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NATIONAL SUMMIT ON HEALTH CARE PRICE, COST AND QUALITY TRANSPARENCY

December 2 - 4, 2013

ATTEND ONSITE
Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill
Washington, DC
WEBCAST PARTICIPATION
In your own office or home
live via the Internet with
24/7 access for six months

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Steven Brill, JD
Founder, CourtTV and American Lawyer, Author, "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us," Time, New York, NY

Michael C Burgess, MD, (R)
US House of Representatives, TX-26, Washington, DC

George C. Halvorson
Chairman, Kaiser Permanente, Past Chair, International Federation of Health Plans, Oakland, CA

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Former Sylvan Eisman Professor of Medicine and Health Care Systems, And Director, Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, NJ

Martin A. Makary, MD, MPH
Director, Surgical Quality & Safety, Associate Professor of Health Policy, Chief, Islet Transplant Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Author, New York Times bestseller, Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care, Baltimore, MD

Uwe E. Reinhardt, PhD
James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Tom Sackville
Chief Executive, International Federation of Health Plans, Former British Minister of Health, London, UK

LEADING GOVERNMENTAL OFFICIALS

Patrick Conway, MD, MSc
Acting Director, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Chief Medical Officer and Director, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD

Mila Kofman, JD
Executive Director, Washington, DC Health Benefit Exchange, Research Professor and Project Director, Health Policy Institute Georgetown University, Former Maine Superintendent of Insurance, Washington, DC

Christopher A. Powers, PharmD
Director, Information Products Group, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD

FEATURED SPECIAL SESSION: THE BASICS OF HOSPITAL
PRICING, INCLUDING UNDERSTANDING THE CHARGEMASTER

William O. Cleverley, PhD
President, Cleverley + Associates, Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University, Worthington, OH

Michael Kovar
Principal, Health Care Services Group, WeiserMazars LLP, New York, NY

Terry Allison Rappuhn, CPA
Project Leader, Patient Friendly Billing Project, Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), Former Chief Financial Officer, Quorum Health Group, Inc., Nashville, TN



Mark Rukavina, MBA
President, Community Health Advisors, Executive Director, The Access project, Chestnut Hill, MA

WHAT ARE THE POLICY OBJECTIVES OF INCREASED TRANSPARENCY?

Dan Durham
Executive Vice President of Policy and Regulatory Affairs, America's Health Insurance Plans, Washington, DC

David Lansky, PhD
President and Chief Executive Officer, Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH), Former Senior Director of the Health Program, Markle Foundation, Former Founding President, Foundation for Accountability (FACCT), San Francisco, CA

Lynn Quincy, MA
Senior Policy Analyst, Consumer's Union, Consumer Representative, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Washington, DC

Glenn D. Steele Jr., MD, PhD
President and Chief Executive Officer, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA

Richard (Rich) Umbdenstock
President and Chief Executive Officer, American Hospital Association, Former Executive Vice President, Providence Health & Services, Washington, DC

BARRIERS TO TRANSPARENCY AND HOW TO OVERCOME THEM

Leah Binder
President and Chief Executive Officer, Leapfrog Group, Washington, DC

William E. Kramer, MBA
Executive Director for National Health Policy, Pacific Business Group on Health, San Francisco, CA

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

Jay Want, MD
Principal, Want Healthcare, LLC, Chief Medical Officer, Center for Improving Value in Health Care, Board Member, Rocky Mountain Health Plans, Denver, CO

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)

PRICE AND COST TRANSPARENCY AND THE CONNECTION TO QUALITY

Patrick Conway, MD, MSc
Acting Director, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Chief Medical Officer and Director, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD

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

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

COMMERCIALIZING COST TRANSPARENCY: PRIVATE SECTOR PROVIDERS OF TRANSPARENT INFORMATION

Giovanni Colella, MD, MBA
Cofounder, 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

EMPLOYER HEALTH CARE TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVES

Katherine A. "Kate" Coler
Vice President of Government Affairs, Safeway, Pleasanton, CA

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

Anna Fallieras
Program Leader, Healthcare Initiatives, General Electric, Fairfield, CT

Merrill Goozner
Editor, Modern Healthcare, Author, The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs, Chicago, IL (Moderator)

THE ROLE OF HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGES IN FOSTERING TRANSPARENCY
ON HEALTH PLAN COST AND QUALITY

Katie Burns
Policy and Plan Management Director, MNsure, Minneapolis, MN

Sabrina Corlette, JD
Research Professor and Project Director, The Center on Health Insurance Reforms, Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, Former Director of Health Policy Programs, National Partnership for Women & Families, Washington, DC

Kevin Lucia, JD, MPH
Research Professor and Project Director, Health Policy Institute, Georgetown University, Chair, Insurance Market Working Committee, DC Health Benefit Exchange, Former Leader, State Market Rules Compliance Team, Office of Oversight, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO), Washington, DC

Heather H. Howard, JD
State Network Program Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Lecturer in Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Former Commissioner of Health and Senior Services, New Jersey, Princeton, NJ (Moderator)

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? CARRYING THE TRANSPARENCY MOVEMENT FORWARD

E-Patient Dave deBronkart
Cancer Patient and Blogger, Founder, ePatientDave.com, Nashua, NH

Paul B. Ginsburg, PhD
President, Center for Studying Health System Change, Former Executive Director, Physician Payment Review Commission, Former Deputy Assistant Director, Congressional Budget Office, Washington, DC

Aparna Higgins
Senior Vice President, Private Market Innovations, America's Health Insurance Plans, Washington, DC

Lewis Sandy, MD, MBA, FACP
Executive Vice President, Clinical Advancement, UnitedHealth Group, Minnetonka, MN

Richard (Rich) Umbdenstock
President and Chief Executive Officer, American Hospital Association, Former Executive Vice President, Providence Health & Services, Washington, DC

MINI SUMMIT I: THE NEW CMS TRANSPARENCY POLICY
ON HOSPITAL INPATIENT AND OUTPATIENT PRICING DATA

Christopher A. Powers, PharmD
Director, Information Products Group, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD

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

MINI SUMMIT II: STATE BASED TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVES

Christopher F. Koller, MA
President, Milbank Memorial Fund, Former Rhode Island Commissioner of Insurance, Cranston, RI

Lisa Letourneau, MD, MPH
Executive Director, Maine Quality Counts, Manchester, ME

Josephine Porter, MPH
Deputy Director, New Hampshire Institute for Health Policy and Practice, University of New Hampshire, Campton, NH

Jill Yegian, PhD
Vice President, Policy and Research, Integrated Healthcare Association, San Francisco, CA

MINI SUMMIT III: CASE STUDIES ON THE IMPACT OF TRANSPARENCY IN LOCAL MARKETS

Randy Cox
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Pricing Healthcare, Provo, UT

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

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

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

Ron Shinkman
Editor, Fierce Health Finance, Editor, Payers & Providers, Burbank, CA

MINI SUMMIT IV: THE HEALTH PLAN ROLE IN TRANSPARENCY

Jeff D. Emerson, MS
Senior Vice President, Health Care Management, Aetna, Hartford, CT

George Lenko
Program Director, National Network Initiatives, Anthem BCBS, Detroit, MI

Lewis Sandy, MD, MBA, FACP
Executive Vice President, Clinical Advancement, UnitedHealth Group, Minnetonka, MN

Michael W. Painter, MD, JD
Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ (Moderator)

MINI SUMMIT V: THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION'S HEALTH DATA CHALLENGE

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)

MINI SUMMIT VI: PHYSICIAN PRICE AND QUALITY TRANSPARENCY

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

Chris Queram
President and Chief Executive Officer, Wisconsin Collaborative Health Care Quality, Middleton, WI

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)

MINI SUMMIT VII: PRICE TRANSPARENCY AND BUNDLED PAYMENTS AND REFERENCE-BASED PRICING

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

Kimberly Hartsfield
Director, EBI Medical Informatics, Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield, Little Rock, AR

Jill Yegian, PhD
Vice President, Policy and Research, Integrated Healthcare Association, San Francisco, CA

MINI SUMMIT VIII: DOES TRANSPARENCY REALLY PROMOTE COMPETITION?

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

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

MINI SUMMIT IX: HOSPITAL PRICING TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVES

Mary Lee DeCoster
Vice President, Revenue Cycle, Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, AZ

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

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

Debbie Rickelman
Vice President, Information Center, Wisconsin Hospital Association, Madison, WI

MINI SUMMIT X: MOTIVATING CONSUMERS TO USE DATA ON PRICE, COST AND QUALITY

Kristin L. Carman, PhD
Director of Health Policy and Research, American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC

Jessica Greene, PhD
Professor and Director of Research, The George Washington University School of Nursing, Washington, DC

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

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

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

Susan R. Mende, BSN, MPH
Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Harlem, NY (Moderator)

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Senior Policy Adviser, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
Health Policy Analyst, The PBS News Hour, Washington, DC
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TUITION SCHOLARSHIPS
The National Summit on Healthcare Price, Cost and Quality Transparency supported by generous grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Heritage Provider Network is now offering partial and full Tuition Scholarships to qualifying representatives of local, state and federal government, consumer advocate organizations, safety net providers, academics, students and health services research organizations.
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FEATURING SPECIAL PRECONFERENCE SESSION
  • The Basics of Hospital Pricing, Including Understanding the Chargemaster
PLENARY SESSIONS
  • The Obama Administration's Health care Transparency Agenda
  • The Republican Perspective on Health Care Transparency
  • Transparency about What? For Whom? By Whom?
  • Transparency "R" Us: What Other Industries Achieve Through Transparency
  • Barriers to Health Care Transparency and How to Overcome Them
  • The Role of Data Transparency
  • Price and Cost Transparency and the Connection to Quality
  • Commercializing Cost Transparency: Private Sector Providers of Transparent Information
  • Costs, Price Transparency and the US Healthcare Non-system
  • The Role of Health Insurance Exchanges in Fostering Transparency on Health Plan Cost and Quality
  • International Price Variations: What the Data Show
  • Where We Go From Here? Carrying the Transparency Movement Forward
AND THE FOLLOWING MINI SUMMITS
  • Mini Summit I: New CMS Transparency Policy on Hospital Inpatient and Outpatient Pricing Data
  • Mini Summit II: State-based Transparency Initiatives
  • Mini Summit III: Case Studies in the Impact of Transparency in Local Markets
  • Mini Summit IV: The Health Plan Role in Health Care Transparency
  • Mini Summit V: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Data Challenge
  • Mini Summit VI: Physician Price and Quality Transparency
  • Mini Summit VII: Transparency and Bundled Payments
  • Mini Summit VIII: Transparency and Consolidate Markets
  • Mini Summit IX: Hospital Pricing Transparency Initiatives
  • Mini Summit X: Should Managed Care Negotiated Rates be Made Public?
  • Mini Summit XI: Motivating Consumers to Use data on Price, Costs and Quality
NASBA CREDIT DESIGNATION STATEMENT
This activity has been approved for a maximum of 20 National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) CPE credits for onsite attendees.
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