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2004 Agenda > Track 3 � Employer VP, HR and Corporate Medical Director Summit
 
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Other qualified titles include: Vice Presidents and Directors of Benefits Planning, Risk Management and Health Care Or please submit a Request for Summit Invitation
Advisors:
Michael L. Davis, Vice President, Compensation & Benefits, General Mills, Inc.; Director, Institute for Healthcare Costs and Solutions, WBGH
Robert Galvin, MD, Director, Corporate Health Care, General Electric Company
Vince Kerr, M.D., MBA, Director, Healthcare Management, Ford Motor Company
John Mahoney, MD, Corporate Medical Director, Pitney Bowes
- M O N D A Y , J A N U A R Y 2 6 , 2 0 0 4 -
2:45

The Mandate to Control Healthcare Costs – Short- and Long-Term Solutions

  • Perspective from the Capitol – Keeping health benefits affordable from the Washington Business Group on Health
  • Large employers’ successful cost strategies through partnership and empowerment
  • Role of employers in purchasing value in healthcare benefits

Helen Darling
President
National Business Group on Health

3:30

Networking Break
congressional ballroom

Sponsor by:

4:15

Value-Based Purchasing – Purchaser Solutions to Increase Transparency and Accountability in Healthcare

  • Performance contracting strategies with health plans
  • Structuring provider quality and efficiency incentives
  • Review of results

Robert Galvin, M.D.
Director, Global Health Care
General Electric Company

5:00

Strategic Approaches to Benefit Design --
Increasing Employee Accountability and Financial Incentives to Better Manage Healthcare Costs

  • Consumerism in healthcare – The role of the employer to drive accountability of consumers
  • Trends in benefit design – Prescription benefits, tiered provider networks, medical savings accounts
  • eHealth initiatives successfully implemented by employers
  • Financial impact of new benefit designs

Moderator:

Jerry Geisel
Editor-at-Large
Business Insurance

Panelists:

David Hom
Vice President, Employment Brand/Total Rewards
Pitney Bowes

Patricia Nazemetz

Vice President, Human Resources
Xerox Corporation

 
- T U E S D A Y , J A N U A R Y 2 7 , 2 0 0 4 -
9:15

Employer and Coalition Initiatives to Standardize Health Care Purchasing

Andy Webber
President
National Business Coalition on Health

Jill A. Berger
Vice President
Health and Welfare Plan Management and Design
Marriott International

10:00

Employer’s Population-Based Health Initiatives – Predictive Modeling

  • Increasing participation in disease management programs
  • Predictive modeling for prevention
  • Managing pharmaceutical costs proactively

Martin Sepulveda, M.D.
Vice President, Global Occupational Health Services
IBM

Catherine Baase, M.D.
Global Director of Health Services
Dow Chemical

Jack Mahoney, M.D.
Corporate Medical Director
Pitney Bowes

10:45 Networking Break
congressional ballroom
11:15

Employers’ Expectations for Health Plans—Measuring Consumer Support

  • Integrating the purchaser into decisions on health care finance and delivery
    • A new model for engaging consumers
    • Progressive contracting with health plans
    • Strategies to drive performance at the provider level
  • Results from purchasing group initiatives to engage consumers, improve quality and efficiency and reduce costs
    • The LeapFrog Group—Improved hospital survey and third-year survey results
    • Pacific Business Group on Health and the Breakthrough Strategy – Sending a message to the market

Peter V. Lee, JD
President and CEO
Pacific Business Group on Health

 

 
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