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Meetings

Meetings, briefings, and workshops feature speakers from a wide variety of disciplines, experience, and viewpoints, including researchers, practitioners, policymakers, community leaders, consumers, health care industry executives, and purchasers from across the country to provide diversity of perspectives. All sessions are by invitation only; most serve broad audiences, but some sessions are targeted to smaller subsets, including congressional staff or the most senior-level policymakers.

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Forum SessionMarch 12, 2010
Not Your Father's Drug Approval Process: FDAAA and the Evolving Pharmaceutical Marketplace
Manager: Michele J. Orza, ScD

Small-Group SessionMarch 5, 2010
Medicare Fee Schedule: What’s the RUC Got to Do With It?
Manager: Laura A. Dummit

Forum SessionFebruary 26, 2010
Assessing and Ensuring Health Plan Provider Network Adequacy
Manager: Kathryn Linehan

Forum SessionJanuary 14, 2010
Health Information Exchange: Building the Infrastructure for Better Care
Managers: Rob Cunningham, Consultant & Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionDecember 11, 2009
Conflicts of Interest in Medicine II: Issues Surrounding Industry Funding of Physician Education
Manager: Michele J. Orza, ScD

Forum SessionNovember 20, 2009
Children's Mental Health: Prevalence, Illness Burden, and Efforts at Prevention and Early Intervention
Managers: Judith D. Moore & Robert Cunningham, Consultant

Forum SessionNovember 13, 2009
Health Care Provider Consolidation and Reform
Manager: Laura A. Dummit

Forum SessionNovember 6, 2009
Fit for the Job: What Can Workplace Wellness Programs Deliver?
Manager: Kathryn Linehan

Forum SessionOctober 30, 2009
Prevention and Early Detection of Health Care Fraud, Abuse, and Waste
Manager: Mary Ellen Stahlman

Forum SessionOctober 23, 2009
Linking Housing and Supportive Services for the Frail Elderly: Challenges and Opportunities
Manager: Carol V. O'Shaughnessy

Forum SessionOctober 2, 2009
Lessons in Patient Engagement: Motivating Patients to Manage Their Chronic Conditions and Health Care Utilization
Manager: Carol V. O'Shaughnessy

Forum SessionSeptember 18, 2009
Caring for Military Service Members' and Veterans' Psychological Health
Managers: Kathryn Linehan & Jessamy Taylor

Small-Group SessionJuly 24, 2009
Diversifying the Health Policy Workforce: Mentoring
Manager: Judith Miller Jones

Small-Group SessionJuly 17, 2009
Encouraging Cost Reducing Innovations in Health Care: New Technology Apps, New Business Models
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionJuly 10, 2009
Managing Uncertainty: Swine Flu Then and Now
Manager: Michele J. Orza, ScD

Forum SessionJune 26, 2009
Proposals to Reform the Individual Health Insurance Market
Manager: Kathryn Linehan

Forum SessionJune 19, 2009
Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments and Health Care Reform
Manager: Christie Provost Peters

Forum SessionJune 5, 2009
Building the Medical Home: Under Construction in the States
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionMay 29, 2009
High Rehospitalization Rates: Causes, Costs, and Accountability
Manager: Laura A. Dummit

Forum SessionMay 15, 2009
Conflicts of Interest in Medicine: What's the Problem?
Manager: Michele J. Orza, ScD

Special BriefingMay 14, 2009
Resilience and Renaissance: Efforts to Rebuild a Healthier New Orleans - A Pre-Site Visit Briefing
Manager: Michele J. Orza, ScD, and Jessamy Taylor

Small-Group SessionMay 8, 2009
Issues in Health Insurance Reform: Federal/State Regulatory Roles, Subsidy Administration
Manager: Sally Coberly, PhD, and Kathryn Linehan

Forum SessionMay 1, 2009
Great Expectations: Managing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Manager: Laura A. Dummit

Small-Group SessionApril 15, 2009
Issues in Health Insurance Reform: More on Insurance Exchanges
Manager: Sally Coberly, PhD

Forum SessionApril 8, 2009
Health Care-Associated Infections: Is There an End in Sight?
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Small-Group SessionApril 7, 2009
Issues in Health Insurance Reform: Actuarial Equivalence
Manager: Sally Coberly, PhD

Forum SessionApril 3, 2009
Promising Models of Care Coordination for Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Getting Closer to the Holy Grail?
Manager: Carol V. O'Shaughnessy

Forum SessionMarch 27, 2009
Coordinating Care for Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Searching for the Holy Grail
Manager: Carol V. O'Shaughnessy

Small-Group SessionMarch 20, 2009
Issues in Health Insurance Reform: Rating in the Small Group Market, Merging the Individual and Small Group Markets, and Risk Adjustment
Manager: Sally Coberly, PhD

Small-Group SessionMarch 6, 2009
Issues in Health Insurance Reform: Health Insurance Exchanges
Manager: Sally Coberly, PhD

Forum SessionFebruary 27, 2009
Exploring Comparative Effectiveness: Lessons from Across the States and Around the World
Manager: Michele J. Orza, ScD

Small-Group SessionFebruary 19, 2009
Issues in Health Insurance Reform: The Nuts and Bolts of Rating Rules in the Individual Insurance Market
Manager: Sally Coberly, PhD

Fundamentals BriefingFebruary 13, 2009
Comparative Effectiveness: What Is It? Who Does It? And Where Is It Going?
Manager: Michele J. Orza, ScD

Fundamentals BriefingFebruary 6, 2009
Medicaid, Employers, and Medigap: Wrapping Around Medicare
Manager: Mary Ellen Stahlman

Fundamentals BriefingJanuary 30, 2009
The World of Prescription Drugs: Approvals, Pricing, and Purchasing
Managers: Laura A. Dummit & Mary Ellen Stahlman

Fundamentals BriefingJanuary 15–16, 2009
Understanding Medicare and Medicaid: Fundamentals and Issues for the New Congress
Managers: Christie Provost Peters, Jennifer Ryan & Mary Ellen Stahlman

Forum SessionDecember 17, 2008
Exploring Comparative Effectiveness: Options for Expanding U.S. Capacity
Manager: Michele J. Orza, ScD

Forum SessionDecember 11, 2008
Medicare and Medicaid Demonstrations: Experimenting for the Future
Managers: Mary Ellen Stahlman & Jennifer Ryan

Small-Group SessionDecember 3, 2008
Issues in Health Insurance Reform: Underwriting, Rating, and Regulation in the Individual Market
Manager: Sally Coberly, PhD

Small-Group SessionNovember 21, 2008
Preview of RAND Health's COMPARE (Comprehensive Assessment of Reform Efforts) Initiative
Manager: Sally Coberly, PhD

Forum SessionNovember 14, 2008
A Tale of Three Cities: Local Health Care Markets and Health Care Reform
Managers: Laura A. Dummit & Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionNovember 13, 2008
Medical Imaging Services: Utilization, Spending, and Appropriateness
Manager: Laura A. Dummit

Forum SessionNovember 7, 2008
Long-Term Services and Supports: Consumers in Charge—Consumer Direction and Money Follows the Person
Manager: Carol V. O'Shaughnessy

Forum SessionOctober 30, 2008
Exploring Comparative Effectiveness: Fundamentals and Controversies of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Manager: Michele J. Orza, ScD

Forum SessionOctober 28, 2008
Building the Medical Home: Surveying the Floor Plans
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionOctober 3, 2008
Exploring Comparative Effectiveness: Activities of CDC, VA, and CMS to Advance Evidence-Based Health
Manager: Michele J. Orza, ScD

Forum SessionSeptember 26, 2008
Exploring Comparative Effectiveness: Activities of NIH, FDA, and AHRQ to Advance Evidence-Based Health
Manager: Michele J. Orza, ScD

Forum SessionSeptember 19, 2008
Universal Coverage for Children: States Setting the Pace
Managers: Jennifer Ryan & Safiya Mojerie

Small-Group SessionSeptember 10, 2008
Working the System: Filling Jobs During Presidential Transitions
Managers: Judith D. Moore & Safiya Mojerie

Forum SessionAugust 1, 2008
Medicare's Hospice Benefit: In the Spotlight
Manager: Mary Ellen Stahlman

Forum SessionJuly 25, 2008
Exploring Comparative Effectiveness: Fundamentals of Evidence-Based Health and Introduction to the Cochrane Collaboration
Manager: Michele J. Orza, ScD

Forum SessionJuly 11, 2008
State Budget Cuts: How Will Health Care Fare in FY 2009?
Manager: Christie Provost Peters

Forum SessionJune 27, 2008
Building the Medical Home: Evaluating the Blueprints
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionJune 6, 2008
Examining Federal Policy Options to Strengthen and Modernize America's Food Safety System
Manager: Jessamy Taylor

Forum SessionMay 9, 2008
Policies for an Aging America: Looking Beyond the Averages
Manager: Carol V. O'Shaughnessy

Small-Group SessionMay 2, 2008
Physician Income and Medical Practice Differences Across Specialties: Should Medicare Care?
Manager: Laura A. Dummit

Forum SessionApril 25, 2008
State Long-Term Care Strategies: Approaches to Managing Care and Controlling Costs
Manager: Carol V. O'Shaughnessy

Forum SessionApril 11, 2008
Employer Use of Medicare Private Fee-for-Service Plans as a Retiree Health Benefit
Manager: Mary Ellen Stahlman

Small-Group SessionMarch 20, 2008
Reauthorization of the U.S. Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003: Where Have We Been? Where Do We Go Next?
Manager: Michele J. Orza, ScD

Forum SessionMarch 14, 2008
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise? Examining the Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Health
Manager: Jessamy Taylor

Forum SessionMarch 7, 2008
The Physician Group Practice Demo: Where Do We Take What We've Learned?
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Fundamentals BriefingFebruary 21–22, 2008
Insurance 101: The Fundamentals of Private Health Insurance
Manager: Sally Coberly, PhD

Forum SessionJanuary 17, 2008
Running Up the Health Care Tab: Will We Have Buyer's Remorse?
Managers: Mary Ellen Stahlman & Christie Provost Peters

Forum SessionJanuary 11, 2008
Health Care Safety Net Innovators: Forging Ahead, Though Challenges Persist
Manager: Jessamy Taylor

Forum SessionDecember 14, 2007
The Ethics in Patient Referrals Act: The Stark Law and the Practice of Medicine
Manager: Laura A. Dummit

Forum SessionNovember 30, 2007
Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans Reauthorization: What Should Congress Consider?
Manager: Christie Provost Peters

Forum SessionNovember 9, 2007
Shampoo, Sunscreen, and Strep Tests: The Retail Approach to Primary Care
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Small-Group SessionOctober 31, 2007
Diversifying the Health Policy Workforce
Manager: Judith Miller Jones

Forum SessionOctober 19, 2007
Medicare Drug Utilization Management: Balancing Cost, Convenience, and Access
Manager: Mary Ellen Stahlman

Forum SessionSeptember 21, 2007
Informal Care of the Frail Elderly: Policy and Practices to Support Family Caregivers
Manager: Carol V. O'Shaughnessy

Small-Group SessionSeptember 14, 2007
Practicing in Groups: The Way to Quality and Efficiency?
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionJuly 27, 2007
SCHIP: Coming of Age or Stuck in Adolescence?
Manager: Jennifer Ryan

Forum SessionJuly 20, 2007
Behavioral Health in the Workplace: How are Employers Managing Mental Health and Disability?
Manager: Christopher W. Loftis, PhD

Forum SessionJuly 13, 2007
What Can Physician Profiling Do for Medicare?
Manager: Laura A. Dummit

WorkshopJune 28, 2007
Completing the Recipe for Children's Health: New Variations on Key Ingredients
Manager: Jennifer Ryan

Forum SessionJune 22, 2007
Medicare Advantage in 2007: What Are the Choices?
Manager: Mary Ellen Stahlman

Forum SessionJune 8, 2007
Advancing Evidence-Based Health Care: New Tools, New Data, New Opportunities
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionJune 1, 2007
Getting the Fees "Right" and Medicare Physician Spending
Manager: Laura A. Dummit

Forum SessionApril 27, 2007
Ten Years After Welfare Reform: How Is TANF Working for Needy Families?
Manager: Judith D. Moore

Forum SessionApril 20, 2007
Not All Smiles: Access to Oral Health Care for Low-Income Children
Manager: Jessamy Taylor

Forum SessionApril 13, 2007
Children's Health Care Quality: Time to Grow Up?
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionMarch 30, 2007
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About SCHIP but Didn't Know Who to Ask…
Manager: Jennifer Ryan

Forum SessionMarch 16, 2007
Personal Health Records: The People's Choice?
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionMarch 9, 2007
Implementing School Health Programs for Better Child Health and Academic Success
Manager: Christopher W. Loftis, PhD

Fundamentals BriefingFebruary 22–23, 2007
Understanding Medicare and Medicaid: Fundamentals and Issues for the New Congress
Managers: Christie Provost Peters & Mary Ellen Stahlman

Forum SessionFebruary 16, 2007
Completing the Recipe for Children's Health: Ingredients Beyond Health Insurance and Health Care
Manager: Jessamy Taylor

Forum SessionJanuary 12, 2007
Effects of Food Marketing on Kids' Diets: I'm Lovin' It?
Manager: Eileen Salinsky

Forum SessionDecember 8, 2006
Children with Special Health Care Needs and the Role of Medicaid's Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment Program
Manager: Christie Provost Peters

Forum SessionNovember 17, 2006
The Medicare PDP Market: Build It and the Plans Will Come
Manager: Mary Ellen Stahlman

Forum SessionOctober 13, 2006
Medicare Physician Spending: Past as Prologue?
Manager: Laura A. Dummit

Forum SessionSeptember 22, 2006
Specialty-Service Lines: Healthy Competition or Arms Race?
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionSeptember 15, 2006
Where You Stand Depends on Where You Sit: Perspectives on Medicaid Fiscal Integrity and Intergovernmental Relationships
Manager: Judith D. Moore

Forum SessionAugust 4, 2006
Complexity, Coordination and Compromise: States and the Medicare Drug Benefit
Managers: Judith D. Moore & Jennifer Ryan

Forum SessionJuly 27, 2006
Canary in the Coal Mine or Crying Wolf? Examining Crowding in America's Emergency Departments
Manager: Jessamy Taylor

Forum SessionJuly 21, 2006
The State Children's Health Insurance Program: Past, Present, and Future
Manager: Jennifer Ryan

Forum SessionJune 20, 2006
Health Care for All in Massachusetts: Implications for a Changing Safety Net
Managers: Laura A. Dummit & Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionJune 14, 2006
“Mental Health: Progress and Pitfalls,” the Health Affairs Special Issue—A Discussion of Trends in Mental Health Services
Manager: Christopher W. Loftis, PhD

Forum SessionMay 16, 2006
Medicaid in 2006: A Trip Down the Yellow Brick Road?
Manager: Jennifer Ryan

Special BriefingApril 5, 2006
Improving Care Management in Los Angeles: A Site Visit Overview
Managers: Eileen Salinsky, Jessamy Taylor & Judith D. Moore

Forum SessionMarch 31, 2006
Medicare Provider Payments: Proposals from MedPAC and the Administration
Manager: Laura A. Dummit

Forum SessionMarch 17, 2006
Physician Spending Growth: Do We Get What We Pay For?
Manager: Laura A. Dummit

Forum SessionMarch 14, 2006
Caring for “Ryan White”: Balancing Quality, Access, Equity, and Finite Resources
Manager: Jessamy Taylor

Forum SessionFebruary 24, 2006
Financing Health Care in Retirement: A Day Late and a Dollar Short?
Manager: Sally Coberly, PhD

Special BriefingNovember 30, 2005
The Bean, the Cod and the Medical Establishment: A Boston Market Overview
Managers: Laura A. Dummit & Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionNovember 18, 2005
Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans: A New Opportunity for Integrated Care?
Manager: Christie Provost Peters

Forum SessionNovember 10, 2005
The Changing Face of Medicaid: Contemplating New Approaches to Benefits and Cost Sharing
Manager: Jennifer Ryan

Forum SessionOctober 21, 2005
Medicare Health Support: Working with Physicians?
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionOctober 7, 2005
Mental Health and Juvenile Justice: Moving Toward More Effective Systems of Care
Manager: Jane Koppelman, Consultant

Forum SessionSeptember 30, 2005
Local Coverage Initiatives: Solution or Band-Aid for the Uninsured?
Manager: Jennifer Ryan

Forum SessionSeptember 23, 2005
Location, Location, Location: Market Characteristics and Private Payer Health Care Spending
Manager: Laura A. Dummit

Forum SessionJuly 28, 2005
Containing Health Care Costs for Active Employees: What's New in Health Plan Design?
Managers: Lisa Sprague & Sally Coberly, PhD

Forum SessionJuly 22, 2005
Understanding the Role of Medicaid in Assisting People with
Disabilities

Manager: Randy A. Desonia

Forum SessionJuly 12, 2005
Implementing the New Medicare Drug Benefit: Continuing Challenges For States
Manager: Judith D. Moore

Forum SessionJuly 8, 2005
Parity Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Evaluation of Mental Health Parity Under the FEHB Program
Manager: Eileen Salinsky

SimulationJune 24, 2005
Walk in My Shoes™: Navigating the Health Care System
Manager: Jennifer Ryan

Forum SessionJune 10, 2005
How Will They Know? Where Will They Go? Education and Outreach for the Medicare Drug Benefit
Manager: Judith D. Moore

Forum SessionJune 3, 2005
Measuring Public Health Preparedness: Are We Ready Yet?
Manager: Eileen Salinsky

Forum SessionMay 20, 2005
Charting the Quality Roadmap: A Conversation with Mark McClellan
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Fundamentals BriefingApril 22 and May 6, 2005
Insurance 101: The Fundamentals of Private Health Insurance
Managers: Sally Coberly, PhD & Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionApril 28, 2005
Understanding Medicare Advantage Bidding and Payment: Effects on Plan Choice and Beneficiary Premiums
Manager: Nora Super

Forum SessionMarch 4, 2005
Cost, Quality, Access: Balancing the Health Policy Triumvirate
Manager: Eileen Salinsky

Forum SessionFebruary 18, 2005
“Making Medicaid Work for the 21st Century”—Discussion of a Report from the National Academy for State Health Policy
Manager: Judith D. Moore

Fundamentals BriefingJanuary 13–14, 2005
Understanding Medicare and Medicaid: Fundamentals and Issues for the New Congress
Managers: Nora Super & Jennifer Ryan

Forum SessionDecember 1, 2004
Implementing the Formulary Requirements Under the New Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
Manager: Dawn M. Gencarelli

Forum SessionNovember 30, 2004
Children with Mental Disorders: Finding Effective Care Within the Systems That Serve Them
Manager: Jane Koppelman, Consultant

Forum SessionNovember 8, 2004
Influenza Vaccine Shortages: Dress Rehearsal for a Future Pandemic? Or Wake-Up Call?
Manager: Eileen Salinsky

Forum SessionOctober 27, 2004
Electronic Health Records: How Close? How Far to Go?
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionOctober 22, 2004
Financing Long-Term Care: Will Insurance Make the Difference?
Manager: Randy A. Desonia

Forum SessionOctober 7, 2004
Lost in Transition: Challenges and Opportunities in Moving Patients Between Health Care Settings
Manager: Nora Super

Forum SessionSeptember 30, 2004
Community Health Centers: Strategies for Success
Manager: Jessamy Taylor

Forum SessionSeptember 17, 2004
From 10 to 50: Options for Medicare Advantage Plan Regions
Manager: Nora Super

Forum SessionJuly 22, 2004
Implementing the New Medicare Drug Benefit: Challenges and Opportunities for States
Managers: Judith D. Moore & Jennifer Ryan

Forum SessionJuly 9, 2004
Paying for Performance in Health Care: Getting a Better Deal?
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionJune 9, 2004
The Economics of Prescription Drug Importation
Manager: Dawn M. Gencarelli

Forum SessionMay 21, 2004
Toward a National Health Information Infrastructure: Local, National, and Global Opportunities
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionMay 7, 2004
Implementing the Health Coverage Tax Credit Program: Model for the Future?
Manager: Sally Coberly, PhD

Forum SessionApril 13, 2004
Implementing the MMA: Insights from Two Seasoned Administrators
Manager: Judith D. Moore

Forum SessionApril 2, 2004
Necessary but Not Sufficient? Physician Volunteerism and the Health Care Safety Net
Manager: Eileen Salinsky

Forum SessionFebruary 6, 2004
Evidence- and Value-Based Approaches to Drug Formularies: What Role Will They Play in the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit?
Manager: Dawn M. Gencarelli

Forum SessionJanuary 27, 2004
Toward Safer, Better, More Accountable Health Care: A Conversation with George Halvorson
Managers: Lisa Sprague & Sally Coberly, PhD

Forum SessionDecember 5, 2003
Sailing SCHIP through Troubled Waters: A View from the States
Manager: Jennifer Ryan

Forum SessionNovember 25, 2003
Expanding Community-Based Care: Is the Olmstead Decision Making a Difference?
Manager: Randy A. Desonia

Forum SessionOctober 22, 2003
Dually Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid: Two for One or Double Jeopardy?
Managers: Nora Super & Jennifer Ryan

Forum SessionOctober 17, 2003
The State Fiscal Crisis: A New Fiscal Reality Emerges
Manager: Randy A. Desonia

Forum SessionSeptember 29, 2003
Checking the Vital Signs of the Health Care Safety Net
Manager: Eileen Salinsky

Forum SessionSeptember 25, 2003
The Medicare Prescription Drug Proposals and Health Insurance Risk
Manager: Dawn M. Gencarelli

Forum SessionSeptember 8, 2003
The New Freedom Vision: Transforming the Mental Health System
Manager: Eileen Salinsky

Forum SessionJuly 30, 2003
The Geography of Medicare: Explaining Differences in Payment and Costs
Manager: Nora Super

Forum SessionJuly 9, 2003
Preferred Provider Organizations: Bringing the Mainstream to Medicare?
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionJune 17, 2003
Medicaid Prescription Drug Coverage: State Efforts to Control Costs
Manager: Dawn M. Gencarelli

Forum SessionJune 12, 2003
Disease Management to Population-Based Health: Steps in the Right Direction?
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionJune 9, 2003
On the Front Lines of Homeland Security: Local Public Health Emergency Preparedness
Manager: Eileen Salinsky

Forum SessionJune 6, 2003
Depression in Primary Care: Making Good Care Good Business
Manager: Veronica V. Goff, Consultant

Forum SessionMay 2, 2003
Reauthorizing Head Start: The Future Federal Role in Preschool Programs for the Poor
Manager: Jane Koppelman, Consultant

Small-Group SessionApril 24, 2003
TANF Redux: Update on Implementation of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program in Three Communities.
Manager: Randy A. Desonia

Forum SessionApril 9, 2003
"Medicaidization" of Mental Health
Manager: Ginger P. Parra

Small-Group SessionApril 4, 2003
Who Will Pay for the Adverse Events Resulting from Smallpox Vaccination? Liability and Compensation Issues
Manager: Eileen Salinsky

Forum SessionMarch 26, 2003
Medicare and Chronic Conditions: Breaking Down Barriers to Better Care
Manager: Nora Super

Forum SessionFebruary 12, 2003
Pursuing Perfection in Health Care Delivery: Insights from Innovators
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionFebruary 7, 2003
Medicaid in 2003: Weathering the Perfect Storm
Manager: Jennifer Ryan

Forum SessionJanuary 31, 2003
Converging on Nursing Home Quality
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Fundamentals BriefingJanuary 23–24, 2003
Understanding Medicare and Medicaid: Fundamentals and Issues for the New Congress
Managers: Nora Super & Jennifer Ryan

Forum SessionDecember 9, 2002
Primary Care: Why and Whither?
Manager: Karen Matherlee, Consultant

Forum SessionNovember 25, 2002
A Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: Exploring Issues Raised in a CBO Report
Manager: Robin J. Strongin, Consultant

Forum SessionNovember 19, 2002
Pharmacy Plus Waivers: Incrementalism at Work
Manager: Jennifer Ryan

Forum SessionOctober 18, 2002
Running on Empty: The State Fiscal Crisis Worsens
Manager: Randy A. Desonia

Small-Group SessionOctober 11, 2002
Waiting for the Next Vision: Purchasing Health Care in Uncertain Times
Managers: Lisa Sprague & Sally Coberly, PhD

Forum SessionOctober 2, 2002
Medigap: Prevalence, Premiums, and Opportunities for Reform
Manager: Nora Super

Forum SessionSeptember 27, 2002
Contracting for Quality: Medicare's Quality Improvement Organizations
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionSeptember 10, 2002
Too Few? Too Many? The Right Kind? Physician Supply in an Aging and Multicultural Society
Manager: Nora Super

Forum SessionSeptember 5, 2002
SCHIP Turns Five: Taking Stock, Moving Ahead
Manager: Jennifer Ryan

Forum SessionJuly 18, 2002
Managing Advanced Illness: A Quality and Cost Challenge to Medicare, Medicaid, and Private Insurers
Manager: Karen Matherlee, Consultant

Forum SessionJuly 16, 2002
Welfare Reform and American Indians: A Briefing for Policymakers
Managers: Judith D. Moore & Wakina Scott

Forum SessionJuly 12, 2002
Average Wholesale Price for Prescription Drugs: Is There a More Appropriate Pricing Mechanism?
Manager: Dawn M. Gencarelli

Small-Group SessionJuly 10, 2002
Modernizing Medicare: The Homebound Rule and Next Steps
Manager: Judith D. Moore

Forum SessionJune 27, 2002
1115 Ways to Waive Medicaid and SCHIP Rules: A Conversation about Change
Manager: Jennifer Ryan

Forum SessionJune 21, 2002
Improving Readiness against Bioterrorist Threats: State Public Health and Hospital Preparedness Plans
Manager: Eileen Salinsky

Forum SessionApril 26, 2002
Pharmacy Benefits: New Concepts in Plan Design
Managers: Veronica V. Goff, Consultant & Sally Coberly, PhD

Forum SessionApril 12, 2002
Consumer Direction in Long-Term Care: Implications for Caregivers
Manager: Nora Super

Forum SessionMarch 15, 2002
Promoting Marriage as Welfare Policy: Looking at a Public Role in Private Lives
Manager: Jane Koppelman, Consultant

Forum SessionNovember 28, 2001
Reconsidering Medicare+Choice: What Options Remain?
Manager: Nora Super

Forum SessionNovember 2, 2001
Medicare Coverage: Lessons from the Past, Questions for the Future
Manager: Robin J. Strongin, Consultant

Forum SessionOctober 30, 2001
The Disappearing State Surpluses: How Come, How Long, and How Will They Affect Social Service Programs?
Manager: Randy A. Desonia

Small-Group SessionOctober 26, 2001
The U.S. Health Care System: Are State and Local Officials Prepared for Terrorism? How Should the Federal Government Respond?
Manager: Robin J. Strongin, Consultant

Forum SessionOctober 23, 2001
Terrorism and Mental Health: Private-Sector Responses and Issues for Policymakers
Manager: Veronica V. Goff, Consultant

Forum SessionOctober 5, 2001
Primary Care Case Management: Lessons for Medicare?
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionSeptember 24, 2001
Health Insurance Family Style: Public Approaches to Reaching the Uninsured
Manager: Jennifer Ryan

Forum SessionJuly 25, 2001
Income Support Policy and the U.S. Child Support System
Manager: Jane Koppelman, Consultant

Forum SessionJuly 9, 2001
Pharmacy Benefit Managers: A Model for Medicare?
Manager: Veronica V. Goff, Consultant

Forum SessionJune 22, 2001
Federal and State Perspectives on GME Reform
Manager: Karen Matherlee

Forum SessionJune 5, 2001
Perspectives on the Financial Underpinnings of the Safety Net: No Margin, No Mission
Manager: Richard Hegner

Forum SessionJune 1, 2001
Nurse Workforce: Condition Critical
Manager: Wakina Scott

Forum SessionMay 3, 2001
Perspectives on the Safety Net: Providers and Patients in Jeopardy
Manager: Richard Hegner

Forum SessionApril 25, 2001
State-Based Pharmaceutical Assistance Programs: Temporary Fix or Lessons for Medicare?
Manager: Robin J. Strongin, Consultant

NHPF/NASHP SessionMarch 30, 2001
SCHIPing Away at the Uninsured: Lessons from State Flexibility
Manager: Jennifer Ryan

Small-Group SessionMarch 28, 2001
Health Coverage Transitions for Young Adults with Disabilities
Manager: Judith D. Moore

Forum SessionMarch 23, 2001
Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Families: Successes to Date and Challenges Ahead
Manager: Jane Koppelman, Consultant

Forum SessionFebruary 23, 2001
Reflections on HCFA: Former Administrators Speak Their Minds
Manager: Nora Super

Forum SessionDecember 15, 2000
The Federal-State Medicaid Match: An Ongoing Tug-of-War over Practice and Policy
Manager: Karen Matherlee

Forum SessionDecember 1, 2000
Using Arbitration to Resolve Disputes between Individuals and Health Plans: Issues for Federal Policymakers
Manager: Karl Polzer

Forum SessionSeptember 26, 2000
Bad News/Good News in the Asthma Epidemic: Prevalence Jumps Sharply, But Symptoms Can Be Controlled
Manager: Richard Hegner

Forum SessionSeptember 21, 2000
SCHIP in the Formative Years: An Update
Manager: Judith D. Moore

Forum SessionSeptember 15, 2000
ASPE's Conference on Pharmaceutical Pricing Practices, Utilization, and Costs: A Recap and Some Further Thoughts
Manager: Robin J. Strongin

Forum SessionSeptember 8, 2000
Medicare+Choice: Where to from Here?
Manager: Nora Super

Forum SessionJuly 11, 2000
Outpatient Commitment in Mental Health: Is Coercion the Price of Community Services?
Manager: Richard Hegner

Forum SessionJune 26, 2000
Using SCHIP to Subsidize Employment-Based Coverage: How Far Can This Strategy Go?
Manager: Karl Polzer

Forum SessionJune 16, 2000
HCFA's Outpatient PPS: Finally Ready to Roll?
Manager: Karen Matherlee

Forum SessionMay 31, 2000
Pharmaceutical Marketplace Dynamics
Manager: Robin J. Strongin

WorkshopApril 27–28, 2000
Hospital-Based Health Care Systems: The Post-BBA Era
Managers: Nora Super, Lisa Sprague & Karen Matherlee

Forum SessionApril 14, 2000
Dispelling the Myths and Stigma of Mental Illness: The Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health
Manager: Richard Hegner

Forum SessionMarch 31, 2000
Designing a Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: Safety and Structure Considerations
Manager: Robin J. Strongin

Forum SessionMarch 15, 2000
Improving Quality and Preventing Error in Medical Practice
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionMarch 10, 2000
Beyond Survey Data: Prescription Drugs, Medicare, and Managed Care
Manager: Robin J. Strongin

Forum SessionFebruary 23, 2000
Physician Connectivity: Electronic Prescribing
Manager: Robin J. Strongin

Forum SessionFebruary 22, 2000
Growing Up in Urban America: Implications for Child Health and Welfare
Manager: Richard Hegner

Forum SessionFebruary 18, 2000
ERISA Health Plan Liability: Examining Models for Reform
Manager: Karl Polzer

Forum SessionJanuary 7, 2000
Reshaping AHCs' Role in Biomedical Research
Manager: Karen Matherlee

Forum SessionNovember 8, 1999
Medicare Competitive Pricing: Lessons Being Learned in Phoenix and Kansas City
Manager: Nora Super

Forum SessionOctober 27, 1999
The ABCs of PBMs
Manager: Robin J. Strongin

Forum SessionOctober 19, 1999
CHIP and Medicaid Outreach and Enrollment: A Hands-on Look at Marketing and Applications
Manager: Judith D. Moore

Forum SessionSeptember 17, 1999
A Chicken (Nugget?) in Every Pot: What's at Stake in the Budget Debate
Manager: Karl Polzer

Forum SessionSeptember 13, 1999
The Nursing Center in Concept and Practice: Delivery and Financing Issues in Serving Vulnerable People
Manager: Karen Matherlee

Forum SessionJuly 20, 1999
Mental Health Coverage Parity: Separating Wheat from Chaff
Manager: Karl Polzer

Forum SessionJuly 13, 1999
Access to Home Health Services under Medicare's Interim Payment System
Manager: Nora Super

Forum SessionJuly 7, 1999
Implementing the BBA: The Challenge of Moving Medicare Post-Acute Services to PPS
Manager: Karen Matherlee

Forum SessionJune 25, 1999
Canada's Generalist Training: Are There Lessons for the United States?
Manager: Lee A. Hawkins, Consultant

Forum SessionMay 14, 1999
Reducing Medical Error: Can You Be As Safe in a Hospital As You Are in a Jet?
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionMay 3, 1999
HIPAA as a Regulatory Model — Part II: Views from Capitol Hill
Manager: Karl Polzer

Forum SessionApril 15, 1999
Substance Abuse Prevention: Could an Improved D.A.R.E. Program Help Bridge the Gap between Research and Practice?
Manager: Coimbra Sirica, Consultant

Forum SessionApril 8, 1999
Providing Outpatient Prescription Drugs through Medicare: Can We Afford To? Can We Afford Not To?
Manager: Robin J. Strongin

Forum SessionApril 5, 1999
HIPAA as a Regulatory Model: Early Experiences and Future Prospects
Manager: Karl Polzer

Forum SessionMarch 30, 1999
Margins As Measures: Gauging Hospitals' Financial Health
Manager: Karen Matherlee

Forum SessionMarch 24, 1999
Examining the Links between Retirement and Health Insurance: Implications for Medicare Eligibility
Manager: Nora Super

Forum SessionFebruary 26, 1999
Welfare Reform and Its Impact on Medicaid: An Update
Manager: Judith D. Moore

Forum SessionFebruary 11, 1999
Biological Terrorism: Is the Health Care Community Prepared?
Manager: Robin J. Strongin

Forum SessionFebruary 5, 1999
Medicare HMO Pullouts: What Do They Portend for the Future of Medicare+Choice?
Manager: Nora Super

Forum SessionJanuary 25, 1999
Filling the Geriatric Gap: Is the Health System Prepared for an Aging Population?
Managers: Janet Firshein, Consultant & Nora Super

Forum SessionNovember 12, 1998
Retooling Tax Subsidies for Health Coverage: Old Ideas, New Politics
Manager: Karl Polzer

Forum SessionNovember 9, 1998
Physician Organizations Assuming Risk: Market and Policy Implications
Managers: Sandra M. Foote & Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionOctober 1, 1998
The State Children's Health Insurance Program: How Much Latitude Do the States Really Have?
Manager: Richard Hegner

Forum SessionSeptember 18, 1998
Protecting the Confidentiality of Health Information
Manager: Nora Super

Forum SessionJuly 24, 1998
Communicating to Beneficiaries about Medicare+Choice: Opportunities and Pitfalls
Managers: Nora Super & Sandra M. Foote

Forum SessionJuly 9, 1998
Medicare Coverage and Technology Diffusion: Past, Present, and Future
Manager: Robin J. Strongin

Forum SessionJune 19, 1998
ERISA Health Plan Denials: Exploring Models for External Review
Manager: Karl Polzer

Forum SessionApril 14, 1998
Dual Diagnoses: The Challenge of Serving People with Concurrent Mental Illness and Substance Abuse Problems
Manager: Richard Hegner

Forum SessionApril 3, 1998
Increasing the Federal Cigarette Tax: A Means of Reducing Consumption?
Managers: Lauren Tran & Richard Hegner

Forum SessionMarch 25, 1998
Restructuring the VA Health Care System: Safety Net, Training, and Other Considerations

Forum SessionMarch 12, 1998
The Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: What Lessons Can It Offer Policymakers?
Manager: Karl Polzer

Forum SessionMarch 6, 1998
Authenticating Healthcare Quality: Information and Accountability
Manager: Lisa Sprague

Forum SessionOctober 15, 1997
Preempting State Authority to Regulate Association Plans: Where Might It Take Us?
Manager: Karl Polzer


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