Building The Exchanges: Seeking The Right Roadmap

HealthcareWebSummit: Building The Exchanges: Seeking The Right Roadmap

One of the most critical components of the Affordable Care Act is the construction of healthcare insurance exchanges on the state level. These exchanges will be the primary conduit to subsidized healthcare coverage for millions of Californians who currently lack healthcare insurance.

However, big questions about how the exchanges will be constructed and operate remain wide open. How will premiums be regulated? Will Medicaid managed care plans be allowed to compete? Will some states opt out? These questions and dozens of others still require answers.

Payers & Providers invites you to seek answers to these questions through its cutting-edge webinar: “Building The Exchanges: Seeking The Right Roadmap.” Join Kevin Counihan, President of CHOICE Administrators Exchange Solutions and Mark E. Lutes of Epstein Becker Green as they provide expert insight and intelligence on this important issue.

Participants will be able to:

Have a clearer vision as to how the exchanges will operate
Understand the benefits of offering plans outside and inside the exchanges
Learn about the failures and successes of existing exchanges such as Massachusetts
Obtain estimates of how many lives will be covered
Gain a clearer understanding of the benefits offered within the exchanges
Formulate concepts for marketing exchange health plans

Interested attendees would include:

C-Suite Health Plan Executives
Legal, Regulatory, and Policy Executives and Staff
Marketing Executives
C-Suite Hospital Executives

Medical Directors

Care Management Executives and Staff

Clinicians

Communications Executives and Staff

Marketing and Business Intelligence Staff

Social Media Managers

Strategy and Planning Executives and Staff

Customer Service and Engagement Executives and Staff

Attendees would represent organizations including:

Commercial Health Plans
Medicare Managed Care Plans
Hospitals and Health Systems
Provider Networks
Medical Groups
Other Health Care Providers
Solutions Providers
Associations, Institutes and Research Organizations
Government
Public Policymakers
Media
Other Interested Parties

Individual Registration Fee: $195. Audio Conference CD-ROM: $40 for attendees; $285 for non-attendees after the event.

Corporate Site licensing also available. Click here to register or call 209.577.4888 We look forward to your participation in this event!

Kevin Counihan
President, CHOICE Administrators Exchange Solutions

As President of CHOICE Administrators Exchange Solutions, Kevin Counihan is responsible for overseeing the company’s health insurance exchange development strategy nationwide. He brings to this position more than a quarter of a century of experience in the health insurance exchange and employee benefits industries, with specific focus on underwriting, finance, marketing, sales and operations.

Before joining CHOICE Administrators Exchange Solutions in 2011, Kevin served as the chief marketing officer for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Health Insurance Connector Authority since its inception in 2006. In this role he helped procure, organize and manage the nation’s first state-sponsored health insurance exchange for individuals and small businesses. He was previously senior vice president for sales, marketing and member services for Tufts Health Plan and prior to that was vice president of sales for CIGNA and EQUICOR.

Mr. Counihan holds an MBA in finance and marketing from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor’s of arts degree from the University of Michigan. A Six Sigma Black Belt, Kevin currently serves on the Board of the Fishing Partnership Health Plan, Big Sisters of Greater Boston and the New England Employee Benefits Council.


Mark E. Lutes Member of the firm Epstein Becker Green		Mark E. Lutes is a member of the firm in the healthcare and life sciences practice and serves on Epstein Becker Green’s board of directors. He has practiced with the firm for 26 years. He was previously a legislative adviser to the Federal Trade Commission. He also offers strategic counsel in health policy and on reimbursement strategy through the firm's affiliates EBG Advisors, Inc. and National Health Advisors, LLC. Mr. Lutes has a deep understanding of managed care markets and regulation. He is consulted by a variety of providers and payers in structuring innovative payment arrangements. Additionally, he counsels on hospital and physician ventures and compliance issues and in the area of information privacy and security. Mr. Lutes has developed privacy and security audit tools which support client compliance needs. Mr. Lutes is active in his parish and serves as Chair of the Advisory Board of the Spanish Catholic Center, a social and health services nonprofit. He is a recipient of the Caritas Award from Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington, DC. He has been honored as a Washington DC "Super Lawyer" and by Nightingale’s as a leading healthcare attorney.

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