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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
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Chairman:
Mark B. Ganz
President and CEO
Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield

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12:55 pm -
1:45 pm
Obama's Reform Agenda and the Impact on Insurers
  • Similarities between California and federal reform proposals
  • The role played by health plans in the California reform effort
  • How Congress and the administration can overcome the obstacles that defeated reform in California
Bruce Bodaken - Speaker Photo Bruce Bodaken
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Blue Shield of California

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  • Protect the ability to innovate at the state level
    • Examples of state advances in the medical home, baskets of care, consumer engagement
  • Minnesota's unique set of assets that have been successful in promoting overall health care
  • Effective marketplace collaboration to promote health care outcomes
  • "Prevention Minnesota" – Advances made in smoking cessation and the continued benefits of the historic Tobacco settlement (MN holding a lower smoking rate than the national average from – dropping from a 22% smoking rate to a 17% state wide smoking rate; compared to the 22% national rate
Patrick Geraghty
President and CEO
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota

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1:50 pm -
2:40 pm
The Empowered Patient: Using Shared Decision-Making
  • The development and use of new lifestyle-based predictive models that operate in the absence of HRA and/or medical claims data
  • How new models use consumer segmentation and sociodemographic data to identify individuals at risk for the harmful effects of lifestyle-related behaviors and conditions, including smoking and obesity
  • Strategies to engage individuals to participate in programs aimed at improving their lifestyles and lowering risk of future costly medical conditions
  • Health Net Case Study: The application of these models in Health Net's wellness program, with a focus on cardiometabolic risk management
Elizabeth (Betsy) Barbeau, ScD, MPH
Senior Vice President, Health and Wellness
Health Dialog

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Shannon Brownlee, MS
Writer/Journalist; Schwartz Senior Fellow, The New America Foundation; Visiting Scholar, National Institutes of Health

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3:10 pm -
4:00 pm
Pay-for-Performance, Part I:
Expansion of 65+ Measures to Clearly Demonstrate Improved Patient Outcomes
Richard Chung, MD
Senior Vice President, Health Services Division
Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA)/Blue Cross Blue Shield of Hawaii

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Pay-for-Performance, Part II:
Paying Providers for Quality - The Alternative Quality Contract
John A. Fallon - Speaker Photo John A. Fallon, MD, MBA
Senior Vice President and Chief Physician Executive
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Chairman:
Maureen Sullivan
Senior Vice President
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Associations

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10:40 am -
11:30 am
Consumer Engagement in Health
Part I. Deploying a Care Management Platform for Members and Physicians
  • The analytics of HCSC’s population and identifying a member’s Opportunity Score
  • Strategies to identify greatest risk patients with the highest potential for behavior change
  • The Opportunity Score – Review of data from the enterprise, plan and individual/group level
  • Proliferation of data into 3 areas: Web portal for members, nurse case mangers and physicians in network
William E. Gerardi, MD
Vice President and Executive Medical Director, Enterprise Health Care Management
Health Care Service Corporation

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Part II. Strategies to Secure Engagement
  • Critical elements of the care plan
  • Direct to member outreach – implementation of IVR technology for screening
  • Benefit design and incentives – employer incentives for health risk reduction, impact of high deductible health plans on screening
Roberta Herman, MD
Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Health Services
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

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11:35 am -
12:20 pm
The Health Plan’s Role in Advancing Health Improvement
  • Consumer Engagement through Personal Health Records; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts' strategy
  • Implementing Google Health™ as part of a consumer engagement strategy for health plan members
  • How do PHRs fit into an HIT strategy
Steven J. Fox
Vice President, Provider Network Management
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

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Lisa Latts, MD, MBA
Vice President, Programs in Clinical Excellence
WellPoint, Inc.

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