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Press Release: RWJ National Summit on Health Care Pricing, Cost & Quality Transparency Features the Health Plan Role in Transparency
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- A Hybrid Conference and Internet Event
- The Leading Forum on Health Care Price, Cost, and Quality Transparency
- Produced by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Media Partners: Harvard Health Policy Review and Health Affairs
- December 2 - 4, 2013
- Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
- www.HCTransparencySummit.com
PRESS RELEASE
Phone: 800-503-0078
Email: registration@hcconferences.com
Website: www.HCTransparencySummit.com
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION DISCOUNT
- SAVE UP TO $800 -
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Register by Friday, October 18, 2013 and save up to $800. Click here to register.
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FEATURING THE HEALTH PLAN ROLE
IN TRANSPARENCY BY:
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Jeff D. Emerson, MS
Senior Vice President, Health Care Management, Aetna, Hartford, CT
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George Lenko
Program Director, National Network Initiatives, Anthem BCBS, Detroit, MI
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Lewis Sandy, MD, MBA, FACP
Executive Vice President, Clinical Advancement, UnitedHealth Group, Former Program Vice President, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Minnetonka, MN
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WASHINGTON DC USA -- PAYMENT/DELIVERY SYSTEM REFORM UPDATE NEWS SERVICE™ -- SEPTEMBER 24, 2013: The National Summit on Health Care Price, Cost and Quality Transparency, www.HCTransparencySummit.com, will be held December 2 - 4, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The Summit will be offered both onsite and live and archived for 6 months over the Internet.
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SPONSORED BY
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CHAIR
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Susan Dentzer
Senior Policy Adviser, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
Health Policy Analyst, The PBS News Hour, Washington, DC
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Steven Brill, JD
Founder, CourtTV and American Lawyer, Author, "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us," Time, New York, NY |
George C. Halvorson
Chairman, Kaiser Permanente, Past Chair, International Federation of Health Plans, Oakland, CA
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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 |
Uwe E. Reinhardt, PhD
James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
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LEADING GOVERNMENTAL OFFICIALS
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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
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TUITION SCHOLARSHIPS
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The National Summit on Healthcare Price, Cost and Quality Transparency supported by a generous grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 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.
Click here for more information.
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MEDIA PARTNERS
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HYATT REGENCY ON CAPITOL HILL
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HEALTHCARE TRANSPARENCY SUMMIT IS
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FEATURING SPECIAL PRECONFERENCE SESSION
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- The Basics of Hospital Pricing, Including Understanding the Chargemaster
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PLENARY SESSIONS
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- 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
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AND THE FOLLOWING MINI SUMMITS
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- 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
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WHAT ARE THE POLICY OBJECTIVES OF INCREASED TRANSPARENCY?
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Karen Ignagni, MBA
President and CEO, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), Former Director, AFL-CIO's Department of Employee Benefits, 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
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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
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BARRIERS TO TRANSPARENCY AND HOW TO OVERCOME THEM
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Leah Binder
President and Chief Executive Officer, Leapfrog Group, Washington, DC |
Anuj Desai, BS, MBA
Vice President, Market Development, New York e-Health Collaborative, New York, NY |
William E. Kramer, MBA
Executive Director for National Health Policy, Pacific Business Group on Health, San Francisco, CA
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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
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COMMERCIALIZING COST TRANSPARENCY: PRIVATE SECO TOR PROVIDERS OF TRANSPARENT INFORMATION
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Giovanni Colella, MD, MBA
Cofounder, Castlight Health, Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, RelayHealth, San Francisco, CA |
Alex Fair, MS
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, FairCareMD, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, MedStartr.com, New York, NY
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Douglas Ghertner, MBA
Chief Executive Officer, Change Healthcare, Brentwood, TN |
Toure McCluskey, MBA
Founder, OkCopay, Former Managing Director, First Mile Health, Seattle, WA
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PRICE AND COST TRANSPARENCY AND THE CONNECTION TO QUALITY
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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
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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
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EMPLOYER HEALTH CARE TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVES
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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
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THE ROLE OF HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGES IN FOSTERING TRANSPARENCY
ON HEALTH PLAN COST AND QUALITY
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Joel Ario, M.Div., JD
Managing Director, Manatt Health Solutions, Former Director, Office of Health Insurance Exchanges, US Department of Health & Human Services, Former Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner, Former Executive Director, Oregon State Public Interest Research Group, Washington, DC |
Katie Burns
Policy and Plan Management Director, Health Insurance Exchange, Minnesota Department of Commerce, Minneapolis, MN |
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
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FEATURED FACULTY
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Peter B. Angood, MD, FRCS(C), FACS, FCCM
Chief Executive Officer, American College of Physician Executives, Tampa, FL |
Andrew Austin, PhD
Economist, The Library of Congress, Researcher, Congressional Research Service, Washington, DC |
Kristin L. Carman, PhD
Director of Health Policy and Research, American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC
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David C. Colby, PhD
Vice-President, Research and Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Former Deputy Director, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and Physician Payment Review Commission, Princeton, NJ |
Randy Cox
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Pricing Healthcare, Provo, UT |
E-Patient Dave deBronkart
Cancer Patient and Blogger, Founder, ePatientDave.com, Nashua, NH
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Andrea M. Ducas, MPH
Program Associate, Quality/Equality Health Care Team, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Jersey City, NJ |
Jeff D. Emerson, MS
Senior Vice President, Health Care Management, Aetna, Hartford, CT |
Joseph Fifer, FHFMA, CPA
President and Chief Executive Officer, Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), Former Vice President-Hospital Finance, Spectrum Health, Westchester, IL
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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 |
Jessica Greene, PhD
Professor and Director of Research, The George Washington University School of Nursing, Washington, DC |
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
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George Kalogeropoulos
Co-founder, OpsCost, San Francisco, CA |
Christopher F. Koller, MA
President, Milbank Memorial Fund, Former Rhode Island Commissioner of Insurance, Cranston, RI |
Michael Kovar
Principal, Health Care Services Group, WeiserMazars LLP, New York, NY
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George Lenko
Program Director, National Network Initiatives, Anthem BCBS, Detroit, MI |
Lisa Letourneau, MD, MPH
Executive Director, Quality Counts, Portland, ME |
Susan R. Mende, BSN, MPH
Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Harlem, NY
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Tara Oakman
Program Officer, Quality/Equality Health Care Team, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ |
Michael W. Painter, MD, JD
Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ |
Josephine Porter, MPH
Deputy Director, New Hampshire Institute for Health Policy and Practice, University of New Hampshire, Campton, NH
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Stephen Parente, PhD, MPH, MS
Professor and Director, Medical Industry Leadership Institute, Minnesota Insurance Industry Chair of Health Finance, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
Chris Queram
President and Chief Executive Officer, Wisconsin Collaborative Health Care Quality, Middleton, WI |
Jeffrey J. Rice, MD, JD
Chief Executive Officer, Healthcare Blue Book, Former Executive Vice President of Medical Leadership, and Business Development, Healthways, Nashville, TN
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Lewis Sandy, MD, MBA, FACP
Executive Vice President, Clinical Advancement, UnitedHealth Group, Minnetonka, MN |
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
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NATIONAL SUMMIT ON HEALTH CARE PRICE, COST AND QUALITY TRANSPARENCY
December 2 - 4, 2013
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ONSITE
Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill
Washington, DC
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WEBCAST PARTICIPATION
In your own office or home live via the Internet
with 24/7 access for six months
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PARTICIPATION OPTIONS
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TRADITIONAL ONSITE ATTENDANCE
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Simply register, travel to the conference city and attend in person.
Pros: subject matter immersion; professional networking opportunities; faculty interaction
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LIVE AND ARCHIVED WEBCAST PARTICIPATION
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