World Congress
  
The 9th Annual World Health Care Congress
Monday, April 16, 2012
1. The Administration of Payment Bundles for Payers and Providers
  • 2012 is the year of doing, not talking
  • Based on experiences of current payers and providers operating and developing real-world payment bundling programs, this session addresses three key challenges for each of payers and providers
  • This session also provides strategies for addressing these challenges, including the challenge of adapting existing benefit plans to a prospective payment bundle (Payer) and the challenge of distributing a payment bundle among the associated providers (Provider)
Sponsored by:
Jay Sultan Jay Sultan
Associate Vice President, Product Manager for Value Based Reimbursement
The TriZetto Group, Inc
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Health Plan Representative TBA
2. Making the Health Commitment
  • Understanding why it is critical that employers remain paternal providers of employee health coverage, even after 2014 when health insurance exchanges make it easier for employers to surrender that responsibility.
  • Learning how to use employer leverage to generate significant health behavior change.
  • Learning how to optimize the ROI and productivity gains by centralizing health benefits, incentives/penalties and health and wellness activities into one holistic program.
Sponsored by:
R. John Kaegi R. John Kaegi
Chief Corporate Strategist
Healthstat, Inc.
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3. Consumer-Centric Strategies: Redefining Value and Success in Health Care
  • Identify the key characteristics necessary for health care organizations to transform to a consumer-centric, performance-based, outcomes-driven approach to health care.
  • Increase the efficiency and personalization of care with new tools to enable consumer choice and patient access while leveraging this data to support decisions that improve value and care.
  • Share lessons-learned from other industries that have already made the transition to smarter commerce and social business, and how they demonstrate what it means to be a customer-driven, consumer-focused organization.
Sponsored by:
Barry Mason Barry Mason
Vice President of Global Healthcare Payers
IBM
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Harry Reynolds, Jr Harry Reynolds, Jr
Director of Health Industry Transformation
IBM
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4. Preparing for the Future of Device Benefit Management (DBM)
  • Overview of the market and subsequent challenges, opportunities, and device related spend.
  • Utilization factors, marketing practices, regulatory/compliance, market changes and key players.
  • Achieving physician engagement and high quality implants, with an approach that is patient focused and cost effective.
Sponsored by:
Jay Ethridge Jay Ethridge
President and Chief Executive Officer
Implantable Provider Group (IPG)
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