RECORDING NOW ONLINE: Webinar14 'How to pay for healthcare services? Strategic purchasing and price-setting for COVID-19 and TB’

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‘How to pay for healthcare services? Strategic purchasing and price-setting for COVID-19 and TB’ - TBPPM Webinar 10 September 2020

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Thanks to everyone for your participation and many questions (a Q & A is in development).

Background

Strategic purchasing in health brings finance and health sector together in how health service providers are paid for the delivery of services. For the effective engagement of private providers in quality TB care and prevention, there are two important areas in which governments have used strategic purchasing:

• Procurement of the supportive and organizational services of an intermediary agency (typically an NGO), which then does the work of engaging, supporting and monitoring private providers who are supplying TB care and prevention;
• Procurement of clinical TB services from individual providers or clinical care entities, often via payments made by a social health insurance scheme (webinar on this aspect planned in October 2020 with Indonesia and Philippines).

In this webinar, you will hear lessons from the World Bank on strategic purchasing with a focus on the first of these two, with valuable experience from the Worldbank in India and China. To better understand strategic purchasing and issues related to price-setting, the webinar looks at the following questions:

1. What is strategic purchasing and how is it practically implemented in LMIC?
2. How to determine the right price for a public purchaser in contracting a private player?
3. What are lessons and examples from India in strategic purchasing for healthcare?
4. What are lessons and examples from China in strategic purchasing for healthcare?

Please find the presentations given during the webinar:

Owen Smith, Health Economist, World Bank

Owen Smith is a Senior Economist with the World Bank’s Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice, currently based in New Delhi, India. He joined the World Bank in 2005, and has worked extensively on health financing and health policy issues in the Europe and Central Asia and South Asia regions. Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked at a consulting firm and as an economist at the Canadian Ministry of Finance.

Sheena Chhabra, Senior Health Specialist, World Bank

Sheena Chhabra is a Senior Health Specialist with the World Bank’s Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice based in New Delhi, India. In her career, spanning over three decades, Sheena has a strong track record of impacting national and state health programs related to universal health coverage, reproductive, maternal & child health, infectious diseases, nutrition, and water & sanitation covering areas such as health policy & strategy, health financing, private sector engagement, and monitoring & evaluation. Prior to joining the World Bank, Sheena headed the Health Systems Development Division of USAID/India (United States Agency for International Development). Before that, she was a Senior Project Director at the Social and Rural Research Institute (SRI) and a Lecturer at Lady Irwin College, Delhi University.

Di Dong, Health Economist, World Bank

Di Dong is a health economist in the World Bank. She receives PhD in Health Economics and Health Service Research from National University of Singapore, and post doctoral training from Duke-Kunshan University and Duke University. Since 2015, she works on national TB control programs in China and India, with a focus on TB system strengthening, strategic purchasing and provider payment reforms related to TB service, service utilization and patient financial burden, as well as TB program monitoring and evaluation. She was involved in the China MOH-BMGF TB Comprehensive Care Model Pilot phase 2 and 3. She also works extensively on several large social health insurance and purchasing programs, including the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme in China, PM-JAY scheme in India, Universal Health Insurance System in Egypt, and PHAP program in Saudi Arabia. Areas of focus include health insurance policy, provider payment reform, insurance data analytics, impact evaluation and performance, health technology assessment, pharmaceutical policies, and hospital response to incentives, and health expenditure efficiency. Her vision is to use good financial payment methods to incentivize high quality health service provision in both public and private sectors, and efficiency in the health care system.

Ronald Mutasa, Senior Health Specialist, World Bank

Ronald Mutasa Ronald Mutasa is a Senior Health Specialist in the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice at the World Bank in Washington, DC. He leads the Bank’s engagement in TB control in India and manages various other health systems strengthening programs in South Asia and Africa regions. Previously, Ronald was the Task Leader of the Southern Africa Tuberculosis and Health Systems Support project—the World Bank’s flagship initiative in Southern Africa. His areas of specialty and interest include, performance-based contracting, quality improvement, universal health coverage, health systems, disease control; and operations research. Ronald is a published author of articles on demand- and supply-side financing for health and performance-based incentives in low- and middle-income country settings and has served as a peer reviewer of various publications, program design concept papers and studies within the Bank and for journals. Ronald holds a doctorate in public health and advanced degrees in development economics and health policy.

Guy Stallworthy, Global Lead private provider engagement, B&M Gates Foundation 

Guy Stallworthy is currently Global Lead for Private Provider Engagement in the TB team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He was previously an independent consultant specializing in engagement of private healthcare providers for equity and health systems development in low- and middle-income countries. He has more than 30 years’ experience in international health and development, including earlier work on private provider engagement and new technology introduction at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2007-2014) and periods with Population Services International (1995-2006) and CARE International (1986-1992). His long-term assignments include Bangladesh, Chad, Bolivia and Myanmar.