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AGENDA: DAY II
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

7:00 a.m. Registration Opens; Continental Breakfast in Exhibit Hall
MORNING PLENARY SESSION
8:00 a.m.

Welcome and Introduction to Day II Morning Plenary Session

Susan Dentzer
Senior Policy Adviser, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Health Policy Analyst, The PBS News Hour, Washington, DC (Chair)
8:15 a.m.

The Scope of the Problem

Steven Brill, JD
Founder, CourtTV and American Lawyer; Author, "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills are Killing Us," Time, New York, NY
9:00 a.m.

Costs, Price Transparency and the US Healthcare Non-system

Uwe E. Reinhardt, PhD
James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Presentation Material (Acrobat)
9:45 a.m. Break
10:00 a.m.

Keynote

Michael C Burgess, MD, (R)
US House of Representatives, TX-26, Washington, DC
10:15 a.m.

Commercializing Cost Transparency: Private Sector Providers of Transparent Information

Giovanni Colella, MD, MBA
Co-Founder, Castlight Health; Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, RelayHealth, San Francisco, CA
Douglas Ghertner, MBA
Chief Executive Officer, Change Healthcare, Brentwood, TN
Toure McCluskey, MBA
Founder, OkCopay; Former Managing Director, First Mile Health, Seattle, WA
Praveen V. Mooganur, MS, MBA
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, WiserTogether, Inc., Washington, DC
Jeffrey J. Rice, MD, JD
Chief Executive Officer, Healthcare Blue Book; Former Executive Vice President of Medical Leadership and Business Development, Healthways, Nashville, TN
Michael W. Painter, MD, JD
Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ (Moderator)
11:30 a.m.

Price and Cost Transparency and the Connection to Quality

Francois de Brantes
Executive Director, Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute, Newtown, CT
Patrick Conway, MD, MSc
Acting Director, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovations, Baltimore, MD
Suzanne F. Delbanco, PhD
Executive Director, Catalyst for Payment Reform; Former Chief Executive Officer, The Leapfrog Group, San Francisco, CA
Peggy O'Kane, MHA
President, National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), Washington, DC
Presentation Material (Acrobat)
Anne F. Weiss, MPP
Team Director and Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Former Senior Assistant Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Princeton, NJ (Moderator)
12:30 p.m. Networking Luncheon

AFTERNOON MINI SUMMITS GROUP I
MINI SUMMIT I: THE NEW CMS TRANSPARENCY POLICY ON HOSPITAL INPATIENT AND OUTPATIENT PRICING DATA
1:30 p.m. Presentation

Christopher A. Powers, PharmD
Director, Information Products Group, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Katherine Hempstead, PhD, MA
Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Former Director, Center for Health Statistics, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Princeton, NJ (Moderator)
2:45 pm Transition Break
MINI SUMMIT II: STATE-BASED TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVES
1:30 p.m. Panel Discussion

Christopher F. Koller, MA
President, Milbank Memorial Fund; Adjunct Professor of Community Health, School of Public Health, Brown University; Former Rhode Island Commissioner of Insurance, Cranston, RI
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Lisa Letourneau, MD, MPH
Executive Director, Maine Quality Counts, Manchester, ME
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Josephine Porter, MPH
Deputy Director, New Hampshire Institute for Health Policy and Practice, University of New Hampshire, Campton, NH
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Jill Yegian, PhD
Vice President, Policy and Research, Integrated Healthcare Association, San Francisco, CA
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Susan Dentzer
Senior Policy Adviser, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Health Policy Analyst, The PBS News Hour, Washington, DC (Moderator)
2:45 p.m. Transition Break
MINI SUMMIT III: CASE STUDIES ON THE IMPACT OF TRANSPARENCY IN LOCAL MARKETS
1:30 p.m. Panel Discussion

Randy Cox
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Pricing Healthcare, Provo, UT
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Mary McWilliams, MS
Executive Director, Puget Sound Health Alliance; Former President and Chief Executive Officer, Regence BlueShield, Seattle, WA
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Elizabeth Mitchell
President and Chief Executive Officer, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, Former Chief Executive Officer, Maine Health Management Coalition and Foundation, Portland, ME
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Jeffrey J. Rice, MD, JD
Chief Executive Officer, Healthcare Blue Book; Former Executive Vice President of Medical Leadership and Business Development, Healthways, Nashville, TN
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Ron Shinkman
Editor, Fierce Health Finance, Editor, Payers & Providers, Burbank, CA (Moderator)
2:45 p.m. Transition Break

MINI SUMMIT IV: THE HEALTH PLAN ROLE IN HEALTH CARE TRANSPARENCY
1:30 p.m. Panel Discussion

Jeff D. Emerson, MS
Senior Vice President, Health Care Management, Aetna, Hartford, CT
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

George Lenko
Program Director, National Network Initiatives, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Detroit, MI
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Lewis Sandy, MD, MBA, FACP
Executive Vice President, Clinical Advancement, UnitedHealth Group; Former Executive Vice President, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Minnetonka, MN
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Michael W. Painter, MD, JD
Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ (Moderator)
2:45 p.m. Transition Break
MINI SUMMITS GROUP II
MINI SUMMIT V: THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION'S HEALTH DATA CHALLENGE
3:00 p.m. Panel Discussion

Christopher Baily
Interactive Designer at the Consumer Reports Technology Innovation Center, New York, NY

Esther Chak
Partner, Imaginary Office, Chicago, IL

Adam McCann, MS
Data Scientist, Deloitte, Washington, DC

Jean-Luc ("JL") Neptune, MD MBA
Senior Vice President, Health 2.0, Mentor, Blueprint Health LLC and New York Digital Health Accelerator, New York, NY

Katherine Hempstead, PhD, MA
Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Former Director, Center for Health Statistics, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Princeton, NJ (Moderator)
4:15 pm Transition Break

MINI SUMMIT VI: PHYSICIAN PRICE AND QUALITY TRANSPARENCY
3:00 p.m. Panel Discussion

Steven Grant, MD, FACP
Executive Vice President of Physician Partnerships, Detroit Medical Center (DMC), Executive Director, DMC Physician Hospital Organization (PHO), Detroit, MI
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Chris Queram
President and Chief Executive Officer, Wisconsin Collaborative Health Care Quality, Middleton, WI
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Neel T. Shah, MD, MPP
Founder and Executive Director, Costs of Care; Lecturer, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Katherine Browne, MBA, MHA
Deputy Director/Chief Operating Officer, Center for Health Care Quality, Department of Health Policy, George Washington University, Washington, DC (Moderator)
Presentation Material (Acrobat)
4:15 p.m. Transition Break

MINI SUMMIT VII: PRICE TRANSPARENCY AND BUNDLED PAYMENTS AND REFERENCE-BASED PRICING
3:00 p.m. Panel Discussion

Francois de Brantes
Executive Director, Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute, Newtown, CT

Elaine N. Daniels
Senior Strategic Contract Consult, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, Durham, NC
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Kimberly Hartsfield
Director, EBI Medical Informatics, Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield, Little Rock, AR
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Jill Yegian, PhD
Vice President, Policy and Research, Integrated Healthcare Association, San Francisco, CA
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Michael W. Painter, MD, JD
Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ (Moderator)
4:15 p.m. Transition Break

MINI SUMMITS GROUP III
MINI SUMMIT VIII: DOES TRANSPARENCY REALLY PROMOTE COMPETITION?
4:30 p.m. Panel Discussion

Andrew Austin, PhD
Economist, The Library of Congress; Researcher, Congressional Research Service, Washington, DC

Suzanne F. Delbanco, PhD
Executive Director, Catalyst for Payment Reform; Former Chief Executive Officer, The Leapfrog Group, San Francisco, CA

Margaret E. Guerin-Calvert
Founding Director, Compass Lexecon; Senior Managing Director -- President, Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy; Former Assistant Chief of the Economic Regulatory Section, Antitrust Division, US Department of Justice, Washington, DC

David Dranove, PhD
Walter McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management, Professor of Management and Strategy and Director of the Health Enterprise Management Program, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University Evanston, IL

Andrea M. Ducas, MPH
Program Associate, Quality/Equality Health Care Team, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Jersey City, NJ (Moderator)
5:45 p.m. Adjournment

MINI SUMMIT IX: HOSPITAL PRICING TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVES
4:30 p.m. Panel Discussion

Mary Lee DeCoster
Vice President, Revenue Cycle, Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, AZ
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Joseph Fifer, FHFMA, CPA
President and Chief Executive Officer, Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA); Former Vice President-Hospital Finance, Spectrum Health, Westchester, IL
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Elizabeth Mitchell
President and Chief Executive Officer, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, Former Chief Executive Officer, Maine Health Management Coalition and Foundation, Portland, ME
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Debbie Rickelman
Vice President, Information Center, Wisconsin Hospital Association, Madison, WI
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Katherine Hempstead, PhD, MA
Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Former Director, Center for Health Statistics, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Princeton, NJ (Moderator)
5:45 p.m. Adjournment

MINI SUMMIT X: MOTIVATING CONSUMERS TO USE DATA ON PRICE, COST AND QUALITY
4:30 p.m. Panel Discussion

Kristin L. Carman, PhD
Director of Health Policy and Research, American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Jessica Greene, PhD
Professor and Director of Research, The George Washington University School of Nursing, Washington, DC
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Ellen T. Kurtzman, MPH, RN, FAAN
Assistant Research Professor, School of Nursing, The George Washington University; Former Senior Program Director, National Quality Forum, Washington, DC
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Stephen Parente, PhD, MPH, MS
Professor and Director, Medical Industry Leadership Institute, Minnesota Insurance Industry Chair of Health Finance, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Lynn Quincy, MA
Senior Policy Analyst, Consumer's Union; Consumer Representative, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Washington, DC
Presentation Material (Acrobat)

Susan R. Mende, BSN, MPH
Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Harlem, NY (Moderator)
5:45 p.m. Adjournment


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