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NIHP Event Archive
View a history of NIHP events from:
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The System 2009
April 25-27, 2008
Chaska, MN
The Dean of public policy pundits, David Broder of the
Washington Post, and 40 other veterans of the last national
effort at health policy reform, gathered for a weekend in
Minnesota to design an entirely new approach to the challenge of
national health policy reform.
Conference Overview
Conference Agenda
Event Sponsors
Speaker Bios
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Washington, D.C. Health Policy Seminar
April 13-15, 2008
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Policy Reform
Guy Clifton, MD, Senior Health Policy Advisor, Health Policy
Program, New America Foundation
State Coverage
Reform: Differential Challenges
Rick Curtis, President, Institute for Health Policy Solutions
(IHPS)
The Federal
Budget & Health Policy Process and Challenges
G. William Hoagland, Vice President Public Policy, CIGNA
Children’s
Health Coverage: The Context for the SCHIP Debate
Barbara Lyons, PhD, Vice President and Deputy Director, Kaiser
Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
SCHIP: The Debate
Cindy Mann, Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Center
for Children and Families
Engaging
consumers as partners in managing health spending
Grace-Marie Turner, President, Galen Institute
The High Cost
of Low-Quality Care
Richard Sorian, Vice President, Public Policy, NCQA
Paying for
Performance: You Get What You Pay For, So Why Not Pay For What
You Want?
Stuart Guterman, Director, Program on Medicare’s Future, The
Commonwealth Fund
Paying for
Primary Care: Is There A Better Way?
Robert A. Berenson, M.D., Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute
Producing
comparative-effectiveness information
Nancy Ray, Principal Policy Analyst, MedPAC
Medicare’s
payments for physician services
Kevins Hayes,
Principal Policy Analyst, MedPAC
House Committee
on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health Hearing: "The
Instability of Health Coverage in America"
April, 15, 2008
Senator
Durenberger's Testimony
Complete Witness List |
Critical: What We Can Do About the
Health Care Crisis
Senator Tom Daschle
March 12, 2008Based on his newly
released book on health care, former Senate Majority Leader Tom
Daschle offered
his perspective on why health policy change is so daunting and
presented his vision for how, despite these obstacles, future
progress in health care reform can be achieved. Read the Wall Street Journal's
book review:
"A 'Critical' Look at the Health Crisis" |
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The 2007 James L. Reinertsen Lecture
Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
Shannon Brownlee, Schwartz Senior Fellow, New America
Foundation
November 15, 2007
As a Schwartz Senior Fellow
at the New America Foundation, Shannon Brownlee’s work
focuses on the U.S. health care system, and the
cultural, economic, and political forces that result in
poor quality and high cost. She has written extensively
about the lack of scientific evidence for many medical
practices, and the problem of unnecessary care, which
accounts for as much as a third of the nation’s health
care bill. She is the author of
Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine
is Making Americans Sicker and Poorer,
which was published recently by Bloomsbury Press.
This lecture was co-sponsored by the
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) and
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The
Medical Arms Race and the Impact of
Government Regulation
& Payment Systems
featuring Dr. Mark McClellan,
former CMS Administrator
October 15, 2008
As part of NIHP's series on the Medical
Arms Race Syndrome, Dr.
McClellan, former FDA Commissioner and former
Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services, addressed the impact of government regulation
and payment systems on the Medical Arms Race.
The NIHP teamed up with the Medical Technology
Leadership Forum to host this event, as part of MTLF’s
2007 Fall Forum.
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Aligning Incentives to Redirect the Medical
Arms Race:
Value Based Purchasing
featuring Jack Rowe, MD, retired Chair & CEO, Aetna
September 20, 2007
During this public
forum and luncheon, Dr. Jack Rowe, retired
Chairman and CEO of Aetna, Inc., spoke to
community healthcare leaders about "Value Based
Purchasing" and its relation to redirecting the
Medical Arms Race.
Dr. Rowe is widely
recognized and respected for his leadership and
vision in the healthcare industry. He is
currently a Professor in the Department of
Health Policy and Management at the Columbia
University Mailman School of Public Health. From
2000 until his retirement in late 2006, Dr. Rowe
served as Chairman and CEO of Aetna, Inc, one of
the nation's leading health care and related
benefits organizations. Before his tenure at
Aetna, from 1998 to 2000, Dr. Rowe served as
President and Chief Executive Officer of Mount
Sinai NYU Health, one of the nation’s largest
academic health care organizations.
Click here to read the
event summary (pdf)
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The
Medical Arms Race Syndrome:
The
Business, the Challenges and the Value of Healthcare
featuring
Leonard Schaeffer, Founding Chairman & CEO, WellPoint
June 19, 2007
As founding chairman and CEO of WellPoint, Mr. Schaeffer took
the company from a point of near bankruptcy to healthcare leader
status as it grew in value from $11 million in 1986 to over $20
billion in 2004. Today, it is the nation's largest publicly
traded health care company with more than 34 million medical
members and annualized revenues exceeding $56 billion. WellPoint
was named one of America's most admired healthcare companies and
one of the best performing public companies by Fortune and
BusinessWeek respectively. A panel of regional healthcare and
community leaders continued the discussion following Mr.
Schaeffer's remarks.
Event Summary
Press:
Health expert warns of approaching crisis
By
David Phelps, Star Tribune, June 19, 2007
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150 people gathered at
the Minneapolis VA Medical Center Tuesday to hear
author Phillip Longman speak to why you and I should
both read his new book “Best Healthcare Anywhere.”
It was an NIHP event hosted by the MVAMC, one of
only four polytrauma centers in the U.S. serving
Americans injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. The book
tells the short story of the American health care
system everyone claims to be looking for, which
operates 24/7 right under our noses everywhere in
the country.
Longman’s wife, Robin,
died at the prestigious Lombardi Cancer Center at
Georgetown University 10 months after her breast
cancer was discovered. In the American healthcare
system most of us are destined to use. “If she had
been an airline passenger and any of her doctors
were pilots or air traffic controllers, it was not
obvious to either of us.” On the day of her
lumpectomy he had to explain to Robin why he wasn’t
able to be with her when she came out of surgery.
“Because no one in that great hospital could even
find her.”
What has changed the
Veterans Affairs Healthcare System is “systems”
thinking. By those who labored too long inside its
hospitals without the information systems they knew
were available to every other business in the
country. By those who knew they were going to form
lifetime relationships with patients who were war
veterans, but worked in systems without any
incentives to build those relationships. By a
leader, Dr. Ken Kizer, who learned his systems
thinking in the Navy Seals and brought it to the VA
which only needed someone to lead it. Other than the
politicians and the hierarchical bureaucrats.
Focusing on prevention,
evidence-based medicine, and efficient, open-source
health information technology, the story of the VA
system, its leadership and its staff is one of great
success. It's a model of care to which Longman
applies its lessons to a plan for reforming the U.S.
health care system as a whole. It's a success story
that needs to be told. Longman helped share it with
our community today. His book - along with the VA
system itself - will continue to share those
accomplishments and lessons with others.
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2007
D.C. Health Policy Seminar
April
15-17, 2007
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Robert
Helms, Ph.D.
Resident Scholar and Director of Health Policy Studies,
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research |
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Stuart Guterman
Senior Program Director, Medicare’s Future, Commonwealth
Fund |
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Robert
Berenson, M.D.
Senior Fellow, Urban Institute |
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Joe Antos,
Ph.D.
Wilson H. Taylor Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
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Carmela
Coyle
Senior Vice President For Policy, American Hospital
Association |
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Mark Miller
Director, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) |
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Kathy
Means
Senior Health Policy Advisor, Arnold and Porter LLP |
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Dean Rosen
Principal, Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti, Inc., former
health policy director, Office of Senate Majority Leader
Bill Frist |
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Bill
Hoagland
Vice President, Policy; CIGNA; Former Policy Advisor for
Senator Bill Frist |
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Don Fisher
CEO & President, American Medical Group Association (AMGA) |
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Carol
Kelly
Director, Office of Policy, Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services (CMS) |
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Abby Block
Director, Center for Beneficiary Choice, Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services |
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John
Rother
Director of Policy & Strategy, AARP |
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Richard
Sorian
Vice President for Public Policy and External Relations,
NCQA |
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Tricia
Neuman Sc.D.
Vice President, Kaiser Family Foundation |
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Barbara
Lyons Ph.D.
Deputy Director, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the
Uninsured |
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The Medical Arms Race
Syndrome: The "Value" of Innovation
Featuring: Uwe
Reinhardt, PhD, professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs, Princeton University
February 22, 2007
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Measurement and Reporting:
The Road to Value in Healthcare
February 7-8, 2007
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Midwest States Health Reform Summit
Featuring:
Tim Pawlenty, Governor, State of Minnesota
Timothy Murphy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Commonwealth of
Massachusetts
November 14, 2006
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The Medical Arms Race Syndrome: Health System Economics
Featuring: Paul Ginsburg, PhD, President, Center for Studying Health
System Change
September 29, 2006
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Defining the Medical Arms Race Syndrome
July 13, 2006
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2006 D.C. Health Policy
Seminar
May 7-9, 2006
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Len Nichols, Ph.D., Director
of Health Policy Program, The New America Foundation
Information Institutions and Federal Health Policy
Bill Hoagland Policy Advisor, Office of Senate Majority
Leader Bill Frist
The Federal Budget Landscape: Demographic
Challenge
Sarah Thomas, Deputy Director, MedPac
Medicare policy: Context and MedPAC’s agenda
Stuart Guterman, Senior Program Director,
Program on Medicare’s Future, The Commonwealth Fund
Dialogue on Medicare
Robert Helms, Ph.D., Resident Scholar and Director of Health Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
for
Public Policy Research
Medicaid and the Medicaid Commission
Diane Rowland, Sc.D., Executive Vice President,
Kaiser Family Foundation, Executive Director, Kaiser
Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
Medicaid: Present and Future
Robert Reischauer, Ph.D., President, Urban Institute
Consumer “Driven” Health Care or Consumer
“Directed” Health Care
Joe Antos, Ph.D., Wilson H. Taylor Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Whither Consumer-Driven Health Care?
Mila Kofman, J.D., Associate Research Professor,
Health Policy Institute, Georgetown University
“Consumer" Driven Health Plans
Robert Berenson, M.D., Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
Some Thoughts on P4P
Irene Fraser, Ph.D., Director, Center for
Delivery, Organization and Markets, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Pay-for-Performance: Three Steps to Getting it
Right
Nancy Wilson, M.D., M.P.H., Joint Senior Advisor, Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality and CMS
AQA Pilot Project on Physician Practice
Measurement, Public Reporting, and Payment Reform
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Long Term
Quality Care Summit
February 20-21, 2006
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Balanced
Regulation & Rationalized Financing: Managed Long Term Care
Measuring
Satisfaction in Nursing Homes
Joan Buchanan, Harvard Medical School
Organizational
Infrastructure
John Mach, Jr., M.D., CEO, Evercare
Through the
Many Sided Lens: Quality- What Exactly is It? A Walk in the Woods
Leonard Marcus, Ph. D., Director, Harvard School of Public Health
Empowering the
Resident: Thoughts on Quality of Life for Nursing Home Residents
Rosalie Kane, Ph. D., D.S.W., Professor, University of Minnesota, School
of Public Health
The Art
of Possible
Sandy Benson, Vice President, Senior & Community Living Services,
Neilson Place
Out of the
Shadows: A Vision for Long-term Care in America
Vincent Mor, Chair, Brown University Medical Center
Speech by John Rother
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Helen Nelson
Secretary, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Serivces
Kevin Goodno
Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Health and Family Services
Larry Minnix
President and CEO, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging
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NIHP
Annual Meeting
January 17, 2006
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NIHP's National Leadership Council
Meeting
July 18, 2005
White House Senior Health Policy Advisor, Roy
Ranthum, speaks with NIHP leadership
Meeting Summary
and Reflections
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Consumer Focused Healthcare (CFHC)
Summit
June 14-15, 2005
The CFHC Summit
convened more than 100 diverse
healthcare stakeholders to articulate the cornerstones of an effective
consumer-focused healthcare system, with the patient/provider relationship
at its core.
Speaker presentations,
agenda, and report are available upon request.
Keynote Address: Practice Variation
by John Wennberg,
Foundation for Informed Medical Decision-Making
Session I: Engaging Consumers in the Healthcare
Partnership: A Research Perspective (Introduced by Keith Halleland)
Judith Hibbard,
University of Oregon
Dave
Knutson, Park Nicollet Institute for Research and Education
Steve
Parente, Ph.D., Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
Session II: Changing Behavior Through "Skin-in-the-Game"
Barry Baines, UCare
Minnesota
Jinnet Fowles,
Park Nicollet Institute
Greg
Michaud, Bobcat Co.
Session III: Management for Chronic
Conditions: Cost Control and Patient Engagement (Introduced by Ghita
Worcester)
Sheryl Niebuhr, 3M
Health & Productivity
Chris Duff, Axis
Healthcare
Chris Selecky,
Disease Management Association of America
Session IV: An Environmental Assessment
Jim Chase, Community Measurement Project
Jan
Malcolm, Courage Center
John Miall, The Asheville
Project
Featured Speaker: Laying the Foundation for Transforming U.S.
Healthcare: The Role(s) of Consumers (Introduced by David Durenberger)
David Lansky, Markle
Foundation
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Health Policy Seminar
May 15-17, 2005
Forty MBA students, faculty, and
NIHP executives completed a three-day Washington, DC Health Policy Seminar on
May 17th, 2005.
Speaker
Presentations
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Health Policy Forum
March 31, 2005
The National Institute of Health Policy (NIHP)
and the Minnesota Medical Association (MMA) hosted a policy forum to
understand and discuss the MMA’s recently released report, “Physicians’
Plan for a Healthy Minnesota: The MMA’s Proposal for Health Care Reform.”
The NIHP convened
this neutral forum at the request of the MMA to give a broad cross-section
of healthcare stakeholders the opportunity to discuss the feasibility and
potential impact of some of the proposal’s bold recommendations.
21st Century Health System
January 18-19, 2005
Seventy healthcare leaders from the Upper
Midwest gathered at HealthPartners in Bloomington, MN to dialogue on the
21st Century Healthcare System in the world of consumer-driven healthcare.
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