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SIXTH NATIONAL MEDICAID CONGRESS
Special Health Reform
Implementation Edition
June 13 - 15, 2011
ONSITE
Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Washington, DC
ONLINE
In your own office or home live via the Internet
with 24/7 access for six months
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ONLINE ATTENDEE LOG IN
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Click here to log in for live and archived Internet broadcast.
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MACPAC ISSUES ITS FIRST REPORT
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The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) issued its first report to Congress on March 15, 2011.
Click here for the report.
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MEDICAID CONGRESS ISSUES EXPECTED TO BE ADDRESSED
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- Managing the Medicaid of Today and Tomorrow
- The New Federal Coordinated Health Care Office
- Key Federal-State Implementation Issues in an Expanded Medicaid
- Key Medicaid Policy Issues in the New Congress
- Challenges and Opportunities for Medicaid Managed Care Plans
- State Use of the Basic Health Program (BHP) Option
- Implementing the $10B California Waiver
- Medicaid Expansion in an Era of Limits
- Pay for Performance in Medicaid
- MEDPAC and MACPAC Look at Dual Eligibles
- Achieving Savings in Medicaid Drug Costs
- Medicaid and Dental Health
- Medicaid and the Disabled
- The Role of Comparative Effectiveness in Medicaid
- Medicaid and HIEs
- Managing Expanded Eligibility and Enrollment Systems
- The Current State of Racial Disparities
- Safety Net Clinics and Medical Homes
- Medicare and Medicaid in Advanced Primary Care Demonstrations
- Medicaid Health Homes to Manage Chronic Conditions
- Medicaid Health IT Incentives
- Getting Serious about Medicaid Fraud
- Reducing Readmissions in Medicaid
- Performance of Special Needs Plans
- Medicaid Battles in the State Legislatures
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FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO BIWEEKLY MEDICAID eNEWSLETTER
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Click here to subscribe to a biweekly Medicaid Update eNewsletter, one of a family of free eNewsletters providing a complimentary video presentation and regularly updated news and key resources on major health care issues. To view and subscribe to other e-Newsletters on ACOs, comparative effectiveness, readmissions, and patient safety, go to www.HealthCareeNewsletters.com.
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FREE TRIAL OFFER FOR INSIDE HEALTH POLICY AND INSIDE HEALTH REFORM
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Inside Washington Publishers is offering friends of the Sixth National Medicaid Congress a free four-week trial subscription to two of their newsletters -- Inside Health Policy and Inside Health Reform. The free trials include all regular subscriber services, including an e-mail alert every business day as a reminder of what's been added to the site.
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CO-LOCATED WITH
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THIRD NATIONAL MEDICARE READMISSIONS SUMMIT
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A Hybrid Conference, Internet Event and Training Tool
The Leading Forum on the New Medicare 30 Day Readmissions Rules and Technology-Enabled Strategies for Transitions of Care
Media Partners: Harvard Health Policy Review and Health Affairs
June 13 - 15, 2011
Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Washington, DC
www.ReadmissionsSummit.com
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SIXTH NATIONAL MEDICAID CONGRESS
June 13 - 15, 2011
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ONSITE
Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Washington, DC
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ONLINE
In your own office or home live via the Internet
with 24/7 access for six months
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CONGRESS CO CHAIRS
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John Iglehart
Founding Editor, Health Affairs, National Correspondent, New England Journal of Medicine Washington, DC |

Thomas L. Johnson
President and CEO, Medicaid Health Plans of America, Washington, DC |

Emily Spitzer
Executive Director, National Health Law Program, Washington, DC
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Melanie Bella
Director of the Federal Coordinated Health Care Office, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, US Department of Health & Human Services, Washington, DC |

Cindy Mann
Deputy Administrator and Director, Center for Medicaid, CHIP and Survey & Certification, CMS, Washington, DC |

Dan Mendelson
Chief Executive Officer, Avalere Health, Former Associate Director for Health, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC
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Diane Rowland
Executive Vice-President and Executive Director, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Washington, DC |

James G. Sheehan, Esq.
Medicaid Inspector General, NYS Office of the Medicaid Inspector General, Former Associate United States Attorney, US Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Albany, NY |

Grace-Marie Turner
President, Galen Institute, Washington, DC
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PRECONFERENCE CHAIRS
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Jason R. Kessler, MD, FAAP, CHBE
Medical Director, Iowa Medicaid Enterprise, Des Moines, IA |

Al Lewis
President, Disease Management Purchasing Consortium International, Inc., Founder and Past President, Disease Management Association of America, Waltham, MA
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FEATURED FACULTY
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Scott Afzal
Principal, Audacious Inquiry, LLC, HIE Program Director, Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP), Catonsville, MD |

Uma S. Ahluwalia, MSW
Director, Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD |

Nancy V. Atkins
Commissioner, Bureau for Medicaid Services, State of West Virginia, Charleston, WV
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Michael Birnbaum
Vice President and Director, Medicaid Institute, United Hospital Fund, New York, NY |

Stephanie Carlton
Health Policy Advisor, Minority Staff, Senate Finance Committee, Washington, DC |

Richard Chambers
Chief Executive Officer, Cal-Optima, Orange, CA
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Henry Claypool
Director, Office on Disability, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC |

Anne Cohen, MPH
Director, Disability Health Access, Mountain View CA |

Mark Doherty, DMD, MPH, CCHP
Executive Director, DentaQuest Institute, Westborough, MA
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Mary Pat Farkas
Health Insurance Specialist, Disabled and Elderly Health Programs, Group, CMS, Baltimore, MD |

Robert Harmon, MD, MPH
Director, Duval County Health Department; Chair, NACCHO Public Health Informatics Workgroup; Chair, NE FL Health Informatics Consortium (RHIO), and former Administrator of HRSA, Jacksonville, FL |

Michael Herndon, MD
Medical Director, Oklahoma Health Care Authority, Oklahoma City, OK
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Catherine Hess, MSW
Managing Director for Coverage and Access, National Academy for State Health Policy, Washington, DC |

Keith T. Kanel, MD, MHCM, FACP
Chief Medical Officer, Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, Pittsburgh, PA |

Nancy Kirchner
Health Insurance Specialist, Disabled and Elderly Health Programs Group, CMS, Baltimore, MD
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Anita Monoian
Chief Executive Officer/President, Yakima Neighborhood Health Services, Yakima, WA |

Indira Paharia, PsyD, MBA, MS
Director of Health Integration, Molina Healthcare, Bothell, WA |

Kelly Peiper, JD, PMP
EHR Incentive Payment Coordinator, Iowa Medicaid Enterprise, Des Moines, IA
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Jane Perkins
Legal Director, National Health Law Program, Carrboro, NC |

Phred Pilkington, DPA
Chief Executive Officer and Director of Public Health, Cabarrus Health Alliance, Kannapolis, NC |

Matt Salo
Executive Director, National Association of Medicaid Directors, Washington, DC
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Douglas B. Sherlock, CFA
President, The Sherlock Company, North Wales, PA |

Bruce Siegel, MD, MPH
Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, Washington, DC |

Mike Speight
Senior Director, Health Management Group, Iowa Foundation for Medical Care, West Des Moines, IA
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David Stapleton, PhD
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Studying Disability Policy, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ |

James M. Verdier
Senior Fellow, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Washington, DC
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