Regional Disparities

Managing Cost and Quality Through the Health Care Delivery System

The Eleventh Princeton Conference

May 20-21 , 2004

Note: A transcript and streaming video of the conference sessions are available through the HealthCast network of Kaisernetwork.org.
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Conference Materials:

Papers:

Will Care Management Improve the Value of U.S. Health Care? Robert Mechanic, M.B.A., Senior Fellow, Brandeis University

Chronic Care Improvement in Medicare FFS: Cosmetic or Transforming? Sandra M. Foote, Sc.M., Director, Health Insurance Reform Project

Issue Brief, David Shactman, M.P.A., M.B.A., Senior Fellow, Brandeis University and Project Director, Council on Health Care Economics and Policy.

Presentations:

Part I: Background on Disease Management and Care Coordination

Clinical Climate Change: How Purchasers Will Hinge Provider Revenue on Superior Cost Efficiency and Quality, Arnold Milstein, M.D., M.P.H., Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health

Will Care Management Improve the Value of US Health Care? Robert E. Mechanic, M.B.A., Senior Fellow, Brandeis University
The Disease Mangement Value Proposition, Robert E. Stone, Executive Vice President, American Healthways

Part II: Disease Management in Public Programs

Medicare

Update on Medicare Disease Management Demonstration Projects , Stuart Guterman, Director, Office of Research, Development, and Information, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Chronic Care Improvement Programs in Medicare FFS: Cosmetic or Transforming? Sandra M. Foote, Sc.M., Director, Health Insurance Reform Project

Medicaid

Disease Management and Medicaid, Melanie Brown-Woofter, Administrator, Florida Agency for Health Care Administration

Medicaid Disease Management: Opportunities and Benefits, Christobel E. Selecky, M.A., President, Disease Management Association of America, CEO, LifeMasters Supported Self-Care

Medicaid and Disease Management, Stephen Somers, Ph.D., President, Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.

Iron Curtain of Health Care: A Tale of 2 Systems, Thomas A. Scully, J.D., Former Administrator, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Part III: Managing Care within Organized Delivery Systems

Prepaid Group Practice, Alain Enthoven, Ph.D., Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Stanford University

Managing Care Within Organized Delivery Systems: Improving the Health of the Population, One Patient at a Time, Joel D. Hyatt, M.D., Assistant Medical Director/Clinical Services, Kaiser Permanente Southern California

Part IV: Focus on Providers

Providers and Chronic Condition Management: Concerns and Opportunities, Timothy Gregg Ferris, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; David Blumenthal, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Professor of Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital

Part V: Consumer Directed Plans

Consumer Directed Plans, Jon Kingsdale, Ph.D., Senior Vice President Planning and Development, Tufts Health Plan

Part VI: Pay for Performance

Pay for Performance, Leonard D. Schaeffer, Chairman and CEO, WellPoint Health Networks, Inc.