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THE SECOND NATIONAL HEALTH CARE TRANSPARENCY SUMMIT CONTENT IS NOW AVAILABLE
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The Second National Health Care Transparency Summit conference content is now available in a variety of formats.

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SECOND NATIONAL SUMMIT ON HEALTH CARE PRICE, COST AND QUALITY TRANSPARENCY

March 16 - 18, 2015


ATTEND ONSITE
Omni Shoreham Hotel
Washington, DC


WEBCAST PARTICIPATION
In your own office or home
live via the Internet with
24/7 access for six months
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Patrick Conway, MD, MSc
Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Quality, Chief Medical Officer, Director, CMMI and Director, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, CMS, DHHS, Baltimore, MD

Kevin Counihan, MBA
Marketplace CEO and Director, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, DHHS, Former CEO, Connecticut Health Insurance Exchange, Former President, Choice Administrators Exchange Solutions, Washington, DC

Tom Daschle
Founder and Chairman, The Daschle Group, A Public Policy Advisory of Baker Donelson, Former Senator (D/SD) and Majority Leader, United States Senate, Washington, DC

Karen B. DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Acting Assistant Secretary for Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, Former Health Commissioner, New Orleans, Washington, DC

William H. Frist, MD
Heart and Lung Transplant Surgeon, Former Senator Majority Leader (R-TN), Washington, DC

Elisabeth L. Rosenthal, MD
Senior Correspondent, New York Times, Author, Paying Till it Hurts Series, New York, NY

LEADING GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES

Shantanu Agrawal, MD
Deputy Administrator and Director, CMS, Baltimore, MD

Barbara Anthony, MA, JD
Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, Center for Business and Government, Former Undersecretary, Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs & Business Regulation, Former Regional Director, Northeast Regional Office, FTC, Former Chief, Public Protection Bureau, MA AG's Office, Boston, MA

Niall Brennan, MPP
Chief Data Officer, Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Christine Ferguson, JD
Principal, Leverage GC; Former Director, Rhode Island Health Benefits Exchange, Rhode Island, Providence, RI

Tim Gronniger, MPP, MHSA
Senior Adviser for Health Care Policy, White House Domestic Policy Council, Washington, DC

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

Richard Kronick, PhD
Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Office of Health Policy, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Peter V. Lee, JD
Executive Director, California Health Benefit Exchange, Former Director of Delivery System Reform, Office of Health Reform, The White House, Former Chief Executive Officer, PBGH, San Francisco, CA

Kathryn Marchesini, JD
Deputy Director for Privacy Policy, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, HHS, Washington, DC

Carolyn A. Quattrocki, JD
Executive Director, Maryland Health Benefit Exchange, Former Executive Director, Maryland Governor's Office of Health Care Reform, Annapolis, MD

Jocelyn Samuels, Esq.
Director, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), US Department of Health and Human Services, Former Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC

FEATURING PLENARY SESSIONS
  • Framing Transparency: What is it and What has Changed in the last Year?
  • Consumer Transparency Imperatives
  • Update on CMS Transparency Initiatives: What's Ahead?
  • Federal Action: Price and Transparency
  • Best Practices in Providing Cost Information
  • Best Practices in Providing Quality Information
  • Designing Benefits and Payment to Complement Cost and Quality Transparency
  • Best Practices in Hospitals in Transparency and Patient Financial Communications
  • The Future in Healthcare Transparency

AND THE FOLLOWING BREAKOUT SESSIONS
  • States at the Forefront on Price and Quality Transparency
  • Transparency and States Insurance Exchanges
  • Consumer Awareness and Use of Cost & Quality Information
  • Physician and Patients: New Models of Communication
  • Open Notes: Open Notes: Communicating and Engaging with Fully Transparent Medical Records
  • Best Practices in Hospital and Health System Transparency
  • Transparency within Narrow Networks
  • Transparency and Privacy: What are the Issues?
  • Physician Sunshine Act: What You Need to Know
  • New Initiatives in Transparency

FEATURED FACULTY

Joel Ario, M.Div., JD
Managing Director, Manatt Health Solutions, Former Director, Office of Health Insurance Exchanges, HHS, Former Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner, Washington, DC

Maya A. Babu, MD, MBA
Member, Board of Trustees, American Medical Association, Neurosurgery Resident, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Peter Beilenson, MD, MPH
President and Chief Executive Officer, Evergreen Health Coop, Former Health Commissioner, Baltimore City Health Department, Baltimore, MD

Leah Binder
President & Chief Executive Officer, The Leapfrog Group, Washington, DC

Michael Boninger, MD
Professor and UPMC Endowed Chair, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Senior Medical Director for Post Acute Care, Health Services Division, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA

Sheila Burke, MPA, RN, FAAN
Faculty Research Fellow, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy and Faculty, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Chair, Government Relations & Public Policy, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, Washington, DC

Jim Chase, MHA
President, MN Community Measurement, Minneapolis, MN

Mylia Christensen
Executive Director, Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation, Portland, OR

Mary Jo Condon
Senior Director, Midwest Health Initiative, St. Louis, MO

Sabrina Corlette, JD
Senior Research Fellow and Project Director, Center on Health Insurance Reforms, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Donna R. Cryer, JD
President and Chief Executive Officer, CryerHealth, Washington, DC

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

Tom Delbanco, MD
Co-Director, Open Notes; Professor of General Medicine and Primary Care, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Michael DeLorenzo, PhD
Director of Health Analytics, Maine Health Management Coalition, Portland, ME

Stephen J. Downs, SM
Chief Technology and Information Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Former Director of the Technology Opportunities Program (TOP), National Telecommunications and Information Administration, US Department of Commerce, Princeton, NJ

Robert W. Dubois, MD, PhD
Chief Science Officer, National Pharmaceutical Council, Washington, DC

Andrea M. Ducas, MPH
Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Former Associate, Center for Family Representation (CFR), Princeton, NJ

Michael Van Duren, MD, MBA
Vice President, Clinical Transformation, Sutter Medical Network at Sutter Health, Sacramento, CA

Peter H. Elias, MD
Family Physician, Family Health Care Associates, Auburn, ME

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

Walton Francis, MPA, MPP, MS
Author, Checkbook's Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees, Consumers' Checkbook, Washington, DC

Dominick L. Frosch, PhD
Fellow, Patient Care, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Palo Alto, CA

Karen Frost
Vice President, Health Solutions and Strategies, Aon Hewitt, Chicago, IL

Ellen Gagnon
Senior Project and Operations Director, NRHI

Martha "Meg" Gaines, JD, LLM
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Experiential Learning, Director, Center for Patient Partnership (CPP), University of Wisconsin, Law School, Madison, WI

Natasha Gajewski
Founder and Creative Director, Symple Health, New York, NY

Emmy Ganos, PhD
Program Associate, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ

Claire B. Gibbons, MPH, PhD
Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ

Kate Goodrich, MD
Director, Quality Measurement and Health Assessment Group, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD

Richard L. Gundling, FHFMA, CMA
Vice President Healthcare Financial Practices, Healthcare Financial Management Association, Washington, DC

Ben Harder
Managing Editor & Chief of Health Analysis, U.S. News & World Report, Washington, DC

Melinda (Mindy) Reid Hatton, Esq.
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, American Hospital Association, Former Antitrust Counsel, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business Rights, Judiciary Committee, US Senate, Washington, DC

Katherine Hayes, JD
Director of Health Policy, Bipartisan Policy Center, Washington, DC

Kari Hedges, MBA
Vice President, National Programs, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Chicago, IL

Katherine Hempstead, PhD
Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Former Director, Center for Health Statistics, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Princeton, NJ

Heather Howard, JD
Lecturer in Public Affairs and Director, State Health Reform Assistance Network, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Chris Jennings
President and Founder, Jennings Policy Strategies, Inc., Washington, DC

Oliver Kharraz, MD
President and Founder, ZocDoc, New York, NY

Sue Knudson
Vice President, Health Informatics, HealthPartners, Minneapolis, MN

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

Robert M. Krughoff, JD
Founder and President, Consumers' Checkbook, Former Director, Office of Research and Evaluation Planning, US Department of Health and Human Services

Peter Leibold, Esq.
Chief Advocacy Officer, Ascension Health, Former Chief Executive Officer, American Health Lawyers Association, Washington, DC

Denise Love, BSN, MBA
Executive Director, National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO), Co-chair, All Payer Claims Database Council, Salt Lake City, UT

Renée Martin-Willett
Graduate Student, Center for Medicine, Health and Society, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Jonathan Mathieu, PhD
Vice President of Research and Compliance and Chief Economist, Center for Improving Value in Health Care, Denver, CO

Deven McGraw, Esq.
Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP, Former Director, Health Privacy Project, Center for Democracy & Technology, Washington, DC

Susan R. Mende, BSN, MPH
Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Former Co-founded and Vice President for Programs, Tsao Foundation, Princeton, NJ

Jeffrey G. Micklos, Esq.
EVP Management, Compliance and General Counsel, Federation of American Hospitals, Former Attorney, Health Care Financing Division, Office of General Counsel, DHHS, Washington, DC

Elizabeth Mitchell
President and Chief Executive Officer, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, Portland, ME

Amy Moore
Senior Vice President, Employer Solutions & Product, The Healthcare Bluebook, Former Global Benefits Director, Whole Foods Market, Former Senior Benefits Manager, Dell and Marriott, Nashville, TN

John Murphy, Esq.
Assistant General Counsel, PhRMA, Former Senior Director, State Government Relations, Health Policy, Biotechnology Industry Organization, Washington, DC

Lori Nelson, MBA
Vice President, Provider Network Management, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

David Newman, PhD, JD
Executive Director, Health Care Cost Institute, Inc., Former Specialist in Health Care Financing, Congressional Research Service, Washington, DC

Tara Oakman, MPP, PhD
Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Former Director, Quality Team, Exchange Policy and Operations Group, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO), Princeton, NJ

Charles Ornstein
Senior Reporter, ProPublica, Vice President, Association of Health Care Journalists, Awardee, Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, Washington, DC

Tamaan K. Osbourne-Roberts, MD
President, Colorado Medical Society and Director of Hospital Medicine, Innova Emergency Medical Associates, Brighton, CO

Robert C. Pendleton, MD, FACP
Chief Medical Quality Officer, University of Utah Health Care, Associate Professor (Clinical), Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Doris Peter, PhD
Director, Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center, Principal Investigator, Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs, Washington, DC

Lynn Quincy
Associate Director, Health Reform Policy, Consumer's Union, Consumer Representative, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Washington, DC

Trish Riley, MS
Executive Director of the National Academy for State Health Policy, Former Director, Office of Health Policy and Finance, State of Maine, Portland, ME

Mark Rukavina, MBA
Principal, Community Health Advisors, LLC, Former Executive Director, The Access Project, Boston, MA

Lewis Sandy, MS, FACP
Senior Vice President, Clinical Advancement, United Health Group, Former Executive Vice President, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Minnetonka, MN

Mark Savage, Esq.
Director of Health Information Technology Policy and Programs, National Partnership for Women & Families, Former Senior Attorney, Consumers Union, Washington, DC

Jennifer Schneider, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Castlight Health, San Francisco, CA

Dan Schwartzer
Deputy Commissioner of Insurance, Office of the Commissioner of Insurance, Madison, WI

Neel Shah, MD, MPP
Founder and Executive Director, Costs of Care, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Obstetrician-Gynecologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Divya Sharma, MD, MS
Medical Director, Internal Medicine, Mosaic Medical, Bend, OR



Caroline Steinberg
Vice President Data Trends and Analysis, American Hospital Association, Washington, DC

Meredith Roberts Tomasi
Program Manager, Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation, Portland, OR

Janet Trautwein
Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, National Association for Health Underwriters, Washington, DC

Janice D. Walker, RN, MBA
Co-Director, Open Notes, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Jay Want, MD
Principal, Want Healthcare, LLC, Former President and Chief Executive Officer, Physician Health Partners, LLC, Denver, CO

Sally Welborn
Senior Vice President, Global Benefits, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Vice Chair, Pacific Business Group on Health, Fayetteville, AR

Leana S. Wen, MD, MSc
Commissioner, Baltimore City Health Department; Former Director, Patient-Centered Care Research, Assistant Professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine & Health Policy, The George Washington University, Washington, DC

Joel White
President, Clear Choices Campaign, Washington, DC

Candice Wolk
Patient in the OpenNotes Study, Westin, MA


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Senior Policy Adviser, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Policy Analyst, The PBS News Hour, Washington, DC

Anne F. Weiss, MPP
Director, Value in Health and Health Care, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Former Senior Assistant Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Princeton, NJ
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SECOND NATIONAL SUMMIT ON HEALTH CARE PRICE, COST
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March 16 - 18, 2015

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Omni Shoreham Hotel
Washington, DC


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THE FIRST NATIONAL HEALTH CARE TRANSPARENCY SUMMIT CONTENT IS NOW AVAILABLE
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The First National Health Care Transparency Summit conference content is now available in a variety of formats.

You may purchase the Summit streaming content in the following formats: Flash Drive or online archive (6 months). You may also purchase individual presentations in an online archive (6 months) format.

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