July 30, 2024

Paragon’s Site-neutral Event Covered in Axios – July 30, 2024

Brian Blase

President at Paragon Health Institute

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.

Joe Albanese

Senior Policy Analyst at Paragon Health Institute

Joe Albanese is a Senior Policy Analyst with Paragon Health Institute. He comes to Paragon with over six years of federal and nonprofit public policy experience.

On July 30, 2024, Axios covered our event “Medicare Site-Neutral Payments: A Commonsense, Bipartisan Reform.”

From the article:

The bottom line: A bipartisan group of experts spoke in support of the idea at Monday’s forum and floated potential solutions to rural concerns.

- The event was hosted by Paragon Health Institute, the Center for American Progress, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Brookings Institution, groups you don’t see together every day, and featured former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as well as Azar.
- Benedic Ippolito of AEI said some hospitals in outlying areas really need help, and could get targeted payments, rather than the inefficient status quo.
- “The idea that in order to solve that you should overpay all of the hospitals in America is so backwards,” he said.

The full article can be found in Axios.

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