Press Release: Second Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Summit on Health Care Pricing, Cost & Quality Transparency Features Hospital Best Practices; Draft Brochure Available

A Hybrid Conference and Internet Event

The Leading Forum on Health Care Price, Cost, and Quality Transparency

Sponsored by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Media Partners: Harvard Health Policy Review and Health Affairs

March 16 - 18, 2015

Onsite at Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC

Online in Your Own Office or Home Live via the Internet with 24/7 Access for Six Months

www.HCTransparencySummit.com

PRESS RELEASE
Phone: 800-503-0078
Email: registration@hcconferences.com
Website: www.HCTransparencySummit.com

DRAFT SUMMIT BROCHURE
NOW AVAILABLE

Click here for draft Transparency Summit brochure.

SPONSORED BY

BEST PRACTICES IN HOSPITAL TRANSPARENCY AND PATIENT COMMUNICATIONS BY

Joseph Fifer, FHFMA, CPA
President and Chief Executive Officer, Healthcare Financial Management Association, Former Vice President-Hospital Finance, Spectrum Health, Westchester, IL

Melinda (Mindy) Reid Hatton, Esq.
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, American Hospital Association, Former Antitrust Counsel, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business Rights, Judiciary Committee, US Senate, Washington, DC

Peter Leibold, Esq.
Chief Advocacy Officer, Ascension Health, Former Chief Executive Officer, American Health Lawyers Association, Washington, DC

Jeffrey G. Micklos, Esq.
EVP Management, Compliance and General Counsel, Federation of American Hospitals, Former Attorney, Health Care Financing Division, Office of General Counsel, DHHS, Washington, DC

Doris Peter, PhD
Director, Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center, Principal Investigator, Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs, Washington, DC

WASHINGTON DC USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE™ -- DECEMBER 18, 2014: The Second National Summit on Health Care Price, Cost and Quality Transparency, www.HCTransparencySummit.com, will be held March 16 - 18, 2015 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. The Summit will be offered both onsite and live and archived for 6 months over the Internet.

SECOND NATIONAL SUMMIT ON HEALTH CARE PRICE, COST AND QUALITY TRANSPARENCY

March 16 - 18, 2015

ATTEND ONSITE
Omni Shoreham Hotel
Washington, DC

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

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Patrick Conway, MD, MSc
Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Quality, Chief Medical Officer, Director, CMMI and Director, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, CMS, DHHS, Baltimore, MD

Kevin Counihan, MBA
Marketplace CEO and Director, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, DHHS, Former CEO, Connecticut Health Insurance Exchange, Former President, Choice Administrators Exchange Solutions, Washington, DC

Tom Daschle
Founder and Chairman, The Daschle Group, A Public Policy Advisory of Baker Donelson, Former Senator (D/SD) and Majority Leader, United States Senate, Washington, DC

William Harrison "Bill" Frist, Sr.
Heart and Lung Transplant Surgeon, Former Senator (R/TN) and Majority Leader, United States Senate, Washington, DC

Elisabeth L. Rosenthal, MD
Senior Correspondent, New York Times, Author, Paying Till it Hurts Series, New York, NY

LEADING GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES

Barbara Anthony, MA, JD Undersecretary, Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs & Business Regulation, Former Regional Director, Northeast Regional Office, FTC, Former Chief, Public Protection Bureau, MA AG's Office, Boston, MA	Niall Brennan, MPP Chief Data Officer, Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC	Douglas Brown Deputy Director, Data Sharing & Partnership Group, Center for Program Integrity, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, US Department of Health and Human Services, Baltimore, MD
Christine Ferguson, JD Director, Health Insurance Exchange State of Rhode Island, Former Comm, MA Dept of Public Health, Former Dir, RI Dept of Human Services, Providence, RI	Tim Gronniger, MPP, MHSA Senior Adviser for Health Care Policy, White House Domestic Policy Council, Washington, DC	Mila Kofman, JD Executive Director, Washington, DC Health Benefit Exchange, Research Professor and Project Director, Health Policy Institute, Georgetown University and Former Maine Superintendent of Insurance, Washington, DC
Richard Kronick, PhD Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Office of Health Policy, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC	Peter V. Lee, JD Executive Director, California Health Benefit Exchange, Former Director of Delivery System Reform, Office of Health Reform, The White House, Former Chief Executive Officer, PBGH, San Francisco, CA	Carolyn A. Quattrocki, JD Executive Director, Maryland Health Benefit Exchange, Former Executive Director, Maryland Governor's Office of Health Care Reform, Annapolis, MD

Jocelyn Samuels, Esq.
Director, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), US Department of Health and Human Services, Former Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC

Lucia Savage, Esq.
Chief Privacy Officer, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, US Department of Health and Human Services; Former Senior Associate General Counsel, UnitedHealthcare, Former General Counsel, Pacific Business Group on Health, Washington, DC

FEATURING PLENARY SESSIONS

Framing Transparency: What is it and What has Changed in the last Year?

Consumer Transparency Imperatives

Update on CMS Transparency Initiatives: What's Ahead?

Best Practices in Providing Cost Information

Best Practices in Providing Quality Information

Designing Benefits and Payment to Complement Cost and Quality Transparency

Best Practices in Hospitals in Transparency and Patient Financial Communications

The Future in Healthcare Transparency

AND THE FOLLOWING BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Federal Action: Price and Transparency

States at the Forefront on Price and Quality Transparency

Transparency and States Insurance Exchanges

Consumer Awareness and Use of Cost & Quality Information

Physician and Patients: New Models of Communication

Open Notes: Open Notes: Communicating and Engaging with Fully Transparent Medical Records

Best Practices in Hospital and Health System Transparency

Transparency within Narrow Networks

Are Privacy and Transparency on a Collision Course

Physician Sunshine Act: What You Need to Know

Building a Business around Cost and Quality Transparency

FEATURED FACULTY

Maya A. Babu, MD, MBA Member, Board of Trustees, American Medical Association, Neurosurgery Resident, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN	Peter Beilenson, MD, MPH President and Chief Executive Officer, Evergreen Health Coop, Former Health Commissioner, Baltimore City Health Department, Baltimore, MD	Leah Binder President & Chief Executive Officer, The Leapfrog Group, Washington, DC
Jim Chase, MHA President, MN Community Measurement, Minneapolis, MN	Sabrina Corlette, JD Senior Research Fellow and Project Director, Center on Health Insurance Reforms, Georgetown University, Washington, DC	Donna R. Cryer, JD Chief Executive Officer, CryerHealth, Washington, DC
Stephen J. Downs, SM Chief Technology and Information Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Former Director of the Technology Opportunities Program (TOP), National Telecommunications and Information Administration, US Department of Commerce, Princeton, NJ	Andrea M. Ducas, MPH Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Former Associate, Center for Family Representation (CFR), Princeton, NJ	Peter H. Elias, MD Family Physician, Family Health Care Associate, Lewiston, ME
Joseph Fifer, FHFMA, CPA President and Chief Executive Officer, Healthcare Financial Management Association, Former Vice President-Hospital Finance, Spectrum Health, Westchester, IL	Walton Francis, MPA, MPP, MS Author, Checkbook's Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees, Consumers' Checkbook, Washington, DC	Dominick L. Frosch, PhD Fellow, Patient Care, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Palo Alto, CA
Martha "Meg" Gaines, JD, LLM Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Experiential Learning, Director, Center for Patient Partnership (CPP), University of Wisconsin, Law School, Madison, WI	Natasha Gajewski Founder and Creative Director, Symple Health, New York, NY	Emmy Ganos, PhD Program Associate, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ
Claire B. Gibbons, MPH, PhD Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ	Richard L. Gundling, FHFMA, CMA Vice President Healthcare Financial Practices, Healthcare Financial Management Association, Washington, DC	William E. Gerardi, MD, MBA Senior Vice President, Health Management, and Chief Medical Officer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Eagan, MN
Melinda (Mindy) Reid Hatton, Esq. Senior Vice President and General Counsel, American Hospital Association, Former Antitrust Counsel, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business Rights, Judiciary Committee, US Senate, Washington, DC	Katherine Hempstead, PhD Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Former Director, Center for Health Statistics, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Princeton, NJ	Heather Howard, JD Lecturer in Public Affairs and Director, State Health Reform Assistance Network, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
William E. Kramer, MBA Executive Director for National Health Policy, Pacific Business Group on Health, San Francisco, CA	Robert M. Krughoff, JD Founder and President, Consumers' Checkbook, Former Director, Office of Research and Evaluation Planning, US Department of Health and Human Services	Peter Leibold, Esq. Chief Advocacy Officer, Ascension Health, Former Chief Executive Officer, American Health Lawyers Association, Washington, DC
Denise Love, BSN, MBA Executive Director, National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO), Co-chair, All Payer Claims Database Council, Salt Lake City, UT	Renée Martin-Willett Graduate Student, Center for Medicine, Health and Society, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN	Deven McGraw, Esq. Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP, Former Director, Health Privacy Project, Center for Democracy & Technology, Washington, DC
Doug McKeever Chief, Health Policy Research Division, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), Sacramento, CA	Susan R. Mende, BSN, MPH Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Former Co-founded and Vice President for Programs, Tsao Foundation, Princeton, NJ	Jeffrey G. Micklos, Esq. EVP Management, Compliance and General Counsel, Federation of American Hospitals, Former Attorney, Health Care Financing Division, Office of General Counsel, DHHS, Washington, DC
Amy Moore Senior Vice President, Employer Solutions & Product, The Healthcare Bluebook, Former Global Benefits Director, Whole Foods Market, Former Senior Benefits Manager, Dell and Marriott, Nashville, TN	John Murphy, Esq. Assistant General Counsel, PhRMA, Former Senior Director, State Government Relations, Health Policy, Biotechnology Industry Organization, Washington, DC	Charles Ornstein Senior Reporter, ProPublica, Vice President, Association of Health Care Journalists, Awardee, Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, Washington, DC
Tara Oakman, MPP, PhD Program Associate, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Former Director, Quality Team, Exchange Policy and Operations Group, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO), Princeton, NJ	Michael W. Painter, MD, JD Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Former Chief of Medical Staff, Seattle Indian Health Board, Princeton, NJ	Robert C. Pendleton, MD, FACP Chief Medical Quality Officer, University of Utah Health Care, Associate Professor (Clinical), Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Doris Peter, PhD Director, Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center, Principal Investigator, Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs, Washington, DC	Lynn Quincy Associate Director, Health Reform Policy, Consumer's Union, Consumer Representative, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Washington, DC	John J. Reilly, Jr., MD Senior Medical Director of Population Health, UPMC Health Services Division , Jack D. Myers Professor and Chair, University of Pittsburgh Department of Medicine, Pittsburg, PA
Trish Riley, MS Executive Director of the National Academy for State Health Policy, Former Director, Office of Health Policy and Finance, State of Maine, Portland, ME	Mark Rukavina, MBA Principal, Community Health Advisors, LLC, Former Executive Director, The Access Project, Boston, MA	Lewis Sandy, MS, FACP Senior Vice President, Clinical Advancement, United Health Group, Former Executive Vice President, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Minnetonka, MN
Mark Savage, Esq. Director of Health Information Technology Policy and Programs, National Partnership for Women & Families, Former Senior Attorney, Consumers Union, Washington, DC	Jennifer Schneider, MD Chief Medical Officer, Castlight Health, San Francisco, CA	Neel Shah, MD, MPP Founder and Executive Director, Costs of Care, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Obstetrician-Gynecologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Alicia Staley Chief Patient Officer, Akari Health, Co-chair, Tufts Patient and Family Advisory Council, Member, Board of Governors, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA	Caroline Steinberg Vice President Data Trends and Analysis, American Hospital Association, Washington, DC	Janet Trautwein Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, National Association for Health Underwriters, Washington, DC

Peter Ubel, MD Madge and Dennis T. McLawhorn University Professor, Associate Director, Health Sector Management, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, Durham, NC	Janice D. Walker, RN, MBA Co-Director, Open Notes, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Jay Want, MD Principal, Want Healthcare, LLC, Former President and Chief Executive Officer, Physician Health Partners, LLC, Denver, CO	Leana S. Wen, MD, MSc Director, Patient-Centered Care Research, Assistant Professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine & Health Policy, The George Washington University, Washington, DC

DRAFT SUMMIT BROCHURE
NOW AVAILABLE

Click here for draft Transparency Summit brochure.

CO CHAIRS

Susan Dentzer
Senior Policy Adviser, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Policy Analyst, The PBS News Hour, Washington, DC

Anne F. Weiss, MPP
Director, Value in Health and Health Care, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Former Senior Assistant Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Princeton, NJ

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The National Summit on Healthcare Price, Cost and Quality Transparency supported by generous grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Heritage Provider Network is now offering 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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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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SECOND NATIONAL SUMMIT ON HEALTH CARE PRICE, COST AND QUALITY TRANSPARENCY March 16 - 18, 2015
ONSITE Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington, DC	OR	WEBCAST PARTICIPATION In your own office or home live via the Internet with 24/7 access for six months

SUMMIT REGISTRATION

For Summit registration information, visit www.hctransparencysummit.com/registration.php, email registration@hcconferences.com, or call 800-503-0078.

SUMMIT EXHIBIT & SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION

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