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Consumer-Driven Health Care: Rewarding Valued Care

Presented by LifeScience Alley Crossroads Series

9/17/2008

Time

Registration: 7:30 am - 8:00 am
Program: 8:00 am - 11:30 am

Event Description

LifeScience Alley's Crossroads Series will delve into payment reform that takes its cues from the Consumer-Driven Health Care movement. The September 17 program Rewarding Valued Care will feature a keynote address by Tony Miller, CEO of Carol - a disruptive health care technology company based in Minnesota.

This subject is attracting a great deal of attention and momentum, as health consumer advocates, policy makers and the public in general look to turn the tables on how financial rewards should be realigned. The new paradigm, in their eyes, will provide incentives for preventive health, transparency and a focus on the whole person. In order for such a change to occur, it will take a multi-faceted approach with a shared goal involving committed leaders in our life science and health care community.

Following Miller's keynote presentation, a panel of experts - including leading employers, health care providers, insurers and policy makers - will discuss what it will take to get the ball rolling in Minnesota and make it stick. This will have implications for the manufacturers of therapeutics - devices and drugs - as well as payers, health care providers, patients and public policymakers. Most of all, it promises improvements in patient health.

Lead Sponsor: Larsen Design
In-Kind Sponsor: Travelers Insurance

Program Location: Jackson Room - Travelers Insurance Headquarters (Downtown St. Paul)
Ramp parking within 2 blocks

Speakers

Jeanne Denz, Director, Global Employee Benefits, General Mills, Inc.; Rick Kupchella, Anchor for KARE 11 News Weekends and Reporter, KARE-11; Cal Ludeman, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services; Tony Miller, CEO, Carol; John A. Nyman, PhD, Professor of Health Economics, University of Minnesota; Brian H. Rank, M.D., Medical Director, Health Partners Medical Group, HealthPartners; Kirk Stapleton, Senior VP of Network Planning, United HealthCare Corporation; Andrea Walsh, Executive VP & Chief Marketing Officer, HealthPartners

Jeanne Denz is Director, Global Employee Benefits for General Mills. In this capacity Ms. Denz is responsible for the design, cost, communication and administration (more)

Rick Kupchella started at KARE 11 in 1989. He began as a general assignment reporter, moving into investigations and special projects before being named weekend anchor in June 1995. (more)

Cal Ludeman is commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS), the state's largest agency with an annual budget of $11 billion and more than (more)

Tony Miller leads the vision of Carol, The Care Marketplace. His commitment to improving health care has been the mainstay of his career. In 2006, Miller (more)

John A. Nyman, PhD is a health economist and Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota. His research (more)

Brian H. Rank, M.D. serves as Medical Director for HealthPartners Medical Group. He is also a member of the Hematology/Oncology Section and maintains an active (more)

Kirk Stapleton is responsible for design of UnitedHealthcare's national cardiac, orthopaedic and spine strategies that account for more than $9 billion in annual (more)

Andrea Walsh is the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at HealthPartners, a health care company providing care and coverage to over 1 million people (more)