Many states are using their leverage as payers and purchasers to drive the health care system toward better outcomes. Engage with leaders to design or improve your state’s approach to effective use of payment policy. Morning sessions will cover topics such as analyzing the evidence base for payment reform, facilitating multi-payer strategies, using metrics to tie payment to performance, and engaging consumers and purchasers in the payment discussion.  This preconference continues in the afternoon with in-depth case studies from two leading states and will show you how to bring the pieces together to improve health system performance.

Speakers:
Trish Riley, Director, Governor’s Office of Health Policy and Finance, State of Maine
Michael Bailit, President, Bailit Health Purchasing, LLC
John Bertko, Visiting Scholar, Brookings Institution
Richard Kronick, Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego
Peter Lee, Executive Director for National Health Policy of the Pacific Business Group on Health
Christopher F. Koller, Health Insurance Commissioner, Rhode Island
Murray Ross, Vice President, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, and Director of the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy

State Reactors:
Sarah Iselin, Commissioner, Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy
Ann Torregrossa, Director, Office of Health Care Reform, Pennsylvania
Scott Leitz, Assistant Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Health
Jane Beyer, Senior Counsel,  Washington State House of Representatives
Jeffrey Thompson, MD, Medicaid Medical Director, Washington State
Rachael Block, Deputy Commissioner, New York Department of Health
Claudia Williams, Director, Health Policy, Markle Foundation