2018 Healthcare Economics Summit
Wednesday, April 11th, 2018
Concordia University Wisconsin
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(Cost is $100; discounts for alumni, students & think tank members)
Theme:
- Rethinking the healthcare business model for patients and payors, the role of insurance, removing non-value added cost, and introducing markets. Practical solutions that are saving payors (i.e. companies) millions of dollars, while providing better care for their employees, will be discussed.
Event description: Thought leaders in different areas of healthcare will discuss the current business model for how we deliver healthcare in the US, and explore alternative strategies based on current best practices in different organizations and healthcare systems. Focus is on how to empower decision-making at the patient-physician interface, and to introduce more transparency and productive competition in the healthcare market, as a way to more effectively achieve the triple aim. The forces driving current changes in the U.S. healthcare business model will also be discussed, such as the recent Aurora merger, CVS-Aetna merger, and the JP Morgan/Amazon/Berkshire Hathaway partnership.
Wisconsin has some of the highest healthcare costs in the country. This event gathers the key thought leaders in the country that can provide the solution – better care at lower cost, without non-value-added middlemen.
This event should be of interest to: employers that are struggling with the high cost of healthcare, healthcare innovators/disruptors, physicians and other healthcare providers, policy makers, and healthcare administration students.
Agenda:
7:45-8:15a: Registration and continental breakfast
8:15-8:25a: Welcome by President Ferry
8:25-8:30a: Introduction by Dr. Bud Chumbley (President, Wisconsin Medical Society)
8:30-9a: Keynote: The Future Business Model for Healthcare Delivery
- Dr. Barbara McAneny (Incoming President of the AMA)
9-9:30a: Panel: The Current Model for Insurance – What’s Wrong, and How to Fix It
- Jim Sanft (CEO, Concordia Plan Services), Randy Marking (President, Innovative Benefit Solutions), Gerald Frye (President, Benefit Services Group). Facilitated by Dr. Tim Bartholow (VP/CMO, WEA Trust)
9:30-10:00a: Panel: CEO Panel – Healthcare Challenges and Solutions, by WI Employers
- John Torinus (former CEO, Serigraph), Dick Vallin (CEO, Advanced Manufacturing Technologies), Sue Buettner (President, QuadMed). Facilitated by Jim Temmer (President, BBB).
10-10:30a: Break: Networking break (visit exhibitors & SE WI HealthTech entrepreneurs)
10:30-10:45a: Keynote 2: The Evolving Business Model for Healthcare – A Wisconsin Perspective
- Dr. John Raymond (President, Medical College of Wisconsin)
10:45-11:15a: Panel: Industry Trends: Amazon/JP Morgan/Berkshire; CVS/Aetna; Aurora/Advocate
- John Raymond, MD (President, MCW); Alexander Kempe (President, 37celsius Capital); Bud Chumbley, MD (President, WMS); Craig Schedler (Partner, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures (new $50 million fund)). Facilitated by Eric Haberichter (CEO, Access HealthNet).
11:15-12:00p: Presentation: Health Rosetta & The CEO’s Guide to Restoring the American Dream
How to Deliver World Class Healthcare to Your Employees at Half the Cost
- Jeff Bernhard (President, Continental benefits), David Contorno (CEO, Lake Normal benefits) and Dave Chase (CEO, Health Rosetta) recorded
12:00-12:15p: Presentation: Health-contingent Outcomes-based Wellness: Is it a Fraud or Just a Waste of Money?
- Al Lewis* (Founder, Population Health Alliance and Quizzify) via Skype
* Al Lewis taught economics at Harvard and now runs the leading employee health education company, Quizzify. He is well-known as the industry’s most visible contributor to and interviewee for the Wall Street Journal and New York Times and other publications, and as author of several nationally recognized trade-bestselling books on population health economics, including “Why Nobody Believes the Numbers (Forbes’ Digital Health book of the year in 2012); and, he is listed by Forbes as “One of 13 people to watch – the unsung heroes of healthcare.” At the Summit, Al will be announcing a $4 million dollar reward for any employer or vendor who can show wellness doesn’t lose money, along with other prizes, including a chance to win an all-expense paid week at Martha’s Vineyard for submitting the best question, as voted by the attendees at the Summit
Below are books published by some of the speakers at this year’s Summit. Note that autographed copies of Dave Chase’s book, The CEO’s Guide to Restoring the American Dream: How to Deliver World Class Healthcare to Your Employees at Half the Cost, will be available (free for those paying full admission fee):
This event is in partnership with and sponsored by Concordia’s Batterman School of Business
Questions
For more information, contact Janet Mushall.