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AIS’s Health Business Roundtables

New Health Insurance Business Models for a Post-Reform World

October 4-5, 2012 Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Washington D.C.

New Health Insurance Business Models for a Post-Reform World

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Health insurers and their partners and competitors have never faced a period of greater change, uncertainty and potential turmoil. When you attend New Health Insurance Business Models, you’ll gain a thorough understanding of today’s most compelling bottom-line issues for health care professionals, from exchanges to dual eligibles to new benefit designs to ACOs and medical homes. You’ll leave with an arsenal of new strategies you can employ to take advantage of the unprecedented opportunities ahead … and avoid the many pitfalls.

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AIS’s Health Business Roundtables

A unique live event you won’t want to miss

Seven Health Business Roundtables — each featuring four industry leaders and two veteran AIS health reporters as moderators — permit a deep dive into the challenges and solutions that will energize the health care industry in 2013 and beyond. You’ll be part of the action, with electronic audience polling and question-and-answer periods that conclude each roundtable. And you’ll take home innovative ideas and business strategies you can install in your operation.

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Thursday, October 4

8:30-9:30

Getting It Done: What’s Next for Health Care Reform?

SENATOR TOM DASCHLE, DLA Piper; Former Majority Leader, U.S. Senate

9:30-10:45

The Rise of Exchanges: How to Succeed in the New State-Based and Private Marketplaces

JOEL ARIO, Manatt Health Solutions; Former Director of HHS’s Office of Health Insurance Exchanges
VINCE ASHTON, HealthPass New York
KEVIN KICKHAEFER, Bloom Health
KENNETH L. SPERLING, Aon Hewitt
JEFF WELCH, Health Care Service Corporation

11:00-12:15

Succeeding with New Payment Models: ACOs, Medical Homes and Bundled Payments

PHILIP GAZIANO, M.D., Accountable Care Associates
ERIK JOHNSON, Avalere Health
THOMAS G. LUNDQUIST, M.D., Mountain States Health Alliance’s Integrated Solutions Health Network; AnewCare ACO
RICHARD L. SNYDER, M.D., Independence Blue Cross

12:30-1:45

Luncheon — What Would Health Reform Look Like Under President Romney?

THOMAS A. SCULLY, Senior Counsel, Alston & Bird LLP; General Partner, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; former CMS Administrator

2:00-3:15

Medicaid Expansion, Dual Eligibles and Basic Health Plans: New Populations, New Programs, New Opportunities

DEBORAH BACHRACH, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
JOHN GORMAN, Gorman Health Group
GARY JACOBS, PricewaterhouseCoopers
PAMELA MORRIS, CareSource

3:30-4:45

Staying Competitive in the Changing State Regulatory Environment

ANNE MELISSA DOWLING, CFA, Deputy Commissioner, Connecticut
KENNETH KOBYLOWSKI, Acting Commissioner, Department of Banking & Insurance, State of New Jersey
STEVEN LARSEN, OptumHealth; formerly Director, CCIIO, CMS (invited)
JOSEPH G. MURPHY, Commissioner, Massachusetts Division of Insurance

Friday, October 5

8:30-9:45

How the 2012 Election Will Reshape Health Reform Law and Regulation: Three Scenarios

HENRY AARON, Ph.D., The Brookings Institution
EDMUND F. HAISLMAIER, The Heritage Foundation
ROBERT LASZEWSKI, Health Policy and Strategy Associates
THOMAS P. MILLER, J.D., American Enterprise Institute

10:00-11:15

Implementing Next-Generation Benefit Designs: Defined Contribution, Self-Funding, Narrow Networks

JOHN HICKMAN, Alston & Bird
HENRY C. EICKELBERG, General Dynamics Corporation
MARISA MILTON, Marriott International, Inc.
CHANTEL SHEAKS, Buck Consultants

11:15-12:30

Forecast from Wall Street: Health Plan Growth Strategies for the Future

CHARLES BOORADY, Triple Tree Capital Partners
MATTHEW COFFINA, Morningstar
BRAD FLUEGEL, Health Evolution Partners
STEVE ZAHARUK, Moody’s Investors Service

Moderators for Your Business Roundtables

JILL BROWN is the executive editor of AIS’s extensive line of health business newsletters and services. Jill joined the AIS editorial staff more than 12 years ago from Arthur Andersen, where she consulted with managed care plans, hospitals and medical groups on the financial issues impacting their operations.

STEVE DAVIS is the managing editor of AIS’s Health Plan Week and Inside Health Insurance Exchanges. Steve, who joined the AIS’s editorial staff more than 10 years ago, has more than 20 years of health care business reporting experience.

JIM GUTMAN is the managing editor of AIS’s Health Reform Week and Medicare Advantage News. Jim has more than 30 years of experience in business journalism, and joined AIS in 2001 after a 10-year career as president and publisher of Business Information Services, Inc., which published six managed care newsletters.