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HealthcareWebSummit: Midwestern Healthcare Environment: A Preview for 2012
Overview
The year 2011 seems to be accelerating to its conclusion, but before it ends we want to contemplate what is coming over the horizon for 2012.

If 2010 was about the legislative struggle to push the Affordable Care Act over the finish line, 2011 was about drawing the outlines for its implementation. Next year, states, hospitals, health plans, and private practices will have to pour some foundations if they're going to meet the stringent timetable to create a habitable edifice for the nation's uninsured by 2014.

Granted, the entire law may be overturned by the Supreme Court next year. But even if that happens, the restructuring of the finance and delivery system is likely to carry forward of its own momentum. Employers will continue to demand health insurance benefit designs that put more responsibility on the employee. States will struggle to hold the line on Medicaid expenses. New models in physician payment will seek to mitigate the side-effects of fee-for-service. Will physicians practices try to turn themselves into patient-centered medical homes? Will Medicare succeed in creating an attractive model of accountable care organizations? And will hospitals be able to continue to merge and acquire physician practices even if Congress trims reimbursements further?

Join us on Dec. 9 as we convene a forecasting session with several of the Midwest’s foremost experts on how the private healthcare marketplace will be developing in the near future. It promises to be a lively hour.
 
Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:
  1. Describe the major trends on the horizon for the next 18 months.
  2. Have a sense of the evolution of the private sector health industry regardless whether the Supreme Court invalidates the health reform law.
  3. Learn how key Midwestern states are approaching the reform of Medicaid.
  4. Understand differing perspectives on the CMS proposal for the Medicare shared savings model of accountable care organizations, and the obstacles to its implementation.
  5. Engage in interactive learning through live webinar providing online question submission, attendee surveys, feedback and opportunity for follow up questions, and networking with attendees, faculty and other professionals through dedicated LinkedIn group.
Who Should Attend
Interested attendees would include:
  • C-Suite Executives
  • Legal Regulatory and Policy Executives and Staff
  • Healthcare Researchers, Policymakers and Academics
  • Elected officials and members of their Staff
  • Business Development Executives and Staff
  • Strategy and Planning Executives and Staff
  • Marketing and Business Intelligence Staff
  • Communications Executives and Staff
  • Private Equity Firm Executives and Staff
  • Other Interested Parties

Attendees would represent organizations including:

  • Hospitals and Hospital Systems
  • Provider Networks
  • Medical Groups
  • Health Plans and other Payers
  • Community Clinics and other Safety Net Providers
  • Pharmaceutical Organizations
  • Other Providers
  • Associations, Institutes and Research Organizations
  • State and Local Government Agencies
  • Public Policy Makers
  • Media
  • Other Interested Organizations
Registration
  
Individual Registration Fee: $195. Web Summit CD-ROM: $40 for attendees; $255 for non-attendees after the event. Corporate Site licensing also available. Click here to register or call 209.577.4888 We look forward to your participation in this event!
 
 
  
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