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Conference Transcript
December 10, 2001

Untitled Document

Washington, D.C.

INDEX

Opening Remarks
Paul Ginsburg, HSC President
Cara S. Lesser, HSC Director of Site Visits

Session One - Managed Care and Costs: Perspectives from Plans and Employers

Presentations:
An Empty Toolbox? Changes in Health Plan Approaches for Managing Costs and Care
Glen P. Mays, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
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Managing Costs, Managing Benefits: Employer Decisions in Local Health Care Markets
Jon B. Christianson, University of Minnesota
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Panelists:
Brian Ancell, Premera Blue Cross, Seattle
Joe Reilly, Aon Consulting, New Jersey

Session Two - Providers’ Response to the Retreat from Managed Care

Presentations:
Risk Contracting Reconsidered
Lawrence P. Casalino, University of Chicago
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The Return of the Medical Arms Race
Kelly Devers, HSC Health Researcher
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Panelists:
J.B. Silvers, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Ellen Zane, Partners Community Health Care, Inc., Boston

Keynote Speech

Janet M. Corrigan, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences

Session Three - Effects of Market Change on the Safety Net

Presentations:
The Resilience of the Health Care Safety Net
Laurie E. Felland, HSC Research Analyst
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Panelists:
Bruce Bragg, Ingham County Health Department, Lansing, Mich.
Marion Lewin, formerly with the Institute of Medicine

Session Four - Medicare+Choice and Local Markets

Presentations:
Medicare Risk Contracting: A Lifecycle View from Local Markets
Robert Hurley, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Panelists:
Brian Jeffrey, PacifiCare, Orange County
Mark Miller, Congressional Budget Office
William Scanlon, General Accounting Office

 

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