OVERVIEW
While the national debate has recently focused on issues of coverage and ACA repeal and replace, substantial health care payment and delivery reform initiatives continue. At the time of this writing, the policy of the Trump administration on these efforts remains ambiguous. On one hand CMS has cancelled two mandatory bundled-payment models and cut down the number of providers required to participate in a third, and the administration has asked for comment on a possible new direction for CMMI. On the other hand MACRA implementation is moving forward under the new MACRA Final Rule. At the Summit Kate Goodrich, MD, CMS Chief Medical Officer and Director, Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, will provide an update on CMS/CMMI pay for performance and value-based purchasing initiatives.
Private sector health care payment and delivery reform indicatives are also being pursued by employers, health plans and providers. We will hear case studies and best practices from primary care and specialty physicians, behavioral health providers, long terms care, hospitals and health systems and employers with regard to their value-based care initiatives. Sophisticated tools relevant to these efforts will also be featured, including analytics and big data, actuarial, risk adjustment, financial modeling, performance measure, physician compensation strategies, managing risk and clinical quality, capitation contract negotiation, reference pricing, managing benefits and care coordination.
This year’s conference will provide an opportunity to engage with colleagues from across the country on the issues, opportunities, and challenges facing the health care system in 2018 and beyond. Leaders from industry, government and the non-profit sector will share best practices and lessons learned from grappling with real-world implementation issues as they strive to improve quality while reducing costs. We will hear about Performance Measures and Data to Implement Alternative Payment Models, Encounter Data and the Future of the Delegated Model, Innovative Approaches to Involving Specialists in Value-based Payment, National Best Practices in Value-based Payment Innovation and Implementation and the challenges of MACRA Implementation. Leading health plans and provider organizations will share observations from the front lines of product development and care delivery, while researchers will reveal what they have learned through studying success. Throughout the conference, practitioners actively engaged in the challenging work of improving our healthcare system will learn from each other, and accelerate our progress toward creating a higher-value system. In addition, the conference has become a great opportunity to reconnect on an annual basis — we will be delighted if you can join us.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Executives and Board Members of ACOs, Health Plans, Health Systems, Hospitals and Physician Organizations
- Medical Directors
- Physicians
- Nurses, Nurse Practitioners and Other Allied Health Professionals
- Pharmacists and Pharmacy Benefit Managers
- Representatives of Purchasers, including Private Employers and Public Purchasers
- Consumer Organization Representatives
- Federal and State Government Officials
- Health Care Regulators and Policy Makers
- Health Benefits Consultants
- Medical Analytic Specialists
- Quality Improvement Executives
- Managed Care Executives
- Managed Care Contracting Experts
- Health Policy Makers
- Academics
- Compliance Officers
- Privacy Officers
- Ethics Officers and Corporate Social Responsibility Personnel
- Pharmaceutical Consultants
- Investment Bankers
- Venture Capitalists
- Health Services Researchers and Academics
- Auditors
- Promotion Signatories/Approvers
- Risk Management Personnel
- Governmental Policy Makers and Regulators