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P4P Web Summit 2008
co-sponsored by:
The National Pay for Performance Summit
      
A Healthcare Web Summit Event featuring the fourth annual web summit on Pay for Performance, with Live Webinar faculty providing Employer, Health Plan and Provider Network perspectives: Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH, U.S. Health Care Thought Leader, Mercer Health & Benefits, and Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health; Eric Nielsen, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, and Deb Lange, Director, Analysis, Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association (GRIPA); and Michael-Anne Browne, MD, Medical Director for Quality, Blue Shield of California; plus four faculty Podcasts with companion presentations, and additional web summit features.

Live Pay for Performance 2008 Webinar
Thursday, May 8, 2008
 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Eastern (9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Pacific)
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Position yourself and your organization for Pay for Performance initiatives in 2008 and beyond by receiving a well rounded view of key P4P topics addressing current trends, challenges, issues, data and case experiences from prominent national thought leaders representing employer, provider network and health plan perspectives. 

Webinar / Audioconference

  • The Webinar / Audioconference is scheduled for Thursday, May 8, 2008; 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Eastern (9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Pacific)
  • Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH, U.S. Health Care Thought Leader, Mercer Health & Benefits, and Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health, San Francisco, CA will discuss "Pay for Performance 2008: Trends, Issues and the Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) and Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) Experience and Perspectives"
  • Eric Nielsen, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association (GRIPA), Rochester, NY and Deb Lange, Director, Analysis, Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association (GRIPA), Rochester, NY will discuss "The GRIPA Story: Clinical Integration – Strengthening Quality and Promoting Cost Savings through P4P."
  • Michael-Anne Browne, MD, Medical Director for Quality, Blue Shield of California, Torrance, CA will discuss "Pay for Performance and the Blue Shield of California Experience."
  • 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

  • Four downloadable Podcast recordings will be available 24/7 to attendees, averaging around 15 minutes in length.
  • Companion presentations related to each Podcast discussion are also available for downloading.
  • Harold D. Miller, Strategic Initiative Consultant, Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, and President, Future Strategies, LLC, Pittsburgh, PA, discussing "Moving Beyond P4P: New Payment Systems to Accelerate Value-Driven Healthcare"
  • Jeffrey C. Greene, President and Chief Executive Officer, MedEncentive, Oklahoma City, OK, discussing "P4P Case Study: Medencentive's Doctor-Patient Interactive Reward Program 2008"
  • Donna Scott, RN, BSN, MBA, CPHQ, LHRM, Director of Product Management - Accreditation & Compliance, Quantros, Inc., Valrico, FL, discussing "Measuring the ROI in Patient Safety Reporting" 
  • William DeMarco, President, DeMarco and Associates, Rockford, IL, discussing "Profiling and P4P - How Tiering is Changing the Managed Care Landscape"

Additional Web Summit Features

  • A library of selected recent articles on pay for performance issues is available to attendees
  • A library of last year's Summit powerpoint presentations and podcast recordings is also available to attendees. Click here to review a listing.
  • Attendees can link to faculty web pages and click to send them follow up questions
  • Attendees can take the annual P4P e-poll on three key p4p issues and receive a summary of the survey results, with comparisons to previous surveys.
  • 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:

  1. Grasp an overall sense of the current role of pay for performance and the impact it has on the stakeholders, the challenges of performance measurements, and the framework for performance measurement standards.
  2. Gain case study experience and perspectives regarding the Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA)., Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH), Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association (GRIPA), Blue Shield of California, MedIncentive, and Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative programs.
  3. Obtain key selected P4P statistics, benchmarks and other relevant data
  4. Benefit from discussions of current Pay for Performance trends, challenges, obstacles and issues
  5. Experience e-learning at the attendees' convenience, with podcasts, article library, archive of 2007 Summit presentations and other online Summit features available 24/7
  6. Engage in interactive learning and networking through live webinar providing question and answer periods, attendee surveys and feedback, and e-mail inquiries with faculty.
  • Employers, Health Plans, Hospitals, Healthcare Systems, Provider Networks, Physician Groups, Government Agencies, Care Management and Quality Improvement Organizations, Consulting Firms, Pharmaceutical Companies, PBMs, Solution Developers, Vendors, Policy Organizations, and Media.
  • C-Suite Executives, and administrative staff
  • Medical Directors, medical affairs and care management staff
  • Benefit Managers, Human Resource Directors and Benefit Consultants
  • Informatics, Benchmarking, Analytical, Profiling and Data Reporting Staff
  • Provider Network and Contracting executives and staff
  • Strategic, planning, policy, legislative and regulatory staff
  • Clinical and Quality management staff
  • Consultants, Industry Analysts, Research, media and other interested parties
Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH, U.S. Health Care Thought Leader, Mercer Health & Benefits, and Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health - Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH, is Medical Director of the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH), the largest healthcare purchasers coalition in the U.S. He is also National Healthcare Thought Leader at William M. Mercer. He has had an active academic and medical career focused on improving healthcare programs for large purchasers, providers, and government. He has published numerous articles and book chapters addressing healthcare program design. He is active in several professional associations and organizations, and is a member of National Committee for Quality Assurance’s national committee to develop HEDIS. In addition, he is a co-founder of The Leapfrog Group. Dr. Milstein received his medical degree from Tufts University and a Masters in Public Health and Health Services Planning from the University of California at Berkeley.
    

GRIPA Chief Medical Officer Eric Nielsen

 Eric Nielsen, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association (GRIPA) - Dr. Nielsen attended medical school and completed his residency at the University of Rochester. He practiced internal medicine for 29 years. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the Certifying Commission in Medical Management.Since assuming his present post at GRIPA in 2004, Dr. Nielsen has championed GRIPA’s efforts toward achieving Clinical Integration as evidenced by GRIPA’s favorable Advisory Opinion from the FTC in September 2007. Under his leadership, GRIPA has developed guidelines by and for its member physicians, an IT infrastructure for sharing of clinical information between its members, and systems for monitoring the performance of members and the network.    

Deb Lange, Director, Analysis, Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association (GRIPA) - Deb Lange, MS has worked as the Director of Analysis and formerly as a Senior Managed Care Analyst for the Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association (GRIPA) in Rochester, NY since 2000. Ms. Lange leads the development of GRIPA’s Clinical Guidelines and their associated measures in support of the GRIPA Connect Clinical Integration Program. Deb is also responsible for developing and implementing GRIPA’s pay for performance reporting systems as well as GRIPA’s web-based clinical decision support system.
Ms. Lange has presented GRIPA’s performance monitoring systems at multiple national conferences.Ms. Lange received a Master’s degree in Medical Statistics from the University of Rochester in 1991 after earning her Bachelor’s degree in Math/Computer Science.   

Michael-Anne Browne, MD, Medical Director for Quality, Blue Shield of California - Michael-Anne Browne, MD has been a medical director for Blue Shield of California for five years.  As Blue Shield’s Medical Director for Quality, her responsibilities include the health plan’s medical director level relationships with external facing quality organizations such as Pacific Business Group on Health, IHA, and CHART, the California Hospital Assessment and Reporting Taskforce.  Dr. Browne also manages two teams of nurses, one of which performs oversight of the delegated IPA and medical groups.  The other team performs clinical quality review.  Additionally, Dr. Browne serves as the clinical lead for the Blue Shield of California Bariatric Quality Initiative, which led to the formation of a bariatric network.  She also heads the Cardiac Quality Initiative for Blue Shield. 
Summit Podcast Faculty:

William DeMarco, President, DeMarco and Associates, Rockford, IL 

Jeffrey C. Greene, President and Chief Executive Officer, MedEncentive, Oklahoma City, OK

Harold D. Miller, Strategic Initiative Consultant, Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, and President, Future Strategies, LLC, Pittsburgh, PA

   
Donna Scott, RN, BSN, MBA, CPHQ, LHRM, Director of Product Management - Accreditation & Compliance, Quantros, Inc., Valrico, FL
  
           
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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