State Coverage Initiatives Annual Meeting for State Officials
Thursday, July 30th
Update from the States
This panel will highlight states that have passed or are implementing new health reform initiatives.
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Moderator:
Enrique Martinez-Vidal
Director, State Coverage Initiatives
Panelists:
Jason Helgerson
Medicaid Director
Wisconsin Department of Health Services
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Executive Associate Director
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Ann Wiebers
Administrator
Financial, Health and Work Supports Division
Iowa Department of Human Services
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Spotlight on
This panel will examine
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Moderator:
Enrique Martinez-Vidal
Director, State Coverage Initiatives
Panelists:
Claudia Black
Governor’s Health Policy Advisor
Office of Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski
Representative Mitch Greenlick
Jeanene Smith
Administrator
Office for
Cory Streisinger
Director
Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services
Additional Resources
Oregon Health Reform Additional Resources Page (listed under "Meeting Details" in shaded box in upper left corner of this page)
Health Insurance in Oregon
The lunch speaker will outline the current efforts to pass federal health reform and its potential impact on states. As a former Medicaid Director, current consultant to several state Medicaid programs, and as an adviser to the Senate Finance Committee, Mr. Milligan is well-positioned analyze the federal-state relationship in the context of comprehensive reform.
Charles Milligan
Executive Director
The Hilltop Institute
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How are their reform efforts progressing? Beyond addressing access and coverage efforts, what specific strategies are they using to control costs and improve quality?
Moderator:
Isabel Friedenzohn
Deputy Director, State Coverage Initiatives
Panelists:
Susan Besio
Director
Office of
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Sarah Iselin
Commissioner
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Additional Resources
Recommendations of the Special Commission on the Health Care Payment System
Session A: Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program: The Case for Increased Outreach and Enrollment Efforts
This panel highlights the enhanced importance of state efforts to enroll eligible populations in public coverage programs. This session will focus on ways to increase enrollment, and the increased incentives for doing so under Children’s Health Insurance Program Authorization Act (CHIPRA), through examples such as express lane eligibility, facilitated enrollment, intensive application assistance, automated eligibility, etc. The session will also examine
Moderator:
Isabel Friedenzohn
Deputy Director, State Coverage Initiatives
Panelists:
Stan Dorn
Senior Research Associate
Urban Institute
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Charles Milligan
Executive Director
The Hilltop Institute
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Session B: Connectors and Insurance Regulation
This session will take a close look at the insurance market reforms that are being proposed at the federal level and the impact of those potential changes on state oversight. It will highlight the connector/exchange model, including the challenges and opportunities of these market-creating mechanisms. The panel will also discuss other regulatory tools a state can use to promote access and affordability in health coverage.
Moderator
Enrique Martinez-Vidal
Director, State Coverage Initiatives
Panelists:
Joshua Goldberg
Health Policy & Legislative Analyst
National Association of Insurance Commissioners
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Christopher Koller
Health Insurance Commissioner
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Amy Lischko
Assistant Professor
Public Health and Family Medicine
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Additional Resources
Rhode Island Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner Rate Factor Review
Rhode Island Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner Affordability Standards
Faulkner, D. et al. Considering a Health Insurance Exchange: Lessons from the Rhode Island Experience, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Coverage Initiatives Program, June 2009.
Fronstin, P. and M. N. Ross. Addressing Health Care Market Reform Through an Insurance Exchange: Essential Policy Components, the Public Plan Option, and Other Issues to Consider, Employee Benefit Research Institute, Issue Brief No. 330, June 2009.
Lischko, A. et al. The Massachusetts Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector: Structure and Functions, The Commonwealth Fund, May 2009.
Merlis, M. A Health Insurance Exchange: Prototypes and Design Issues, National Health Policy Forum, June 5, 2009.
Care Coordination and Payment Reform
There is growing consensus that enhanced primary care and better care coordination will improve quality and decrease costs. This session will look at how states are experimenting with new health care delivery models, including enhanced care coordination, medical homes and accountable care organizations, to send the right payment signals to promote a higher value health system.
Moderator:
Shelly Ten Napel
Senior Associate, State Coverage Initiatives
Panelists:
Deborah Bachrach
Medicaid Director and Deputy Commissioner
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John Bertko
Visiting Scholar, Brookings Institution
Adjunct Staff, RAND
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Sandeep Wadhwa
Medicaid Director and Chief Medical Officer
Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing
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Friday, July 31st
Session A: Research & Evaluation of State Reforms
Staff from the State Health Access Reform Evaluation (SHARE) program will give an overview of evaluations underway across the country. This session will also include information about evaluations of specific health reforms.
Moderator:
Anne Bulchis
Associate, State Coverage Initiatives
Panelists:
Elizabeth Lukanen
Deputy Director
State Health Access Reform & Evaluation (SHARE) program
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Asher Mikow
Research Analyst
The Hilltop Institute
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Mari Spaulding-Bynon
Insure New Mexico Bureau Chief
New Mexico Human Services Department
Session B: Public Health in Health Reform
This session will examine how states are working to coordinate public health and health care delivery and financing reform efforts to move health reform in a more efficient and concerted manner.
Moderator:
Isabel Friedenzohn
Deputy Director, State Coverage Initiatives
Panelists:
Cara McNulty
State Health Improvement Director
Minnesota Department of Health
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Edward Miller
Senior Vice President, Public Policy
American Lung Association of
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States recognize that in order to pay for quality, they need to get better at measuring it. This session will examine the tools states are using, such as all-payer data bases and patient registries, as well as multi-stakeholder consensus development processes to establish measurement standards. Speakers will also address how states are grappling with the question of how and when to make data public and how the HIT provisions in ARRA can help states to increase transparency and accountability within the health system.
Moderator:
Shelly Ten Napel
Senior Associate, State Coverage Initiatives
Panelists:
Andy Allison
Executive Director
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Christine Shannon
Bureau Chief
Office of Medicaid Business and Policy
New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
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Suanne Singer
Senior Consultant
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Funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 presents a strategic opportunity for states to take leadership in the area of Health Information Technology by linking new federal funding to health reform goals related to medical homes, health information exchange, and transparency. Speakers will address how states can position themselves to leverage this unprecedented federal investment.
Moderator:
Enrique Martinez-Vidal
Director, State Coverage Initiatives
Panelists:
Anthony Rodgers
Director
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Ree Sailors
Program Director
National Governors Association
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Our hands-on technical assistance is confidential, non-partisan, and supported by RWJF, so there is no cost to the state.
