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SUMMARY:The Alliance Annual Meeting High-Value Health Care: The Intersection of Quality and Cost
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS AVAILABLE TO WATCH ON-DEMAND.\nThe health care industry is changing rapidly. However\, employers are uniquely positioned to positively influence the quality and cost of health care through disruptive purchasing strategies. \nDiscover the roadmap to high-quality health using four key sources that leverage an employer’s health care purchasing choices. You’ll also learn how The Alliance is adopting a strategic framework focusing on high-value health care. \nEvent Recording:\n\n \nAdditional Resources:\n\nFour Core Drivers of High-Value Health Care\nThe Roadmap to High-Value Care\n\nAt this event attendees learned:\n\nThe four key sources of employer leverage to obtain high-value health care.\nAccessing quality and cost data to aid in making better health care choices.\nCreating financial incentives to steer your enrollees to high-value providers.\nProvider network design and how you can use it to provide quality care at a fair cost.\nHow alternative models of provider payment can align with better health outcomes.\n\n\n\n\nAgenda\n\n\n\n8:00 – 8:30 a.m.\nRegistration & Breakfast\n\n\n8:30 a.m. – 8:35 a.m.\nWelcome & Opening Remarks\nCheryl DeMars\, President and CEO\, The Alliance\n\n\n8:35 – 8:45 a.m.\nAnnual Business Meeting\n\n\nBoard Chair Remarks\nLarry Pribyl\, The Alliance Board Chair\nCFO\, Trachte Building Systems\n\n\nTreasurer’s Report\nPaul Meyer\, Alliance Board Treasurer\nChief Operating Officer\, The Alliance\n\n\nCEO’s Report\nCheryl DeMars\, President & CEO\, The Alliance\n\n\n8:45 – 9:45 a.m.\nEffective Value-Based Payment Strategies\nSuzanne Delbanco\, Ph.D.\, Catalyst for Payment Reform\n\n\n9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.\nNetworking & Sponsorship Showcase Break\n\n\n10:00 – 10:15 a.m.\nThe Roadmap to High-Value Care\nCheryl DeMars\, The Alliance\n\n\n10:15 – 10:45 a.m.\nNavigating Provider Network Innovation and Payment Reform\nKyle Monroe\, The Alliance\n\n\n10:45 – 11:45 a.m.\nData as the Compass for Customization and Transparency\nMelina Kambitsi\, Ph. D.\, The AllianceAlliance Member Case Studies\nJeremy Ott\, Vice President\, Health Insurance Economics\, WPS\nDan Ludwig\, Director of Benefits and Safety\, Brakebush Brothers\n\n\n11:45 a.m.\nClosing Comments & Adjourn\nCheryl DeMars\n\n\n\nThis event has been approved for two (2) CE credits for licensed health insurance brokers in Wisconsin & Illinois\, as well as two (2) credits for HR professionals via HRCI & SHRM.
URL:https://the-alliance.org/event/the-alliance-annual-meeting/
LOCATION:Monona Terrace\, 1 John Nolen Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Alliance Annual Seminar: Finding the Value in High-Value Primary Care
DESCRIPTION:Do you believe as an employer that your employees are receiving high-value primary care? At this event\, we will explore what primary care is\, how to incorporate value into high-value primary care and why you as an employer should invest in changing health care where it starts. \nWatch Dr. Manchanda’s TEDx Talk:\n\nAttend The Alliance’s Annual Seminar and: \n\nNetwork with over 300 professionals interested in self-funded health benefits.\nHear from a panel of local employers seeking ways to improve primary care through onsite or near-site workplace clinics.\nLearn who won the 5th annual Health Transformation Awards.\nEarn two continuing education credits.\nReceive a free warm breakfast.\nMeet local health benefits vendors who can help you with your health care benefits.\n\nLearning Objectives:  \n\nWhat is included in primary care?\nWhat does the ‘Upstream Effect’ mean?\nSocial determinants of health that make people sick in the first place\nExamples of onsite clinics and different ways employers are adding value\n\n\nPresentations \n\nMoving Upstream: A science-based approach to dramatically improve health and lower costs for employees\, Rishi Manchanda MD MPH\n\nAdditional Materials \n\nAgenda & Speaker \n\nDo you know someone who is moving health care forward?\nNominate them for a Health Transformation Award.  \n\n 
URL:https://the-alliance.org/event/the-alliance-annual-seminar-finding-the-value-in-high-value-primary-care/
LOCATION:Monona Terrace\, 1 John Nolen Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Alliance Annual Meeting: Keeping a Lid on Specialty Rx Costs
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS AVAILABLE TO WATCH ON-DEMAND.\nSpecialty pharmacy has consistently been one of the top three health care cost drivers in recent years. To counter that trend\, employers should act now to control when and how they offer specialty pharmaceuticals to enrollees. Market consolidation is expected to trim employers’ options\, making it more important than ever to carefully craft your specialty strategies. This event will identify the top challenges in managing pharmacy benefits and offer tactics for addressing them. \nLearn from the movers and shakers in the pharmaceutical industry as they give you an overview of what’s driving the rapidly rising cost of pharmaceuticals.Speakers include: \nAlex Jung\, managing director\, Parthenon-EY\nAlex Jung is a managing director in the Parthenon-EY practice of Ernst & Young LLP\, where she works primarily on strategic transformation projects. Jung has worked with many health care and life sciences companies across the country and has developed and implemented large-scale plan design and funding strategies such as the introduction of innovative consumer-driven health care plans\, health savings accounts and health improvement initiatives\, including onsite pharmacies and clinics for her former clients. \nJung led corporate strategy at Walgreens and has performed work on several large-scale transactions\, mergers and acquisitions\, including the divestiture of Walgreens’ pharmacy benefit manager\, acquisition of AllianceBoots and other assets. She has been quoted in numerous articles in the Chicago Tribune\, Business Insurance\, Workforce Management magazine\, Crain’s Chicago Business and other industry publications. \nShe is a regular speaker at events such as the California Governor’s Women’s Conference\, World Health Care Congress\, Midwest Business Group on Health\, Crain’s Annual Health Care Conference\, the Benefits Management Expo\, the Self-Insurance Institute of America National Conference\, John Marshall Law School and the Human Resources Management Association of Chicago\, where she serves as chair for the Total Rewards Interest Group. \nBrenda Motheral\, CEO\, Archimedes\nOver the last 20 years\, Dr. Motheral has held executive leadership positions in research\, product development and strategy in the pharmacy benefit and population health management industry. Her work has focused on leveraging data analytics for cost containment and quality of care initiatives\, identifying and designing new clinical programs\, and implementing large health services programs. Dr. Motheral has worked with more than 30 plan sponsors in the last two years on the analysis\, design and implementation of specialty drug solutions. She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed manuscripts and has received national research awards from the Academy for Managed Care Pharmacy and the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research. Dr. Motheral holds a Ph.D. focused in Health Economics from The University of South Carolina\, a master of business administration degree and a bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from The University of Kentucky. \nIn 2016\, Dr. Motheral founded and became the CEO of Archimedes. She previously held the position of co-founder and president of Artemetrx and was the executive director of Pharmacy Benefit Management Institute as well as held leadership management positions at Healthways and Express Scripts. \nCheryl Larson\, president & CEO\, MBGH\nCheryl Larson is president and CEO of the Midwest Business Group on Health\, a non-profit organization of over 130 mid to jumbo\, self-funded\, regional and multi-state\, public and private employers. Coalition activities include educational programs\, health benefits research\, benchmarking and community-based initiatives focused on increasing the value of health benefits and health care services to MBGH Members – represented by human resources\, health benefits and health care professionals. \nShe oversees all coalition activities including advocacy\, membership\, administration\, research projects and educational activities\, working closely with MBGH’s employer-led Board of Directors to establish the strategic direction of the coalition. Larson joined MBGH in 1983 as the director of membership development\, returning in 2006 as vice president after spending 10 years with a population health management company. \nLarson leads MBGH’s National Employer Initiative on Specialty Drugs\, the first major purchaser-driven research project that supports employers in managing the higher costs of biologic and specialty drugs by helping them make critical and informed decisions. She is a nationally-recognized speaker on employer best practices in managing specialty drugs\, value based benefit design\, wellness\, wellbeing\, consumerism\, engagement and benefit communications. \nWayne Salverda\, R.Ph.\, Senior Director of Clinical Services\, National CooperativeRx\nWayne Salverda is responsible for the development\, evaluation\, recommendation and monitoring of pharmacy benefit management (PBM) clinical programs and initiatives. He is available as a clinical resource to members as well as staff. This often includes meeting with Cooperative members to review reports and provide plan design consultation. Wayne is a licensed pharmacist with more than 20 years of pharmacy experience including PBM\, managed care and retail pharmacy markets. \nAgenda: \n\n\n\n7:45 – 8:15 a.m.\nRegistration\, Breakfast & Sponsorship Showcase\n\n\n8:15 – 8:20 a.m.\nWelcome & Opening Remarks\, Cheryl DeMars\n\n\n8:20 – 9:20 a.m.\nSpecialty Pharmacy Trends\, Alex Jung\n\n\n9:20 – 9:55 a.m.\nAnnual Meeting Business Presentation\n\n\n9:55 – 10:10 a.m.\nNetworking & Sponsorship Showcase Break\n\n\n10:10 – 11:10 a.m.\nBiosimilars\, Brenda Motheral\n\n\n11:10 – 11:40 p.m.\nThe Need to Transform Pharmacy Benefits: Challenges and Strategies\, Cheryl Larson\n\n\n11:40 – 12 p.m.\nIndependent Clinical Expertise and PBM Partnership Key to Managing Specialty Pharmacy\, Wayne Salverda\n\n\n12 p.m.\nClosing Comments & Adjourn\, Cheryl DeMars\n\n\n\nPresentations:  \n\n2018 Annual Business Meeting: Board Report\nAmerican Patients First\, Alex Jung\, Parthenon – EY\nThe Need to Transform Pharmacy Benefits – Challenges and Strategies\, Cheryl Larson\, MBGH\nIndependent Clinical Expertise and PBM Partnership – Key to Managing Specialty Pharmacy\, Wayne Salverda\, R.Ph\, National CooperativeRx\n\nAdditional Resources: \n\n\n\nAgenda and Speaker Bios\nAnnual Report Summary\nThe Value of Biosimilars\, National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions\n2017 Annual Meeting Minutes\n\n\n\n  \nWatch the Presentations:\nAmerican Patients First: Policy Overview of Trump Administration’s Drug Cost Policy Plan\nAlex Jung\, Parthenon-EY\n \nRelated Blog Posts\n\nSpecialty Drugs\, Biosimilars And Your Benefit Plan\nDrug Price Blueprint: The Likely Impact\n\n\nThank you to our sponsors:
URL:https://the-alliance.org/event/alliance-annual-business-meeting/
LOCATION:Monona Terrace\, 1 John Nolen Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Alliance Annual Seminar 2018
DESCRIPTION:Diagnosing An American Sickness: What Employers and Patients Can Do to Take Back Health Care\nAttend our biggest event of the year and hear from best-selling author\, Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal\, who has diagnosed what ails American health care. In this half-day event you will hear from two powerful women who offer advice about how to treat the American sickness in health care. You will also get the chance to see who has made a difference in moving health care forward as the 4th annual Health Transformation Awards are presented. \nImpactful quotes from Dr. Rosenthal’s book\, An American Sickness:\n“The mission of this book is to advocate for a return to a system of affordable\, evidence-based\, patient-centered care.” \n“….The chief complaint:  Hugely expensive medical care that doesn’t reliably deliver quality results.” \n “High-priced healthcare is America’s sickness and we are all paying\, being robbed.”  \n *All attendees will receive a copy of the book with a chance to get it signed by Dr. Rosenthal.  \nAttendees will have the opportunity to learn more about:  \n\nHow health care became monetized to the maximum without regard to health\nEconomic rules that helped health care become a dysfunctional medical market\nHow billed prices became decoupled from actual costs\nWhy medicine as a business cannot police itself\nThe impact of consolidation\nA roadmap for us to fight back economically and systematically\nHow electronic health records have evolved to put business over patients\nExamples on how to implement centers of excellence into your plan design\nHow health care can improve due to employers getting together and pushing back\n\nAgenda: \n\n\n\n8 – 8:30 a.m.\nRegistration\, Breakfast & Exhibit Hall\n\n\n8:30 – 8:35 a.m.\nWelcome & Opening Remarks\, Cheryl DeMars\n\n\n8:35 – 9:00 a.m.\n4th Annual Health Transformation Awards Ceremony\n\n\n9:00 – 10:00 a.m.\nAn American Sickness\, Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal\n\n\n10 – 10:25 a.m.\nExhibit & Networking Break\n\n\n10:25 – 11:25 a.m.\nEmployers as Super-Heroes of Health Benefits\, Sally Welborn\n\n\n11:25 – 11:30 a.m.\nClosing Remarks & Adjourn\, Cheryl DeMars\n\n\n\nHealth Transformation Awards:\nThe Alliance Board of Directors will present the 4th annual Health Transformation Awards to individuals and organizations who are driving change in health care.
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SUMMARY:The Alliance Annual Meeting - Breaking the Myths of Health Care
DESCRIPTION:The Alliance is debunking common health care myths to help employers manage health care costs. \nJoin us and you’ll learn: \n\nWhy many medical myths aren’t true even though the research says so.\nExamples of ideas to incorporate in the workplace to eliminate many health care myths that may result in savings for employers.\nHealth policy taxing implications for employers\nIf repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act will have an impact on self-funded employers\n\nSpeakers\nAaron Carroll\, MD\nDr. Aaron Carroll\, Professor of Pediatrics and Associate at Indiana University School of Medicine will present Myths\, Lies and Misconceptions: \nWe’ve all heard the one about a dog’s mouth being cleaner than a human’s. That’s a myth\, says Dr. Aaron Carroll. “A dog’s mouth isn’t cleaner than a human’s – humans don’t use their tongues as toilet paper.” People have more access to health care information than ever before\, yet we still believe “facts” about health care that are just plain wrong. Dr. Carroll will take on these myths\, misconceptions and expose the truth behind what we think. The truth and good information are pertinent in today’s turbulent health care environment. This talk has been featured on Good Morning America\, The Dr. Oz Show\, CNN\, The New York Times\, USA Today and more. \nJames Gelfand\nJames Gelfand\, Senior Vice President\, Health Policy\, The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) will present Myths vs. Facts on Employer Sponsored Health Care Coverage. \nAGENDA\n8 – 8:30 a.m.                Registration & Breakfast \n8:30 – 8:35 a.m.            Welcome & Opening Remarks\, Cheryl DeMars \n8:35 – 9:35 a.m.            Myths\, Lies & Misconceptions in Health Care\, Dr. Aaron Carroll \n9:35 – 10:00 a.m.          Annual Meeting Business  \n10 – 10:25 a.m.             Networking Break  \n10:25 – 11:25 a.m.        Myths vs. Facts on Employer Sponsored Healthcare Coverage\, James Gelfand\, The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) \n11:25 – 11:30 a.m.        Closing Comments & Adjourn \n  \nRelated Blog Posts\n\nEmployer-Sponsored Health Care Coverage: Myth Vs. Facts\nWhy Trust Vs. Myth Really Mattes in Health Care
URL:https://the-alliance.org/event/alliance-annual-meeting-breaking-myths-health-care/
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