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ARLINGTON VA, USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE™ -- JULY 10, 2026: You are invited to join us for our event: Insights from 12 Years on MedPAC: The Past, Present, and Future of Medicare Reform: A Conversation with Michael Chernew and Demetrios Kouzoukas.
The event features a conversation between Michael Chernew, former MedPAC chair, and Paragon's Demetrios Kouzoukas, former Medicare director.
This event will feature a conversation between Michael Chernew, former chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), and Paragon's Demetrios Kouzoukas, former director of Medicare at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from 2017 to 2021.
MedPAC is a legislative agency that reviews Medicare payment policy to make recommendations to Congress. MedPAC's mission includes assessing Medicare's efficiency, quality, and access, as well as its impact on health care delivery generally. MedPAC's work is widely cited by lawmakers, researchers, and policy analysts in discussions of Medicare reforms.
Join us for a timely and important discussion as Mike and Demetrios draw from their experiences as Medicare leaders to discuss Medicare reforms past, present, and future, including MedPAC's work and how it goes about it, what drives changes to Medicare, and current opportunities for reform.
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FEATURING
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Michael Chernew, PhD
Chair, MedPAC; Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, and Director, Healthcare Markets and Regulation Lab, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA
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INTERVIEWED BY
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Demetrios L. Kouzoukas, JD
Director, Medicare Reform Initiative, Paragon Health Institute; Former Principal Deputy Administrator & Director, Center for Medicare, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Washington, DC
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