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NATIONAL ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATION (ACO) SUMMIT
AGENDA: DAY 2
Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Panel Briefs for All Panels (Acrobat)
Overview: Day 2 will focus on addressing the key open questions and unresolved issues about ACOs, primarily governance and legal issues; ensuring care quality; interactions with other reforms; and steps to actually improve care within an ACO.

8:00 a.m. Welcome and Overview of Day 2

Edward F. Howard, JD
Executive Vice President, Alliance for Health Reform, Former General Counsel, Pepper Commission, Washington, DC (Co-Chair)
8:15 a.m. Interactions between ACOs and Other Reforms

Peter Basch, MD
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress, Washington, DC

Francois de Brantes, MBA, MS
Chief Executive Officer, Bridges to Excellence, National Coordinator for PROMETHEUS Payment, Newtown, CT

Stephen M. Shortell, PhD
Dean, School of Public Health, Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Mark McClellan, MD, PhD (Moderator)
9:30 a.m. Performance Measurement and Reporting

Steve Findlay, MPH
Senior Health Policy Analyst, Consumers Union, Former Director, Research and Policy, National Institute for Health Care Management, Washington, DC

Christopher Queram
President/CEO, WCHQ - Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality, Middleton, WI

Joachim Roski, PhD, MPH
Managing Director, High-Value Health Care Project, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, Brookings Institution, Former Director of Quality and Performance Effectiveness, Allina Health System, Washington, DC

Tom Williams
Executive Director, Integrated Healthcare Association, Oakland, CA

Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH (Moderator)
10:30 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m. ACO Payment Models

Thomas B. Bradley
Unit Chief, Health Systems and Medicare Cost Estimates Unit, Congressional Budget Office, Washington, DC

Stuart Guterman, AB, MA
Assistant Vice President and Director, Program on Payment System Reform, The Commonwealth Fund, Former Director, Office of Research, Development, and Information, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Former Deputy Director, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, Washington, DC

Steven T. Hester, MD, MBA
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Norton Healthcare, Louisville, KY

Harold D. Miller
President and Chief Executive Officer, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, Executive Director, Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform, Pittsburgh, PA

Noah D. Rosenberg, JD
Partner, Rosenberg and Kaplan, Los Angeles, CA

Steven M. Lieberman, MPhil, MA
Visiting Scholar, Brookings Institution, Managing Member, Lieberman Consulting Inc., Former Assistant Director, White House Office of Management and Budget, Former Executive Associate Director, Congressional Budget Office, Bethesda, MD (Moderator)
Handout Material (Acrobat)
12:15 p.m. Networking Luncheon

AFTERNOON SESSION
1:15 p.m. Introduction to Afternoon Session

S. Lawrence Kocot, JD, MPA, LLM
Deputy Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, Senior Counsel, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Washington, DC (Co chair)
1:30 p.m. ACO Operational Tools and Strategies

Mike Cracovaner
Chief Executive Officer, New Pueblo Medicine, Tucson, AZ

Kathryn V. Fitch, RN, MEd, MA
Principal and Healthcare Management Consultant, Milliman, New York, NY

Paul Katz, MBA
Chief Executive Officer, Intelligent Healthcare LLC, Santa Monica, CA

Eric T. Nielsen, MD
Senior Medical Advisor, The Camden Group, Chief Medical Officer, Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association (GRIPA), Rochester, NY

Steven M. Lieberman, MPhil, MA (Moderator)
2:30 p.m. Models of Clinical Transformation in ACOs

Carol Beasley, MPPM
Director of Strategic Projects, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Cambridge, MA

Dogu Celebi, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer, Ingenix, Waltham, MA

Donald H. Crane
President and Chief Executive Officer, California Association of Physician Groups, Los Angeles, CA

Lewis Sandy, MD
Senior Vice President, Clinical Advancement, UnitedHealth Group, Minneapolis, MN

Mark Shields, MD
Senior Medical Director, Advocate Physician Partners, Vice President, Advocate Health Care, Chicago, IL

Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH (Moderator)
3:30 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. ACO Governance and Legal Issues

Christi J. Braun, JD, MPH
Principal, Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, Former Staff Attorney, Health Care Services and Products Division, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC

Robert Homchick, JD
Partner and Chair, Health Law Group, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Seattle, WA

Christopher G. Janney, JD
Partner, Health Care Group, Fraud and Abuse, Compliance, Government Investigation, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Washington, DC

David Narrow, JD
Staff Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC

Douglas A. Hastings, JD
Chair, Board of Directors, Epstein Becker & Green, PC, Member, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine, Former President, American Health Lawyers Association, Washington, DC (Moderator)
5:15 p.m. Day 2 Wrap-up

Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH
5:30 p.m. Adjournment





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