| Confirmed Speakers
- Peter Lee, President, Pacific Business
Group on Health
- Bruce Taylor, Director, Employee Benefit Policy
and Plans, Verizon
- Dennis S. O’Leary, MD, President,
JCAHO
- John Glaser, PhD, Chief Information Officer,
Partners HealthCare
- Craig E. Samitt, MD, MBA, Chief Operating Officer,
Fallon Clinic, Inc.
- Sanford R Kurtz, MD, EVP, COO and Chief Medical
Officer, Lahey Clinic
- Scott Serota, President, Blue Cross
Blue Shield Association
- Michael Belman, MD, Staff VP, Medical Quality
Management, Blue Cross of CA (Wellpoint Health Networks)
- Kathleen Curtin, Vice President, Quality &
Improvement, Excellus Health Plan
- Howard Beckman, MD, Medical Director, Rochester
Individual Practice Association
- Vincent E. Kerr, MD, Executive Vice President,
Network and Clinical Strategies, United HealthCare;
Chairman, Leapfrog Group; formerly Director of
Healthcare Management, Ford Motor Company
- Steve Wetzell, Strategic Director, Consumer-Purchaser
Disclosure Project; Strategic Advisor, The Leapfrog
Group
- Sam Ho, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief
Medical Officer, PacifiCare Health Plans
- Albert G. Mulley, MD, Chief, General Medicine
Division and Director, Medical Practices Evaluation Center, Massachusetts
General Hospital
- Irene Fraser, Ph.D., Director, Center of Delivery,
Organization and Markets, Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality
- Stuart Guterman, Director of the Office of
Research and Development, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services
TOPICS TO BE ADDRESSED INCLUDE*
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Summit events. Please feel free to forward recommendations to:
[email protected].
From the employer, coalition and public purchaser perspective:
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Leading value-based purchasing and tiered network
strategies to reduce healthcare costs and to increase competition
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Standardization of accepted quality metrics
to increase transparency
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Successful implementation of report cards for
health plan quality and patient satisfaction
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Implementing financial incentives for employees
to improve health status
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Leapfrog Group's impact on employer contracting
based on patient safety measures
From the health plan perspective:
- Operational strategies for pay-for-performance contracting
- Leading health plans’ quality and pay-for-performance initiatives
- Public reporting of provider quality – Strategic and tactical
concerns
- Various quality metrics demanded by employers and overcoming
data collection issues of providers
- Value-based contracting by large employers
- Performance incentive payments – Measuring ROI from incentive
programs
- Key incentive strategies for independent physicians
- Contract negotiation strategies with hospitals and group practices
- Controlling variation in costs in quality with specialty providers
- Transitioning utilization management strategies to clinical
quality improvement initiatives
- Consumer access to provider quality -- Provider quality measures
that health plans will make available to consumers
From the provider organization perspective:
- Six sigma strategies for provider healthcare quality
- Next generation of patient safety measures and reporting
- Implementing clinical systems improvement and controls to collect
and report on patient safety measures
- Solving the trend of declining provider reimbursement through
pay-for-performance contracting
- Update on LeapFrog Group initiatives and other large employer
strategies
- Gaining buy-in from physicians through infrastructure and technology
implementation
- Transitioning utilization management programs to quality and
chronic care management programs
- Projecting IT ROI – how to assess the payoff from high
cost IT systems
- Physician Profiling – How a large provider organization
saved millions by profiling PCPs and specialists
- Balancing the various reporting requirements -- NCQA, JCAHO,
state association, health plan reporting
- Impact of new health plan designs on providers – tiered
networks, consumer-driven health options, etc.
- Conducting an internal audit on clinical management and reporting
systems
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Comments from 2003 Attendees
"I found the conference to be thought provoking and chalked
with useful perspectives."
Darnell Dent, Chief Executive Officer, Community Health Plan
of Washington
"A true Summit! Excellent organization in terms of getting
all the national voices, key leaders and stakeholders together in
one place!"
Tommye Hinton, RN, MSN, Vice President, Health Management Services,
Health Alliance Plan
"Dr. Wennberg was the reason that I first wanted to attend
and he didn't disappoint at all -- very thoughtful provoking ideas
and data."
Margorie DeSanetis, Manager, Nursing Finance and Systems, Maine
Medical Center
"Very refreshing... (World Congress conferences) allow me and
my colleagues to view similar situations and gain insight on possible
barriers and successes ahead as we plan a pay-for-performance initiative."
Courtney Mahoney, Core Function Research Analyst, Blue Cross
Blue Shield of Rhode Island
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