Accountable Care Organizations: Implications for Consumers
Co-Sponsored by the Aetna Foundation and America's Health Insurance Plans
The movement towards ACOs will create many changes for health care consumers. A core issue will be striking an appropriate balance between the broad level of choice that consumers have come to expect with the mandate for ACOs to coordinate care and manage expenditures within delivery networks. This meeting explored potential changes in insurance benefit and network design to align consumer incentives with accountable care, and strategies for hospitals, physicians, and employers to more effectively engage patients in decision making and improve their own health. The forum included a keynote address by CMS Administrator Donald Berwick on the role of ACOs in improving the value of health care services for Medicare beneficiaries.
Presentations
ACO's: An Introduction to the Coming Debate
Stuart Altman, PhD, Professor of National Health Policy, Brandeis University
ACO's: The Consumer Perspective
Kirsten Sloan, Vice President, National Partnership for Women & Families
ACO’s: Integration or Market Dominance?
Robert Galvin, MD, CEO, Equity Healthcare, the Blackstone Group
Benefit Design and ACOs – Employer and Health Plan Issues
John Bertko, FSA, Visiting Scholar, Brookings
Driving Meaningful Change
Dianne Kiehl, RN, Executive Director, Business Health Care Group
Accountable Care Organizations & Consumerism
Steve Lafferty, Director of Health Benefits, Target
Benefit Design and ACOs
Jeffrey Rice, MD, JD, Aetna - Accountable Care Solutions, Aetna
Benefit Design and ACOs
Samuel Nussbaum, MD, EVP Clinical Health Policy and Chief Medical Officer, Wellpoint, Inc.
NCCN Overview
Patricia Goldsmith, Executive Vice President / Chief Operating Officer, National Comprehensive Cancer Network
How Will ACO’s Engage Patients?
Dick Salmon, MD, PhD, National Medical Executive Performance Measurement and Improvement, CIGNA Healthcare