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Event Date | Tue Mar 14 EDT - Thu Mar 16 EDT (over 1 year ago) |
Location |
Washington Hilton
1919 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20009, USA |
Region | Americas |
Key Topics Driving Medicare, Medicaid, Dual Eligibles, the Commercial Market and the overall Health Policy Landscape
Leadership from across the country will focus on the ideas, solutions, and emerging trends transforming health care, covering such topic areas as:
• Midterm Election Impact on Health Policy Priorities
• CMS Policy Priorities and Health Plan Implications
• Medicare Advantage Regulatory Updates
• Medicaid/CHIP Policy Priorities
• Update on Value-Based Payments
• Advancing Equity through Public-Private Partnerships
• Emerging Issues in the Employer, Individual and Small Group Markets
2023 Speakers
John Adams
Director, Innovation & Voice of the Customer, Gray Matter Analytics
Loren Adler
Associate Director, USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy
Sharon Alexander
President, LTSS Solutions, AmeriHealth Caritas
Joan Alker
Executive Director & Co-Founder, Center for Children and Families (CCF), and Research Professor, Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy
Rajiv Arya, MD, MBA
Senior Director, Strategy & Growth, Optum
Richard Ashworth
President & CEO, Tivity Health
Liza Assatourians
Vice President, Federal Programs, AHIP
Jim Baker
Executive Director, Private Equity Stakeholder Project
Lisa Bari, MBA, MPH
CEO, Civitas Networks for Health
Lindsay Barnette
Director, Models, Demonstrations and Analysis Group, Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office (MMCO), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Merith Basey, MSc
Executive Director, Patients For Affordable Drugs™
Romilla Batra, MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer, SCAN Health Plan
Adam Beck
Vice President, Employer Health Policy & Initiatives, Commercial Exchange Policy & Operations, AHIP
Kate Berry
Senior Vice President, Clinical Innovations & Strategic Partnerships, AHIP
Bobbette Bond
Vice President, Health Policy, UNITE HERE HEALTH
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure
Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Emily D. Brower, MBA
Senior Vice President, Clinical Integration & Physician Services, Trinity Health
Caleb Bupp, MD
Division Chief, Medical Genetics and Genomics, Spectrum Health and Helen DeVos Children's Hospital
Robert M. Califf, MD, MACC
Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Tim Clement, MPH
Director, Legislative Development, American Psychiatric Association
Michelle Conway
Health Insurance Specialist, Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office (MMCO), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS)
Anne Marie Costello
Deputy Director, Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Sabrina Corlette, JD
Research Professor, Founder & Co-Director, Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR), Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy
Stephen Cozzo
Vice President, Government Relations & External Affairs & Public Policy, AmeriHealth Caritas
Tyler Cromer
Principal, ATI Advisory
Judith Davis
Vice President, Clinical Operations, CareSource
Sasha Dhall, MPH
Vice President, Growth & Retention, Optum California
Camille Dobson, MPA
Deputy Executive Director, ADvancing States
Shannon Dowler, MD, FAAFP, CPE
Chief Medical Officer, North Carolina Medicaid, NC Department of Health and Human Services
Michael Dulin, MD, PhD
Chief Medical Officer, Gray Matter Analytics
Anna Dunbar-Hester
Senior Advisor, Medicaid Policy, AHIP
Tim Engelhardt
Director, CMS Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office (MMCO), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
A. Mark Fendrick, MD
Professor, Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Health Management and Policy, The University of Michigan; and Director, University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design
Deborah Ferguson, DDS
Arkansas State Legislature; President, National Council of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL)
Tyler Ford
Vice President, CAQH
Richard Frank, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Vida Health
Elizabeth Goodman, JD, MSW, DrPH
Chief Legal & Public Affairs Officer, Commonwealth Care Alliance (CCA)
Alberto A. Gonzalez, Jr., MPP
Senior Advisor, External Engagement, Food and Nutrition Services, United States Department of Agriculture
Mary R. Grealy
President, Healthcare Leadership Council
Pamela Greenberg, MPP, PAHM
President & CEO, Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness (ABHW)
Aron Griffin
Senior Vice President, Federal Affairs, AHIP
Philo D. Hall
Senior Counsel, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Mark Hamelburg
Senior Vice President, Federal Programs, AHIP
Jonathan Harding, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Point32Health
Rachel Harrington, PhD
Research Scientist, Performance Measurement, National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
Michael Hennessy
Founder & CEO, Diathrive Health
Elinor Hiller
Partner, Alston & Bird LLP
Garrett Hohimer
Vice President Policy & Advocacy, Business Group on Health
Dora Hughes, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer, CMS Innovation Center, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Raymond Hwang, MD
Senior Medical Director, Hinge Health
Michelle Jester, MA, PMP
Executive Director, Social Determinants of Health, AHIP
Patricia Kelmar, JD
Health Care Campaigns Director, U.S. PIRG
Barbara Kevish, MD
Associate Vice President, Medicare Medical Services, UPMC Health Plan
Joneigh S. Khaldun, MD, MPH, FACEP
Vice President & Chief Health Equity Officer, CVS Health
Robin Kingston
Vice President, Health Plan Strategy, Teladoc Health
Tom Kornfield
Senior Consultant, Avalere Health
Jennifer Langer Jacobs
Assistant Commissioner, Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services, New Jersey Department of Human Services
Brynn Layton
Head of Growth, Intellaegis
Tanya Little
Chief Commercial Officer, Vitality Group
Danielle Lloyd, MPH
Senior Vice President, Private Market Innovations & Quality Initiatives, AHIP
Kevin Lucia, JD, MHP
Research Professor, Founder, & Co-Director, Center on Health Insurance Reforms, Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy
Jay Ludlam
Deputy Secretary for Medicaid (appointed), North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
Ellen Lukens
Deputy Director, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Catherine Macpherson, MS, RDN
Senior Vice President, Healthcare Strategy & Chief Nutrition Officer, Mom’s Meals
Elizabeth Matney
Medicaid Director, Iowa Department of Human Services
Kate McEvoy
Executive Director, National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD)
Jason McGill
Assistant Director for Medicaid Programs Division, Washington State Health Care Authority
Laura McWright
Deputy Director, Seamless Care Models Group, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Nancy Mendelsohn, MD
Vice President, Medical Affairs Optum Care Solutions & Chief Medical Officer, Optum Frontier Therapies
Jeff Micklos
Executive Director, Health Care Transformation Task Force
Bryce Miller
Director, Primary 360, Teladoc Health
Mark E. Miller, PhD
Executive Vice President, Health Care, Arnold Ventures
Cathrine Misquitta, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, BCGP, CPHQ, FCSHP
Vice President, Quality Management, Health Net
Jean Moody-Williams, RN, MPP
Deputy Director, Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Ellen Montz, PhD
Deputy Administrator and Director, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Miranda Motter, JD
Senior Vice President, State Affairs & Policy, AHIP
Arianna Muckerman, MPH
Senior Director, Health Policy, Centene Corporation
Glen Mulready
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner ; 2022 Chair, NAIC Health Insurance and Managed Care (B) Committee
Alexandra Mugge, MPH
Director and Deputy Chief Health Informatics Officer, Health Informatics and Interoperability Group (HIIG), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Alexis Murray
Senior Policy Advisor, Employer & Commercial Policy, AHIP
Elisabeth Myers
Deputy Director, Office of Policy, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Lynn Nonnemaker, PhD
Director of Medicare Policy, Cigna Corporation
Erin O’Rourke
Executive Director, Clinical Performance & Transformation, AHIP
Michael Patton
CEO & Co-founder, Excel Health Plans
Angela L. Perri, MBA
Chief Medicare Officer, UPMC Health Plan & Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Anne E. Phelps
Principal, US Health Care Regulatory Leader, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Claude Pinnock, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer, Wider Circle
Devin Plote, PhD
Clinical Policy Analyst, Clinical Innovation, AHIP
Tim Prinz
Manager, Strategy & Growth, Optum Advisory Services
Leigh Purvis
Senior Director, Health Care Costs & Access, AARP’s Public Policy Institute
Leah Ramirez, MS
Health Policy Director, Public Policy Institute, Elevance Health
Usha Ranji, MS
Associate Director, Women’s Health Policy, Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)
Sarah Rayel, MPP
Director, Health Care Strategy, NORC at the University of Chicago
Amber M. Rivers
Director, Office of Health Plan Standards and Compliance Assistance, Employee Benefits Security Administration, U.S. Department of Labor
Marla Rothouse
Senior Advisor, Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office (MMCO), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Dana Gelb Safran, ScD
President & CEO, National Quality Forum
Matt Sauter, ASA, MAAA
Senior Consulting Actuary, Wakely Consulting
Richard M. Scheffler, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy, Graduate Schools of Public Health and Goldman School of Public Policy; Director of the Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare, UC Berkeley
Juan Carlos "JC" Scott
President & CEO, Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA)
Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD
Deputy Administrator and Director, Center for Medicare, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Marilyn Serafini
Executive Director, Health Program, Bipartisan Policy Center
Ankoor Shah
Health Equity Lead, Accenture
Michael Sherman, MD, MBA, MS
Executive Vice President & Chief Medical Officer, Point32Health
Cleveland (Mickey) Slade
Interim President & CEO, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Community Health Plan, District of Columbia
Dylan Slattery
Chief Growth Officer & Co-founder, Excel Health Plans
Dirk Soenksen
Co-Founder & CEO, Ceresti Health
Mike Spector
Deputy General Counsel, AHIP
Adam Stavisky
Senior Vice President, US Benefits, Walmart
Joshua Stein
Growth Officer, Fitbit Health Solutions at Google
Rachel Stewart
Consulting Actuary, Wakely
Meghan Stringer
Senior Policy Advisor, Product and Commercial Policy, AHIP
Allison Taylor
Indiana Medicaid Director, Family and Social Services Agency (FSSA)
Michael Thompson
President & CEO, National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions
Kristin Thorn
Managing Director, Accenture
Jeanette Thornton
Executive Vice President, Policy and Strategy, AHIP
Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) ,U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Daniel Tsai
Deputy Administrator and Director, Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Chris Tucker
Chief Operating Officer, Diathrive Health
Stephen J. Ubl
President & CEO, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
Amy Walter
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, The Cook Political Report
Evan Weiss
Vice President & General Manager, Provider Enablement, Optum
Laura Weiss
Vice President, Value-Based Care, Optum
Laurie Whitsel, PhD, FAHA
Vice President, Policy Research & Translation, American Heart Association; Senior Advisor, Physical Activity Alliance
2023 Sponsors
GOLD SPONSORS:
• Vida
• WiderCircle
SILVER SPONSORS:
• CAQH
• Ceresti Health
• Cohere Health
• Diathrive Health
• Gray Matter Analytics
• Hinge Health
• Illumina
• MCG
BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Joy for all
• Amplifon
• Color
• Eyemed
• GA Foods
• Gradient AI
• Health Claim Review
• InfoMC
• Medical Guardian
• Nourished
• PAPA
• RAM Technologies
• Real Time Medical Systems
• Smart Communications
• Tivity