OVERVIEW
The Fourth National Medicaid Congress promises to be the most important one of all, with a new Administration committed to real change but also faced with serious challenges. At a time when there is a serious effort at meaningful health care reform, full children's health coverage, health care IT investment, and enhanced Medicaid funding, the new Obama Administration is also wrestling with a staggering Federal budget deficit, soaring health care costs, and not quite as much bipartisanship as was hoped for. At the State level, where budgets must be balanced, policymakers are finding it hard not to consider draconian cuts in Medicaid benefits or provider payments as they struggle to make up for lost revenues of overwhelming proportions. More than ever, the country needs ideas that work, and the National Medicaid Congress will highlight the best models and the best new thinking from the field as well as from Washington.
Join national policy and industry leaders for the National Medicaid Congress, www.MedicaidCongress.com, May 1 - June 2, 2009, in Washington, DC. This engaging three-day session will feature two timely and informative preconferences on getting to universal coverage for children and managing the costs and care for dual eligibles, followed by two days of plenary and concurrent sessions. The Congress will address all of the critical questions about the current state of Medicaid and its prospects for reform.
Following are the specific areas will be addressed in the Congress:
- trends in Medicaid costs and enrollment
- the economic impact of the stimulus funds
- state and federal HIT initiatives
- the view from the Governor's mansion
- Medicaid issues in the current Congressional landscape
- long-term care reform and integrated care for dual eligibles
- SCHIP expansion
- new approaches to benefit design
- Medicaid managed care challenges and opportunities
- care management and quality improvement programs
- pharmacy benefit innovations
- increased program integrity and compliance actions
- pay for performance projects and results
- how to get to truly universal coverage for children
- Medicaid and the medical home
- new metrics and predictive modeling tools
- consumer incentives and disincentives
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Federal and State Policymakers
- Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
- Health Services Researchers and Academics
- Pharmaceutical and Health Care Executives and Board Members
- State Medicaid and Pharmacy Directors and Managers
- Federal and State Legislators and Staff
- Patient Advocates
- Community Health Centers
- Medicaid Managed Care Directors
- Health Plan, Health System, and Physician Organizations
- Medical Directors
- State Budget Officers
- Physicians
- Healthcare IT Companies and Consultants
- Pharmacists
- Purchasers, including Private Employers and Public Purchasers
- Pharmacy Benefit Management Companies
- Health Plans and Health Insurers
- State Inspectors General and Program Integrity Managers
- Wholesale, Retail, Mail Order, and Internet Pharmacies
- Health Care Attorneys and In-house Counsel
- Pharmaceutical Consultants
- Investment Bankers
- Venture Capitalists
