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	Pre-conference 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? Dr. Altman opens this year’s Forum with his unique perspective on the need to control health care costs. He’ll discuss the impact of the nation’s current fiscal crisis on health care reform and examine the impact of governmental and market forces on trends and overall health care utilization. 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 Two nationally recognized leaders from the health insurance plans will offer their perspective on cost trends and discuss health insurance plan strategies for managing rising health care costs, and the challenges presented by economic market volatility.  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 The patient-centered medical home has emerged as a promising concept that would replace episodic care with a sustained relationship between a patient and physician. The speakers provide their perspective on implementing the patient-centered medical home and examine some of the key issues and challenges. 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? The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has existing policies on off-label drug prescribing and marketing as part of their role in approving products that are safe and effective.  The speakers will examine the balance needed to spur medical innovation while ensuring safety. Health insurance plans will address the complexities of providing coverage for off-label use of drugs.  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 National trends in health benefit design are changing. Some of these innovative changes are being tested in Massachusetts and serve as an important model for the rest of the country. The session will also offer health plan approaches to creating benefit design that encourages consumer decision-making. Roberta Herman, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care 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 Demonstrating the value in health care is critical to improving patient outcomes and safety while impacting overall cost. This session examines the interpretation of value and health insurance plan efforts to improve the overall health care system. The speakers will examine the infrastructure necessary to implement a value-based system and offer different models of linking payment to 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 How do we foster meaningful and accurate reporting of information on physician performance? What are the various perspectives on transparency – consumer, health insurance plan, and employer? This session will examine the importance of transparency and public reporting for decision-making and where we need to create a sustainable framework for the future. 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
8:00 am – 9:15 am	Breakfast Concurrent Sessions Personalized Medicine: Health Care on the Frontier Personalized medicine is the segmentation of patient populations by any means, including genetic, imaging, or informatic techniques, to increase the benefit of a therapeutic approach to the patient. Our speakers will examine the challenges in bringing newly-emerging genetic technologies from the laboratory to the clinic. Teresa M. DeLuca, MD, MBA, Vice President, Department of Personalized Medicine, Business Solutions, Medco 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? In this session, you will here from AHIP’s President and CEO Karen Ignagni about the future of health care reform in America. Recognized as one of our nation’s thought leaders, she will address how the U.S. health care system can overcome roadblocks to affordable, high-quality, high-value health care. She will also examine how our country can make health insurance coverage accessible to all Americans. 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? Just three days after the election, hear an insightful political analysis from one of the most prominent pollsters on the front lines of this historical election cycle. He will discuss the results of the presidential, congressional and gubernatorial races. He will also discuss the meaning of these elections on health care, the economy and foreign affairs. Norman J. Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute and Election Analyst, CBS News
11:30 am	Conference Adjourn