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For almost a year after the passage of the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act, industry talk lasered in on accountable care
organizations. ACOs seemed the wave of the future, the be all and
end all of integrated healthcare delivery.
However, the
release of draft ACO regulations by the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services last spring unleashed a wave of criticism from
virtually every significant provider organization in the United
States. The Cleveland Clinic’s leadership raised concerns about what
it termed “significant administrative burdens.” The Geisinger Health
System leaders said the framework “seems to be very prescriptive and
restrictive with a fair amount of administrative and regulatory
oversight." The Mayo Clinic decided not to participate in an ACO at
all.
Is this the beginning of a lengthy but productive debate
about how ACOs will be structured or regulated – or the beginning of
the end?
This webinar will discuss how healthcare
organizations in California are responding to the proposed ACO
regulations. What do they believe needs to be changed in order to
make the ACO rules and payment systems workable?
Please join
Rick Swanson, vice president of the California Association of
Physician Groups, Teresa Koenig, M.D., vice president of The
Camden Group, and Emma Dolan, policy analyst for the Integrated
Healthcare Association, to discuss the critiques of the ACO
regulations, and what future ACOs now have in California and
elsewhere. This event is co-sponsored by Payers & Providers,
and supported by Contexo Media.
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The following issues will be addressed:
- What are the primary concerns provider and affiliated
organizations have about the proposed ACO regulations?
- What should be changed regarding the regulations? What will
these changes accomplish?
- What are the “make or break” portions of the regulations
that will guarantee enough participation in ACOs to make them a
viable structure?
Participants will be able to engage in
interactive learning through online question submission, attendee
feedback and opportunity for follow up questions, and networking with
attendees, faculty and other professionals through dedicated LinkedIn
group.
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Interested attendees would include:
- C-Suite executives
- Healthcare attorneys
- Healthcare consultants
- Policy experts
- Medical group executives and staff
- Hospital executives and staff
- Provider network executives and staff
- Provider contracting executives and staff
- Market and Business Intelligence staff
- Healthcare industry analysts
- Other interested parties
Attendees would represent organizations
including:
- Hospitals and hospital chains
- Medical groups
- Commercial health plans
- Provider networks
- Policy think tanks and foundations
- Legal firms
- Healthcare consulting firms
- Media
- Healthcare capital and investment firms
- Other interested organizations
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Individual Registration Fee: $195. Audio Conference CD-ROM: $40
for attendees; $255 for non-attendees after the event.
This event is co-sponsored by
Payers & Providers, and supported by Contexo Media.
Corporate Site licensing also available. Click
here to register or call 209.577.4888 We look forward to your
participation in this event!
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Rick Swanson
Vice President
California Association of Physician Groups
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As vice president of the California Association of Physician
Groups (CAPG), Rick Swanson is active in many areas of the
organization including overseeing daily administrative
operations; producing, executing, and staffing the CAPG
workgroup committees, member and regional meetings and group
purchasing program. Additionally he coordinates and
shepherd’s the Association’s popular and highly attended
annual healthcare conference.
Mr. Swanson also
provides support to the CAPG board of directors, government
affairs staff and leads the Association’s sponsor and member
recruitment and retention initiatives. His experience in
senior level positions includes work with health maintenance
organizations, multi–specialty medical groups, independent
practice associations, public health, and a hospital.
He earned his bachelor of arts degree in political
science and public administration from California State
University, Fullerton and attended graduate school at the
University of Southern California. He also served as a
preceptor for the University of Southern California’s
Graduate School of Healthcare Administration. Additionally,
Mr. Swanson completed a healthcare consortia executive
program at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School
of Management.
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Emma Dolan
Policy Analyst
Integrated
Healthcare Association
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Emma supports IHA’s policy, educational, and project
development roles, including writing issue briefs, white
papers, and other communications in collaboration with IHA
program staff; providing managerial and analytical support
for new IHA projects; and working with IHA’s executive
director to translate the lessons that IHA has learned about
performance measurement and payment reform over the past ten
years into concrete lessons for policymakers and other
healthcare stakeholders. She drafted the IHA’s extensive
letter critiquing the accountable care organization
regulations sent to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services.
Prior to joining IHA, her professional
career included research positions at the Berkeley Center
for Health Technology and in the office of Canadian Senator
Lowell Murray.
She holds joint master’s degrees in
public policy and public health from the University of
California, Berkeley, and a bachelor’s degree in public
affairs and policy management from Carleton University in
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Teresa Koenig, M.D.
Vice President
The Camden Group
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Teresa Koenig recently joined The Camden Group from SummaCare
Health Plan in Ohio, where she served as chief medical
officer. She also served as chief medical officer of
affiliated Summa Health System, where she was in charge of
all medical aspects of operations, contracting and clinical
policy development.
Dr. Koenig earned a medical
degree from the Ohio State University College of Medicine, a
master’s of business administration in healthcare from the
joint Baldwin-Wallace College/Northeastern Ohio University
program, and a bachelor’s degree in science from Youngstown
State University. |
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California’s accountable care organizations and
the proposed regulations