Press Release: National Consumer Driven Healthcare Summit Features Consumer Driven Healthcare Strategies for Employers and Health Plans
  • The Leading Forum on the Implications of Consumer Choice and HSAs, HRAs and FSAs for Providers, Pharma, Plans and Employers
  • Sponsored by Health Affairs and Harvard Health Policy Review
  • September 13 - 15, 2006
  • Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
  • www.ConsumerDrivenSummit.com
PRESS RELEASE
Phone: 800-684-4549
Email: registration@hcconferences.com
Website: www.ConsumerDrivenSummit.com

WASHINGTON DC USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE(TM) -- JUNE 20, 2006: The National Consumer Driven Healthcare Summit (the Summit), www.ConsumerDrivenSummit.com, September 13 - 15, 2006, at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC today announced that it will feature a series of special sessions on consumer driven healthcare strategies for employers and health plans.

EMPLOYER AND HEALTH PLAN RESPONSES TO CONSUMER DRIVEN HEALTHCARE:

Keynote addresses include:

The Health Plan Industry and Consumer Driven Care - Policy, Positions and Potential

Karen Ignagni, MBA
President, America's Health Insurance Plans
Washington, DC

CDHC: Research in Consumer Demographics

Maureen E. Sullivan
Senior Vice President, Strategic Services
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Chicago, IL

Healthcare in The Consumer Focused World

Regina Herzlinger, PhD
Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Cambridge, MA


The Summit will feature the following special sessions on employer and health plan strategic responses to consumer driven healthcare:

  • Healthcare Consumerism: Employer and Health Plan Strategies are Broadening, Diversifying and Deepening by Alexander C. Domaszewicz, National Health Consumerism Practice Leader, Mercer Health and Benefits, Newport Beach, CA
  • A Step-by-Step Approach to Implementing Consumer Driven Health Plans in Mid-Sized Companies by Michael Vittoria, Director of Human Resources, Bacou-Dalloz USA, Inc., Smithfield, RI
  • When You've Seen One CDHP...A Discussion of Consumer and Employer Needs, and Highmark's Response by Kim Bellard, Vice President, eMarketing & CRM, Highmark, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA
  • The Principal Ten Best Companies Program by Jerry Ripperger, Director of Consumer Health, Principal Financial Group, Des Moines, IA
  • Consumer Driven Health Plan Survey Research: What Employers and Health Plans are Doung by Mathew Greenwald, President, Greenwald & Associates, Washington, DC; Anne Elmlinger, Assistant Vice President, Greenwald & Associates, Washington, DC; and Greg Kline, Senior Research Associate, Greenwald & Associates, Washington, DC
  • Next Generation Messaging by Kismet Toksu, Senior Consultant, Reden & Anders, McLean, VA

SUMMIT KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Karen Davis
President, The Commonwealth Fund
Former Chairman, Department of Health Policy and Management
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Washington, DC
Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D.
President, Center for Studying Health System Change
Founding Executive Director
Physician Payment Review Commission
(now the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission)
Washington, DC
John Goodman, Ph.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
National Center for Policy Analysis
Author, Patient Power: Solving America's Health Care Crisis
Washington, DC
Regina E. Herzlinger. Ph.D.
Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Author, Consumer-Driven Health Care: Implications for Providers, Players, and Policymakers Cambridge, MA
Karen Ignagni, MBA
President and Chief Executive Officer
America's Health Insurance Plans
Former Director, AFL-CIO Department of Employee Benefits
Former Professional Staff Member
U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee
Washington, DC
JoAnn Laing
President, Information Strategies, Inc.
Parent company of HSAfinder.com
Palisades Park, NJ
Ron Pollack
Founding Executive Director, Families USA
Founder and Chair, Health Assistance Partnership
Washington, DC
Grace-Marie Turner
President, Galen Institute, Washington, DC


PRESIDENT BUSH SUPPORTS HSAs
"Our first policy is to expand health savings accounts to help improve health care and to help lower costs" said the President before the American Hospital Association. "The second policy for making health care more affordable and accessible is to increase transparency in our health care system. To be smart consumers, we need to be informed consumers, and this is especially true for patients with HSAs who have an incentive to spend their HSA dollars wisely."

Click here to hear President Bush's remarks.

SUMMIT CO CHAIRS
Beth Bierbower
Vice President
Product Design and Development
Humana
Louisville, KY
William Boyles
Editor & Publisher
Consumer Driven Market Report
Washington, DC
John Iglehart
Founding Editor, Health Affairs
National Correspondent, New England Journal of Medicine
Washington, DC
Doug Kronenberg
Chief Strategy Officer
Lumenos, a WellPoint Company
Alexandria, VA
Clive Riddle
President, MCOL
Modesto, CA
Greg Scandlen
President and Founder
Consumers for Health Care Choices
Hagerstown, MD
Michael Showalter
Vice President, Consumerism, Cigna
Hartford, CT
Maureen E. Sullivan
Senior Vice President, Strategic Services
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Chicago, IL
FEATURING THE FOLLOWING TRACKS
  • Consumer Driven Healthcare Strategies for Providers
  • Consumer Driven Healthcare Strategies for Pharmaceutical, Device and Biotechnology Enterprises
  • Consumer Driven Healthcare Strategies for Plans and Employers
  • The Role of Financial Institutions, Including Banks, Credit Unions and Money Management Firms, in HSAs
  • The Role of Health Information Technology in Consumer Driven Healthcare
  • Consumer Driven Healthcare and HSA Legal Issues
  • Case Studies in Consumer Driven Healthcare
FEATURED FACULTY
Kim Bellard
Vice President, eMarketing & CRM, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, Pittsburgh, PA

David Benoit, Esq.
Partner, Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, GA

Beth Bierbower
Vice President, Product Design and Development, Humana, Louisville, KY

William R. Boyles
Publisher, Consumer Driven Market Report, Consumer Driven Market Report, Washington, DC

Kathleen Curtin
Senior Vice President, Med-Vantage. Inc., San Francisco, CA

Matthew M. Davis, MD, MAPP
Asst Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, Asst Professor of Internal Medicine, Asst Professor of Public Policy, Co-Director, Fellowship Program in Pediatric Health Services Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

James Dean
CDH Co-lead, Insurance, BearingPoint, West Palm Beach, FL

William DeMarco
President, DeMarco and Associates, Rockford, IL

Marc J. Dettmann
CEO, Univ of VA Health Services Foundation, Charlottesville, VA

Alexander C. Domaszewicz
Senior Consultant, Mercer Health and Benefits, Newport Beach, CA

Bridget Eber
PharmD, Senior Consultant, Health and Welfare Practice, Towers Perrin, Chicago, IL

Anne Elmlinger
Assistant Vice President, Greenwald & Associates, Washington, DC

Dana Felthouse
President, PBMI, Scottsdale, AZ

Jon Gabel
Vice President, Health Systems Studies, Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET), Washington, DC

John Goodman
President, National Center for Policy Analysis, Washington, DC

Mathew Greenwald
President, Greenwald & Associates, Washington, DC

David Hammer
Vice President, Revenue Cycle Solutions, McKesson Provider Technologies, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Michael Howe
President, Minute Clinic, Minneapolis, MN

Cheryl Risley Hughes
Principal, Sanders, Schnabel & Brandenburg, P.C., Washington, DC

Paul Hughes-Cromwick
Senior Analyst, Altarum Institute, Ann Arbor, MI

James G. Hutton, PhD
Author of The Feel-Good Society, Teaneck, NJ

John Iglehart
Founding Editor, Health Affairs, Washington, DC

Ann Mond Johnson
President, Subimo, River Forest, IL

Timothy Jost
Robert Willett Professor, Washington and Lee University - School of Law, Lexington, VA


Christine L. Keller, Esq.
Attorney, Groom Law Group, Washington, DC

Daniel Kelly
U.S. Bancorp, Minneapolis, MN

Don Kemper
Chairman and CEO, Healthwise, Boise, ID

Greg Kline
Senior Research Associate, Greenwald & Associates, Washington, DC

Doug Kronenberg
Chief Strategy Officer, Lumenos, a WellPoint Company, Alexandria, VA

Vince Kuraitis
Principal, Better Health Technologies, Boise, ID

John Lovett, JD
Principal, Preferred Health Strategies, Rye Brook, NY

Peter Miller
CEO, Take Care Health Systems, West Conshohocken, PA

John Mills
Director of Product Development, HIP Health Plan of New York, New York, NY

Susan M. Nash, Esq.
Partner, McDermott WIll & Emery LLP, Chicago, IL

David Randall
Executive Director, Consumer Driven Health Care Institute, Washington, DC

Jerry L. Ripperger
Director - Consumer Health, The Principal, Des Moines, IA

Thomas M. Robertson
VP, Business Strategies & Tactics, University HealthSystem Consortium, Oak Brook, IL

Charles Roehrig
Vice President, Altarum Institute, Ann Arbor, MI

Greg Scandlen
President and Founder, Consumers for Health Care Choices, Hagerstown, MD

Michael Showalter
Vice President, Consumerism, CIGNA, Hartford, CT

Jim Sizemore
SVP and CIO, Information Technology, Inc., A Fiserv Company, Lincoln, NE

Alan Spielman
President and CEO, URAC, Washington, DC

Maureen E. Sullivan
Senior Vice President, Strategic Services, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Chicago, IL

Kismet Toksu
Senior Consultant, Reden & Anders, McLean, VA

Dennis Triplett
President, UMB Healthcare Services, Kansas City, MO

Kirsten Trusko
Co-lead CDH, Banking, BearingPoint, Danville, CA

Grace-Marie Turner
President, Galen Institute, Alexandria, VA

Mike Vittoria
Director of Human Resources, Bacou-Dalloz USA, Inc., Smithfield, RI

Lincoln Weed
Principal, Sanders, Schnabel & Brandenburg, P.C., Washington, DC


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