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Tuesday March 7, 2006

7:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:00 am
Chairman’s Welcome and Opening Remarks
John Bachman MD
Sanders Professor of Primary Care
Mayo Foundation

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8:15 am
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
When Choices in Health Care Lead to Better Outcomes
Karen Davis
President
The Commonwealth Fund

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9:15 am
Affordable Access to Healthcare under Consumer-Driven Health Plans
A New Generation of Health Care Delivery
In today’s world, healthcare access is becoming more challenging for both insured and uninsured individuals. The concept of high quality, low cost, highly accessible healthcare is an idea whose time has come. Peter Miller will discuss Take Care Health Systems entry into the United States healthcare system, this new retail-based healthcare delivery space, and the expected benefits for all key stakeholders involved: consumers, third-party payers, employers and providers.
Peter Miller
President/CEO
TakeCare Health

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Breakout Track Sessions
Track One (10:00 am - 1:15pm)
Employer and Payer Strategies to Advance the Consumer Driven Market
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10:00 am Consumer Strategies to Advance Quality and Transparency
Humana will present its initiatives to form provider relationships and use research results to further communication with members.
  • Hear about just in time information strategies to provide consumers with individualized information
Tom Granatir
Senior Advisor, Clinical Health Policy
The Innovation Center
Humana Inc.

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10:45 am Networking and Refreshment Break
11:15 am Making the Right Things Easier: Leveraging the Convergence of Disease Management and Consumer Directed Health
While there are clear concerns that cost sharing for consumers with chronic conditions may impede their access to and use of care, there is also an increased incentive to design and deliver care that most efficiently and effectively meets the consumer's needs and aligns with their values. Strategies to both communicate and deliver patient centered and patient valued prevention and chronic care management will be discussed.
Paul J. Wallace MD
Medical Director for Health and Productivity Management Programs;
Senior Advisor, The Care Management Institute and KP-Healthy Solutions
The Permanente Federation, Kaiser Permanente

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12:00 pm Executive Luncheon with Moderated Roundtable Discussion Groups
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1:15 pm A Profile of Initiatives from the Care Focused Purchasing Group: Results from 2 Years of Aggregating Data
This session will profile of efforts to incorporate quality and efficiency into benefits design structures, and results from working models.
Bob Ihrie
VP, Compensation and Benefits
Lowe’s

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David Rahill
Principal and World Wide Partner
Mercer Human Resource Consulting

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Track Two (10:00 am - 1:15pm)
Preparing Healthcare Providers for the Impact of Consumer Driven Health
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10:00 am Reengineering Access, Finance and Business Office for Consumerism: HSA/HRA Readiness Program
Industry pundits are estimating the number of High Deductible Health Plans will double in 2006 as a result of HSAs and HRAs. Hospitals have the most to lose because they lack the resources to become competitive in a consumer-driven model.
  • This session will focus on fundamental examples of how healthcare and financial service industries are accelerating adoption of consumer-directed health with the least amount of capital investment
Robert Barbour JD, MPS, CPHIMS
VP Finance for Physician Services and Technology Development
Montefiore Medical Center
David Harris
Revenue Cycle Innovations Leader
PricewaterhouseCoopers
10:45 am Networking and Refreshment Break
11:15 am Strategies for Responding to Disruptive Innovations in Consumer Directed Health
How does a hospital transition from physicians as primary customer to consumers as primary customer? This presentation will review hospital business processes that must be adapted to a consumer-oriented environment. Learnings from Southwest Airlines, WalMart and Nordstrom will be reviewed in the context of required hospital transition to the patient/consumer.
Jay Herron CPA
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Christus Health
12:00 pm Executive Luncheon with Moderated Roundtable Discussion Groups
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1:15 pm Patient Friendly Billing: A Case Study
Learn the good, bad and the ugly Baylor Healthcare System experienced implementing Patient Friendly Billing. Baylor's first priority was to meet patient's needs and designed their system around this concept. This project led by Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), in partnership with American Hospital Association (AHA) was adopted by Baylor Health Care System in 2003.
Cynthia Sterrantino
Assistant Corporate Controller
Baylor Health System

2:00 pm
Conference Concludes
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