SCI Summer Workshop for State Officials

Spotlight on California
During this session, attendees will get an update from the host state, California. The session will include the various policy aspects and lessons learned moving forward from the most recent attempt to reform the health care system in that state.
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 Moderator:
Sandra Shewry
Director
California Department of Health Care Services

Panelists:
Kimberly Belshé
Secretary
California Health and Human Services Agency 

Richard Figueroa
Deputy Cabinet Secretary
Office of the Governor

Daniel Weintraub
Public Affairs Columnist
The Sacramento Bee

Update from the States
This panel will highlight states that have proposed reforms or have enacted and are implementing new coverage programs.

Moderator:
Enrique Martinez-Vidal
Director, State Coverage Initiatives

Panelists:
David Knowlton
President & CEO
New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute
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Scott Leitz
Assistant Commissioner
Minnesota Department of Health
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Marcia Nielsen
Executive Director
Kansas Health Policy Authority
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Politics of Health Reform
This panel will explore the roles of key stakeholder groups in state coverage expansion efforts and on their views of and reactions to the most critical question of reform financing. The session may highlight a particular state's political process and also look more in-depth at the role of leadership in health reform. Respondents from states will provide insight to their reform processes in light of Dr. Zelman's findings.

Panelists:
Walter Zelman
Professor and Chair
Health Science Program
California State University, Los Angeles
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David Knowlton
President & CEO
New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute

Scott Leitz
Assistant Commissioner
Minnesota Department of Health

Marcia Nielsen
Executive Director
Kansas Health Policy Authority

Sandra Shewry
Director
California Department of Health Care Services

Session 1: Engaging Consumers
This panel will look at specific strategies to engage consumers in containing costs, improving quality, and improving health.

Moderator:
Shelly Ten Napel
Senior Associate, State Coverage Initiatives

Panelists:
Teresa Cutts
Program Director
Research and Praxis, Center of Excellence for Faith and Health
Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare
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Barnaby Dow
Deputy Communications Director
King County Health Reform Initiative
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Sharon Moffatt
Chief of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
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Session 2: Financing and Value Enhancement
This panel will explore ideas about potential financing sources as well as avenues to determine how to get the most value out of the funding that is currently being spent in the health care system.

Moderator:
Isabel Friedenzohn
Deputy Director
State Coverage Initiatives

Panelists:
Peter Kraut
Special Assistant
Governor's Office of Health Policy and Finance, Maine
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Julie Sonier
Director, Health Economics Program
Minnesota Department of Health
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Elliot Wicks
Senior Fellow
Health Management Associates
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Communications: Engaging Stakeholders
This panel will look at the lessons learned by several states that have attempted to build political support for health care reform. It will look at how they have used committees, task forces, public meetings, and other strategies to build consensus among key stakeholders and the general public.

Moderator:
Alison Betty Volz
Senior Vice President
GMMB

Panelists:
Sarah Iselin
Commissioner
Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy
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William Lindsay III
President
Lockton Companies, LLC
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Susan Sherry
Deputy Director
Community Catalyst
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Friday, August 1, 2008

Session 1: HIT
This session will look at what a state or states are doing to implement some form of health information exchange.

Richard Onizuka
Director of Health Care Policy
Washington State Health Care Authority
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Paula Roy
Executive Director
Delaware Health Care Commission
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Session 2: Choosing Healthplans All Together (CHAT)

Marge Ginsburg, Executive Director of Sacramento Healthcare Decisions, and moderator of the CHAT sessions, will discuss how the CHAT process can be used to elicit citizens’ health coverage priorities and presents surprising findings from differing demographic groups.
 

Session 3: Healthy San Francisco
Implemented in July 2007, Healthy San Francisco is a universal healthcare program aimed at covering the 73,000 uninsured residents living in the city. This session will provide an overview of the program, the challenges faced, and implications for the State of California and other states.

Mitchell Katz
Director of Health
San Francisco Department of Public Health
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Chronic Disease Management
This panel will discuss several strategies for chronic disease management including the Institute for Healthcare Improvement model (Wagner model), medical homes, primary care case management, and care transitions.

Moderator:
Shelly Ten Napel
Senior Associate
State Coverage Initiatives

Panelists:
Jan Norman
Director, Chronic Disease Prevention Unit
Washington Department of Health
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Stephen E. Saunders
Medical Advisor, Division of Medical Programs
Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services
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Richard Thompson
Executive Director and CEO
Quality Health Network
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