CLOSING KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION: What’s Next in Pay-for-Performance Besides Incentives?

In the era of healthcare reform what other options exists to use pay-for-performance to increase the delivery and quality of care beyond incentives? Hear from five leading industry experts on their thoughts on some of the initiatives that need to be considered.

Moderator:
	Mark C. Shields, MD, MBA, FACP Vice President, Advocate Health Care; Senior Medical Director Advocate Physician Partners
Panelists:
	Kent Bottles, MD Former President Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI)		Mark Friedberg, MD, MPP Associate Natural Scientist RAND Corporation
	Mary Goessler, MD, MPM, FAAP Medical Director, Medical Performance Management Highmark		Leah F. Binder, MA, MGA Chief Executive Officer The Leapfrog Group

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The 8th Annual Health Care Quality Congress convenes over 200 of the industry's top visionaries and thought leaders to discuss cost containment strategies and how to develop solutions that align incentives with various payment models to maximize reimbursement and enhance value. The Congress is the only focused event to discuss quality from both a provider and plan perspective and feature "national" programs discussing their implementation strategies and how they are achieving meaningful use.

Health Plan / Payer Thought Leaders:
Douglas Allen, MD, MMM Vice President, Clinical Services CareMore Health Plan	Mark T. Bertolini President Aetna
Nicole G. DeVita, RPh, MHP Senior Director, Alternative Quality Contract Consultative Support Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts	Mary Goessler, MD, MPM, FAAP Medical Director Highmark Blue Shield
April Greene Director, Payment Reform Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts	Dana Gelb Safran, Sc.D. Senior Vice President, Performance Measurement and Improvement Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Massachusetts (BCBSMA)
Doug Thompson Chief Financial Officer, Network Health; Former Chief Financial Officer, Massachusetts Office of Medicaid	Wesley B. Wong, MD, MMM Regional Vice President, National Medical Director Comprehensive Health Solutions Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Kenneth P. Yale, DDS, JD Executive Director AmeriChoice MSO, a UnitedHealth Group Company
Hospital / Health System / Group Practice Thought Leaders:
Kenneth J. Abrams, MD, MBA Senior Vice President, Clinical Operations, Chief Quality Officer and Associate Chief Medical Officer North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System	A. John Blair III, MD President Taconic IPA
Charles Brackett, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center	Michael E. Brown , MD, MS, MHCM Chief Information Officer Harvard University Health Services
Mary Reich Cooper, MD, JD Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer Lifespan Corporation Assistant Professor, Medicine and Public Health The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University	Carole Cotter Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Lifespan Corporation
Gregg Coughlin, MBA, CPA President Great Rochester IPA (GRIPA)	Kathleen Curtin, RN, MBA Chief Clinical Informatics Officer Kaleida Health System
Steve Dobbs Chief Executive Officer Hillcrest Medical Center	Susan Edgman-Levitan, PA Executive Director, Executive Director, John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation Massachusetts General Hospital
Joseph Fifer, FHFMA, CPA Vice President, Finance Spectrum Health System	Kathleen Jennison Goonan, MD Executive Director, Center for Performance Excellence, Institute for Health Policy, Mass General Hospital/Partners
Gary L. Gottlieb, MD, MBA President and Chief Executive Officer Partners HealthCare System Inc.	James Hereford Executive Vice President, Group Practice Division Group Health Cooperative
Martin E. Hickey, MD Chief Executive Officer Alegent Health Clinic	Dennis R. Horrigan President and Chief Executive Officer Catholic Independent Practice Association of Western New York (Catholic IPA-WNY)
Sandra Kemmerly, MD Medical Director, Clinical Practice Improvement Ochsner Health System	G. Alan Kurose, MD President & CEO Coastal Medical, Inc.
Edward G. Murphy, MD President and Chief Executive Officer Carilion Clinic	April A. Perry, MA, CCC- SLP Disease Program Leader Deaconess HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital
Keith Pugliese Vice President of Medical Services and Compliance, Privacy Officer Brown & Toland Physicians	Brian K. Regan, PhD Director, Clinical Affairs New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System
Barbara E. Rutkowski, EDD, MSN, CCM Director, Case Management and HIMS HealthSouth Deaconess Rehabilitation Hospital	Valinda Rutledge Chief Executive Officer CaroMont Health
Donna Saxton, MHA, MPH, FACHE Vice President, Quality and Safety Ochsner Health System	Mark C. Shields, MD, MBA, FACP Vice President, Medical Management, Advocate Health Care; Senior Medical Director, Advocate Physician Partners
Christopher H. Tashjian, MD, FAAFP President River Falls, Ellsworth and Spring Valley Medical Clinics	Brian R. Taylor, PhD Director, Clinical Analytics New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System
Jeffrey E. Thompson, MD Chief Executive Officer Gundersen Lutheran Health System
Government Thought Leaders:
Karen Bell, MD, MMS Chair Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT)	Irene Fraser, PhD Director, Center for Delivery, Organization and Market Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Stuart Guterman Assistant Vice President, Director, Medicare's Future The Commonwealth Fund	Dolores L. Mitchell Executive Director Group Insurance Commission
Association / Coalition Thought Leaders:
Brett Baker Director, Regulatory Affairs American College of Physicians	Leah F. Binder, MA, MGA Chief Executive Officer The Leapfrog Group
Kent Bottles, MD Former President Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI)	Paul W. Brand Executive Director The Employers' Coalition on Health
Jim Chase President Minnesota Community Measurement	William A. Dolan, MD Member, Board of Trustees American Medical Association (AMA)
Martha Donovan Hayward Executive Director The Partnership For Healthcare Excellence	Mary Durfee, MD, PC President IHA
Mark Friedberg, MD, MPP Associate Natural Scientist RAND Corporation	Keith T. Kanel, MD, MHCM, FACP Chief Medical and Learning Officer Jewish Healthcare Foundation, Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative
Ivan Khan Director, Quality Initiatives New York Business Group on Health	Cheri Lattimer, RN, BSN Executive Director Case Management Society of America (CMSA) Project Director National Transitions of Care Coalition
Eric Linzer Senior Vice President of Public Affairs and Operations Massachusetts Health Plan Association>	Gwendolyn Lohse Deputy Director and Managing Director, Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) CAQH
Cathie Markow, BSN, MBA Senior Manager Pacific Business Group on Health	Christopher Queram President and Chief Executive Officer Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ)
Bruce Sherman, MD, FCCP, FACOEM Director, Health and Productivity Initiatives, Employers Health Coalition of Ohio; Consulting Corporate Medical Director, Whirlpool Corporation	Chester A. Speed, JD, LL.M Vice President, Public Policy American Medical Group Association (AMGA)
Teri Treiger, RN-C, MA, CCM, CCP President Case Management Society of America	Michael Vittoria Vice President, Human Resources, Sperian Protection; President, Rhode Island Business Group on Health
Annette C. Watson, RN-BC, CCM, MBA Chair-Elect Commission for Case Manager Certification	Lynda M. Young, MD President Elect Massachusetts Medical Society
Academic / Other Think Tank Leaders:
Richard A. Bankowitz, MD, MBA Enterprise Wide Chief Medical Officer Premier, Inc.	Thomas Barker Partner Foley Hoag
Lawrence Borok Chief Executive Officer Vantage Point Healthcare Information Systems	William J. DeMarco, MA, CMC President & Chief Executive Officer DeMarco and Associates, Inc.
R. Adams Dudley, MD, MBA Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Policy; Associate Director for Research Institute for Health Policy Studies University of California at San Francisco (UCSF)	Beth Connor Guest Attorney at Law Waller Lansden Dortch and Davis LLP
David B. Kendall Senior Fellow, Health Policy Third Way	Nancy Meadows, RN, BS Clinical Specialist The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) National Care Transitions Program
Harold A. Picken, MD, MPH Instructor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health; Former Vice President, Health Operations, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI)	Jonathan M. Teich, MD, PhD Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Elsevier; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard University
Gary Young, JD, Ph.D Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management Boston University School of Public Health Associate Director, Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research Department of Veterans Affairs;