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Care Management Web Summit

A Healthcare Web Summit Event on Care Management for today's health plans, provider networks, care management organizations, public programs and employers, featuring Live Webinar faculty: Joseph Gifford, M.D., Senior Medical Director, Regence, Alice Stollenwerk Petrulis, MD, Chief Medical Officer, KePRO; and Ian Duncan FSA FIA FCIA MAAA, President, Solucia Inc.; plus additional faculty Podcasts with companion presentations, and additional web summit features.

Webinar: Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Eastern (10:00 - 11:30 a.m. Pacific)

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Member Care Management matters now more than ever for today's health plans, provider networks, care management organizations, public programs and employers. This year's Care Management web summit includes a webinar with leading national experts discussing management of high cost beneficiaries, detailed discussion of current trends, tools, strategies, techniques, benchmarks and critical issues involved with care management, and a presentation on measuring return on investment and financial evaluation of care management programs. The web summit also includes podcasts and other features addressing additional key selected care management topics. Webinar Agenda: (Eastern Time) 1:00 pm - 1:05 pm Introductions and logistics 1:05 pm - 1:30 pm Management of High-Cost Beneficiaries - Joseph Gifford, M.D., Senior Medical Director, Regence, Seattle, WA 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Case Management Trends: Making a Difference Today & Tomorrow - Alice Stollenwerk Petrulis, MD, Chief Medical Officer, KePRO and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Financial Evaluation of Care Management Programs - Ian Duncan FSA FIA FCIA MAAA, President, Solucia Inc, Farmington, CT In addition to a thorough discussion of their presentations, the Webinar will include ample time for audience questions and answers. Attendees will receive dial-in instructions shortly before the event, and have two options to view the companion presentations: they can logon to view the live webinar online, or simply link to download and view or print the presentation offline. Podcasts Downloadable Podcast recordings will be available 24/7 to attendees, ranging from approximately ten minutes to twenty minutes in length. Companion presentations related to each Podcast discussion are also available for downloading. Vince Kuraitis, Principal, Better Health Technologies, will discuss "Google, Microsoft, Dossia: Enabling a New Care Management Ecosystem" Marybeth Regan, PhD, Senior Vice President, NanoImproved, will discuss "Radiology Management: Implications for Care Management" Minalkumar Patel MD MPH, CEO, Care Management International Inc., will discuss "Care Management International Case Study" Additional Web Summit Features A Library of selected recent care management articles is available to attendees Attendees can link to faculty web pages and click to send them follow up questions Attendees can take the Care Management e-poll on several important care management issues, and receive a summary of the survey results Attendees can submit questions to ask of other attendees, which will be summarized and distributed to all participants. Attendees will be given the opportunity to provide immediate feedback after the webinar event The Summit web site, including podcasts, faculty presentations, article library, faculty pages, e-poll and results, and more, will be available 24/7 for three months following the event. Attendees will receive a complimentary 30-day paid MCOL membership A Summit CD-ROM with full webinar and podcast recordings, faculty presentations and additional materials is also available to attendees for an extra $40.

Participants will: Understand the benchmarks and metrics, and processes to measure and evaluate care management performance, including from a financial and return on investment perspective Gain a sense of the current current trends, strategies, operational challenges and critical issues in today's care management environment. Explore various tools, techniques, and best practices currently being implemented for care management. Address care management strategies and challenges in managing high cost patient populations

Health Plans, Insurance Companies, TPAs, Employers, Provider Networks, Government, Utilization and Health Management Companies, PBMs, Consultants, Solutions Providers, Reinsurance Companies, and Media. Chief Medical Officers and Medical Directors Executives and Staff in Medical Management, Care Management, Case Management, Disease Management and Quality Management functions Employee Benefit Managers and Corporate Health Management Staff Health Management Consultants C-Suite Executives involved in Care Management Financial and Operational Decisions Administrative Staff involved in Financial Analysis of Care Management Programs


	Joseph Gifford, M.D., Senior Medical Director, Regence - a Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate serving 3 million members in the Pacific Northwest/Mountain region. Dr. Gifford is a frequent speaker on innovation in health care at national conferences and leadership events. He has executive experience in the information technology sector as well as on both the provider and payer side of health care services. Prior to joining Regence, he co–founded QuickCompliance, a health care Internet media company, and served as director of product management at ChannelPoint, an insurance software company founded by engineers from Sun Microsystems. He has authored a variety of publications in clinical research and health care services, and has created online training programs for many large organizations, including CMS and the Department of Defense.

	Alice Stollenwerk Petrulis, MD, Chief Medical Officer, KePRO and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, - Dr. Alice Petrulis, highly respected throughout the national healthcare quality improvement arena, became the KePRO’s Chief Medical Officer in December 2005. She oversees all of the KePRO family of companies’ medical directors, and provides clinical leadership relative to the quality improvement process. Dr. Petrulis also assists and promotes business development and strategic planning activities, and recruits physicians for our review panels and as medical directors. Dr. Petrulis is Board certified in internal medicine and nephrology, and licensed in Ohio. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington University (in St. Louis, MO), and her medical degree from The Ohio State University. Dr. Petrulis is an adjunct professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University. She is also the Co-Chair of the National Quality Forum’s Ambulatory Practice Steering Committee, which reviews quality measures that organizations like CMS and insurance companies use.

	Ian Duncan FSA FIA FCIA MAAA, President, Solucia Inc. - Mr. Duncan is president of Solucia Inc., a Farmington, CT-based provider of analytical and consulting services to the healthcare financing industry. He has 30 years of experience in healthcare and insurance product design, management, financing, pricing, and delivery. He has started and built consulting practices, and was a founder of a company providing predictive modeling services to managed health insurers and is the only actuary who has actually implemented and managed disease management programs. Mr. Duncan holds a post-graduate degree in economics from Balliol College, Oxford, and is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries. He serves on the boards of directors of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Healthcare Connector Authority and the Freelancers Insurance Co. He serves as chair of the Society of Actuaries Healthcare External Relations committee. He is a frequent speaker at industry events, and is the author of numerous papers and books.

	Vince Kuraitis, JD, MBA, Principal; Better Health Technologies has 20+ years health care experience in multiple roles: President, VP Corporate Development, VP operations, management consultant, and marketing executive. His consulting and work projects span 100+ different health care organizations, including hospitals, physician groups, medical devices, pharma, health plans, disease management, e-Health, IT, and others. Since 1997 Vince has worked as founder and Principal of Better Health Technologies, LLC (www.bhtinfo.com), a strategy and business development consulting company. BHT creates value for patients and shareholders by leveraging technology, business models and partnerships in areas relating to e-health and chronic disease management.

	Marybeth Regan, PhD, Senior Vice President, NanoImproved is an expert in disease and care management. She recently completed her dissertation titled, Disruptive Innovation: The Acceptance of Technology by Physicians focused on EMR, PHR, ePrescribing and Telemedicine. Marybeth has over twenty years experience in healthcare consulting, care and disease management, informatics and e-health. She has held senior positions, most recently as the Global Managing Partner with Reden & Anders, a subsidiary of Ingenix and United Healthcare. Earlier she was the subject Matter expert in Care and Disease Management for Accenture and Cap Gemini and Vice President of Marketing for Mayo Collaborative Services in Rochester, Minnesota. Marybeth holds a PhD in Philosophy and a Doctorate in International Business from the International School of Management in Paris, France.

	Minalkumar Patel MD MPH, CEO, Care Management International Inc. brings to CARE experience serving in senior healthplan management positions that have included broad, operational, customer-service and P&L responsibilities, the development of comprehensive disease management programs, and leadership in quality improvement and accreditation. He has practiced as a hospitalist and in primary care at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and has been a strategy consultant to the healthcare industry. Prior to CARE, Dr. Patel served as President and Chief Operating Officer at Horizon Healthcare Insurance Company of New York, and, before that, as Executive Medical Director for Quality Management and Clinical Innovations at its parent company, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, with over 3 million members.



Individual Registration Fee: $295. Audio Conference CD-ROM: $40 for attendees; $355 for non-attendees after the event. Corporate Site licensing also available. Click here to register or call 209.577.4888 Click here for a downloadable order form you can fax or mail. We look forward to your participation in this event!

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