GOVERNMENT KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
NEWLY CONFIRMED HHS KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Stacy Sanders, MSW
Counselor to the Secretary and Chief Competition Officer, US Department of Health and Human Services; Former Staff Director, US Senate Special Committee on Aging; Former Federal Policy Director, Medicare Rights Center, Washington, DCON ENFORCEMENT OF PRICE TRANSPARENCY
ON ENFORCEMENT OF NO SURPRISES ACT
ON ENFORCEMENT OF NO SURPRISES ACT
Douglas B. Jacobs, MD, MPH
Chief Transformation Officer, Center for Medicare, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Former Chief Medical Officer and Chief Innovation Officer, Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, Washington, DC
Amber Rivers, JD
Director, Office of Health Plan Standards and Compliance Assistance, US Department of Labor, Washington, DC
Jeff Wu, JD, MBA
Deputy Director for Policy, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Former Acting Director, Healthcare.gov, Washington, DCSTATE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NO SURPRISES ACT
Michael Conway, JD
Colorado Commissioner of Insurance; Former Assistant Attorney General, Colorado State Attorney General, Denver, CO
Michael Humphreys, MPA
Commissioner, Pennsylvania Insurance Department; Former Assistant Commissioner for Insurance, Tennessee; Former Director of State-Federal Relations, NAIC, Harrisburg, PA
Andrew R. Stolfi, JD
Insurance Commissioner, Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services; Former COO & Chief Counsel, International Association of Insurance Supervisors, Salem, ORKEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Alex Azar, JD
Advisor, Foresite Capital; Board, AbsoluteCare, GlobalHealth, Inc., Interwell Health, Lifescience Logistics, MSC Puerto Rico; Former Secretary, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington DC
Stacy Rummel Bratcher, JD
Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, Cottage Health; Former Vice President and Managing General Counsel, University of Southern California, Santa Barbara, CA
Congressman Larry Bucshon, MD (R/IN)
Vice Chairman, Health Subcommittee, US House of Representatives; Cardiothoracic Surgeon; Former President, Ohio Valley HeartCare, Evansville, IN
Michael Chernew, PhD
Chair, MedPAC; Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, and Director, Healthcare Markets and Regulation Lab, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD
Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, Co-Director, Healthcare Transformation Institute, Levy University Professor, Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Former Advisor, OMB (Obama), Philadelphia, PA
Cynthia A. Fisher, MBA
Founder and Chairman, PatientRightsAdvocate.org; Author, Semi-Annual Hospital Price Transparency Compliance Report; Founder and Former CEO, ViaCord; Co-founder, ViaCell, Cambridge, MA
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, PhD
President, American Action Forum; Former Chief Economist, President’s Council of Economic Advisers; Former Director, Congressional Budget Office; Former Chief Economic Policy Adviser, Senator John McCain's 2008 Presidential Campaign, Washington, DC
Katie Martin, MPA
President and Chief Executive Officer, Health Care Cost Institute; Former Acting Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, US Department of Health and Human Services, Falls Church, VA
Mark McClellan, MD, PhD
Director, Robert J Margolis Center for Health Policy and Margolis Professor of Business, Medicine and Health Policy, Duke University; Co-chair, Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network; Former CMS Administrator and FDA Commissioner, Washington, DC
Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD
Editor-in-Chief, KFF and Their Bill of the Month; Author, An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back; Former New York Times Health Care Reporter, Washington, DC
Gloria Sachdev, PharmD
President and Chief Executive Officer, Employers’ Forum of Indiana, Carmel, IN
Hemi Tewarson, JD, MPH
President and Executive Director, National Academy for State Health Policy; Former Director, Health Division, Center for Best Practices, National Governors Association, Takoma Park, MD
Alan Weil, JD, MPP
Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs; Former Executive Director, National Academy for State Health Policy, Bethesda, MD
Christopher M. Whaley, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RIFEATURED FACULTY
Kevin L. Alonso
Counsel, K&L Gates LLP, Nashville, TN
Krutika Amin, PhD
Associate Director, Program on the ACA, Associate Director, Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker, KFF; Former Director of Data Analytics, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, San Francisco, CA
Amy Assenmacher, MBA
Senior Vice President, Revenue Cycle, Corewell Health; Former VP Revenue Cycle Information Services, Baylor Scott & While, Grand Rapids, MI
Ge Bai, PhD, CPA
Professor Of Accounting, Carey Business School and Professor of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Nicholas W. Bath Jr, JD
Partner, Manatt Health; Former Health Policy Director, Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, US Senate, Washington, DC
Jane Beyer, JD
Senior Health Policy Advisor, Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner; Former Senior Counsel, Washington State House of Representatives, Olympia, WA
Stephanie Bird
Vice President, Go-To-Market and Execution, XO Health; Former Staff VP Sales and Operations, National Accounts, Anthem, Indianapolis, IN
Brian Blase, PhD
President, Paragon Health Institute; Former Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, White House (Trump) National Economic Council, Washington, DC
Joseph Boschert, MBA
Senior Director of Products, Milliman, Milwaukee, WI
Niall Brennan
Senior Advisor, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Former President and CEO, Health Care Cost Institute; Former CMS Chief Data Officer, Washington, DC
Vanessa Candelora
Senior Consultant , Point of Care Partners; Co-chair, Da Vinci Patient Cost Transparency Workgroup, HL7 Gravity Project, Bostin, MA
Steve Chiu, MPH, JD
Partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, Los Angeles, CA
Chris Condeluci, JD, LLM
Principal and Sole Shareholder, CC Law & Policy PLLC; Former Tax and Benefits Counsel, US Senate Finance Committee, Washington, DC
Cody Coonradt
Chief Executive Officer, BILLY; Former Senior Director, Global Strategy, Insights and Market Development, HIS, 3M, Draper, UT
