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.
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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
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