WorkGroups

About the WorkGroups

The focus of the workgroups is to discuss and analyze how Montanans can get the greatest value out of each healthcare dollar through increased affordability, coverage, access, quality, transparency, efficiency, adequacy of benefits, evidence-based practice of medicine, consumer engagement, realistic expectations about care, and administrative simplicity.

Proposals from the workgroups will be directed to the governor, legislature, and private sector organizations. They will include practical steps for achieving sustainable and coordinated change in healthcare such as pilot projects, funding sources, and new policies.

In November 2007, the forum sponsors met for an initial discussion about how to proceed. They concluded that a wider group of stakeholders should come together to organize and lead the workgroups. They also discussed possible topics for the workgroups.

The workgroups were established at a meeting in January 2007. This meeting included forum sponsors, forum attendees volunteered to be a leader, and other leaders who were not sponsors or volunteer leaders and whose organizations were important for a full range of stakeholders.

Over 80 people volunteered to participate in the workgroups at the October 2007 forum. Subsequent efforts to reach out to a wider group of those interested in health care in Montana created a contact list more than twice that size. The workgroups have nearly 90 participants.

Workgroup recommendatons in both draft and final form will be available through this website. The workgroups will finish their recommendations by the next Montana Healthcare Forum or earlier depending the deadlines for action by whatever group would need to adopt them.