Achieving Better Care at Lower Costs through Accountable Care Organizations
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act created the Medicare Shared Savings program to implement Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), coordinated networks of providers with shared responsibility for providing better care at lower costs. Officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are currently working on regulations for implementing ACOs in 2012 under Medicare provisions that will help transform the payment and delivery of health care.
On February 1, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice hosted a public forum to discuss the most effective and thoughtful path forward for ACOs to achieve such transformation. Donald Berwick, CMS Administrator, gave a keynote address.
After each panel, speakers took audience questions.
Agenda
9:30 AM -- Welcome
Mark B. McClellan
Former Brookings Expert
Director, Margolis Center for Health Policy - Duke University
9:40 AM -- Goals for Accountable Care
Donald Berwick
Administrator
Presentation: Educating Consumers
Debra Ness
President
Panel
Presentation: Moving Beyond Shared Savings
Mark B. McClellan
Former Brookings Expert
Director, Margolis Center for Health Policy - Duke University
Presentation: Ensuring that Savings Reflect ACO Performance
John Bertko
Chief Actuary - Covered California
Panel
Mark B. McClellan
Former Brookings Expert
Director, Margolis Center for Health Policy - Duke University
John Bertko
Chief Actuary - Covered California
Ed Cymerys
Chief Actuary
John Goodman
President and CEO
Gene Lindsey
President and CEO
12:30 PM -- Advancing Accountable Care Together
Nancy-Ann DeParle
Former Brookings Expert
Director - CVS Health
Director - HCA
Partner - Consonance Capital
12:50 PM -- Next Steps
Elliot Fisher
Dartmouth
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