Accountable Care Organizations Summit: Agenda: Preconference / Day One

NATIONAL ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATION (ACO) SUMMIT AGENDA: PRECONFERENCE Monday, June 7, 2010
PRECONFERENCE SYMPOSIUM: ADVANCING ACCOUNTABLE CARE IN PHYSICIAN ORGANIZATIONS Sponsored by the California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG)
7:00 a.m.	Registration Opens
8:00 a.m.	Welcome and Pre-Conference Overview Donald H. Crane President and Chief Executive Officer, California Association of Physician Groups, Los Angeles, CA (Co-Chair) Presentation Material (Acrobat)
8:15 a.m.	ACO's: Core Features and Attributes 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 Presentation Material (Acrobat)
8:45 a.m.	Legal Issues for Physician Organizations Bruce Merlin Fried, JD Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Former Vice President of Federal Affairs, FHP International Corp., Former Director, Center for Health Plans and Providers, Health Care Financing Administration (now CMS), Washington, DC Presentation Material (Acrobat)
9:15 a.m.	Lessons from California, a Thirty Year Pilot Jay Cohen, MD President and Chair, Monarch Healthcare, Immediate Past Chair, California Association of Physician Groups, Irvine, CA Presentation Material (Acrobat) Keith Wilson, MD Chief Executive Officer, Talbert Medical Group, Chair, California Association of Physician Groups, Costa Mesa, CA Presentation Material (Acrobat)
10:15 a.m.	Break
10:45 a.m.	CAPG Innovation in Health Care Reform Wells Shoemaker, MD Medical Director, California Association of Physician Groups, Los Angeles, CA Presentation Material (Acrobat)
11:15 a.m.	Pre-Conference Faculty Q&A
Noon	Pre-Conference Adjournment and Lunch on Your Own

NATIONAL ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATION (ACO) SUMMIT AGENDA: DAY I Monday, June 7, 2010 Panel Briefs for All Panels (Acrobat)
Overview: The core aims of Day 1 are to clearly define the guiding principles of ACOs, summarize the practical experiences with ACO-like models in Medicare, and outline a clear set of questions and unresolved issues about how to expand these early models into a national ACO implementation strategy. These discussions, in turn, will guide the rest of the conference agenda (on days 2-3).
1:00 p.m.	Welcome and Summit Overview Susan Dentzer Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs, Health Policy Analyst, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Washington, DC (Co-Chair)
1:30 p.m.	Overview of ACO Guiding Principles and Implementation Strategy Why Accountable Care? Core Principles Underlying ACOs Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH Director, Population Health and Policy, Director, Center for Population Health, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, NH Achieving Accountable Care Mark McClellan, MD, PhD Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution, Former CMS Administrator, Former FDA Commissioner, Washington, DC
2:00 p.m.	Early Experiences with ACOs as a Foundation for Broader Testing L. Allen Dobson, Jr., MD Chair, Community Care of NC, Vice President, Carolinas Healthcare System, President, Cabarrus Family Medicine, Charlotte, NC Edward G. Murphy, MD President and Chief Executive Officer, Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, VA J. Marc Overhage, MD, PhD, FACMI, FACP Director, Medical Informatics, Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc., President and CEO, Indiana Health Information Exchange, Indianapolis, IN John Pilotte Director, Division of Payment Policy Demonstrations, Medicare Demonstrations Program Group, Office of Research, Development and Information, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD Mark McClellan, MD, PhD (Moderator)
3:00 p.m.	Break
3:30 p.m.	Can Accountable Care Reforms Work in Other Environments? Francis J. (Jay) Crosson, MD Associate Executive Director, The Permanente Medical Group, Senior Fellow, Institute for Health Policy, Kaiser Permanente, Vice Chair, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, Oakland, CA Craig L. McKnight Sr. Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ Meredith B. Rosenthal, PhD Associate Professor, Health Economics and Policy, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA John M. Bertko, FSA, MAAA Visiting Scholar, The Brookings Institution, Actuarial Consultant, New America Foundation, Adjunct Staff, RAND, Member, MedPAC, Panel of Health Advisors, Congressional Budget Office, Pacific Grove, CA (Moderator)
4:30 p.m.	Core Questions for Successful ACO Implementation Sabrina Corlette, JD Director of Health Policy Programs, National Partnership for Women and Families, Washington, DC Susan D. DeVore President and Chief Executive Officer, Premier, Inc., Charlotte, NC Robert S. Galvin, MD, MBA Director, Global Healthcare, General Electric Company, Founder, Center for Payment Reform, Founding Member, The Leapfrog Group, Vice Chair, Washington Business Group on Health, Fairfield, CT Don Lorton Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, VA Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH (Moderator)
5:45 p.m.	Day I Wrap-up Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH Mark McClellan, MD, PhD
6:00 p.m.	Adjournment and Opening Networking Reception