| Monday, March 5 |
| 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Registration and Information Desk Open |
| Tuesday, March 6 |
| 7:00 am – 5:45 pm | Registration and Information Desk Open |
| 8:30 am | Welcome |
| 8:30 am – 9:00 am | General Session
Redesigning the Health Insurance Regulatory Landscape: Perspectives from the Administration
Steven B. Larsen, Deputy Administrator & Director, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO), CMS, HHS |
| 9:00 am – 9:30 am | General Session
New Thinking on Entitlement Reform
Congressman Bill Cassidy, MD, United States House of Representatives |
| 9:30 am – 10:15 am | General Session
The Role of Health Plans in Creating a 21st Century Health Care System
Patrick J. Geraghty, Chairman & CEO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida
Eric H. Schultz, President & CEO, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. |
| 10:15 am – 10:25 am | Break in the Sponsor Display Area |
| 10:25 am – 11:10 am | General Session
New Approaches to Bending the Cost Curve
Stuart M. Butler, PhD, Distinguished Fellow and Director, Center for Policy Innovation, The Heritage Foundation
David B. Kendall, Senior Fellow for Health and Fiscal Policy, Third Way |
| 11:10 am – 11:40 am | Break in the Sponsor Display Area |
| 11:40 am – 1:10 pm | General Luncheon Session
Effective Prescriptions for Improving Quality and Reducing Costs
Doug Holtz-Eakin, PhD, President, American Action Forum; Commissioner on the Congressionally-chartered Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission; and former Director, Congressional Budget Office
Len M. Nichols, PhD, Professor of Health Policy and Director, GMU Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics, College of Health and Human Services, George Mason University |
| 1:10 pm – 1:40 pm | Break in the Sponsor Display Area |
| 1:40 pm – 2:15 pm | General Session
Making Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security Sustainable for the Long Run
Alice M. Rivlin, PhD, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution and Co-Chair, Bipartisan Policy Center's Debt Reduction Task Force |
| 2:15 pm – 2:25 pm | Break in the Sponsor Display Area |
| 2:25 pm – 3:25 pm | ACA Implementation: View from the States
Bruce D. Greenstein, Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals
William A. Hazel Jr., MD, Secretary of Health and Human Resources, Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the Commonwealth of Virginia |
| 3:25 pm – 3:35 pm | Break in the Sponsor Display Area |
| 3:35 pm – 4:15 pm | General Session
2012 Health Policy Priorities: Perspectives from the House and Senate |
| 4:15 pm – 4:30 pm | Break in the Sponsor Display Area |
| 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm | General Session
Future of Employer Sponsored Health Care in a Post-reform Environment
Amy Bergner, Partner, Mercer
Paul W. Dennett, Senior Vice President, Health Care Reform, American Benefits Council
Anne E. Phelps, Washington Council Ernst & Young |
| 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm | Reception |
| Wednesday, March 7 |
| 7:00 am – 12:30 pm | Registration and Information Desk Open |
| 7:30 am – 8:30 am | Breakfast Briefing
Measuring and Monitoring Health Prices for Policy-making
Jeff Lemieux, Senior Vice President, Center for Health Policy and Research, AHIP
William D. Marder, PhD, Senior Vice President, Analytic Consulting and Research Services, Thomson Reuters
Hospital Readmission Rates in Medicare Advantage Plans
Jon Bumbaugh, Director of Statistics & Actuarial Services, MedAssurant, Inc.
Jeff Lemieux, Senior Vice President, Center for Health Policy and Research, AHIP |
| 8:30 am – 9:30 am | General Session
Perspectives on the Near- and Long-term Health Care Policy Opportunities and Challenges
James C. Capretta, MA, Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC); Former Associate Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from 2001-2004
Neera Tanden, President, Center for American Progress |
| 9:30 am – 9:45 am | Break in the Sponsor Display Area |
| 9:45 am – 10:15 am | General Session
Congressman Kurt Schrader, United States House of Representatives |
| 10:15 am – 10:30 am | Break in the Sponsor Display Area |
| 10:30 am – 11:30 am | General Session
The Continuing Debate over the Individual Mandate: Anticipating What’s Next
Miguel A. Estrada, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Andrew J. Pincus, Partner, Mayer Brown |
| 11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Closing General Session
Health Care and Implications for the 2012 Elections
Mark Halperin, Editor-at-large and Senior Political Analyst, TIME |