Read a blog post recapping the event here.

Healthcare lawyers and consultants must keep up with a dizzying array of changes in the healthcare system to best serve their clients. Inside the Beltway, major budget cuts, regulatory overhauls and reform efforts are moving forward at unprecedented speeds, producing widespread, inevitable and rapid changes to the U.S. health care marketplace. This policy conference, a precursor to the Payors, Plans and Managed Care Law Institute on December 6-7, laid out the groundwork for business decisions and legal analysis around health industry transformation-both nationwide and local-and offer essential insights from experienced Congressional and policy experts.

• If Congress cannot reach agreement on a deficit reduction package, what should the healthcare community expect in terms of reductions from sequestration?
• What are the most likely consequences for health plans, hospitals, and healthcare professionals from the cuts required under sequestration?
• What will be the impact on states of additional Medicaid cuts combined with implementation of the insurance market reforms required by the Affordable Care Act?
• What will happen when the continuing resolution expires on December 16th?
• Will Congress intervene to lessen the impact of sequestration on entitlements or defense?

Featuring

Sheila Burke
Health Project Co-chair, BPC

Bill Hoagland
Vice President, Public Policy, CIGNA

Paul Keckley
Executive Director, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions

H. Scott Sarran
Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois

Agenda

1:00-1:15 pm Welcome and Overview

Julie Barnes, Esq.
Director of Health Policy, Bipartisan Policy Center

1:15-1:45 pm State of Health System Transition and the Illinois Insurance Marketplace

Paul Keckley, PhD
Executive Director, Deloite for Health Solutions

1:45-2:30 pm Federal Healthcare Battles for the Healthcare Industry

• Sheila Burke, RN, MPA, FAAN

Senior Public Policy Advisor, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, Faculty, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

• William Hoagland

Vice President, Public Policy & Government Affairs, CIGNA

2:30-3:30 pm The Future of Health System Transformation

• H. Scott Sarran, MD, MM

Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBSIL)

• Lee B. Sacks, MD

Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer Advocate Health Care Chief Executive Officer, Advocate Physician Partners

3:30-5:00 pm State Impact of Health Insurance Market Reforms

• Julie Barnes, Esq. (Moderator)
  Director of Health Policy, Bipartisan Policy Center
• Kate Rose, MPH
  Special Deputy Director for Health Planning and Reform Implementation Illinois Department of Insurance
• Mike Koetting, MA, PhD (invited)
  Deputy-Director for Planning & Reform Implementation, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services
• Piper Nieters Su, Esq.
  Of Counsel, Health Care, DLA Piper

5:00-6:00 pm Reception

Read the press release here.

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