Registration
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Return before March 1 to:
Joy Potter
7 North State St.
Concord, NH 03301
New Hampshire Medical Society
7 North State St.
Concord, NH 03301
603-224-1909
NHMS.org
“This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the NHMS Council on Education through the joint sponsorship of Concord Hospital and New Hampshire Medical Society. Concord Hospital is accredited by the N.H. Medical Society Council on Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.”
The Affordable Care Act
What You NEED to Know
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
8:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
The Executive Court Banquet Facility
1199 South Mammoth Rd
Manchester, N.H.
Sponsored by
New Hampshire Medical Society & New Hampshire Medical Group Management Association
Program
The goal of this program is to help you answer questions you may have as the Affordable Care Act impacts your practice and your patients.
Will my practice look different next year?
Health Care Exchanges
Quality Ratings – what are the criteria?
Current ACO programs – should I participate?
The Innovation Center
Objectives
Participants will understand: the policy context for healthcare reform; the Affordable Care Act and how it will change the practice environment; the new and upcoming CMS payment policies, including various pay-for-performance incentives and penalties for physicians and hospitals; and the new models of payment currently being tested by the CMS Innovation Center.
Participants will understand: the elements of the Cigna transparency/physician profiling initiative; how the initiative was initiated; how the initiative works, including data sources, measurement, reporting, etc.; how the initiative is being adopted by employers in their insurance benefit design efforts; and how consumers are using the tools associated with the initiative.
8:15 am Registration & Coffee
8:45 a.m. William Kassler, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, New England Regional Office Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - The Affordable Care Act and how it will change the practice environment
9:45 a.m. Robert Hockmuth, MD, Senior Medical Executive, New England Region CIGNA HealthCare - Cigna’s transparency/physician profiling initiative
11:00 a.m. Panel Discussion
The following panelists will discuss the impact of the ACA in N.H.:
Ned Helms, Director, New Hampshire Institute for Health Policy and Practice (Mr. Helms will lead the panel discussion)
Don Caruso, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene
Attorney Jennifer Patterson, Life, Accident and Health Legal Counsel, New Hampshire Insurance Department
12:00 p.m. Program Concludes