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Health Insurance Reform Congress

THE NATIONAL CONGRESS ON HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM

January 19 - 21, 2011

ONSITE
Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Washington, DC

ONLINE
In your own office or home live via the Internet with 24/7 access for six months

THE NATIONAL CONGRESS ON
HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM
January 19 - 21, 2011

ONSITE
Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Washington, DC


OR
ONLINE
In your own office or home live via the Internet with 24/7 access for six months


NEWLY CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Jay Angoff
Dir, HHS Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, Fmr Insurance Commissioner of Missouri, Fmr Deputy Insurance Commissioner of New Jersey, Fmr Director, CMS Private Health Insurance Group, Fmr Counsel, Natl Insurance Consumer Organization, Washington, DC

Joel Ario
Director of Office of Insurance Exchanges, HHS Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, Fmr Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner, Washington, DC

Richard Popper, MS
Director, Insurance Programs, HHS Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, Fmr Executive Director, Maryland Health Insurance Plan (MHIP), Fmr Assistant Director, California Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, Washington, DC

FEATURING SPECIAL SESSION ON THE POLITICS OF HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM AFTER THE MID TERMS BY:

Christopher C. Jennings
President, Jennings Policy Strategies (JPS), Inc.; Former Senior Health Care Advisor to President Clinton, Domestic Policy and National Economic Councils; Former Senior Advisor to Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration (now CMS); Former Deputy Staff Director, Aging Committee, United States Senate, Washington, DC

Dean A. Rosen, Esq.
Partner, Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti, Inc.; Associate Professor, School of Public Health, George Washington University; Former Chief Health Care Advisor, Senate Majority Leader William H. Frist, M.D. (R-TN), United States Senate; Former Majority Counsel, Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives, Washington, DC

Edward F. Howard, Esq.
Executive Vice President, Alliance for Health Reform, Former General Counsel, Pepper Commission, Washington, DC (Moderator)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Henry J. Aaron, PhD
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies and The Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Chair, Brookings Institution, Chairman, National Academy of Social Insurance, Washington, DC

Joseph Antos, PhD
Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy, American Enterprise Institute, Commissioner, Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission, Health Adviser, Congressional Budget Office, Washington, DC

Phyllis C. Borzi, Esq.
Assistant Secretary of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of Labor, Washington, DC

Stuart M. Butler, PhD
Distinguished Fellow and Director, Center for Policy Innovation, The Heritage Foundation, Author, Enterprise Zones: Greenlining the Inner Cities, Privatizing Federal Spending, and Out of the Poverty Trap, Washington, DC

Carolyn M. Clancy, MD
Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Paul Fronstin, PhD
Senior Research Associate, Employee Benefit Research Institute, Washington, DC

Karen Ignagni
President and Chief Executive Officer, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), Washington, DC

Christopher C. Jennings
President, Jennings Policy Strategies (JPS), Inc., Former Senior Health Care Advisor to President Clinton, Domestic Policy and National Economic Councils, Washington, DC

Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, JD
Robert L. Willett Family Professorship of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law, Author, Health Insurance Exchanges: Legal Issues, Washington, DC

Cindy Mann
Deputy Administrator and Director, Center for Medicaid, CHIP, and Survey & Certification, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Ron Pollack, Esq.
Founding Executive Director, Families USA, Founder and Chair, Health Assistance Partnership, Washington, DC

Sandy Praeger
Kansas Insurance Commissioner; Chair, Health Insurance and Managed Care (B) Committee and Past President, National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), Topeka, KS

Uwe E. Reinhardt, PhD
James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Dean A. Rosen, Esq.
Partner, Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti, Inc., Former Majority Counsel, House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, Washington, DC

Leonard D. Schaeffer
Judge Robert Maclay Widney Chair and Professor, University of Southern California, Chairman of the Board, SCA, Senior Advisor, TPG Capital, Founding Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, WellPoint, Inc., Former Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration (now CMS), Los Angeles, CA

Susan E. Voss, Esq.
Commissioner, Iowa Insurance Division, President, National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), Des Moines, IA

FEATURING SESSIONS ON
  • Overview of the Current Health Insurance Marketplace in the United States
  • The Role of the Department of Labor in Implementing Health Insurance Reform
  • The Role of Regulators in Implementing Consumer Protections
  • An Overview of Medicaid Reform
  • AHIP's Perspective on Health Insurance Reform
  • A Republican Perspective on Health Insurance Reform
  • Congressional Staff Panel on Health Insurance Reform Policy
  • What Health Insurance Reform Does and Does Not Do
  • Health Reform and the Economy
  • Reform of Medicare, Medicaid and the Private Insurance Marketplace: What are the Remaining Challenges?
  • The Politics of Health Insurance Reform Implementation after the Midterms
  • Falling Through the Cracks - The Remaining Un-Insured
  • The Short and Long Term Future of Health Insurance Reform

AND THE FOLLOWING MINI SUMMITS
  • Mini Summit I: High Risk Pools
  • Mini Summit II: The Future of Medicare Advantage
  • Mini Summit III: Quality and Access Disparity Issues in Health Insurance Reform
  • Mini Summit IV: Enrollment Strategies for the New Medicaid and Health Insurance Exchange Populations
  • Mini Summit V: The Three Reinsurance Programs under Health Reform
  • Mini Summit VI: Consumer Driven Healthcare
  • Mini Summit VII: Payment Reform: Bundled Payments and Partial and Full Capitation
  • Mini Summit VIII: Value-based Insurance Design and Comparative Effectiveness Research
  • Mini Summit IX: Medical Loss Ratio
  • Mini Summit X: Delivery System Reform: The Role of Health Plans in ACO and Medical Home Development
  • Mini Summit XI: Implementing the Individual Mandate
  • Mini Summit XII: Competition and Consumer Protection Enforcement in Broken Health Insurance Markets
  • Mini Summit XIII: Premium Rate Regulation
  • Mini Summit XIV: Employer Strategies for Success Following Health Reform
  • Mini Summit XV: Wall Street's Assessment of the Impact of Health Reform on Health Insurers
  • Mini Summit XVI: Constitutionality of the Individual Mandate, Litigation Update, and Implications of Ruling
  • Mini Summit XVII: Health Insurance Exchanges
  • Mini Summit XVIII: The Future of Medicaid Managed Care
  • Mini Summit XIX: The Continuing Role of the Safety Net, Community and Free Clinics
  • Mini Summit XX: Pay or Play - New Rules for Employers

FEATURED FACULTY

Carmen Balber
Director, Washington, DC Office for Consumer Watchdog, Washington, DC

David Balto, Esq.
Law Offices of David A. Balto, Former Trial Attorney, Antitrust Division, DOJ, Policy Director, Bureau of Competition, FTC, United States Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC

Julie Bartels
Executive Director, Wisconsin Health Information Organization, Green Bay, WI

Nick Bath
Senior Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Tom Harkin, Senate HELP Committee, United States Senate, Washington, DC

Rowen B. Bell, FSAM, MAAA
Actuary, Health Care Service Corporation, Chairperson, Medical Loss Ratio Regulation Workgroup, American Academy of Actuaries, Chicago, IL

Leah F. Binder
Chief Executive Officer, The Leapfrog Group, Washington, DC

Richard (Rich) Birmingham, JD, LLM
Partner, Davis Wright Tremanie, Seattle, WA

Linda J. Blumberg, PhD
Economist and Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute, Former Health Policy Advisor, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC

Charles Boorady, MBA
Co-head Health Care Research, Credit Suisse, New York, NY

Courtney Burke
Director, New York State Health Policy Research Center, Rockefeller Institute of Government, Albany, NY

Cory Capps, PhD
Partner, Bates White, Former Staff Economist, Antitrust Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC

Richard Cauchi
Program Director, Health, National Conference of State Legislatures, Denver, CO

Chuck M. Clapton, Esq.
Health Policy Director (R), Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, United States Senate, Washington, DC




Sharon R. Cohen, JD
Attorney, Research and Information Center, Towers Watson, Former Senior Attorney, Employee Benefits and Exempt Organizations, Internal Revenue Service, Washington, DC

Dharma Cortés, PhD
Senior Research Associate, Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community, Development and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

Rick Curtis
President, Institute for Health Policy Solutions, Former Director of Health Policy Studies, National Governors' Association, Washington, DC


Susan DeSanti
Director, Office of Policy Planning, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC

Alexander "Sander" Domaszewicz
Principal and Senior Consultant, Mercer Health and Benefits Services, Newport Beach, CA

Terence Dougherty, MPH
Medicaid Director, Massachusetts Department of Health and Human Services, Boston, MA

Ian Duncan, FSA, FIA, FCIA, MAAA
President, Solucia Inc., Member, Commonwealth Health Insurance connector Authority Board, Farmington, CT



Dan Elling, MA
Republican Staff Director, Subcommittee on Health, Ways and Means Committee, United States House of Representatives, Washington, DC

Carolyn Engelhard, MPA
Assistant Professor and Health Policy Analyst, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA

A. Mark Fendrick, MD
Co-Director, University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design and Professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI


Bernadette Fernandez
Analyst in Health Care Financing, Domestic Social Policy Division, Congressional Research Service, Washington, DC



Stephen Finan, MA
Health Economist and Senior Director of Policy, American Cancer Society, Former Senior Economist, Office of Economic Policy, United States Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC

Herbert A. "Herb" Fritch
Chief Executive Officer, HealthSpring, Franklin, TN

John C. Goodman, PhD
President and Chief Executive Officer, National Center for Policy Analysis, Kellye Wright Fellow in Health Care, Wright Fellowship, Washington, DC

John K. Gorman
Chief Executive Officer, Gorman Health Group, Founding Partner, Leprechaun, Washington, DC

Elise Gould, PhD
Director of Health Policy Research, Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC

David C. Grossman, MD, MPH
Pediatrician and Medical Director of Preventive Care, Group Health Permanente, Senior Investigator Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA



DaShawn Groves, DrPH
Associate Director of Research, National Association of Community Health Centers, Washington, DC

Mark Hall, Esq.
Fred D. & Elizabeth L. Turnage Professor of Law, Wake Forest School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC

Kris Haltmeyer
Executive Director of Legislative & Regulatory Policy, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Washington, DC

Bradley Herring, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

David Howes, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer, Martin's Point Health Care, Portland, ME

Frank Ingari
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Essence Healthcare, Maryland Heights, MO

Thomas L. Johnson
President and Chief Executive Officer, Medicaid Health Plans of America, Washington, DC

Alan Katz
President, Alan Katz Group LLC, Author, Alan Katz Health Care Reform Blog, Los Angeles, CA




Rachel Klein, MA
Deputy Director of Health Policy, Families USA, Washington, DC

Nicole D. Lamoureux
Executive Director, National Association of Free Clinics, Alexandria, VA

Steven M. Lieberman, MPhil, MA
Visiting Scholar, Brookings Institution, Managing Member, Lieberman Consulting Inc., Bethesda, MD

Thomas J. Main, MBA
Partner and U.S. Market Leader, Health and Life Sciences Practice, Oliver Wyman, Chicago, IL

Summer H. Martin, JD, MBA
Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, GA

Carl McDonald, CFA
Equity Analyst, Citigroup Investment Research, New York, NY

Mark Merlis, MA
Independent Health Policy Consultant, Author, Health Coverage for the High-Risk Uninsured: Policy Options for Design of the Temporary High Risk Pool, May 2010, Philadelphia, PA

Harold D. Miller
President and Chief Executive Officer, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, Executive Director, Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform, Pittsburgh, PA

Thomas P. Miller
Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC

Elizabeth Mitchell
Chief Executive Officer, Maine Health Management Coalition, Portland, ME

Ed Neuschler
Senior Program Officer, Institute for Health Policy Solutions, Washington, DC


Mark Newsom, MSc
Analyst in Health Care Financing, Domestic Social Policy Division, Congressional Research Service, Washington, DC

Kathleen Nolan, MPH
Director, Health Division, National Governors Association, Former Senior Director for Prevention Policy, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Washington, DC

Thomas M. O'Brien, Esq.
Assistant Attorney General, Chief, Health Care Division, Office of Attorney General Martha Coakley, Boston, MA


Steven Ostlund
Actuary, Alabama Department of Insurance, Chair, PPACA Actuarial Subgroup, Accident & Health Working Group, NAIC, Montgomery, AL

Edmund J. Pezalla, MD, MPH
National Medical Director, Pharmacy Management, Aetna Health Plans, Hartford, CT

Wendell Primus
U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC

Dean Richlin, Esq.
Partner, Foley Hoag LLP, Boston, MA

Edwina Rogers, Esq.
Executive Director, Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative, Washington, DC

Brian Rosman, Esq.
Director of Research, Health Care For All, Former Counsel, Committee on Ways & Means, Massachusetts Senate, Boston, MA




John Sakowski
Chief Operating Officer, Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, Bloomington, MN




Karen Schneider, PhD
Senior Research Scientist, John Snow, Inc., Boston, MA

Douglas B. Sherlock, CFA
President, Sherlock Company, Gwynedd, PA

Kosali Simon, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University, Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, Ithaca, NY

Joshua H. Soven, Esq.
Chief, Litigation I, Antitrust Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC

John Steele, MBA
Principal, HealthScape Advisors, Chicago, IL

C. Eugene Steuerle, PhD
Institute Fellow and Richard B. Fisher Chair, Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, The Urban Institute, Washington, DC




Ed Wong, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP
Vice President of Pharmacy Services, Premera Blue Cross, Mountlake Terrace, WA

John Young
Vice President Consumerism, CIGNA, Minneapolis, MN

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Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs, Health Policy Analyst, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Washington, DC

Edward F. Howard, Esq.
Executive Vice President, Alliance for Health Reform, Former General Counsel, Pepper Commission, Washington, DC

John Iglehart
Founding Editor, Health Affairs, National Correspondent, New England Journal of Medicine, Washington, DC
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