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Tuesday March 7, 2006
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7:00 am
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8:00 am
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8:15 am
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9:15 am
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| 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. |
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Peter Miller
President/CEO
TakeCare Health

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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
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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. |
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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. |
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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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| 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.
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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
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Robert Barbour JD, MPS, CPHIMS
VP Finance for Physician Services and Technology Development
Montefiore Medical Center
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David Harris
Revenue Cycle Innovations Leader
PricewaterhouseCoopers
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| 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. |
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Jay Herron CPA
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Christus Health
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| 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. |
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Cynthia Sterrantino
Assistant Corporate Controller
Baylor Health System
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2:00 pm
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