2008 SCI State Coverage Initiatives Summer Workshop for State Officials

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

12:30 – 6:00 p.m.

Registration

1:00 –
3:00 p.m.

3:30 –
5:30 p.m.

CHAT Session 1
CHAT Session 2
During these sessions, selected attendees will participate in a unique exercise using a computer simulation program called CHAT – Choosing Healthplans All Together, which helps stakeholders consider the priorities and trade-offs inherent in benefit design when resources are limited.

Facilitator:
Marjorie Ginsburg
Executive Director
Sacramento Healthcare Decisions

6:00 –
7:30 p.m.

Welcome Reception

Thursday, July 31, 2008

7:00 – 8:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:15 a.m	Welcome Enrique Martinez-Vidal Vice President, AcademyHealth Director, State Coverage Initiatives Pamela Dickson Deputy Group Director, Health Care Group The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Deborah Bae Program Officer, Coverage Team The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout
8:15 – 9:45 a.m.	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. PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout 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
9:45 – 11:00 a.m.	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 PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Scott Leitz Assistant Commissioner Minnesota Department of Health PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Marcia Nielsen Executive Director Kansas Health Policy Authority PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout
11:00 – 11:15 a.m.	Break
11:15 a.m.– 12:30 p.m.	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 PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout 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
12:30 – 1:45 p.m.	Lunch
1:45 – 3:15 p.m.	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 PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Barnaby Dow Deputy Communications Director King County Health Reform Initiative PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Sharon Moffatt Chief of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Association of State and Territorial Health Officials PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout
	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 PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Julie Sonier Director, Health Economics Program Minnesota Department of Health PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Elliot Wicks Senior Fellow Health Management Associates PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout
3:15 – 3:30 p.m.	Break
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.	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 PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout William Lindsay III President Lockton Companies, LLC PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Susan Sherry Deputy Director Community Catalyst PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout
5:00 – 6:30 p.m.	Reception

Friday, August 1, 2008

9:00 – 10:15 a.m.	Breakfast Break-Out Sessions
	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 PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Paula Roy Executive Director Delaware Health Care Commission PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout
	Session 2: 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. Marjorie Ginsburg Executive Director Sacramento Healthcare Decisions
	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 PDF Handout
10:15 – 10:30 a.m.	Break
10:30 – 11:45 a.m.	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 PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Stephen E. Saunders Medical Advisor, Division of Medical Programs Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Richard Thompson Executive Director and CEO Quality Health Network PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout
11:45 a.m.	Closing Remarks
12:00 p.m.	Adjourn (Box lunch available upon request)