Qualipalooza: RISE Quality Leadership Summit 2024 | RISE | TBA

This summit is the leading ‘teamcentric’ conference, is focused on quality of care and improving member experience. We have curated content that caters to organizational interdisciplinary teams with a stake in quality improvement and member touchpoints in the health care journey.

We remain the trusted source to hear nationwide leading quality experts sharing focused and detailed discussions on best practices and strategies to improve Star ratings, CMS clinical data measures, CAHPS and HOS, plus pharmacy measures to maximize efficiency and revenue within your plan.

Whether you’re a manager, director, senior director, vice president, president, deputy chief, CEO, CMO, this is a must-attend event for all professionals involved in quality of care measures.
Who Should Attend?
This event is designed for all professionals who work with Medicare and Medicaid who are members of quality improvement teams including Specialists, Analysts, Supervisors, Managers, Senior Managers, Directors, Senior Directors, Vice Presidents and SVP’s in the following roles:
• Quality Improvement
• Quality Management
• Quality Assurance
• Quality Operations
• Quality Analytics
• Quality Products
• Quality Initiatives
• Clinical Quality
• Clinical Operations
• Stars
• NCQA Programs
• Pharmacy
• Data/Analytics
• Performance Outcomes
• Provider Quality
• Revenue Management
• Business Development
Top Reason To Attend:
Year after year attendees come back to learn updated trends plus receive regulatory updates from key industry professionals and specialists. Last year attendees signed up to:
• Attend the popular pre-conference workshop on the new Stars math for an updated, in-depth review of the calculation of Stars based on the CMS final rule coming this spring.
• Find out how to bring together quality and risk adjustment, converge member touchpoints, avoid provider abrasion, and more efficiently hit health plan goals.
• Connect with health plans, physician practice professionals, industry experts, and solution providers during plentiful networking receptions and breaks.
• Take away a roadmap for how to operationalize the transition to digital CMS clinical data measures during an exciting new pre-conference workshop.
• Leave with fresh ideas for incorporating providers into your quality outcomes.
• Discuss new and equitable ways to provide interventions and operationalize improvements in health equity
• Deep dive into the latest CMS Final Rule and what it means for quality professionals.

2023 Past Speakers

Jessica Assefa
Chief Quality Officer, ATRIO Health Plans

Julie Baker
VP Business Development, Everly Health

Amanda Banister
Senior Manager, Provider Engagement, VERADIGM PAYER, Veradigm

Keith Bell
VP Quality, Ingenia Health

Elizabeth Benz
Vice President of Quality and Clinical Integration, Network Health

Jonathan Bethke
Senior Director, Account Manager, Express Scripts/Cigna

Courtney Breece
AVP, Product, Inovalon

Amy Brittan
Program Director of Quality Incentive Programs, Regence

Heidi Broers
Director of HEDIS and Quality Improvement Analytics, Medical Mutual of Ohio

April Canetto
Director, Commercial Population Health. Health Care Services, Moda Health

Luis A. Cerda
Star Ratings Consultant, Rex Wallace Consulting, LLC

Carmela Costiniuk
Vice President Population Health and Clinical Transformation, Catholic Medical Partners

Keslie Crichton
Chief of Sales, Benelynk

Nick D'Ambra
Vice President, Quality and Risk Adjustment, AbsoluteCare

Shannon Decker
Principal, VBC One

Ryan Dodson
Regional Manager, Risk Adjustment, New Vision Healthcare Solutions/Choice Medical Group

Julianne Eckert
Senior Director, Clinical Quality Programs, Clover Health

Rhonda Farrar
Senior Manager of Data Analytics, Advantmed

Ellen Fink-Samnick
Chair, RISE SDoH Community

Savannah Gonsalves
Director of Quality, Hometown Health

Ana Handshuh
Principal, CAT5 Strategies

Josh Hetler
Chief Operating Officer, DataLink

Adam Higman
Partner, Strategic Consulting, Payer Consulting, Press Ganey

Kent Holdcroft
Chief Growth Officer, Healthmine

Nikki Hungate
Director, Medicare & Gov't Programs Product Strategy, MVP Health Care

Katharine Iskrant
Practice Leader, Healthy People, Inc.

Frank Izquierdo
Senior Vice President Provider Solutions and Strategic Alliances, AvMed

Jenn Kerfoot
Chief Experience Officer, FarmboxRx

David L. Larsen
Senior Advisor Payer Solutions, Press Ganey

Mark Lomax
CEO, PEP Health

Matt Loper
CEO, Wellth

Victoria Losinski
VP Star Ratings, Risk Adjustment, and Quality, Blue Cross Minnesota

Nate Lucena
Senior Consultant, Rex Wallace Consulting

Christie McMullen
CEO and Best-Selling Author, AIM...Analyze, Improve, Move

Juaniece Miller
Provider Enablement Manager, DataLink

Marie Mitri
Director of Payor Relations, Vision Screening & Diagnostics, Baxter International

Mallory Mueller
Director Quality Health Integration, Network Health

Jessica Muratore
Senior Consultant, Rex Wallace Consulting

Erika Paquette
Manager of Risk Adjustment and Analytics, Hometown Health

Hemanshu Patel
CQO, Choice Medical Group

Zoltan Rab
Senior Health Data Scientist, Inovalon

Laura Sheriff
Vice President Operations, Risk Adjustment, Southwestern Health Resources

Melissa Silva
Payer Solutions Lead, Ciox Health

Melissa Smith
EVP Consulting and Professional Services, Healthmine

Kristy Smith
HEDIS Program Manager, Martin's Point

Andrea Sorensen
Vice President, Product Consulting, MedeAnalytics

Ally Thomas
Associate Vice President, Quality Improvement, UPMC Health Plan

Elissa Toder
VP Quality Improvement Strategy & Solutions, Product Development, Reveleer

Christian Trygstad
VP Product, Biomedix

Mick Twomey
Chief Executive Officer, Hyperlift

Kyra Valdez-Shipp
Vice President of Quality and Clinical Programs, WellSense Health Plan

Rex Wallace
Principal, Rex Wallace Consulting

Daniel Weaver
Executive Vice President of Product Operations and Stars Strategy, NationsBenefits

Austin Weaver
VP of Medicare, Hinge Health

Stephen Winn
Senior Director, Quality, Permanente Medicine

Kate Wormington
Director, Solutions Management, Veradigm