General Sessions
Monday, September 19, 3:30p.m. -
5:30 p.m.
Opening General Session:
Better Care/Better Health/Better Value
AMGA Board Chair Scott D. Hayworth, M.D.,
Chief Executive Officer, Mount Kisco Medical
Group; Donald W. Fisher,
Ph.D., CAE, President and Chief Executive
Officer, AMGA; and Richard J.
Gilfillan, M.D., Acting Director of the
Center for Medicare and Medicaid
Innovation
This
kick-off presentation will frame the meeting
with a discussion of the
future of high-performing care organizations,
alternate routes to
becoming an ACO, the evolution of value-based
care in your region, and
strategies for maintaining quality care in a
time of looming Medicare
cuts and other financial
challenges.
Upon completion of this
activity, participants should be able to
discuss various ACO models in
the commercial sector and other models of
value-based care, and
delineate financial strategies to combat
dwindling reimbursement.
Tuesday, September 20,
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
General Session: Models
of Integration - An Explorative Panel
Moderator: AMGA Board Chair Elect Robert
E. Nesse, M.D., Chief
Executive Officer, Mayo Clinic Health
System
Panelists: Howard Graman, M.D.,
Chair Primary Care and Regional Medicine,
Carilion Clinic (physician-led
model); Grace Terrell, M.D., Chief Executive
Officer, Cornerstone
(regional ACO model); Richard Fish, Chief
Executive Officer, Brown &
Toland (IPA model); and Robert Matthews,
Executive Director, PriMed
Physicians (standalone model)
This
panel will explore various
models of accountable care organizations and
the leadership required to
manage the challenges and opportunities each
presents.
Upon
completion of this activity, participants
should be able to evaluate
various models for ACOs and determine which
would best suit their
organization.
Tuesday, September 20,
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
General Session: 2011
Acclaim Award Winner
This session will
feature the presentation of the 2011 Acclaim
Award, AMGA's most
prestigious quality award, presented annually
by the American Medical
Group Foundation, honoring physician-directed
organizations that bring
the American healthcare system closer to a
delivery model in which
patients experience care that is safer, more
reliable, more responsive,
more integrated, and more readily available.
The recipient will then
explore their winning initiative and the
elements that made it
successful.
Upon completion of this
activity, participants should
be able to describe a system-wide quality
improvement initiative that
uses the IOM aims as guidance.
Wednesday, September 21,
10:00 a.m. -12:00 a.m.
General Session:
Partnerships with Payers and Providers to Create
High-Performing Systems of
Care
Moderator: Donald W.
Fisher, Ph.D., CAE, AMGA President and Chief
Executive Officer
Panelists: William Chin, M.D., Executive
Medical Officer HealthCare
Partners LLC, Sherif Abdou, M.D., President
and Chief Executive Officer,
HealthCare Partners Nevada, and Ernie
Schwefler, Regional Vice
President, Network Management & HMO
Strategy, Anthem Blue Cross; Kenneth
C. Wilson, M.D., M.S., AVP-Clinical Affairs,
Norton Healthcare Physician
Services, and Marcia Guida James, M.S.,
M.B.A., CPC, Director of Network
Relation- Provider Engagement,
Humana
Plan representatives will discuss ongoing ACO
pilots with their medical
group partners, including the benefits,
challenges, and lessons learned
to encourage other medical groups to form
these partnerships.
Upon completion of this activity,
participants should be able to
describe various value-based ACO pilots being
developed by insurers.