Building the 21st Century Healthcare Systems for Quality, Efficiency and Affordability 3rd Annual Health Policy Forum Thursday, November 3, 2005 Hilton St. Louis Frontenac Advance registration required: $75.00 per person To sign up for this event, call 314-721-8715, email mwatson@stlbhc.org or register online.

Forum Purpose:
To stimulate cross-sectional community dialogue about healthcare quality, efficiency and affordability.

Who Should Attend:
Healthcare executives and managers, providers, business leaders and HR managers, governmental leaders, appointed and elected, non-profit organizations

Agenda:

7:15– 7:45 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 AM Opening Address
Spending for Health Care: Key Drivers Influencing Future Growth





Stuart Altman
Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy & Management, Brandeis University

Dr. Altman is an economist whose research interests are primarily in the area of federal and state health policy. Professor Altman has been on the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, Chairman of the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation/Health at HEW, among other roles. He is a member of The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and Chair of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsored Council on Health Care Economics and Policy, a private non-partisan group whose mission is to analyze important economic aspects of the U.S. health care system and evaluate proposed changes in the system. He is also Chair of The Health Industry Forum which brings together diverse group leaders from across the health care field to develop solutions for critical problems facing the healthcare system.

9:45 AM Keynote Speech

Marilyn Moon, PhD.
Vice President and Director of the Health Program,
American Institutes for Research

Dr. Moon is a nationally-know expert on Medicare and social insurance. She previously served as a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute and as a public trustee for the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. She has published extensively on health policy, both for the elderly and the population in general. Recent publications include: A Place at the Table: Women’s Needs and Medicare Reform, published by the Century Foundation and “The Future of Medicare as an Entitlement Program”.

11:00 AM Panel & Community Input Discussion:
Key Issues in Healthcare Crisis

Pat Dougherty MO State Senator

Dennis Matheis
General Manager of Large Groups
Blue Cross of Missouri

Sam Page MO State Representative

12:00 PM Lunch Keynote Speech:







Helen Darling
President, National Business Group on Health

The National Business Group on Health is a national non-profit, membership organization devoted exclusively to providing practical solutions to its employer-members’ most important health care problems and representing large employers’ perspective on national health policy issues.

Darling also heads the Business Group’s Institute on Health Care Costs and Solutions which is devoted to finding practical solutions from a business perspective to the nation’s growing crisis of rapidly rising costs and affordability of care, on top of continuing problems of patient safety and quality.

Darling currently serves as co-chair of the Committee on Performance Measurement of the National Committee on Quality Assurance. She is a member of: the Medical Advisory Panel, Technology Evaluation Center, run by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association; the Institute of Medicine’s Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; the Cancer Care Measures Steering Committee of the National Quality Forum; the Board of the VHA Health Foundation, along with a number of other advisory and editorial boards.

1:30 PM Forum Adjourns

Continuing Education, CME & contact hours are pending

As in past years, non-profit organizations attending the Forum will be eligible to apply for special Foundation grants intended to support and promote the messages delivered at the Forum.

The cost for this event is $75 per person.

Forum Planning Committee:
Tim McBride, Professor of Health Management & Policy
St. Louis University

Dr. Michael Burns
Signature Health Services, Inc.

Herman Noah, Executive Director
St. Louis Youth and Family Center

Louise Probst, Executive Director
St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition

Dave Totaro, Vice President, Communications
RehabCare Group

Hilton St. Louis Frontenac 1335 South Lindbergh Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63131 Tel: 1-314-993-1100 Fax: 1-314-993-8546 (click here for map)