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  • A Hybrid Conference and Internet Event
  • The Leading Forum on MACRA, MIPS, APMs and Other Emerging Value-Based Payment Arrangements
  • June 17 - 19, 2019
  • Grand Hyatt, Washington, DC
  • Online In Your Own Office or Home live via the Internet with 24/7 Access for Six Months
  • www.MACRASummit.com
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WASHINGTON DC USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE™ -- APRIL 22, 2019: The Fourth National MACRA MIPS/APM Summit, www.MACRASummit.com, will be held on June 17 - 19, 2019 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC. The MACRA Summit IV will be collocated with ACO Summit X and Bundled Payment Summit IX, and the three events will share a joint plenary session. Registrants may attend the event in person or online (live webcast and archived for 6 months).

APM Summit

FOURTH NATIONAL MACRA MIPS/APM SUMMIT

June 17 - 19, 2019

ATTEND ONSITE
Grand Hyatt
Washington, DC


WEBCAST PARTICIPATION
In your own office or home live via the Internet with 24/7 access for six months

MACRA KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Adam Boehler
Senior Advisor to the Secretary, US Department of Health and Human Services, Deputy Administrator and Director, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Washington, DC

Sanjay Doddamani, MD
Senior Advisor and Medical Officer, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation; Former Senior Director in Population Health, Geisinger Health System, Chief Medical Officer, Keystone ACO, Washington, DC

Harold D. Miller
President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment RefNorm, Member, Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC), Pittsburgh, PA

FEATURED SESSION: LESSONS LEARNED FROM SPECIALITY APMS
Lili Brillstein, MPH
Director, Episodes of Care, Horizon Healthcare Innovations,, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield New Jersey
Lawrence R. Kosinski, MD, MBA, AGAF, FACG
Chief Medical Officer, SonarMD, Managing Partner, Illinois Gastroenterology Group, LLC
Barbara L. McAneny, MD, FASCO, MACP
President, American Medical Association, Board-Certified Medical Oncologist/ Hematologist, Co-founder and Managing Partner, New Mexico Oncology Hematology Consultants Ltd.
S. Lawrence Kocot, JD, LLM, MPA
Principal and National Leader, Center for Healthcare Regulatory Insight, KPMG

ACO/BUNDLED/MACRA JOINT PLENARY
SESSION KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Marc Berg, MD, PhD
Partner, McKinsey, Former Principal and National Lead Government Healthcare Transformation, KPMG LLP USA, Washington, DC

Arnaud Bernaert, MBA
Head of Partner Development, Europe & North America, Head of Healthcare Industry, and Member, Executive Committee, World Economic Forum, Former Senior VP Strategy, Business Development and M&A, Philips Healthcare, Former European Regional Controller, Baxter Healthcare, Geneva, Switzerland

Joseph Egan
Director of Operations, Value-Based Programs, Tenet Healthcare, Former Administrative Director, Michigan Pioneer ACO, Royal Oak, MI

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD
Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, University Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania; Senior Former Special Advisor, Office of Management and Budget, National Economic Council, Philadelphia, PA

John Gorman
Founder and Former Executive Chairman, Gorman Health Group, Former Assistant to the Director, Office of Managed Care, HCFA, Washington, DC

Pauline Lapin, MHS
Director, Seamless Care Models Group, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD

Peter Long, PhD
President and CEO, Blue Shield of California Foundation, Former Senior Vice President, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, San Francisco, CA

Barbara L. McAneny, MD, FASCO, MACP
President, American Medical Association, Co-founder and Managing Partner, New Mexico Oncology Hematology Consultants Ltd., Albuquerque, NM

Elizabeth Mitchell
President and CEO, Pacific Business Group on Health, Former SVP, Blue Shield of California; Former President and CEO, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, San Francisco, CA

Lori Morgan, MBA
President and Chief Executive Officer, Huntington Hospital, President, Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, Pasadena, CA

Christina S. Ritter, PhD
Director, Patient Care Models Group (PCMG); Former Deputy Director, Hospital and Ambulatory Policy Group Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, US Department of Health and Human Services, Baltimore, MA

James D. Sharp, MPH, JD
Director, Health Care Strategy and Transformation, BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina, Former Policy and Strategy Advisor, Office of the Director, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Washington, DC

Mark D. Smith, MD, MBA
Co-chair, Guiding Committee, Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network, Clinical Faculty, UCSF, Attending Physician, Positive Health Program for AIDS Care, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA

Michael Thompson
President and Chief Executive Officer, National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, Former Principal, Health Care, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Washington, DC

AGENDA AT-A-GLANCE
DAY I: MONDAY, JUNE 17
JOINT PRECONFERENCE
1:00 pm Preconference I: Seven Characteristics of Successful APMs & Seven Considerations in the Financial Modeling of Value-based Payment Arrangements
DAY II: TUESDAY, JUNE 18
JOINT ACO/BUNDLED/MACRA OPENING PLENARY SESSION
7:00 am Breakfast Roundtable: Clinical Success Metrics in Commercial Episode of Care Programs
8:00 am HHS/CMS/CMMI Keynote Address
8:30 am The Policy and Politics of Value-based Care by Susan Dentzer
9:00 am Global Value-based Healthcare Initiatives by Arnaud Bernaert, MBA
9:30 am Understanding the Quality Standards upon which Value-based Care Initiatives are Measured by Elizabeth Mitchell
10:00 am Integrating the Social Determinants of Health into Value-based Care by Peter Long, MD
10:30 am Break
11:00 am ACO SUMMIT PLENARY SESSION
CMS/CMMI Accountable Care, Primary Care, CPC-Plus and Other Primary Care Models Keynote Address
Keynote Update on Private Sector ACO Initiatives
Co-chair Keynote Roundtable: A Lightning Round on the Hot Accountable Care Issues of Today

11:00 am BUNDLED PAYMENT MINI SUMMITS
Special LAN Mini Summit I: The Health Care Payment and Learning Action Network's (LAN) Roadmap for Driving High Performance in Alternative Payment Models
II: Oncology Care & Radiation Therapy Bundles
III: Effective Use of Waivers & Gainsharing in Bundled Payment Projects

11:00 am MACRA MINI SUMMITS
Special LAN Mini Summit I: The Health Care Payment and Learning Action Network's (LAN) Roadmap for Driving High Performance in Alternative Payment Models
IV: MIPS Basics and Myths & Medicare Advantage and Advance APM Status
V: Rural and Safety Net APMs
VI: Risk Adjustment in MIPS and APMs & MIPS and APMs Quality Measures
12:30 pm Joint Networking Luncheon
1:00 pm JOINT ACO/BUNDLED/MACRA LUNCHEON KEYNOTE ROUNDTABLE ON THE FUTURE OF VALUE-BASED CARE
2:00 pm BUNDLED PAYMENT SUMMIT PLENARY SESSION
CMS/CMMI Keynote Address on Bundled Payment Policy
Keynote Update on Private Sector Bundled Payment Initiatives
Co-chair Keynote Roundtable: A Lightning Round on the Hot Bundled Payment Issues of Today

2:00 pm ACO MINI SUMMITS
VII: Accountable Care Case Studies: Aledade & NY ACOs
VIII: Social Determinants of Health & Substance Abuse (Opioids Plus) Programs
IX: Valuebased Contracting & Patient Experience in Accountable Care

2:00 pm MACRA MINI SUMMITS
X: An Assessment of the Anticipated CMS/CMMI New APM Models
XI: Specialty APMs & Engaging Specialists through Specialty Payment Chassis Design
XII: Using Quality as a Service & Methods for Managing Post Acute Care

4:00 pm MACRA SUMMIT PLENARY SESSION
CMS/CMMI Keynote Address on MACRA Policies
MACRA Keynote Address: Are Alternative Payment Models Better than Fee for Service?
Co-chair Keynote Roundtable: A Lightning Round on the Hot Accountable Care Issues of Today
Adjournment and Joint Networking Reception

4:00 pm ACO MINI SUMMITS
XIII: Accountable Care Organizational Resources : NAACOS, ACLC and APG
XIV: Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care & Shared Decision Making and Personalized Care into Value-based Arrangements
XV: What's Next for Next Gen ACOs?

4:00 pm BUNDLED PAYMENT MINI SUMMITS
XVI: Designing Bundled Payment Arrangements with Actuarial Risk Management Principles
XVII: AI, Analytics, Big Data and Blockchain Technologies to Drive Bundled Payment Success
XVIII: Risk/Bundle Selection & Getting "Bundle Ready"
5:30 pm Adjournment and Joint Networking Reception
DAY III: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19
JOINT ACO/BUNDLED/MACRA CLOSING PLENARY SESSION
8:00 am Welcome and Introductions
8:15 am Getting to Affordability by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD
8:45 am Value-based Payment, Technology, and the Future of Customer Service by Mark D. Smith, MD, MBA
9:15 am Value-based Care: The Paradox of Primary Care Leadership by Sean Cavanaugh, MD
9:45 am The Challenges and Opportunities for Hospitals and Health Systems in Moving to Value-based Care by Lori Morgan, MBA
10:15 am Transition Break
10:30 am Case Study of BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina's Value-based Payment Initiatives by James D. Sharp, MPH, JD
11:00 am How Medicare Advantage Related to Value-based Care by John Gorman
11:45 am Strategies to Integrate BPCIA, ACOs and APMs into a Unified Strategy to Deliver People-centered Care
12:30 pm Summit Adjournment

MACRA MIPS/APM SUMMIT FEATURED FACULTY

Thomas Buckingham, BSN, MBA
Executive Vice President, Select Medical, President, Allevant Solutions, Member, Guiding Committee, Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network, Mechanicsburg, PA

Mark J. Carley, MA, MBA/MSHA
President, Colorado Health Neighborhoods Value Based Care Delivery, Vice-President, Managed Care and Payor Relations, Centura Health, Former VP, Network Management, Rocky Mountain Health Plans, Former Vice President, Total Medical Cost Management CIGNA, Arlington, VA

Jeff Fox
President, Convey Health Solutions, President, Gorman Health Group, Former Vice President of Government Programs, Health Net of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ

Richard L. Fuller, MS
Economist, Clinical & Economic Research, 3M Health Information Systems, Silver Spring, MD

Aparna Higgins
President and CEO, Ananya Health Innovations Inc., Policy Fellow, The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy; Visiting Scholar at The Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Dunn Loring, VA

Lawrence R. Kosinski, MD, MBA, AGAF, FACG
Chief Medical Officer, SonarMD, Managing Partner, Illinois Gastroenterology Group, LLC, Chicago, IL

Catherine MacLean, MD, PhD
Chief Value Medical Officer, Center for the Advancement of Value in Musculoskeletal Care, Hospital for Special Surgery, Principal, Healthcare Value Solutions, Adjunct Natural Scientist, Rand Corporation, New York, NY

Timothy McBride, PhD
Bernard Becker Professor, Brown School, Co-director, Center for Health Economics and Policy, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO

Frank Opelka, MD
Medical Director, Quality and Health Policy, American College of Surgeons, Former Vice Chancellor for Clinical Affairs, LSU Health Science Center, New Orleans, LA

Seema Parmar, MHA, PhD
Associate Partner and Senior Expert, McKinsey, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Geoff Price, MBA
Chief Operating Officer, Oak Street Health, Chicago, IL

Eric T. Roberts, PhD
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management, Pitt Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Visiting Faculty, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Pittsburgh, PA

Christina Severin, MPH
President and CEO, Community Care Cooperative, Former President and CEO, Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization, Former President of Network Health, Boston, MA

Sangeetha (Chenny) Srinivasan, MVA, PMP, CSM
Senior Manager, Cognizant, Los Angeles, CA

John H. Wasson, MD
Active Emeritus Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Active Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

FEATURED VIDEO FROM 2018 MACRA SUMMIT III
CMS/CMMI MACRA Implementation Update


FEATURING

Gregory Woods, MPA
Acting Deputy Director, Policy and Programs Group, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation; Former Director, Division of Alternative Payment Model Infrastructure; Former Director, Division of Health Plan Innovation, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Baltimore, MD


MACRA SUMMIT CO CHAIRS

Harold D. Miller
President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment RefNorm, Member, Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC), Pittsburgh, PA


John O'Shea, MPA, MD
Senior Fellow, Health Policy, Domestic Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation, Former Visiting Scholar, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, The Brookings Institution, Former Health Policy Advisor, US House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Washington, DC


Kavita Patel, MD
Vice President Payer Provider Integration, Johns Hopkins Health System; Nonresident Senior Fellow Brookings Institution; Member, Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC); Former Director of Policy, The White House (Obama); Former Senior Advisor, Senator Edward Kennedy, Washington, DC


Grace Emerson Terrell, MD, MMM, FACP, FACPE
Chief Executive Officer, Envision Genomics, Member, Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC), Former President and CEO, Cornerstone Health Care, Huntsville, AL

ACO/BUNDLED/MACRA JOINT SESSION CO CHAIRS

Donald H. Crane, JD
President and Chief Executive Officer, America's Physician Groups, Los Angeles, CA


Susan Dentzer
Visiting Fellow, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Analyst on Health Policy, The NewsHour, Former Editor, Health Affairs, Washington, DC

COLLOCATED WITH
TENTH NATIONAL ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATION (ACO) SUMMIT
The Leading Forum on the Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and Related Delivery System and Payment Reform
June 17 - 19, 2019, Grand Hyatt, Washington, DC
www.ACOSummit.com

NINTH NATIONAL BUNDLED PAYMENT SUMMIT
The Leading Forum on the Role of Healthcare Payment Reforms with Special Focus on Bundled Payment Approaches
June 17 - 19, 2019
Grand Hyatt, Washington, DC
www.BundledPaymentSummit.com

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TUITION SCHOLARSHIPS
The MACRA Summit is now offering a limited number of partial and full Tuition Scholarships to qualifying representatives of local, state and federal government, consumer advocate organizations, safety net providers, academics, students and health services research organizations.

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PARTICIPATION OPTIONS
TRADITIONAL ONSITE ATTENDANCE
Simply register, travel to the conference city and attend in person.

Pros: subject matter immersion; professional networking opportunities; faculty interaction



LIVE AND ARCHIVED WEBCAST PARTICIPATION
Watch the conference in live streaming video over the Internet and at your convenience at any time 24/7 for the six months following the event.

The archived conference includes speaker videos and coordinated PowerPoint presentations.

Pros: Live digital feed and 24/7 Internet access for next six months; Accessible in office, at home or anywhere worldwide with Internet access; Avoid travel expense and hassle; No time away from the office





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SUMMIT EXHIBIT & SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION

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SUMMIT REGISTRATION

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