National MACRA The Leading Forum on MACRA, MIPS, APMs and Other Emerging Value-Based Payment Arrangements MIPS/APM Summit A Hybrid Conference & Internet Onsite: Webcast: In your own office Event or home live via the Internet November 30 – December 2, 2016 See page 7 with 24/7 access for six months Washington, DC www.MACRASummit.com • Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill CO CHAIRS KEYNOTE SPEAKERS HEALTH POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF THE Kavita Patel, MD, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Donald H. Crane, JD, Michael Leavitt, Founder and Chairman, NEW ADMINISTRATION AND CONGRESS Brookings Institution President and CEO, CAPG Leavitt Partners Thomas A. Scully, Esq., General Partner, Chris Jennings, President and Founder, Jennings Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; Senior Counsel, Barbara L. McAneny, MD, Board Robert J. Margolis, MD, Founder, Policy Strategies, Inc. Alston & Bird LLP Certified Medical Oncologist/Hema- Robert and Lisa Margolis Family Foundation, tologist; Co-founder and Managing Duke-Robert J. Margolis, MD, Center for Thomas P. Miller, JD, Resident Fellow, American Susan Dentzer, President and CEO, NEHI; Partner, New Mexico Oncology Health Policy Enterprise Institute Analyst on Health Policy, The NewsHour Hematology Consultants Ltd. Richard N. Merkin, MD, Founder, FEATURED FACULTY M. Carol Greenlee, MD, FACP, FACE, Harold D. Miller, President President and Chief Executive Officer, Heritage Western Slope Endocrinology and CEO, Center for Healthcare Medical Systems Alan Balch, PhD, CEO, Patient Advocate Foundation Quality and Payment Reform; Stephen Imbeau, MD, FACP, FAAAAI, Co-Founder Farzad Mostashari, MPH, MD, Co-Founder and National Patient Advocate Foundation Member, Physician-Focused and Allergist, Allergy, Asthma & Sinus Center and Chief Executive Officer, Aledade Payment Model Technical Advisory Robert A. Berenson, MD, Institute Fellow Donna Kinzer, Executive Director, Maryland Health Committee Samuel R. Nussbaum, MD, Chair, at the Urban Institute Services Cost Review Commission Alternative Payment Model Framework and Elizabeth Mitchell, President Progress Tracking Work Group, Health Care Niall Brennan, MPP, Chief Data Officer and Lawrence Kosinski, MD, Managing Partner, and CEO, Network for Regional Payment Learning & Action Network, Centers Director, CMS Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics Illinois Gastroenterology Group Healthcare Improvement; Member, for Medicare and Medicaid Services Steve Calvin, MD, Board Certified in OB/GYN and Thomas J. Lewandowski, MD, FACC, FASE, Physician-Focused Payment Model Maternal-Fetal Medicine Physician, ThedaCare Cardiovascular Care Technical Advisory Committee Peggy O’Kane, President, National Committee for Quality Assurance Paul N. Casale, MD, MPH, Executive Director, Sandy Lewis, MD, FACC, Board of Directors, Kavita Patel, MD, Nonresident NewYork Quality Care Legacy Cardiovascular Co-Management Group Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Andy Slavitt, MBA, Acting Administrator, Member, Physician-Focused Payment Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services John M. Colmers, MPH, SVP, Health Care Constantine A. Mantz, MD, Board Certified Model Technical Advisory Committee Transformation and Strategic, Planning, Johns Radiation Oncologist Hopkins Medicine David B. Nash, MD, MBA, FACP, Dean, Anthony DeFranco, MD, Cardiologist, Medical Jefferson College of Population Health CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS Director, Aurora Medical Group Len Nichols, PhD, Director, Center for Health Accounting Professionals: Approved for up to 17.50 NASBA CPE credits. William Golden, MD, MACP, Chair, Medicaid Policy Research and Ethics, George Mason University Physicians: Approved for a maximum of 16.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Medical Director Network; Medical Director, Arkansas Ray D. Page, DO, PhD, FACO, Medical Oncologist and DHS/Medicaid Hematologist, Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders Kate Goodrich, MD, Director, CMS Center for Kurt N. Ransohoff, MD, CEO and CMO, Sansum Clinic TUITION SCHOLARSHIP Clinical Standards and Quality Glenn D. Steele, Jr., MD, PHD, Chair, xG Health PROGRAM SUPPORTED BY: Howard B. Graman, MD, FACP, VP, AMGA Solutions Consulting, LLC; Immediate Past Chair, American Larry G. Strieff, MD, Medical Oncologist and Spe- Medical Group Association cialty Medical Director, Hill Physicians Medical Group GOLD BRONZE GRANTORS: GRANTORS: CO SPONSORS: Co-Located with the POPULATION HEALTH COLLOQUIUM SPECIAL EDITION: POP HEALTH POLICY & STRATEGY UNDER THE NEW ADMINISTRATION • www.PopulationHealthColloquiumSpecialEdition.com MACRA2016.indd 1 8/29/16 5:57 PM T For more than two decades, Congress and the federal gov- AGENDA AT A GLANCE I M ernment have wrestled with how to pay physicians fairly M while controlling spending in the Medicare program. The Wednesday, November 30, 2016 U Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula failed to achieve either 11:00 am Summit Registration S M of these goals, and it was repealed by the Medicare Access and 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm PRECONFERENCE SYMPOSIA (Optional, Choose only one): P CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015. Instead of annual I: MACRA/MIPS/APM Basics: An Introductory Course to the Basics II: Advanced Strategies in APM Qualification, A / threats of cuts in physician payments, MACRA stabilizes physi- and Beyond of MACRA and its Disruptive Impact on the Industry Development and Operations S P cian fee levels and creates two new approaches to paying physi- I Thursday, December 1, 2016 M cians that are designed to control cost and improve quality. A 7:00 am Registration Opens; Continental Breakfast in Exhibit Hall The default program under MACRA is the Merit-Based Incentive R MORNING PLENARY SESSION C Payment System (MIPS), which retains the basic fee-for-service A 8:00 am Welcome and Introduction: Overview of MACRA MIPS/APM Challenges and Opportunities M payment structure for physicians but requires adjustments in 8:30 am Designing and Implementing Physician-Focused Payment Models L the amounts of payment based on physicians’ performance in A improving quality and controlling costs. However, MACRA also 9:15 am How Physician Organizations can Respond to MACRA/ MIPS and APMs N O creates significant incentives for physicians to participate in alter- 10:00 am Break TI native payment models (APMs) such as patient-centered medical 10:30 am Hospitals and Health Systems MACRA Strategies A N homes, bundled payments, and accountable care organizations. 11:15 am Criteria and Process to Qualify as an Advanced APM E Physicians who meet minimum levels of participation in alterna- Noon Networking Luncheon H tive payment models will be exempt from MIPS, receive bonus T MACRA SUMMIT AND POPULATION HEALTH COLLOQUIUM JOINT PLENARY SESSION payments, and receive higher annual updates in their fees, in ad- 1:00 pm The Overarching Role of Population Health in Payment and Delivery System Reform dition to the greater flexibility in payment that is possible through APMs. In addition, Congress created mechanisms to encourage 1:15 pm Keynote Address: Implementing MACRA/MIPS and APMs the development and implementation of more physician-focused 1:45 pm Keynote Address: payment models in the Medicare program. 2:15 pm Health Policy Implications of the New Administration and Congress 3:15 pm Break Many choices must be made about how to implement the provi- sions of MACRA, and these choices will have profound impacts on 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm MINI SUMMITS GROUP I the future of healthcare. Although the provisions of MACRA are MS I: Succeeding MS II: The Role MS III: APM MS IV: CAPG MS V: Case Studies MS VI: Meaningful directed specifically at physicians, the incentives and accountabil- in MIPS of the Patient Hospital Payment Compendium of in APM Cardiology Data Sharing to Centered Medical Models Alternative Pay- Payment Innovation Enable APMs ity required under MACRA will affect every healthcare provider— Home . . . ment Models . . . hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, etc.—and it will affect health plans and employers that contract with physicians. 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm MINI SUMMITS GROUP II MS VII: Key MACRA MS VIII: Risk MS IX: Diagnostic MS X: The Role MS XI: APMs and MS XII: Key MACRA The MACRA Summit seeks to provide deep insights into the Issues: Beginning Adjustment and APMs and Medical of Qualified Clinical the Need for High- Issues: Implement- choices under MACRA and their implications, and it will feature the Transforma- Actuarial Issues Neighborhoods Data Registries . . . Value Provider ing a Successful many examples of innovative approaches to healthcare pay- tion . . . Partners . . . MACRA Plan . . . ment and delivery that can help achieve the goals of MACRA. 6:00 pm ADJOURNMENT AND JOINT NETWORKING RECEPTION WITH THE POPULATION HEALTH COLLOQUIUM WHO SHOULD ATTEND OPTIONAL SPECIAL EVENING DINNER PROGRAM (Separate registration) Physicians Health Care Attorneys Innovation and Disruption: Path to Transformational Change and In-house Counsel 7:30 pm Dinner Served Medical Directors Chief Financial Officers 8:00 pm Panel Discussion Nurses, Nurse Practitioners 9:30 pm Adjournment and Other Allied Health Chief Innovation Officers Professionals Directors of Friday, December 2, 2016 Pharmacists and Pharmacy Accountable Care 8:00 am – 9:00 am MINI SUMMITS GROUP III Benefit Managers Directors of Quality MS XIII: Case Studies MS XIV: Role of Quali- MS XV: Advanced MS XVI: Key MA- MS XVII: Case Studies in APM Payment fied Entities in Providing Primary Care Payment CRA Issues: Prioritizing in APM Oncology Executives and Board Management and Innovation: Procedural Claims Data . . . Models Patient-Centered Care . . Payment Innovation Members of Physician Improvement Episodes Organizations, Health Directors of Government 9:15 am – 10:15 am MINI SUMMITS GROUP IV Systems, Hospitals, ACOs Programs and Health Plans MS XVIII: Case Studies MS XIX: Case Studies MS XX: APM Value MS XXI: MACRA and MS XXII: Key MACRA Directors of Medicare in APM Payment in Specialty Medical Proposition of Medica- ACOs, and How Bundled Issues: Modeling Representatives of Purchasers, Programs Innovation: Surgical Homes: How to Design tion Management Payments Do and Don’t MACRA’s Financial including Private Employers Episodes APMs to Support Services Work . . . Implications . . . and Public Purchasers Directors of Medicaid Patients . . . Programs Consumer Organization 10:15 am Transition Break Directors of Network Representatives CLOSING PLENARY SESSION Contracting Federal and State 10:30 am Welcome and Introductions Directors of Government Officials 10:15 am The Challenges of Managing Risk and Clinical Quality are the Same Provider Relations through Generations of Acronyms Health Care Regulators Directors of Finance and Policy Makers 10:45 am Essential Competencies that Providers Need to Succeed under APMs: and Reimbursement Lessons from the Accountable Care Learning Collaborative (ACLC) Health Benefits Consultants Pharmaceutical Executives 11:30 am Closing Keynote Panel: Preparing for a Successful Future in a Value-based World Health Services Researchers Pharmaceutical 12:30 pm Adjournment and Academics Consultants 2 MACRA2016.indd 2 8/29/16 7:55 PM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2016 Preconference II: Advanced Strategies in APM Qualification, Development and Operations 11:00 am Summit Registration Offered by AMGA Consulting, LLC • The Journey to Population Health and Value Based Care PRECONFERENCE SYMPOSIA • Why all this focus on value? Preconference I: MACRA/MIPS/APM Basics: • What are 5 key organizational domains to be addressed to An Introductory Course to the Basics and Beyond of ensure success in P4V? MACRA and its Disruptive Impact on the Industry • How can your medical group engage your physicians and other • Disruptive by Design: Key Provisions of MACRA providers so they are supporting and leading the journey? Law and Regulations • Key Deadlines: Timeline for implementation • Repositioning for MACRA — or any other risk payment • Two Paths Forward: MIPS and Advanced APMs • Improved understanding of risk environment and opportunities • A deep dive into MIPS: Four Types of Measures; Reporting; • Call to action — organizationally Meaningful Use Changes; System Replacing PQRS • Organizational capabilities for risk • Advanced APMs: Which Initiatives Count, and Why? • Impact on Compensation • Clinical, Financial, and Operational Imperatives • Members response to VBC (care and compensation) — 2 examples • Strategic implications for the Health Care Industry 1:00 pm Welcome and Introduction • Industry Reaction and Preparedness Howard B. Graman, MD, FACP, Vice President AMGA Consulting, LLC, Immediate Past • The Future of MACRA: 2019 and Beyond Chair, American Medical Group Association; Former Chief Executive Officer, PeaceHealth 1:00 pm Welcome and Introduction Medical Group, Portland, OR Bill Copeland, MBA, Vice Chairman, US Life Sciences and Health Care Leader, Deloitte LLP, Wayne Hartley, MHA. Vice President, East Region Leader, AMGA Consulting LLC; Philadelphia, PA Former Executive Director, Heart Care Service Line, HealthEast, Washington DC Brian Flanigan, MBA, Value-Based Care Practice Leader, Deloitte LLP, Chicago, IL Will Holets, MBA, MHA, Consultant, AMGA Consulting LLC, Associate Administrator, Mitch Morris, MD, Vice Chairman, US Health Care Providers Sector Leader, Deloitte LLP, Austin, TX TriStar Summit Medical Center, Nashville, TN Anne Phelps, US Health Care Regulatory Leader, Deloitte LLP, Washington, DC Tom Dobosenski, CPA President, AMGA Consulting, LLC, Alexandria, VA (Moderator) Sarah Thomas, MS, Research Director, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, Washington, DC 5:00 pm Adjournment 5:00 pm Adjournment THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 8:30 am Designing and Implementing Physician-Focused Payment Models 7:00 am Registration Opens; Barbara L. McAneny, MD, Board Certified Medical Oncologist/Hematolo- Continental Breakfast in Exhibit Hall gist, Co-founder and Managing Partner, New Mexico Oncology Hematology Consultants Ltd.; Chief Executive Officer, Innovative Oncology Business Solutions; Former Chair, American Medical Association, Albuquerque, NM MORNING PLENARY SESSION Grace Emerson Terrell, MD, MMM, FACP, FACPE, Founder and Strategist, CHESS; Former Chief Executive Officer and President, Cornerstone 8:00 am Welcome and Introduction: Overview of MACRA Health Care, PA, High Point, NC MIPS/APM Challenges and Opportunities Stephen J. Zabinski, MD, Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon, Director, Donald H. Crane, JD, President and Chief Executive Officer, CAPG, Division of Orthopedic Surgery, Shore Medical Center; President and Los Angeles, CA (Co-chair) Director of Joint Replacement Services, Jersey Shore Ambulatory Surgical Barbara L. McAneny, MD, Board Certified Medical Oncologist/ Center, Somers Point, NJ Hematologist, Co-founder and Managing Partner, New Mexico Oncology Harold D. Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Hematology Consultants Ltd.; Chief Executive Officer, Innovative Oncology Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform; Member, Physician-Focused Business Solutions; Former Chair, American Medical Association, Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee, Adjunct Professor, Albuquerque, NM (Co-chair) Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (Moderator) Harold D. Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for 9:15 am How Physician Organizations can Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform; Member, Physician-Focused Respond to MACRA/ MIPS and APMs Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee, Adjunct Professor, Richard N. Merkin, MD, Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (Co-chair) Heritage Medical Systems; Chief Executive Officer, HealthCare Partners, IPA; President, Regal Medical Group, Inc.; Member, Advisory Board, Elizabeth Mitchell, President and Chief Executive Officer, Network for Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC, Northridge, CA Regional Healthcare Improvement, Member, Physician-Focused Payment, Model Technical Advisory Committee, Portland, ME (Co-chair) Kurt N. Ransohoff, MD, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Medical Officer, Sansum Clinic; Member, CAPG Board of Directors, Santa Barbara, CA Kavita Patel, MD, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Glenn D. Steele, Jr., MD, PHD, Chair, xG Health Solutions; Former Member, Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee; President and Chief Executive Officer, Geisinger Health System, Former Director of Policy, The White House; Former Senior Advisor, Senator Columbia, MD Edward Kennedy, Washington, DC (Co-chair) Donald H. Crane, JD, President and Chief Executive Officer, CAPG, Los Angeles, CA (Moderator) 10:00 am Break 3 MACRA2016.indd 3 8/29/16 5:57 PM 10:30 am Hospitals and Health Systems MACRA Strategies 2:15 pm Health Policy Implications of the New Administration and Congress John M. Colmers, MPH, Senior Vice President, Health Care Transformation and Strategic Planning, Johns Hopkins Medicine; Member, Maryland Chris Jennings, President and Founder, Jennings Policy Strategies, Inc.; Health Services Cost Review Commission; Former Secretary, Maryland Former Deputy Assistant for Health Policy and Coordinator of Health Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; Former Executive Director, Reform, The White House (Obama); Former Senior Health Advisor, The Maryland Health Care Commission, and the Health Services Cost Review White House (Clinton), Washington, DC Commission, Baltimore, MD Thomas P. Miller, JD, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Sally Hartman, MBA, Senior Vice President, Riverside Health System; Former Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Former Director of Former Vice President/Executive Director, Peninsula Health Care, Economic Policy Studies, Competitive Enterprise Institute; Former Senior Newport News, VA Health Economist, Joint Economic Committee (JEC), Washington, DC Blair G. Childs, Senior Vice President, Premier, Inc., Washington, DC Kavita Patel, MD, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; (Moderator) Former Director of Policy, The White House; Former Senior Advisor, Senator Edward Kennedy, Washington, DC 11:15 am Criteria and Process to Qualify as an Advanced APM Thomas A. Scully, Esq., General Partner, Welsh, Carson, Anderson Robert Berenson, MD, Institute Fellow, Urban Institute; Member, & Stowe; Senior Counsel, Alston & Bird LLP; Former Administrator, Centers Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee; Former for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Former President and Chief Executive Commissioner, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; Former Director, Officer, Federation of American Hospitals, Washington, DC Center for Health Plans and Providers, Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) (Now CMS), Washington, DC David B. Nash, MD, MBA, FACP, Dean, Jefferson College of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA (Moderator) Elizabeth Mitchell, President and Chief Executive Officer, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement; Member, Physician-Focused Payment 3:15 pm Break Model Technical Advisory Committee, Portland, ME Len Nichols, PhD, Director, Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics, MACRA SUMMIT AFTERNOON MINI SUMMITS George Mason University; Member, Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee; Former Senior Advisor for Health Policy, US Office of Management and Budget; Former Vice President, Center for MINI SUMMITS GROUP I • 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm Studying Health System Change, Fairfax, VA Kavita Patel, MD, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Mini Summit I: Succeeding in MIPS Member, Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee; Travis Broome, MPH, MBA, Policy Lead and Executive Director, Aledade, Inc.; Former Former Director of Policy, The White House; Former Senior Advisor, Senator Regional Operations Manager, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Washington, DC Edward Kennedy, Washington, DC (Moderator) Farzad Mostashari, MPH, MD, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Aledade; Noon Networking Luncheon Former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC MACRA SUMMIT AND POPULATION HEALTH Mini Summit II: The Role of the Patient Centered Medical COLLOQUIUM JOINT PLENARY SESSION Home in MACRA/MIPS/APMs Pushing for Multiple Pathways to APMs 1:00 pm The Overarching Role of Population Health Shari Erickson, MPH, Vice President, Governmental and Medical Practice, American College in Payment and Delivery System Reform of Physicians, Washington, DC Susan Dentzer, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Network for Medical Homes as Advanced Alternative Payment Model Excellence in Health Innovation, Analyst on Health Policy, The NewsHour, (AAPM): Promoting the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus Washington, DC and Multi-payer Collaboratives 1:15 pm Keynote Address: Implementing MACRA/MIPS Robert Berenson, MD (Invited), Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute; Member, and APMs Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee; Former Commissioner, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; Former Director, Center for Health Plans and Andy Slavitt, MBA, Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Providers, Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) (Now CMS), Washington, DC Medicaid Services, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC Promoting the Power of the Physician Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC) 1:45 pm Keynote Address Len Nichols, PhD (Invited), Professor of Health Policy and Director, Center for Health Policy Michael Leavitt, Founder and Chairman, Leavitt Partners; Former Research and Ethics, George Mason University; Former Senior Advisor for Health Policy, Office Secretary, US Department of Health and Human Services; Former Governor of Management and Budget, Fairfax, VA of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT Promote Beneficiary Engagement Carol Regan, MPH, Senior Advisor, Community Catalyst; Former Director, Government Affairs, Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute, Washington, DC GET THE CONFERENCE APP Marci Nielsen, PhD, MPH, Chief Executive Officer, Patient-Centered Primary Care ON YOUR MOBILE DEVICE! Collaborative, Washington, DC (Moderator) 1. Go to http://guidebook.com/g/macrasummit 2. Tap the “Download” button to download the free Guidebook app (mobile users can be texted a link) 3. Open Guidebook and get our “MACRA Summit” guide 4 MACRA2016.indd 4 8/29/16 5:57 PM Mini Summit III: APM Hospital Payment Models MINI SUMMITS GROUP II • 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm John M. Colmers, MPH, Senior Vice President, Health Care Transformation and Strategic Planning, Johns Hopkins Medicine; Member, Maryland Health Services Cost Review Com- Mini Summit VII: Key MACRA Issues: Beginning the mission; Former Secretary, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; Former Transformation to Value-Based Reimbursement, and The Changing APM landscape: Opportunities and Challenges Executive Director, Maryland Health Care Commission and the Health Services Cost Review Commission, Baltimore, MD 5:00 pm Beginning the Transformation to Value-Based Reimbursement Richard L. Fuller, MS, Economist, Clinical and Economic Research Group, 3M Health Information Systems, Silver Spring, MD Margo Carp, MBA, Director, Value-Based Strategy, The TriZetto Group, New York, NY Donna Kinzer, Executive Director, Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission, 5:30 pm The Changing APM Landscape: Opportunities Santa Fe, NM and Challenges Erin Smith, JD, Vice President, Policy and Government Affairs, naviHealth; Former Director, Danielle Lloyd, MPH, Vice President, Policy and Advocacy, Premier, Inc.; Former Senior Division of Technical Model Support and Lead, Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Associate Director, American Hospital Association, Washington, DC (Moderator) (BPCI) Initiative, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Washington, DC Mini Summit IV: CAPG Compendium of Alternative Pamela M. Pelizzari, MPH, Senior Healthcare Consultant, Milliman, Inc.; Former Senior Payment Models: 14 Case Studies on how our Physician Technical Advisor and Program Lead, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, New York, NY Organization Members are Paid in Medicare, Medicaid and Commercial Arrangements and How those Groups then Pay Individual Physicians Downstream Offered by CAPG Consulting Mini Summit VIII: Risk Adjustment and Actuarial Issues Mariella Cummings, MS, Consultant, CAPG Consulting; Former Chief Executive Officer, Norbert I. Goldfield, MD, Medical Director, 3M Health Information Systems; Executive Physicians of Southwest Washington; Former Chief Executive Officer and Chair, Soundpath Director, Healing Across the Divides; Author, National Health Reform, American Style; Health; Former Director, Infectious Disease and Reproductive Health, Washington Depart- Delivering High Quality, Cost-Effective Care to All: The Scientific and Political Ingredients ment of Health, Olympia, WA for Success; Physician Profiling and Risk Adjustment, Northampton, MA Mara McDermott, JD, Vice President of Federal Affairs, CAPG, Washington, DC Barbara Spivak, MD, President, Mount Auburn Cambridge IPA; Instructor, Harvard Medical Robert Severs, MHA, Managing Director, Network Development and Physician Integration School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA for Central California, Dignity Health; Former President and Chief Executive Officer, GEMCare John Bertko, FSA, MAAA, Visiting Scholar, Brookings Institution; Adjunct Staff, RAND; Mercy Memorial Health System LLC, Bakersfield, CA Former Chief Actuary, Covered California; Former Director, Office of Special Initiatives and Bart Wald, MD, MBA, President, PA Health Leadership Consultants; Former Physician Pricing, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO), Centers for Medicare Chief Executive, Providence Health and Services, California; Former Medical Director, and Medicaid Services, Sacramento, CA (Moderator) DaVita-HealthCare Partners Medical Group, Los Angeles, CA Donald H. Crane, JD, President and Chief Executive Officer, CAPG, Los Angeles, CA Mini Summit IX: Diagnostic APMs and Medical (Moderator) Neighborhoods Robert A. Berenson, MD, Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute; Member, Physician- Mini Summit V: Case Studies in APM Cardiology Payment Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee; Former Commissioner, Medicare Innovation Payment Advisory Commission; Former Director, Center for Health Plans and Providers, Health Paul N. Casale, MD, MPH, Executive Director, NewYork Quality Care, The ACO of Care Financing Administration (HCFA) (Now CMS), Washington, DC New York-Presbyterian/Columbia/Weill Cornell; Professor of Medicine, Columbia University M. Carol Greenlee, MD, FACP, FACE, Physician, Western Slope Endocrinology; Chair, Medical Center, New York, NY Council of Subspecialties and Member, Board of Governors, American College of Physicians Anthony DeFranco, MD, Cardiologist, Medical Director, Cardiovascular Quality and (ACP), Grand Junction, CO Coronary Intensive Care, Aurora Medical Group, Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI Thomas J. Lewandowski, MD, FACC, FASE, Physician, ThedaCare Cardiovascular Care; Sandy Lewis, MD, FACC, Board of Directors, Legacy Cardiovascular Co-Management Co-Leader, American College of Cardiology SMARTCare Demonstration, Appleton, WI Group, Northwest Cardiovascular Institute; Affiliate Assistant Professor of Medicine, Oregon Heather Marshall, MD, Southwest Associate Regional Medical Director, Island Medical Health and Science University, Portland, OR Management; Member, Task Force on Health Care Financing and Alternative Payment Models Harold D. Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Healthcare Quality and (APMs), American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), Roswell, NM Payment Reform; Member, Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee, Harold D. Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Healthcare Quality and Adjunct Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (Moderator) Payment Reform; Member, Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee, Mini Summit VI: Meaningful Data Sharing to enable APMs Adjunct Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (Moderator) Kelly Cronin, MS, MPH, Health Reform Coordinator, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC Mini Summit X: The Role of Qualified Clinical Data Registries (QCDRs) David C. Kendrick, MD, MPH, Principal Investigator and Chief Executive Officer, MyHealth Kate Goodrich, MD, Director, Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ); Former Access Network; Chair, Department of Community Medical Informatics, Tulsa, OK Director, Quality Measurement, and Value-Based Incentives Group (QMVIG; Former Chief Glenn D. Steele, Jr., MD, PHD (Invited), Chair, xG Health Solutions; Former President and Medical Officer, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD Chief Executive Officer, Geisinger Health System, Columbia, MD Gloria Johnston, MBA, RN, RHIT, CCS-P, Chief Health Information Officer, HealthAdvan- Elizabeth Mitchell, President and Chief Executive Officer, Network for Regional Healthcare tage, LLC; Former Director, Strategic Initiatives and Operations Improvement, Duke University Improvement; Member, Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee, Health System PRMO; Former Associate Director, Massachusetts General Physicians Organiza- Portland, ME (Moderator) tion; Associate Director, Coding and Quality Assurance Services, Partners HealthCare; Former 4:45 pm Transition Break Manager, Coding and Compliance Services, Patient Financial Services, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA Christopher Queram, MHSA, President and Chief Executive Officer, Wisconsin Collabora- tive for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ); Former Chief Executive Officer, Employer Health Care Alliance Cooperative, Middleton, WI Elizabeth Mitchell, President and Chief Executive Officer, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement; Member, Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee, Portland, ME (Moderator) Mini Summits Continued Next Page 5 MACRA2016.indd 5 8/29/16 5:57 PM Mini Summit XI: APMs and the Need for High-Value FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2016 Provider Partners — Beyond Hospitals and Physicians Michelle Templin, MBA, Vice President, Strategic Business Development, Managed Health MINI SUMMITS GROUP III • 8:00 am – 9:00 am Care Associates, Inc, Washington, DC David B. Muhlestein, PhD, JD, Senior Director, Research and Development, Leavitt Mini Summit XIII: Case Studies in APM Payment Partners, LLC, Salt Lake City, UT (Moderator) Innovation: Procedural Episodes Joel V. Brill, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Predictive Health; Consultant, FAIR Health, Inc.; Chair, Mini Summit XII: Key MACRA Issues: Implementing a Practice Management and Economics Committee, American Gastroenterological Association, Successful MACRA Plan for the Employed Physician Enter- Phoenix, AZ prise, and The Pathway Forward for Commercial Payers and Provider Organizations Steve Calvin, MD, Board Certified in OB/GYN and Maternal-Fetal Medicine; Medical Director, Minnesota Birth Center, Minneapolis, MN 5:00 pm Making MIPS Work for You: Implementing a Successful Plan for the Employed Physician Constantine A. Mantz, MD, Board Certified Radiation Oncologist; Chief Medical Officer, Enterprise 21st Century Oncology, Lehigh Acres, FL John Harris, MBA, Director, Veralon Partners; President, Wharton Healthcare Management Kavita Patel, MD, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Member, Physician- Alumni Association, Philadelphia, PA Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee; Former Director of Policy, The White 5:30 pm The Pathway Forward for Commercial Payers House; Former Senior Advisor, Senator Edward Kennedy, Washington, DC (Moderator) and Provider Organizations Mini Summit XIV: The Role of Qualified Entities in Dennis Horrigan, Senior Advisor, Optimity Advisors; Former President and Chief Executive Providing Claims Data to Develop Payment Models and Officer, Catholic Medical Partners, New York, NY Analyze Performance Akhil Shah, MHSA, Healthcare Consulting Manager, Optimity Advisors, New York, NY Marc Bennett, MA, President and Chief Executive Officer, HealthInsight; Chair, Utah Health (Moderator) Information Network, Salt Lake City, UT 6:00 pm ADJOURNMENT AND JOINT NETWORKING Niall Brennan, MPP, Chief Data Officer and Director, Office of Enterprise Data and RECEPTION WITH THE POPULATION Analytics, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, US Department of Health and Human HEALTH COLLOQUIUM Services, Washington, DC Mylia Christensen, Executive Director, Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation (Q Corp); OPTIONAL SPECIAL EVENING DINNER PROGRAM Chair, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, Portland, OR Elizabeth Mitchell, President and Chief Executive Officer, Network for Regional Healthcare (Separate registration) Improvement; Member, Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee, INNOVATION AND DISRUPTION: Portland, ME (Moderator) PATH TO TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE Mini Summit XV: Advanced Primary Care Payment Models Change is a given, and often difficult; true transformation requires a complete paradigm Susan Edgman-Levitan, PA, Executive Director, John D. Stoeckle, Center for Primary Care shift. Identifying and implementing innovative solutions takes a steady hand, vision, and the Innovation, Massachusetts General Hospital; Co-chair, Primary Care Payment Model Work ability to collaborate across competing interests. This dinner program will feature insights Group, CMS Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network, Boston, MA from several visionary healthcare CEOs, followed by a moderated panel discussion and Q&A. William Golden, MD, MACP, Chair, Medicaid Medical Director Network; Medical Director, 7:30 pm Dinner Served Arkansas DHS/Medicaid; Professor of Medicine and Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Co-chair, Primary Care Payment Model Work Group, CMS Health Care 8:00 pm Panel Discussion Payment Learning and Action Network, Little Rock, AR Host: Anne Gauthier, MS, Project Leader, CMS Health Care Payment, Learning and Action David B. Nash, MD, MBA, FACP, Dean, Jefferson College of Population Network, The MITRE Corporation; Former Senior Program Director, National Academy Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA for State Health Policy; Former Assistant Vice President, The Commonwealth Fund, Washington, DC (Moderator) Panel: Mini Summit XVI: Key MACRA Issues: Prioritizing Patient- Susan Dentzer, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Network for Centered Care, and MACRA and Medicare Advantage Excellence in Health Innovation; Analyst on Health Policy, The NewsHour, 8:00 am Prioritizing Patient-Centered Care Washington, DC Alan Balch, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, Patient Advocate Foundation, and National Patient Advocate Foundation; Former Vice President, Preventive Health Partnership, Hampton, VA Stephen K. Klasko, MD, MBA, President and Chief Executive Officer, Thomas Jefferson University and Thomas Jefferson University Health Gwen Darien, Executive Vice President, National Patient Advocate Foundation; Former System, Philadelphia, PA Executive Vice President, Programs and Services, Cancer Support Community, New York, NY 8:30 am MACRA and Medicare Advantage Donato J. Tramuto, President and Chief Executive Officer, Healthways, Molly T. Turco, MPH, Director of Policy and Research, Better Medicare Alliance, Washington, DC Franklin, TN Stephen Ubl (Invited), President and Chief Executive Officer, PhRMA, Washington, DC 9:30 pm Adjournment 6 MACRA2016.indd 6 8/29/16 5:57 PM Mini Summit XVII: Case Studies in APM Oncology Mini Summit XX: APM Value Proposition of Medication Payment Innovation Management Services Lili Brillstein, MPH, Director, Episodes of Care, Horizon Healthcare Innovations, Horizon Sean Jeffery, PharmD, CGP, FASCP, FNAP, AGSF, Director, Clinical Pharmacy Services, Blue Cross Blue Shield New Jersey; Member, CMS Advisory Panel on Oncology Bundles; Former Integrated Care Partners; Clinical Professor Department of Pharmacy Practice, School of Senior Director, Medicare and Retirement, UnitedHealthcare, Newark, NJ Pharmacy, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Barbara L. McAneny, MD, Board Certified Medical Oncologist/Hematologist, Co-founder Sarah Thompson, PharmD, CDOE , Director, Clinical Pharmacy Services and Quality, and Managing Partner, New Mexico Oncology Hematology Consultants Ltd.; Chief Executive Coastal Medical, Inc., Providence, RI Officer, Innovative Oncology Business Solutions; Former Chair, American Medical Association, Troy Trygstad, PharmD, PhD, Vice President, Pharmacy Programs, Community Care of Albuquerque, NM North Carolina, Raleigh, NC Ray D. Page, DO, PhD, FACO, Medical Oncologist and Hematologist, Center for Cancer Marie Smith, PharmD, RPh, MBA, MS, Assistant Dean, Practice and Public Policy and Blood Disorders; Founding President, The Cancer Education and Research Foundation of Partnerships and Henry A. Palmer Professor, School of Pharmacy, University of Connecticut; Texas, ASCO Representative, American Medical Association House of Delegates, Fort Worth, TX Principal and Strategic Consultant, SolutionSmith, Storrs, CT (Moderator) Larry G. Strieff, MD, Medical Oncologist and Specialty Medical Director, Hill Physicians Medical Group, San Ramon, CA Mini Summit XXI: MACRA and ACOs, and How Bundled Harold D. Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Healthcare Quality and Payments Do and Don’t Work with MACRA MIPS/APMs Payment Reform; Member, Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee, 9:15 am MACRA and ACOs Adjunct Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (Moderator) David B. Muhlestein, PhD, JD, Senior Director, Research and Development, Leavitt Partners, LLC, Salt Lake City, UT 9:00 am Transition Break 9:45 am How Bundled Payments Do and Don’t Work with MACRA MIPS/APMs MINI SUMMITS GROUP IV • 9:15 am – 10:15 am Valinda Rutledge, MBA, Vice President, Public Payor Health Strategy, Care Coordination Institute, Greenville Health System; Former Group Director, Patient Care Model Group, Centers Mini Summit XVIII: Case Studies in APM Payment for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Greenville, SC Innovation: Surgical Episodes Anthony L. Asher, MD, FACS (Invited), Director, Adult Brain and Spinal Cord Tumor Mini Summit XXII: Key MACRA Issues: Modeling MACRA’s Programs, Levine Cancer Institute, Carolinas HealthCare System and Presbyterian Hospital; Financial Implications, and The Pathway Forward for Co-Medical Director, Neuroscience Institute, Carolinas HealthCare System; Founder and Commercial Payers and Provider Organizations Director, National Neurosurgery, Quality and Outcomes Database, Charlotte, NC 9:15 am Modeling MACRA’s Financial Implications Alexandra (Alexe) Page, MD, Chair, Health Care Systems Committee, American Academy Pamela M. Pelizzari, MPH, Senior Healthcare Consultant, Milliman, Inc.; Former Senior of Orthopaedic Surgeons; Principal, Musculoskeletal Healthcare Solutions; Private Practice Technical Advisor and Program Lead, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, New York, NY Orthopaedic Surgeon, San Diego, CA 9:45 am How “Qualifying Participant” Status will Spur Alan M. Speir, MD, Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, Medical Director, Cardiac Surgery, Inova Innovation in Healthcare in Medicare and Beyond Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA Colleen Norris, MS, Consulting Actuary, Milliman, Inc., Denver, CO Kavita Patel, MD, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Member, Physician- Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee; Former Director of Policy, The White 10:15 am Transition Break House; Former Senior Advisor, Senator Edward Kennedy, Washington, DC (Moderator) PARTICIPATION OPTIONS Mini Summit XIX: Case Studies in Specialty Medical Homes: How to Design APMs to Support Patients with Serious TRADITIONAL ONSITE ATTENDANCE Health Conditions that Cannot be Managed by a PCP William Golden, MD, MACP, Chair, Medicaid Medical Director Network; Medical Director, Simply register, travel to the conference city and attend Arkansas DHS/Medicaid, Professor of Medicine and Public Health, University of Arkansas in person. for Medical Sciences; Co-chair, Primary Care Payment Model Work Group, CMS Health Care PROS: subject matter immersion; professional Onsite Payment Learning and Action Network, Little Rock, AR networking opportunities; faculty interaction. Stephen Imbeau, MD, FACP, FAAAAI, Co-Founder and Allergist, Allergy, Asthma & Sinus Center, Florence, SC LIVE AND ARCHIVED INTERNET ATTENDANCE Lawrence Kosinski, MD, Managing Partner, Illinois Gastroenterology Group; Past Watch the conference in live streaming video over the Chairman, Practice Management and Economics Committee, American Gastroenterological Internet and at your convenience at any time 24/7 for six Association, Elgin, IL months following the event. At your office . . . Ray D. Page, DO, PhD, FACO, Medical Oncologist and Hematologist, Center for Cancer The archived conference includes speaker videos and and Blood Disorders; Founding President, The Cancer Education and Research Foundation of coordinated PowerPoint presentations. Texas; ASCO Representative, House of Delegates, American Medical Association, Fort Worth, TX PROS: Live digital feed and 24/7 Internet access for the next Harold D. Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Healthcare Quality and six months; accessible in the office, at home or anywhere Payment Reform; Member, Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee; worldwide with Internet access; avoid travel expense and Adjunct Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (Moderator) hassle; no time away from the office. . . . or home EXHIBIT AND SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Take advantage of this unique opportunity to expand your reach! The Summit is attended by highly influential and experienced professionals. Sponsorship offers you strategic positioning as an industry leader. For more information call 206-673-4815 or email [email protected]. 7 MACRA2016.indd 7 8/29/16 5:57 PM MACRA MIPS/APM SUMMIT Joel Reich, MD, Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer, Eastern Connecticut Health System, Hartford, CT CLOSING PLENARY SESSION 10:30 am Welcome and Introductions Todd Allen, MD, Assistant Quality Officer, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT (Moderator) Elizabeth Mitchell, President and Chief Executive Officer, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement; Member, Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee, Portland, ME (Co chair) 11:30 am Closing Keynote Panel: Preparing for a Successful Future 10:15 am The Challenges of Managing Risk and in a Value-based World Clinical Quality are the Same through Barbara L. McAneny, MD, Board Certified Medical Oncologist and Generations of Acronyms Hematologist; Co-founder and Managing Partner, New Mexico Oncology Robert J. Margolis, MD, Robert and Lisa Margolis Family Foundation, Hematology Consultants Ltd.; Former Chair, American Medical Association, Duke-Robert J. Margolis, MD, Center for Health Policy; Board, Martin Albuquerque, NM Luther King, Jr. Hospital in Los Angeles and National Committee for Farzad Mostashari, MPH, MD, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Quality Assurance; Former Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Aledade; Former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, HealthCare Partners, Los Angeles, CA US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC 10:45 am Essential Competencies that Providers Need Samuel R. Nussbaum, MD, Chair, Alternative Payment Model Framework to Succeed under APMs: Lessons from the and Progress Tracking Work Group, Health Care, Payment Learning & Action Accountable Care Learning Collaborative (ACLC) Network, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Former Executive Vice President and, Chief Medical Officer, Anthem, Indianapolis, IN Mary Coppage, Care Delivery and Payment Manager, American Medical Peggy O’Kane, President, National Committee for Quality Assurance, Association, Washington, DC Washington, DC Kavita Patel, MD, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Melissa Kurtz, Director of Finance, Henry Ford Physician Network, Member, Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee; Detroit, MI Former Director of Policy, The White House; Former Senior Advisor, Senator Edward Kennedy, Washington, DC (Moderator) 12:30 pm Adjournment HOTEL INFORMATION/RESERVATIONS The MACRA MIPS/APM Summit does not contract with any third party organization to make hotel reservations for attendees of the Summit. All attendees should make their hotel reservations directly with the hotel and not with a third party vendor. The Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill is the official hotel for the National MACRA MIPS/APM Summit collocated with the Population Health Colloquium Special Edition: Pop Health Policy and Strategy Under the New Administration. A special group rate of $279.00 single/double per night (plus tax) has been arranged for Attendees. To make your hotel reservations, please go to www. macrasummit.com/travel.html and you will be directed to our reservations page where you may book, modify or cancel your hotel reservations at any time. Reservations at the group rate will be accepted while rooms are available or until the cut-off date of Wednesday, November 9, 2016. After this, reservations will be accepted on a space-available basis at the prevailing rate. 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This two-event pass provides you with both onsite and online access both events. 8 MACRA2016.indd 8 8/29/16 5:57 PM 7 TWELFTH NATIONAL VALUE-BASED PAYMENT Hybrid Conferences 1 & Internet AND PAY FOR PERFORMANCE SUMMIT Events 0 See website 2 The Leading Forum on Pay for Performance, Transparency and Value-Driven Healthcare N MEDIA PARTNERS: Harvard Health Policy Review and Health Affairs I March 8 – 10, 2017 • Grand Hyatt San Francisco, San Francisco, CA www.PFPSummit.com S E SEVENTEENTH POPULATION HEALTH COLLOQUIUM T A The Leading Forum on Innovations in Population Health & Care Coordination D SPONSORED BY Jefferson School of Population Health E COSPONSORED BY Population Health Alliance S MEDIA PARTNERS: Harvard Health Policy Review and Health Affairs and Population Health Journal E March 27 – 29, 2017 • Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA www.PopulationHealthColloquium.com H T TWENTY SIXTH NATIONAL HIPAA SUMMIT E The Leading Forum on Healthcare EDI, Privacy, Breach Notification, V Confidentiality, Data Security and HIPAA Compliance A MEDIA PARTNERS: Harvard Health Policy Review and Health Affairs S March 29 – 31, 2017 • Grand Hyatt, Washington, DC www.HIPAASummit.com HEALTH DATAPALOOZA 2017 HOSTED BY AcademyHealth MEDIA PARTNERS: Harvard Health Policy Review and Health Affairs April 26 – 28, 2017 • Washington Hilton, Washington, DC www.HealthDatapalooza.org PHOTOS: SAN FRANCISCO iStock Photo ©2014 dell640 • WASHINGTON iStock Photo ©2008 S. 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Registrants will be MAIL: Conference Office, 12330 N.E. 8th Street, Suite 101, able to change their user names and passwords and manage their accounts. Bellevue, WA 98005-3187 3. Webcast registrants will enjoy six (6) months access from date of issuance of user name and password. FOR REGISTRATION QUESTIONS: 4. Only one user (per user name and password) may view or access archived confer- PHONE: 800-684-4549 (Continental US, Alaska and Hawaii only) or ence. It is not permissible to share user name and password with third parties. Should 206-629-2350, Monday-Friday, 7 AM - 5 PM PST Webcast registrants choose to access post conference content via Flash Drive, this individual use limitation applies. It is not permissible to share alternative media with E-MAIL: [email protected] third parties. 5. User name and password use will be monitored to assure compliance. 6. 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If payment is not received by seven days prior to the Onsite attendees can also request a Certificate of Attendance which they can file Conference, credit card payment will be processed. with appropriate entities for credit, and webcast attendees can request a Webcast Certificate of Attendance on which they can certify the number of hours they TAX DEDUCTIBILITY watched and can file with appropriate entities for credit. Expenses of training including tuition, travel, lodging and meals, incurred to maintain or improve skills in your profession may be tax deductible. Consult your tax advisor. Federal Tax ID: 91-1892021. knowledge regarding the unauthorized Conference content sharing, contact the Conference registration office. CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS (CEUs) The Summit does not offer pre-approved Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) directly. REGISTRATION BINDING AGREEMENT However, onsite attendees can request a Certificate of Attendance which they can Registration (whether online or by this form) constitutes a contract and all of these file with appropriate entities for credit, and webcast attendees can request an Online terms and conditions are binding on the parties. In particular, these terms and condi- Certificate of Attendance on which they can certify the number of hours they watched tions shall apply in the case of any credit/debit card dispute. and can file with appropriate entities for credit. GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS CANCELLATIONS/SUBSTITUTIONS Program subject to cancellation or change. If the program is cancelled the only liability No refunds will be given for “no-shows” or for cancellations of either online or onsite of the Conference will be to refund the registration fee paid. The Conference shall registrations. You may send a substitute or transfer your onsite registration to an online have no liability regarding travel or other costs. Registration form submitted via fax, registration. For more information, please call the Conference Office at 800-684-4549 mail, email or online constitutes binding agreement between the parties. or 206-629-2350. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY Call 800-684-4549 (Continental US, Alaska and Hawaii only) or 206-629-2350, Unauthorized sharing of Conference content via Webcast access through the shar- send e-mail to [email protected], or visit our website at ing of user names and passwords or via alternative media (Flash Drive) through the www.MACRASummit.com. sharing of said media is restricted by law and may subject the copyright infringer to substantial civil damages. The Conference aggressively pursues copyright infringers. If a registrant needs the ability to share Conference content within his or her organiza- TUITION SCHOLARSHIPS tion, multiple Conference registrations are available at discounted rates. The MACRA MIPS/APM Summit is now offering partial and full Tuition Scholarships to The Conference will pay a reward for information regarding unauthorized qualifying representatives of local, state and federal government, consumer advocate sharing of Conference content. The reward will be one quarter (25%) of any recovery organizations, safety net providers, academics, students and health services research resulting from a copyright infringement (less legal fees and other expenses related organizations. to the recovery) up to a maximum reward payment of $25,000. The payment will be Supported by made to the individual or individuals who in the opinion of our legal counsel first provided the factual information, which was necessary for the recovery. If you have 10 MACRA2016.indd 10 8/29/16 5:57 PM