Policy GPS: Directions to Delivery System Reform

NCQA's 7th Annual Policy Conference, December 5 in Washington, DC, will explore prospects for advancing delivery system reforms that improve the quality, experience and cost of care. Panels with some of the nation’s foremost experts will address:

Driving Delivery System Reform: The Next Four Years

• Joy Johnson Wilson, Health Policy Director, National Conference of State Legislators
• Alan Weil, Executive Director, National Academy for State Health Policy
• Chris Jennings, President of Jennings Policy Strategies & former Senior Health Care Advisor to President Bill Clinton
• Dean Rosen, Partner at Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti Inc. & former Health Care Advisor to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist

Merge Ahead: Improving Care for Dual Eligibles

• Susan Reinhard, Senior Vice President, AARP Public Policy Institute & Chief Strategist for the Center to Champion Nursing in America
• Patti Killingsworth, Assistant Commissioner, Chief of Long Term Services & Supports, Bureau of TennCare
• Carol Raphael, Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University, Chair of the New York eHealth Collaborative & Former CEO Visiting Nurse Service of New York

Bridging the Gap: Improving Primary Care and Specialty Coordination

• John Sprandio, MD, Chief of Medical Oncology and Hematology at Delaware County Memorial Hospital & Director of the Delaware County Regional Cancer Center
• Neil Kirchner, Senior Associate for Regulatory & Insurer Affairs, American College of Physicians
• Carol Greenlee, Co-chair of the PCMH-Neighbor Task Force & Vice Chair of the Council of Subspecialty Societies

Bringing it All Home: Building on the PCMH Infrastructure

• Lisa Dulsky Watkins, Associate Director, Vermont Blueprint for Health
• Steve Sleigh, Director, IAM National Pension Fund
• David Kendrick, Principal Investigator & CEO of the Greater Tulsa Health Access Network

Conference hours are 8:30am - 4:30pm with registration beginning at 7:45am. Continental breakfast and lunch will be served.