BCBS of Massachusetts executive named to MedPAC

The U.S. Comptroller General and U.S. Government Accountability Office head appointed Dana Gelb Safran, chief performance measurement and improvement officer and senior vice president of enterprise analytics at Boston-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, to serve on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.

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MedPAC is a 17-person group advising Congress on Medicare payment policy issues. Ms. Safran joins the group with experience in developing Blue Cross’ alternative quality contract, which is used as a provider payment model for Medicare’s Pioneer and Next Generation ACO payment arrangements.

Ms. Safran previously worked for the Office of Technology Assessment, a former Congressional office responsible for researching health and technology-related policy issues.

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