NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Healthcare leaders from across the country are coming together today in New York for the full-day conference, Driving Transformation in Medicaid: Putting Policy Into Practice. Sponsored by Treo Solutions, this free program, which runs from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the Cornell Club, examines the successes and challenges of innovative statewide, national, and regional efforts to improve the care of Medicaid beneficiaries.
Since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, states have become the laboratories for healthcare delivery system change. Treo Solutions, a leading provider of healthcare data analytics and business intelligence and the essential partner for anticipating and managing change in healthcare, is working with states to help them transform their Medicaid payment and delivery systems.
The program features:
Keynote Presentation: Current Medicaid Landscape
Sara
Rosenbaum, JD, Founding Chair of the Department of Health Policy at
George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
Featured Presentation: States as a Laboratory for Change
Alan
Weil – Executive Director, National Academy for State Health Policy
– National State Policy Perspective, and Courtney Burke – New
York Deputy Secretary for Health – State Specific View
Goals and Challenges of Current State Innovation Models
Industry
Expert Panelists: Joan Henneberry – Principle, Health
Management Associates; Ingram Haley, Chief Financial Officer,
Alabama Hospital Association; and Marni Bussel – SIM Project
Director, Iowa Medicaid Enterprise
All Payer Claims Databases and Data Democracy in Support of
Transformation
Plenary Speaker: Patrick Miller –
Co-chair, APCD Council and Research Associate Professor at the
University of NH
Industry Expert Panelists: Edie Sonn
– Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, CIVHC (Center for Improving
Value in Health Care, Colorado); John Freedman – Principal,
Freedman Healthcare, LLC; and Colleen M. Florio, PhD, Director of
Care Management Initiatives & Evaluation, Adirondack Health Institute
New Models of Care for Integrating the High-Cost Dual Eligible
Population
Plenary Speaker: John Baackes –
President of VIP Plans, Amerihealth Caritas
Industry Expert
Panelists: John Burke – Regional Chief Operating Officer, Wellcare
Health Plans; Michael Birnbaum – VP, Medicaid Institute, United
Hospital Fund; and James Luciano, M.D. - Vice President for
Medical Affairs CenterLight Health Systems
Identifying and Managing Super Utilizers
Plenary Speaker:
Greg Allen – Director of the Division of Financial
Planning and Policy, New York State Department of Health
Industry
Expert Panelists: Lisa Dulsky Watkins, MD – Associate Director,
Vermont Blueprint for Health; Dr. Allen Dobson, CEO Community
Care of North Carolina; and Herb Fillmore – Vice President of
Strategic Innovation, Treo Solutions
For more information, visit http://www.treosolutions.com/medicaid/.
About Treo Solutions
Since 2002, Treo Solutions has been driving transformation in healthcare through alignment, collaboration, and transparency, leveraging enhanced data to deliver value. Treo’s highly scalable tools, optimized claims database of over 45-million covered lives, and expertise in collaborative care logistics enables clients to make value-informed decisions to create new risk-sharing and total cost-of-care models. Treo’s focused experience and agility allows clients to anticipate—and rapidly react to—a constantly changing market.
