Schedule At A Glance

Wednesday, November 5
12:00 pm – 6:00 pm	Registration and Information Desk Open
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm	Welcome Reception in Poster Area
Thursday, November 6
7:00 am – 6:00 pm	Registration and Information Desk Open
7:30 am – 8:30 am	Breakfast Symposia
8:45 am – 8:55 am	Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:55 am – 9:45 am	Keynote Speaker Controlling Cost Drivers: Necessity or Empty Rhetoric? Stuart H. Altman, PhD, Dean of The Heller School for Social Policy & Management and Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy at Brandeis University.
9:45 am – 10:45 am	General Session Respondents: Making Health Care More Affordable Lewis G. Sandy, MD, Senior Vice President, Clinical Advancement, UnitedHealth Group Jed Weissberg, MD, Associate Executive Director, Quality and Performance Improvement, The Permanente Federation
10:45 am – 11:00 am	Break
11:00 am – 12:30 pm	Concurrent Sessions Patient-centered Medical Homes: Redesigning the Care Delivery Model Patrick Courneya, MD, Medical Director, Delivery Systems, HealthPartners, Inc. Richard Popiel, MD, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey Off-label Use of Drugs: Improving Care or Unnecessary Expense? Janet Woodcock, MD, Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Thom Stambaugh, Chief Pharmacist Officer, CIGNA Pharmacy Management William Kerr, MD, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, WellCare Health Plans, Inc.
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch with Poster Presentations
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm	General Session The Changing Landscape of Health Benefits Roberta Herman, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Mrs. Dolores L. Mitchell, Executive Director, Group Insurance Commission, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Samuel R. Nussbaum, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, WellPoint, Inc.
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm	Break
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm	General Session Value-based Payment Reform: Linking Payment with Quality John Fallon, MD, Chief Physician Executive, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Jonathan Gavras, MD, Chief Medical Officer and Vice President, Medical Operations, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Bruce Hamory, MD, Executive Vice President, and Chief Medical Officer, Geisinger Health System
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm	General Session Transparency and Validating Public Reporting Jessica Greene, PhD, MPH, Director, Master of Public Administration Program and Assistant Faculty, University of Oregon Sam Ho, MD, Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President, Commercial Markets Group, UnitedHealthcare Peter V. Lee, JD, Executive Director, National Health Policy
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm	Reception in Poster Area
Friday, November 7
7:00 am – 11:30 am	Registration and Information Desk Open
7:45 am – 9:15 am	Breakfast Concurrent Sessions Personalized Medicine: Health Care on the Frontier Allan J. Ebbin, MD, MPH, Vice President, Healthcare Quality and Education, UnitedHealthcare Nevada Market
9:15 am – 9:30 am	Break
9:30 am – 10:15 am	General Session Health Care Reform: Back to the Future or a New Paradigm Karen Ignagni, President and CEO, America’s Health Insurance Plans
10:15 am – 11:15 am	General Session Changes in the Political Landscape: What do the Elections Mean for Health Care Reform? Norman J. Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute and Election Analyst, CBS News
11:30 am	Conference Adjourn