Furthermore, if there was any doubt, Medicare and Medicaid's push to drive healthcare efficiency will continue, and health care providers will need to continue to gear up their efforts to take risk on managing the costs of certain diagnoses in response to bundling programs, value based purchasing penalty programs and, for a few, the shared savings program.
Implementation will certainly proceed "a pace" and those who are interested in changing components of the ACA (e.g., the device tax) will undoubtedly turn their attention toward getting their "fix" included in omnibus legislation during the lame duck session or later addressing the sequester, entitlements, and SGR among others.
It is vital for organizations going forward to have an understanding not just the detailed aspects of the Decision, but also the strategic implications of the Decision on the future direction of the delivery and business of public and private healthcare in the United States, with particular regard to the Medicaid issues. The options and timelines need to be re-visited for stakeholders, who up to this point might have been fence-sitting regarding Health Insurance Exchanges, while the Mandate issue awaited the Supreme Court decision. Consideration needs to be given to potential subsequent actions at the state levels that will impact the ACT, along with subsequent regulatory guidance that had been delayed, at least in part, by the pending decision, and of course, the future legislation and the political arena.
In order to chart their course forward for this decade, Stakeholders will need to be fully equipped with the intelligence provided in this special HealthcareWebSummit briefing provided by nationally noted healthcare legal and policy thought leader Mark Lutes from EpsteinBeckerGreen's Washington DC office.
Please join EpsteinBeckerGreen's Mark E. Lutes on Thursday, July 19th, 2012 as he provides a thorough review and analysis of the Supreme Court decision's impact on the Affordable Care Act with particular regard to the Medicaid issues, as well as the implications, logistics, and strategic considerations for stakeholders as they move forward in the post-SCOTUS ACA-with-Mandate environment, with time allotted for attendee questions and answers.
- Understand the detailed components of the Supreme Court Decision, including the Mandate and Medicaid provisions.
- Consider the impact and implications of the Decision upon applicable provisions of the Affordable Care Act, with particular emphasis on state opt-out or inclusion in Medicaid expansion.
- Examine the timeline and logistics involved for stakeholders going forward, based upon the Decision's impact, including Health Insurance Exchanges and Medicaid expansion.
- Explore the strategic considerations for stakeholders in the aftermath of the Decision, including potential relevant subsequent events such as state-level actions and regulatory guidance.
- 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.
Interested attendees would include:
- C-Suite Executives
- Legal and Regulatory Executives and Staff
- Strategy, Planning and Policy Executives and Staff
- Health Reform Implementation Executives and Staff
- Medical Directors
- Business Intelligence Staff
- Communications Executives and Staff
- Other Interested Parties
Attendees would represent organizations including:
- Health Plans
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Hospitals and Health Systems
- Provider Networks and Accountable Care Organizations
- Employers
- Third Party Administrators
- Pharmaceutical Organizations
- PBMs
- Other Healthcare Providers
- Benefit Consulting Organizations
- Solutions Providers
- State and Local Government Agencies
- Associations, Institutes and Research Organizations
- Media
- Other Interested Organizations
| Individual Registration Fee: $195. Audio Conference CD-ROM: $40 for attendees; $285 for non-attendees after the event. | |||||
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Mark E. Lutes Member of the Firm EpsteinBeckerGreen |
Mark E. Lutes is a Member of the Firm in the Health Care and Life Sciences Practice and serves on the firm's Board of Directors. He has practiced with the firm for 26 years. Prior to that he was 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 is a leader in the firm's representation of private equity and financial services firms with health care companies in their portfolios. He routinely deploys multidisciplinary teams of attorneys, reimbursement specialists, engineers and scientists, to assess the reimbursement, FDA and other domestic and international regulatory approvals, fraud and abuse compliance, CMS and legislative landscapes and other issues impacting proposed client investments in health care companies. Mr. Lutes combines experience with the corporate aspects of transactions with his deep experience in health care compliance issues to provide clients with practical advice in the negotiation of warranty and indemnification issues and in assessing risk factors in health and life science deals. He has advised on the largest transactions in the health care market including services, pharmaceutical and device companies. Mr. Lutes is also an experienced antitrust counselor to health care companies contemplating mergers or acquisitions and has facilitated the antitrust clearance of numerous significant hospital mergers. He has managed the defense of high profile healthcare antitrust actions by the FTC. Mr. Lutes has a deep understanding of managed care markets and regulation. He is consulted by a variety of providers and payors 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. He has been honored as a Washington DC "Super Lawyer" and by Nightingales as a leading health care antitrust lawyer. He is Chambers rated. 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. Mr. Lutes also has over a decade of service in leadership in the Boy Scouts of America organization. |
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