"[R]ecommendations that purchasers can use to advance payment reform in Denver: ... [1] Implement benefit designs to encourage consumers seek higher value care.... [2] Implement value-oriented programs such as two-sided risk arrangements that hold providers accountable to quality and cost targets. [3] Expand on earlier success in enhancing transparency on health care quality and prices. [4] Promote the benchmarking of prices relative to Medicare as a means for allowing employers to determine whether the health care prices they are paying are reasonable."  MORE >>