NATIONAL PAY FOR
PERFORMANCE SUMMIT
PRESS RELEASE:
2007 National Pay for Performance Summit Features Leapfrog Group Special Session on Aligning Incentives for Hospital Performance Excellence
  • The Leading National Forum on Pay for Performance to Enhance Healthcare Access, Quality and Efficiency
  • Sponsored by the Integrated Healthcare Association, Bridges to Excellence, Leapfrog group and National Business Coalition on Health
  • February 14 - 16, 2007
  • Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles, CA
  • www.PFPSummit.com
PRESS RELEASE
Phone: 800-684-4549
Email: registration@hcconferences.com
Website: www.PFPSummit.com

LOS ANGELES, CA USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE™ -- OCTOBER 31, 2006: The 2007 National Pay for Performance Summit, www.PFPSummit.com, February 14 - 16, 2007, at the Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles, CA announced today that the Leapfrog group will offer a special preconference session on Aligning Incentives for Hospital Performance Excellence. The P4P Summit is sponsored the Integrated Healthcare Association, www.IHA.org, and a number of other associations and publications, including Bridges to Excellence, the Leapfrog Group and the National Business Coalition on Health.

LEAPFROG GROUP SESSION ON ALIGNING INCENTIVES FOR HOSPITAL PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE:

On Wednesday, February 14, the Summit will offer the following special session on Aligning Incentives for Hospital Performance Excellence sponsored by the Leapfrog Group:

  • 8:30 am Incentives for Hospital Performance: The Landscape by Suzanne Delbanco, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, The Leapfrog Group, Washington, DC and Catherine Eikel, Director, Leapfrog Hospital Rewards Program™, The Leapfrog Group, Washington, DC

  • 8:50 am Tools to Align Hospital Incentives for Performance Excellence by Guy D'Andrea, Consultant, Leapfrog Hospital Rewards Program™, Discern Consulting, Washington, DC and Catherine Eikel, Director, Leapfrog Hospital, Rewards Program, The Leapfrog Group, Washington, DC

  • 10:15 am Aligning Incentives for Performance Excellence: Case Studies by Donna Abney (Invited), Executive Vice President, Methodist Healthcare, Memphis, TN; Bill Finck, Director, Physician & Ancillary, Networks, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, Newark, NJ; Sherry Rodriguez (Invited), AVP, Quality Management, CIGNA Health Care, Richmond, VA; and Cristie Travis, MSHHA, Chief Executive Officer, Memphis Business Group on Health, Memphis, TN

  • 11:30 am Getting Started: Leapfrog Hospital Rewards Program™ by Catherine Eikel, Director, Leapfrog Hospital Rewards Program™, The Leapfrog Group, Washington, DC
P4P SUMMIT PROPOSED PRECONFERENCE SESSIONS:
  • Aligning Incentives for Hospital Performance Excellence
  • Sponsored by the Leapfrog Group
  • Targeted to purchasers, health plans, and hospitals

  • Improving Quality and Paying for Excellence: P4P and Prometheus
  • Sponsored by Bridges to Excellence
  • Targeted to purchasers, health plans, and physicians

  • Creating a Community Collaboration to Support Data Collection and Performance Measurement
  • Sponsored by the Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA)
  • Targeted to hospitals, purchasers, health plans, physician groups, physicians, and community leaders
P4P SUMMIT PLENARY SESSIONS:

  • Efficiency Measurement in P4P
  • Physician Engagement in P4P
  • Government P4P Programs
  • Measurement and Data Collection

P4P SUMMIT TRACKS:

  • Employer and Health Plan P4P Programs
  • Efficiency Measurement in P4P
  • Government P4P Programs
  • P4P and Information Technology
  • P4P Financial Incentives and Gain-Sharing
  • Quality Performance Measurement and Data Collection
  • Legal Issues in P4P
  • Advanced P4P Case Studies

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Francois de Brantes
Officer and Director, Bridges to Excellence
Fairfield, CT
Suzanne Delbanco, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer, The Leapfrog Group
Washington, DC
Andrew Foster, CBE
Director of Human Resources and Organisational Development
Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust
Former Director of Workforce, Department of Health
National Health Service
United Kingdom
Robert S. Galvin, MD, MBA
Director, Global Healthcare, General Electric Company
Founding Member, The Leap Frog Group
Vice Chair, Washington Business Group on Health
Fairfield, CT
Michael O. Leavitt (Invited)
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Department of Health and Human Services
Former Governor of Utah
Washington, DC
Peter V. Lee, Esq. President and Chief Executive Officer
Pacific Business Group on Health
San Francisco, CA
Janet Marchibroda
Chief Executive Officer, eHealth Initiative
Foundation, Executive Director, Connecting for Health
Washington, DC
Robert Margolis, MD
Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer
HealthCare Partners
Chair, NCQA
Los Angeles, CA
Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH
U.S. Heathcare Thought Leader, Mercer Health & Benefits
Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health
San Francisco, CA
Peggy E. O'Kane
President, National Committee for Quality Assurance
Washington, DC
James Robinson, Ph.D., MPH
Kaiser Permanente Distinguished Professor of Health Economics
Chair, Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Meredith B. Rosenthal, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Health Economics and Policy
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA
Mark D. Smith, MD, MBA
President and Chief Executive Officer
California HealthCare Foundation
Oakland, CA
Tom Williams
Executive Director, Integrated Healthcare Association
Oakland, CA

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