The World Congress 10th Annual Health Care Quality Congress

2012 OPENING KEYNOTE PANEL: Payment Models – What’s Next As We Move Towards Value Based Purchasing

The panel will have a discussion on the various payment and reimbursement strategies that will include: Bundled payments Shared savings Episode of care Global Payments Alternative payment models Moving from fee to service to capitation - What additional factors need to be considered as you move an organization towards delivering value based care? - How to overcome the challenge of changing a culture as you move towards implementing different payment models Moderator: Gary Young, JD, Ph.D Director, Northeastern University Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research;  Professor of Strategic Management and Healthcare Systems, Northeastern University Allan Harold Goroll, MD,MACP Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital Dana Gelb Safran, Sc.D. Vice President for Performance Measurement and Improvement Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) Mark C. Shields, MD, MBA, FACP Vice President, Advocate Health Care; Senior Medical Director, Advocate Physician Partners Kavita Patel, MD, MS Managing Director for Clinical Transformation and Delivery Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, Brookings Institution

The World Congress 10th Annual Health Care Quality Congress convenes the nation's top visionaries and thought leaders to address the evolution of health care quality by discussing such topics as  incentives, pay-for-performance, bundled payments, global reimbursement strategies, physician/hospital alignment, patient centered medical home, accountable care organizations, and measurement to improve the delivery of care.

The Congress agenda is designed to assemble over 150 representatives from all sectors of health care, including hospital/health system/group practice providers; health plan/payer executives; government officials; society and coalition leaders; and employer/purchaser decision-makers who strive to drive quality improvement initiatives and innovations across the industry.

Issues to be addressed in 2012 include:

• Aligning meaningful use to improve with quality improvement
• Creating an IT infrastructure to support the Patient-Centered Medical Home
• What quality initiatives need to be in place to monitor specialists?
• Updated discussion on payment models
• Comparing the various quality methods that need to be in place to measure both hospitals and physicians 
• Data – what needs to be collected? How to measure it? Once you completed the collection and measurement process – what’s next?
• Measurements – what needs to occur so there is more standardization