Brian Blase, Ph.D., is the President of Paragon Health Institute. Brian was Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the White House’s National Economic Council (NEC) from 2017-2019, where he coordinated the development and execution of numerous health policies and advised the President, NEC director, and senior officials. After leaving the White House, Brian founded Blase Policy Strategies and served as its CEO.
Brian Blase was referenced in The Washington Post – July 30, 2024
On July 30, 2024, Paragon’s event “Medicare Site-Neutral Payments: A Commonsense, Bipartisan Reform” was referenced in The Washington Post.
From the article:
Former Health and Human Services secretaries Kathleen Sebelius and Alex Azar are among the policymakers calling for Medicare to pay the same rate for the same service, whether it’s provided in a hospital outpatient department or free-standing doctor’s office, our colleague Dan Diamond reports.
Their argument got a spotlight on Monday at an event organized by the Paragon Heath Institute, a right-leaning health policy think tank, and three other groups.
The issue has brought together interesting ideological bedfellows. Paragon’s Brian Blase, a longtime critic of the Affordable Care Act, led the event and interviewed Sebelius, who was in charge of implementing the law.
A second panel of experts from the American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, the Center for American Progress and Paragon — representing a mix of policy viewpoints — also chimed in with criticism of how Medicare pays hospitals.
Medicare’s existing payment formula is a “pretty asinine policy,” said Brookings’s Loren Adler. “Medicare is making effectively an active choice at this point, to pay about twice as much on average, for the exact same service to be done in a hospital outpatient department, rather than a physician’s office.”
The full article can be found in The Washington Post.
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