The 8th Annual American Health Care Congress (AHCC) is an intensive, two-day educational and networking forum, designed for senior health care executives from all industry sectors to address critical implementation challenges post-reform. The AHCC agenda and networking event offers senior executives strategies to decrease the cost of care, drive delivery innovation, develop aligned incentives, redesign effective operations and leverage health...

WHIT v.7.0 convenes senior level executives from hospitals, health systems, medical centers, health plans, federal, state, and local government and other key stakeholders to exchange best practices and explore innovative solutions diving quality and achieving value in heath care. WHIT v.7.0 Delivers: Transferable best practices from organization on front end of innovation Focused summits providing tactical solutions to your most pressing quest...

The World Congress Leadership Summit on Public Reporting and Cost Transparency will convene industry experts and thought leaders from both health plan and provider organizations who will present innovative methodologies for publicly reporting both cost and quality data. This unique forum will facilitate the movement towards information transparency and will illustrate the tactics and strategies needed to adopt transparent practices in communic...

The World Congress Presents the 2nd Annual Health Care Reform Congress on Health Insurance Exchanges to discuss the current political climate surrounding health reform, including the most recently released regulations, coverage on the case for the individual mandate, and what else is coming down the pipeline that attendees should be prepared for. The Congress will examine the development of the health insurance exchanges across the nation and...

The Affordable Care Act’s Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) requirements passed on November 22, 2010 in accordance with The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). With Health and Human Services establishing and implementing medical loss ratios, health plans must begin making changes to the way they are approaching their business strategy, including products, services and admi...

The World Congress 7th Annual Leadership Summit on Medicare July 2011 | Washington, DC Solutions to Maximize Profitability and Maintain Compliance in a Post-Reform Marketplace The World Congress 7th Annual Leadership Summit on Medicare provides invaluable insight and tactical strategies to maximize profits, while maintaining compliance and ensuring quality care in a rapidly changing landscape. As the Medicare marketplace faces unforeseen chang...

The World Congress Leadership Summit on Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) will convene providers and other stakeholders to discuss strategies for integrating and participating in an Accountable Care Organization framework on a local level that offers shared savings payments for improving the quality of care and costs. Real-world, case study examples of organizationscurrently participating in ACO pilots will be featured on the agenda and the...

On January 3, 2011, the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program Registration and Attestation System portal went live, a major milestone in the government’s timeline to incentivize providers to demonstrate the “meaningful use” of certified EHRs to improve care delivery and for the exchange of information. Stage 1 Meaningful Use criteria have been published and Stages 2 and 3 requirements are currently open for debate. The...

Complex and costly mandates and compliance standards are coming down the pike fast and furious! Health plan and providers must be prepared for more frequent and complex regulatory changes with a near continuous focus on compliance and standardization. These “waves of reform” will occur over the next 3-5 years and biannually after that. These reform mandates will be very costly and are often distractions from core business. Health p...

As the leading European event on health care business innovation, The 7th Annual World Health Care Congress-Europe is the only major international forum that convenes leaders from all sectors of health care to discuss and develop actionable items to provide the highest quality of care while working under budgetary constraints. Moving away from a policy-focus, the 2011 Congress ensures that delegates will leave with a key action plan to set in...