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Press Release: Third National Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Congress Features CMMI's Hoangmai Pham, MD and CMS's Terri Postma, MD and David Sayen, MBA
  • A Hybrid Conference and Internet Event
  • Produced by California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG) and Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA)
  • October 30 - November 1, 2012
  • Onsite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, CA
  • Online in Your Own Office or Home Live via the Internet with 24/7 Access for Six Months
  • www.ACOCongress.com
PRESS RELEASE
Phone: 800-503-5640
Email: registration@hcconferences.com
Website: www.ACOCongress.com
FEATURED GOVERNMENT FACULTY
Hoangmai H. Pham, MD, MPH
Director of ACO Programs, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Former Co-director for Research, Center for Studying Health System Change, Baltimore, MD
Terri L. Postma, MD
Medical Officer, Performance-Based Payment Policy Staff, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD
David Sayen, MBA
Regional Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Region IX, San Francisco, CA

WASHINGTON DC USA -- AUGUST 17, 2012: The National Accountable Care Organization Congress, www.ACOCongress.com, will take place on October 30 - November 1, 2012 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, CA. The Congress will be offered both onsite and live and archived for 6 months over the Internet.

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ACO CONGRESS IS
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION DISCOUNT
- SAVE UP TO $600 -
Register by Friday, August 31, 2012 for Early Bird discount and save up to $600.
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CO-LOCATED WITH
NATIONAL DUAL ELIGIBLES SUMMIT
A Hybrid Conference and Internet Event
The Leading Forum on Managing the Care and Cost of Medicare/Medicaid Dual Eligibles
Produced by California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG) and Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA)
Media Partners: Harvard Health Policy Review, Health Affairs, Accountable Care News and Medical Home News
Co-located with Third National ACO Congress
October 30 - 31, 2012
Beverly Hilton Hotel
Los Angeles, CA
www.DualEligiblesSummit.com

 

 
FREE TRIAL OFFER FOR INSIDE HEALTH POLICY
Inside Washington Publishers is offering friends of the Third National ACO Congress a free four-week trial subscription to their newsletter Inside Health Policy. The free trial includes all regular subscriber services, including an e-mail alert every business day as a reminder of what's been added to the site.

 
CAPG AND IHA ACO CONGRESS WELCOME

As ACO Congress co producers, it is the pleasure of the California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG) and the Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) to welcome attendees to our ACO Congress. The Congress will provide an unprecedented opportunity to discuss, dissect, and identify effective ways to implement ACOs, a key component of the recently passed health care reform.


 

 
Donald H. Crane
President and Chief Executive Officer, California Association of Physician Groups, Los Angeles, CA
Tom Williams
President and Chief Executive Officer, Integrated Healthcare Association, Oakland, CA

 
 

 
GOVERNMENT KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

 

 
Hoangmai H. Pham, MD, MPH
Director of ACO Programs, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Former Co-director for Research, Center for Studying Health System Change, Baltimore, MD
Terri L. Postma, MD
Medical Officer, Performance-Based Payment Policy Staff, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD
David Sayen, MBA
Regional Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Region IX, San Francisco, CA

 
 

 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Julie Barnes, JD
Director of Health Policy, Bipartisan Policy Center, Washington, DC
Gail K. Boudreaux
Chief Executive Officer, UnitedHealthcare, Executive Vice President, UnitedHealth Group, Inc., Minnetonka, MN
Ann Boynton
Deputy Executive Officer, Benefit Programs Policy and Planning, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), Sacramento, CA
Jay Crosson, MD
Vice President of Professional Satisfaction - Care Delivery and Payment, American Medical Association, Former Associate Executive Director, The Permanente Medical Group, Oakland, CA

 
Susan Dentzer
Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs, Health Policy Analyst, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Washington, DC
Scott Gottlieb, MD
Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Former Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs, FDA, Former Senior Adviser to the Administrator, CMS, Stamford, CT
Rick Jelinek, MBA
Chief Executive Officer, OptumHealth, Former Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, Emerging Businesses Group, UnitedHealth Group, Golden Valley, MN
John Jenrette, MD
Chief Executive Officer, Sharp Community Medical Group, Chair, California Association of Physician Groups, San Diego, CA

 
Peter V. Lee, JD
Executive Director, California Health Benefit Exchange; Former Director of Delivery System Reform, Office of Health Reform, US Department of Health and Human Services, San Francisco, CA
Robert J. Margolis, MD
Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer, HealthCare Partners, Chair, National Committee for Quality Assurance, Torrance, CA
Ian Morrison, PhD
Author, Consultant, and Futurist, Author, Healthcare in the New Millennium: Vision, Values and Leadership, Menlo Park, CA
Kavita Patel, MD, MSHS
Fellow, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, The Brookings Institution, Former Director of Policy, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, White House, Washington, DC

 

 

 
Stephen Shortell, PhD, MPH, MBA
Dean, School of Public Health, Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Kent Thiry
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, DaVita, Denver, CO

 
 

 
FEATURING PRECONFERENCE SESSIONS
  • Actuarial Perspectives on Accountable Care Organizations
  • Building a Successful ACO: A Blueprint for Implementation
  • An Information Exchange that Supports the Sharing of ACO Digital Information

 
PLENARY SESSIONS
  • Updates on the Medicare Shared Savings Program
  • Updates on the Pioneer ACO Demonstration
  • ACOs: Learning from Experience
  • Early Success Stories from Pioneer ACOs
  • The Romney and Obama Campaigns' Views on Health Reform
  • Looking Ahead at Accountable Care: Post Election Scenarios
  • Insights into Commercial ACO Strategies
  • Restructuring for Accountable Care: Inside the DaVita/HealthCare Partners and Monarch HealthCare/Optum Deals
  • Accountable Care Organizations in Germany
  • How ACOs will Participate in Health Insurance Exchanges
  • Physician Culture: The Key to Long Term ACO Success

 
AND TRACK SESSIONS
  • Navigating the Perilous Journey from Entitlement to Accountability
  • Medicaid ACO Update
  • Restructuring for Accountable Care: Achieving True Provider Integration
  • Lessons Learned From ACO Implementation: 3 Successful Case Studies
  • The Impact of Palliative Care Integration on Healthcare's Value Equation
  • ACO Survey Identifies Opportunities and Challenges
  • Health Plan - Provider Partnerships: Key to Success
  • Evolving Toward the Accountable Future: Realistically Realizing the Vision of Reform
  • Building an ACO Framework: Opportunities and Challenges for Providers and Hospitals
  • Inside the Deals: Mergers and Acquisitions in the Healthcare Industry
  • Redesigning Care Delivery for an Accountable World
  • ACO Framework for Pharmaceuticals
  • An Essential Ingredient for a Successful ACO: The Clinical Knowledge Exchange
  • Risk Contracting and Care Models in Organized Delivery Systems
  • Is a Formula Emerging in the Move Toward Accountable Care? Early Adopter Results
  • Innovation in Physician Payment and Organization for Cancer Care
  • Custodial Care: The Impact of Non-ACO Providers on the ACO Process
  • Adopting Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture
  • ACO Legal Issues: From Theory to Practice
  • Early Lessons in Population Health Management and Risk-Based Payment Models
  • Compliance - Your First Audit is Sooner Than You Think
  • Deploying "Next-Generation" Data Management and Advanced Analysis Approaches

 
FEATURED FACULTY
Volker Amelung
Professor, International Healthcare System Research, Medical University of Hannover, President, German Managed Care Association, Hannover, Germany
Barry S. Arbuckle, PhD
President and Chief Executive Officer, MemorialCare Medical Centers, Treasurer, Integrated Healthcare Association, Fountain Valley, CA
Bart Asner, MD
Chief Executive Officer, Monarch Healthcare, Past Chair, Integrated Healthcare Association, Irvine, CA
William Barcellona
Vice President for Government Affairs, California Association of Physician Groups, Sacramento, CA

 
Tyrina Blomer, JD
Chief Regulatory Counsel and Senior Vice President, Compliance, Universal American Corp. - Collaborative Health Systems, Houston, TX
Linda D. Bosserman, MD, FACP
Medical Oncologist and President, Wilshire Oncology Medical Group, an Affiliate of US Oncology, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Ann Boynton
Deputy Executive Officer, Benefit Programs Policy and Planning, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), Sacramento, CA
Robert W. Dubois, MD, PhD
Chief Science Officer, National Pharmaceutical Council, Washington, DC

 
Lois Elia, MBA
Vice President, AdvocateCare, Advocate Health Care, Chicago, IL
Jonathan Everett
Manager, Health IT, Chinese Community Health Care Association, San Francisco, CA
Marv Feldman, RPh, MS
Managing Principal, Pharmacy Consulting and Senior Director, Medication Management, Premier Inc., Boston, MA
William J. Fox, FSA, MAAA
Principal, Consulting Actuary, Milliman, Seattle, WA

 
Bruce Merlin Fried, Esq.
Partner, Health Care Group, SNR Denton US LLP, Washington, DC
Pam Halvorson
Vice President Regional Clinic Operations, Executive Sponsor - ACO Strategies, Trinity Health Systems, Fort Dodge, Iowa
Mark Hamelburg, Esq
Senior Counsel, Health Care Group, SNR Denton US LLP, Washington, DC
Mazen M. Hashisho, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Northport VA Medical Center, Northport, NY

 
Jill S. Herbold, FSA, MAAA
Actuary, Milliman, Indianapolis, IN
Kimberley K. Hiemenz, FSA, MAAA
Consulting Actuary, Milliman, Brookfield, WI
Robert G. Homchick, Esq.
Partner and Chair, Health Law Practice, Davis Wright Tremaine, Seattle, WA
Laura P. Jacobs, MPH
Executive Vice President, The Camden Group, Los Angeles, CA

 
Nathan S. Kaufman, MS
Managing Director, Kaufman Strategic Advisers LLC, San Diego, CA
Charles Kennedy, MD
Chief Executive Officer, Aetna Accountable Care Solutions, Hartford, CT
Eric A. Klein, Esq.
Partner and Leader, National Healthcare Team, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, Los Angeles, CA
Teresa J. Koenig, MD, MBA
Senior Vice President, The Camden Group, Los Angeles, CA

 
Greg Kotzbauer
Project Manager, Health Policy and ACO Demonstrations, Dartmouth Institute, Hanover, NH
Harlan Levine, MD
Executive Vice President, Comprehensive Health Solutions, Wellpoint, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Kimberly MacPherson, MBA, MPH
Program Director, Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Health Technology, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Jennifer Malin, MD, PhD
Medical Director Oncology, WellPoint, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA

 
Nancy Markle, RN
Vice President, The Camden Group, Los Angeles, CA
John Mattison, MD
Assistant Medical Director and Chief Medical Information Officer, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA
Robert Mechanic
Senior Fellow, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Jeffrey Moser
Vice President, Sg2, Skokie, IL

 
Edward G. Murphy, MD
Past President and Chief Executive Officer, Carilion Clinic Health System, New York, NY
Amin Neghabat, MHA
Senior Vice President of Business Development, Sound Physicians, Tacoma, WA
Eugene Nelson, DrSc, MPH
Director, Population Health and Measurement, Dartmouth Health System, Lebanon, NH
William T. O'Brien, FSA, MAAA
Consulting Actuary, Milliman, Houston, TX

 
Susan E. Pantely, FSA, MAAA
Principal, Consulting Actuary, Milliman, San Francisco, CA
Jerry Penso, MD, MBA
Chief Medical and Quality Officer, American Medical Group Association, Alexandria, VA
Phil Polakoff, MD, MPH MD, MEnvSc
Managing Partner, Polakoff Boland, Berkeley, CA
Jeff Rideout, MD
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, The TriZetto Group, Newport Beach, CA

 
Christine S. Ritchie, MD, MSPH
Harris Fishbon Distinguished Professorship in Clinical Translational Research in Aging, Division of Geriatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
James C. Robinson, PhD
Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Economics, Director, Center for Health Technology, University of California at Berkeley; Director, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Joachim Roski, PhD, MPH
Executive Advisor, Booz Allen Hamilton, Washington, DC
Douglas C. Ross, Esq.
Partner and Chair, Litigation Practice, Davis Wright Tremaine, Chair, Antitrust Practice Group, American Health Lawyers Association, Seattle, WA

 
David Sayen
Regional Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Region IX, San Francisco, CA
Scott Sarran, MM, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Mark Schafer, MD
Chief Medical Officer, MemorialCare Medical Foundation, Tustin, CA
Robert L. Schuchard, Esq.
Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine, Los Angeles, CA

 
Darren Schulte, MD, MPP
Chief Medical Officer, Apixio, San Diego, CA
Carol Simon
Executive Vice President, Optum, Director, Optum Institute for Sustainable Health, Eden Prairie, MN
Miles Snowden, MPH, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Optum, Eden Prairie, MN
Barbara Spivak, MD
President, Mount Auburn Cambridge Independent Practice Association (MACIPA), Brighton, MA

 

 

 
Carolyn Tung, MS
Vice President, The Camden Group, Los Angeles, CA
Arthur L. Wilmes, FSA, MAAA
Principal, Consulting Actuary, Milliman, Indianapolis, IN

 
 

THIRD NATIONAL ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATION (ACO) CONGRESS
October 30 - November 1, 2012

ONSITE
Beverly Hilton Hotel
Los Angeles, CA

 

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

 

 

 
PARTICIPATION OPTIONS
TRADITIONAL ONSITE ATTENDANCE
Simply register, travel to the conference city and attend in person.

Pros: subject matter immersion; professional networking opportunities; faculty interaction


 


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LIVE AND ARCHIVED INTERNET ATTENDANCE
Watch the conference in live streaming video over the Internet and at your convenience at any time 24/7 for the six months following the event.

The archived conference includes speaker videos and coordinated PowerPoint presentations.

Pros: Live digital feed and 24/7 Internet access for next six months; Accessible in office, at home or anywhere worldwide with Internet access; Avoid travel expense and hassle; No time away from the office





 
INTERNET INTERFACE SAMPLE
 

Click here for a sample stream
CONGRESS REGISTRATION

For Congress registration information, visit www.ACOCongress.com/registration.php, email registration@hcconferences.com, or call 800-503-5640.


 
CONGRESS EXHIBIT & SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION

For sponsorship and exhibit information, visit www.HIPAASummit.com/promotional/index.html, or contact Justin Sorensen, Exhibit Manager, at 206-452-0609 phone, 206-319-5303 fax, or exhibits@hcconferences.com.


 

 


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