Pre-Conference Speakers
Wednesday, November 9th – 2:00 to 4:45 PM
The Challenges Facing Public Sector Purchasers – An Overview
Christin (Chris) Deacon
Founder and Principal
VerSan Consulting, LLC
Former Director of Health Benefit Operations and Policy and Planning, Division of Pensions and Benefits
New Jersey Department of Treasury
Drug Pricing 201: Mapping the Drug Supply Chain
Marshall Votta
Operating Advisor
Nautic Partners, LLC
The Great Convergence: How to Strengthen Workforce Resilience in the Public Sector
Kathryn Reilly
Senior Vice President
Aon Health Solutions
The Great Convergence: How to Strengthen Workforce Resilience in the Public Sector
Mike Pasterick
Senior Vice President, East Region Practice Leader
Aon Health Solutions
The Future of Telehealth: Assessing, Expanding, and Paying for Virtual Care
Emily Nicoli, MS, CRNP, AGPCNP, ACHPN
Chief Nursing Officer
UnitedHealthcare Retiree Solutions
Conference Speakers
The Biden Administration and a New Congress: A Look at Federal Health Care Policy in 2022
Thursday, November 10th – 10:00 AM
Arnand Parekh, MD
Chief Medical Advisor
Bipartisan Policy Center
Dr. Anand Parekh is Chief Medical Advisor at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) where he provides clinical and public health expertise across the organization. Since 2015, he has led specific efforts tackling a variety of policy issues including the COVID-19 pandemic, future of public health, opioid crisis, obesity epidemic & nutrition, health & housing, domestic and global HIV/AIDS, business & public health collaboration, emergency preparedness, social isolation, rural health, and prescription drug costs.
Prior to joining BPC, he completed a decade of service at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). As a HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health in the Senior Executive Service from 2008 to 2015, he developed and implemented national initiatives focused on prevention, wellness, and care management. Specifically, he played instrumental roles in the implementation of the Recovery Act’s Prevention and Wellness Fund, the Affordable Care Act’s prevention initiatives, and HHS’ Multiple Chronic Conditions Initiative. He received the Surgeon General’s Outstanding Service Award for his efforts.
Briefly in 2007, he was delegated the authorities of the HHS Assistant Secretary for Health overseeing ten health program offices and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Earlier in his HHS career, he played key roles in public health emergency preparedness efforts related to pandemic influenza and bioterrorism as special assistant to the science advisor to the secretary.
Frederick Isasi, JD, MPH
Executive Director, Families USA
“Access, Quality, and Value: A
Discussion
of
Consumer and Public Sector Shared
Priorities”
Thursday, November 10th, 10:45 AM
Frederick Isasi, J.D., M.P.H., is executive director of Families USA (FUSA), one of the nation’s leading nonpartisan, nonprofit health care advocacy organizations established to ensure that the best health and health care equally accessible and affordable to all.
A national thought-leader and subject matter expert on the social issues and solutions related to driving value and equity into health care and providing high-quality coverage, Isasi draws on decades of experience in the health care industry, public policy, and law. In doing so, he advances a pragmatic and intersectional policy agenda for achieving better health at lower costs and reducing systemic inequities in the American health system.
Purva Rawal, Ph.D.
Chief Strategy Officer, CMS Innovation
Center
The Movement to Value-Based Care:
Perspectives from
the CMS Innovation Center
Thursday, November 10th, 1:00 PM
Purva Rawal, Ph.D., is the chief strategy officer at the CMS Innovation Center at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Before joining the Innovation Center, Dr. Rawal was a principal at CapView Strategies where she developed evidence-based public policy and business strategies for providers, health systems, life sciences companies, and coalitions, and conducted policy research on health system transformation and sustainability issues. She is also an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University.
In 2016, she published a book, The Affordable Care Act: Examining the Facts. Previously, Dr. Rawal served as professional staff on the Senate Budget Committee during the passage of the Affordable Care Act and as the health and social policy adviser to Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT). She was also a director in the Health Insurance and Reform Practice at Avalere Health.
She began her health policy career as a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Fellow at the National Academy of Sciences and as a congressional fellow for the Society for Research on Child Development and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Rawal received her BA and PhD from Northwestern University.
Sara R. Collins, Ph.D.
Senior Scholar and Vice President for Health
Care
The Commonwealth Fund
Markets, Trends, and Health Policy: What to
Expect
in 2023
Thursday, November 10th, 11:45 AM
Sara R. Collins, Ph.D., is senior scholar and vice president for health care coverage and access and tracking health system performance at The Commonwealth Fund.
An economist, Dr. Collins directs the Fund’s program on insurance coverage and access and the research initiative on tracking health system performance which produces the Fund’s annual scorecard on state health system performance.
Since joining the Fund in 2002, Dr. Collins has led several multi-year national surveys on health insurance and authored numerous reports, issue briefs, blog posts, and journal articles on health insurance coverage, health reform, the Affordable Care Act, and state health system performance. She has provided invited testimony on 17 occasions before several Congressional committees and subcommittees.
Prior to joining the Fund, Dr. Collins was associate director/senior research associate at the New York Academy of Medicine, Division of Health and Science Policy. Earlier in her career, she was an associate editor at U.S. News & World Report, a senior economist at Health Economics Research, and a senior health policy advisor in the New York City Office of the Public Advocate.
She holds an A.B. in economics from Washington University and a Ph.D. in economics from George Washington University.
Innovations in Medicare Advantage: CHRONIC 2.0
Friday, November 11th – 10:00 to 10:45 AM
Anne Tumlinson, Ph.D.
Founder and CEO
ATI Advisory
Anne Tumlinson leads the nation in setting the direction of aging and disability policy. She is Founder and CEO of ATI Advisory, a national research and consulting firm that shapes public policy and business strategy to reform care delivery for individuals with complex care needs and their families. ATI produces insights, strategic advice, and objective research to prepare a wide range of organizations for a rapidly changing healthcare and aging services environment.
Anne also founded and runs Daughterhood, an online and in-person community that connects family caregivers with each other for support and information. She serves on the non-profit boards of the Caregiver Action Network and Mary’s Center, an FQHC in Washington, DC. She serves on advisory boards for aging technology companies and the board of directors for Bluestone Physician Services and Harmony @ Home. Anne is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, was named an Influencer in Aging by Next Avenue, and serves as a Nexus Fellow.
Anne spent her early career working in government, first as a healthcare advisor to Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) and then as the lead for Medicaid program oversight at the Office of Management and Budget. She joined Avalere Health in 2000, leading the firm’s provider practice and developing business intelligence products for 14 years.
Andrej Vlahcevic
Senior Product Management Director
Elevance Health
Andrej Vlahcevic is currently a Senior Director of Product Management within Elevance Health’s Medicare team. Andrej defines the strategic direction for Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits that support health at every stage of life and promote whole person health for individuals in the communities Elevance Health is proud to serve.
Elevance Health’s supplemental benefits have evolved to address health-related social needs in a variety of innovative ways that support person-centered care.
Andrej identifies, develops, and implements benefits to reimagine the health system and take a more holistic approach to improve outcomes, equity, and accessibility.
Throughout his career, Andrej has accumulated 21 years of product strategy experience emphasizing “where to play” and “how to win” and has spent a total of 13 years within the healthcare industry.
Pharmacogenomics: Legislative Efforts and Real-world Results Advance a New Standard of Care
Friday, November 11th – 11:00 to 11:45 AM
Jeffrey Shaman, PhD, MS
Chief Science Officer
Coriell Life Science
Cynthia A Bens
Senior Vice President, Public Policy
Personalized Medicine Coalition
Jane Cheshire Gilbert
Director of Retiree Health Care
Teachers Retirement System for the State of Kentucky
Social Determinants of Care – Who’s Investing in What?
Friday, November 11th – 11:45 AM to 12:30 PM
Rae Godsey, DO, MBA
Group Medicare
Chief Medical Officer
Humana
Joanna Balogh-Reynolds, DNP, MSN, RN-BC
Vice President,
Clinical Consultant
Segal Co.
Katrina Daniel
Chief Health Care Officer
Teachers’ Retirement
System of Texas
White House Advisor to Open Conference
John Barkett
Senior Policy Advisor for Health Care Delivery System Reform
Domestic Policy Council
John Barkett is the Senior Policy Advisor for Health Care Delivery System Reform on the White House Domestic Policy Council, where he covers delivery reform, private insurance within the Medicare program, and prescription drug pricing. He is currently on leave from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, where he is an Assistant Scientist and Health Policy Scholar.
John previously served as the Senior Director of Policy Affairs for Willis Towers Watson. He worked for Extend Health, the nation’s largest private Medicare exchange, before it was acquired by Towers Watson in 2012.
John served on the Health Subcommittee staff of the Ways and Means Committee in the House of Representatives and the Office of Health Reform in the Department of Health and Human Services from 2009 to 2011, during which time he worked on the writing, passage, and implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and helped guide the implementation of all sections of the Affordable Care Act related to delivery system reform.
Previously, John worked for athenahealth, Inc., a revenue-cycle management and electronic medical record company, and Medica HealthCare Plans, Inc., a Medicare Advantage plan.
John earned an MBA in health care management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated cum laude from Harvard College, with a bachelor’s degree in economics and a secondary field in health care policy.
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