Doug Hastings
Chair of the Board of Directors, Epstein Becker & Green,
P.C.
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Douglas A. Hastings currently serves as Chair of the Board
of Directors of Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. He is a Member
of the Firm's Health Care and Life Sciences Practice in the
Washington, DC office. Mr. Hastings provides a wide range of
health care organizations with strategic and transactional
legal guidance in responding to the legal challenges and
opportunities of the rapidly changing U.S. health care
system. He has become recognized as one of the nation's
leading resources on accountable care, value-based payment
and health care delivery system reform.
Mr. Hastings
serves on the Board on Health Care Services of the Institute
of Medicine, which has responsibility to oversee the IOM's
research and publications on health care system payment and
delivery. He's a member of the National Advisory Board of
Accountable Care News, and a member of the Advisory Board of
the BNA's Health Law Reporter, for which he has written a
widely-read series of articles on health care payment and
delivery reform and accountable care organizations. He is a
Past President and Fellow of the American Health Lawyers
Association.
Mr. Hastings' clients include academic
medical centers; hospitals and health systems; faculty
practices, medical groups and other physician organizations;
health plans and managed care organizations; post-acute care
entities; health care investment banks and venture funds;
and other health care-related entities. He focuses on
representing these organizations in mergers, acquisitions,
joint ventures, governance issues, and complex contractual
arrangements. Mr. Hastings and his colleagues also provide
his clients with a full range of legal advice and services,
including: antitrust law; Medicare reimbursement and other
third party payment issues; Stark, fraud and abuse, and
other health care compliance issues; tax and tax-exempt
counseling; privacy and security law; bankruptcy and
restructuring; real estate and construction law; labor and
employment law; and liability and litigation matters.
Mr. Hastings was named in 2011 to The National Law
Journal's list of "Most Influential Lawyers." In 2010, he
was presented with the David J. Greenburg Service Award from
the American Health Lawyers Association, was named by Best
Lawyers as the "Washington, DC Health Care Lawyer of the
Year," and received the BNA Insights Award for his article,
"The Timeline for Accountable Care." He is listed in
Chambers USA Leading Lawyers for Business in Band 1 for
health care transactions nationally. Chambers described him
as a "transactional genius" and "one of the best health
lawyers in the country." He was also named by Nightingale's
Healthcare News as one of the 10 significant healthcare
industry decisionmakers in 2010. In 2006, Mr. Hastings was
named one of the DC Area's Top Life Sciences Attorneys by
the Legal Times. In 2004, Nightingale's Healthcare News
listed him as one of the nation's leading healthcare
transaction lawyers. In 1997, the National Law Journal named
him as one of "40 Health Care Lawyers Who Have Made Their
Mark." From 1991 through 1999, he served as Program Chair of
the Managed Care Law Institute of the American Health
Lawyers Association. He is a graduate of Duke University and
the University of Virginia Law School.
Mr. Hastings
speaks and publishes regularly on topics related to health
care law, complex health care transactions, corporate
governance, collaborative health care ventures, legal issues
related to quality improvement and the legal trends
influencing the U.S. health care system. He is also a
sought-after speaker on accountable care organizations,
clinical integration and related structural and legal
issues.
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Peter Boland, PhD. Managing Partner,
Polakoff Boland
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35 years as a
management consultant to hospital systems, integrated
delivery networks, health plans, employers and technology
companies; Peter has an international reputation as a
thought leader, author and speaker.
Representative
clients: Kaiser Permanente, Blue Shield of California,
United Healthcare, Primera, Mayo Clinic, Hill Physicians,
Methodist Hospital, University of Wisconsin Hospital and
Clinics, Carondelet Health, Bethesda Memorial,
GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Pfizer, Marriot, Honeywell, ALCOA,
Cisco, AT&T, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, TriZetto Group, State
of California, City of New York, TRICARE Military Health,
The Hartford, Northwestern Mutual.
He has written
numerous books on healthcare delivery (Making Managed
Healthcare Work and The New Healthcare Market), clinical
practice (Physician Profiling and Risk Adjustment),
management and market strategy (Redesigning Healthcare
Delivery and The Capitation Sourcebook), and was the
founding editor of Aspen Publishers' Managed Care Quarterly.
He has also published in dozens of professional journals
such as Health Affairs, Inquiry, Modern Healthcare,
Hospitals, Business and Health, and Healthcare Financial
Management. He is often quoted in trade and news media such
as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist,
Business Week, Los Angeles Times, and The PBS News Hour.
Peter received a doctorate from UCLA, a master's degree
from the University of Michigan, and a post-graduate
certificate from Harvard University's Executive Program in
Health Policy and Management.
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Dr. Sanjay Udoshi
Physician Lead -
Clinical Analytics and Decision
Support
Geisinger Health System
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Dr. Udoshi has served as
Physician Lead - Clinical Analytics and Decision Support for
Geisinger Health System's Department of Clinical Innovation
since December 2009.
Previously Dr. Udoshi was
Principal Consultant for the NEPA Healthcare Reform
Taskforce
where his responsibilities included the
development of a State wide strategy to implement
interoperable technologies for information exchange between
healthcare entities for the purpose of broad scale cost
reduction.
Prior to that he served as: Managing
Director for Unified Medical Informatics; Clinical
Coordinator for Eynon Surgery Center; Project Leader,
Biomedical Research Unit for Jawaharlal Nehru Medical
College; and Research Assistant Hospital of the University
of Pennsylvania .
Dr. Udoshi has degrees from
Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Rajiv Gandhi University of
Health Science ; University of Pennsylvania Bachelors of
Science, Biology - Cell and Molecular Biology; and Wyoming
Seminary College Preparatory School
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Rong Yi, PhD
Senior Consultant
Milliman, Inc.
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Rong Yi, PhD is a senior consultant with the
Boston office of Milliman. She joined the firm in 2009. Dr.
Yi has extensive experience in risk adjustment and
predictive modeling for healthcare, workers compensation,
and other fields. She has worked with private insurers,
providers, employers, government agencies, and researchers
in the U.S. and other parts of the world. She is a frequent
speaker at professional and academic conferences.
Dr. Yi’s expertise includes risk adjustment for public
programs and health reforms, and predictive modeling for
risk management. She pioneered in the areas of workers
compensation predictive modeling, risk adjustment for the
uninsured population, riskbased provider profiling, risk
adjustment for small group underwriting, and models
supporting the Patient-Centered Medical Home. She also led
the adoption of diagnosisbased risk adjustment in the recent
German health reforms, and is assisting foreign government
organizations in their research and strategy for their
future health reforms.
Before joining Milliman, Dr. Yi was a major contributor
to commercial and governmental risk adjustment systems in
wide use today. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Boston
University and a B.S. degree from Peking University,
Beijing, China, 1995
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Philip L. Ronning,
Principal
Ronning Healthcare Solutions
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Mr. Ronning has been involved
healthcare management for thirty-three years. He spent ten
years as a hospital executive in downtown Los Angeles at St.
Vincent Medical Center which was then home to one of the top
five cardiac program in the country, the third largest renal
transplant center in the world and the largest center in the
world for otologic surgery.
Working with these
internationally recognized centers of excellence provided
the foundation for his consulting which has been focused on
the management of specialty programs, particularly the
development of strategy and culture.
A nationally
recognized author and speaker, he as written over 125
articles and delivered nearly one hundred speeches and
presentations. The American Hospital Association has
published eight of his books including Organizing Specialty
Services, The Future of Specialty Services, Reinventing
Centers of Excellence, Successful Management Strategies in
Cardiovascular Services and Through the Technology Looking
Glass. He is also the principal author of CathPlan, a
software program created for the American Hospital
Association.
Mr. Ronning earned his bachelors degree
in psychology, business administration and theology from
Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota and his masters
degree in hospital and healthcare administration from St.
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Jordan Battani,
Principal, Healthcare Sector
CSC
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Currently a
Principal at CSC's Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare
Technologies, Jordan focuses on knowledge acquisition and
research on the implications of health reform for the health
plan and payer industry.
Ms. Battani has held a
variety of consulting and operational roles in over 20 years
of healthcare and line management experience in the payer
and healthcare delivery industries. She is experienced in
health plan business operations, as well as business and
managed care operations in physician and hospital settings
with a particularly strong record in leveraging that
experience to achieve improved business and technology
performance.
Prior to joining CSC in 2008, Ms.
Battani was Chief Operating Officer at Health Plan of San
Joaquin. Prior to that, she held positions with Blue Shield
of California and First Consulting Group.
Ms. Battani
also has served as President of the Board of Directors for
the City of Alameda Health Care District. She received her
MBA in Finance, MPH in Healthcare Administration and
Undergraduate Degree from University of California, Berkeley
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