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Chair:
John M. Clymer
Interim Executive Director, Directors of Health Promotion and Education;
Senior Advisor, Alliance to Make US Healthiest

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Monday, April 12, 2010
1:35 pm -
2:25 pm
Federal Employees Health Benefits Program—New Directions in Benefits Programs for 1.9 Million Employees
  • Updates from the chief architect of the human resources agenda for 1.9 million Federal employees nationwide
  • Lessons learned from the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) - Models for expanded coverage and competition
John Berry
Director
U.S. Office of Personnel Management

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2:25 pm -
3:20 pm
Expanding Coverage—Adapting the Massachusetts Model for National Coverage Reform
  • Cautionary lessons from the Massachusetts Connector for politicians, legislators, and state purchasers
  • Update on progress of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' efforts to expand coverage and to finance care
  • Overcoming challenges and achieving collaboration among health care regulators, purchasers, providers and payers
Jon Kingsdale - Speaker Photo Jon Kingsdale
Executive Director
Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
10:20 am -
11:10 am
Successful Public-Private Partnership Strategies to Address Chronic Disease—Partnership Approach to Address Risk
  • Proven public/private collaboration and funding strategies to address our nation’s most costly chronic conditions
  • Design and delivery of community based health and wellness
  • Case study from Pennsylvania’s Chronic Care Commission to provide incentives for prevention and chronic care management
Leslie A. Best - Speaker Photo Leslie A. Best
Director, Bureau of Chronic Diseases & Injury Prevention
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Ann Torregrossa, Esq.
Director, Governor's Office of Health Care Reform
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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11:15 am -
12:05 pm
In-Depth Review of the Department of Defense's Chronic Care Initiatives
  • Strategies to provide continuous engagement and behavior change support to drive optimized health for active duty personnel
  • Creating a comprehensive, fully integrated system of wellness, prevention and chronic care management
Allen W. Middleton
Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs

Acting Principal Director
TRICARE Management Activity

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Moderator:
Stefen F. Brueckner
President, Chief Operating Officer
Healthways

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Business Case Forum 2: Progressive Strategies for Public Purchasers
2:25 pm -
3:10 pm
Lessons Learned from Utah's Approach to Health System Reform
  • Insight into the Utah Health Exchange and challenges of creating state-wide health system reform
  • Utah's action plan to leverage technology to enable the implementation of consumer-based health system reforms
  • From friction to collaboration among health care regulators, purchasers, providers and payers
David Clark
Speaker of the House
Utah House of Representatives

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3:15 pm -
4:15 pm
In-Depth Review of North Carolina's Medical Home Model: How the Community Care of North Carolina saved over $300M in 2008
  • Development of a statewide infrastructure to improve care by adapting Carolina Access' primary care model
  • Outlining how the public-private partnership created a shared accountability model with local Community Care networks for the cost and quality of the services provided
  • Design of the Community Care networks including providing an enrollee with a medical home, population-based care management tools, implementing evidence-based practice guidelines, and targeted case and disease management
  • Results from a Mercer study commissioned by the state of North Carolina -- Actuarial model to review cost savings and health status
Steven E. Wegner - Speaker Photo Steven E. Wegner, JD, MD
President
North Carolina Community Care Network

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