The National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine has named William A. Peck, M.D., a member of a national committee that will address ways to redesign health insurance benefits, payment and performance improvement programs.
Peck is the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Medicine and the director of the Center for Health Policy at the Olin School of Business.
The committee’s purpose is to identify options for redesigning insurance benefits, provider payment policies and performance improvement programs in ways that will encourage and reward improvements in health and health-care delivery.
The primary focus is on the Medicare program, but the findings and recommendations likely will have broad applicability to all public and private insurance programs.
The committee, chaired by Steve A. Schroeder, M.D., the Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care at the University of California, San Francisco, includes 22 national health-care executives, educators and policy makers.
In addition to Peck, some of these include Bruce E. Bradley, director of Health Plan Strategy and Public Policy Health Care Initiatives at General Motors Corp.; Karen Davis, Ph.D., president of the Commonwealth Fund; and Samuel O. Thier, M.D., professor of medicine and professor of health-care policy at Harvard Medical School.
Peck is a nationally recognized health-care leader and has served as chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), as chair of the AAMC Council of Deans and also as vice chair of Research!America.
He is an elected member of the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine. Peck also has been an adviser to such organizations as the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health.