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Sunday August 6, 2006

2:00 pm -
3:00 pm
Registration
3:00 pm -
3:15 pm
Chairman's Welcome and Opening Remarks
Lance Lang, MD
Vice President & Senior Medical Director
Quality Improvement & Clinical Informatics
Health Net, California

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3:15 pm -
4:15 pm
Opening Keynote Address: The UK Experience - Realizing Measurable Quality as a Result of Pay-for-Performance
Martin Roland
Director, National Primary Care
Research and Development Centre
University of Manchester, UK

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4:15 pm -
5:15 pm
Choose Between Two Symposia
Symposium 1: Practical Strategies to Advance Health Plan and Employer Pay-for-Performance Programs
  • Extending Pay-for-Performance From an HMO to a PPO model
  • Linking quality and efficiency to create high performance networks and respond to consumers’ demand
  • Pay-for-performance operational implications: the BCBS of Florida experience
  • Using evidence based guidelines to include quality and cost data
  Victoria Bloodworth
Director of Network Design and Development
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida
Antonio Legorreta, M.D., MPH
Professor, Health Services
Research Department
UCLA School of Public Health
Zak Ramadan-Jradi, MD, MBA
Medical Director, Clinical Performance Measurement
The Regence Group
Carol Wilhoit, MD, MS
QI Medical Director
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois
Symposium 2: New Additions, Updates, and Results from the Leapfrog Hospital Rewards Program™
  • Hear an outline of the Leapfrog Hospital Rewards Program™
  • Learn about Program implementation to date and emerging markets for implementation
  Catherine Egan
Director, Quality Management /Clinical Innovations
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of NJ
  Catherine Eikel
Director, Leapfrog Hospital Rewards Program
The Leapfrog Group

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5:15 pm -
6:15 pm
Keynote Address: Assessing the Sustainability of Payment Reform
  • Defining the impact of pay-for-performance as a transformational compensation tool
  • Creating congruence in CMS and nationwide pay-for-performance initiatives
Moderator
Peter V. Lee
President and Chief Executive Officer
Pacific Business Group on Health

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George Bennett
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Health Dialog

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Allan Korn, MD, FACP
Senior Vice President, Clinical Affairs & Chief Medical Officer
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Barry M. Straube, MD
Acting Director & Chief Clinical Officer, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

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John Tooker, MD, MBA, FACP
Executive Vice President/ Chief Executive Officer
American College of Physicians

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6:15 pm -
7:15 pm
Welcoming Cocktail Reception
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