OVERVIEW
The Fifth National Medicaid Congress comes at a time of great turmoil and great promise in health care. The new Administration has demonstrated that it is committed to real change and has cleared the first, huge hurdle with the passage of landmark health care reform legislation. But significant challenges remain, including potential legal challenges, a staggering Federal budget deficit, soaring health care costs, and no bipartisanship. And at the State level, where budgets must be balanced, policymakers are finding it hard not to make steep cuts in Medicaid benefits or provider payments as they struggle to make up for lost revenues of overwhelming proportions. More than ever, the country needs ideas that work, and the National Medicaid Congress will highlight the best models and the best new thinking from the field as well as from Washington.
Join national policy and industry leaders for the Fifth National Medicaid Congress, June 7-9, 2010, in Washington, DC -- www.MedicaidCongress.com. This critical three-day session will feature two timely and informative preconferences on dual eligibles and the medical home, followed by two full days of plenary and concurrent sessions. For the first time, the Medicaid Congress will also be streamed live over the Internet to make it more accessible to state agencies and not-for-profit organizations with limited travel budgets. The Congress will address all of the critical questions about the current state of Medicaid and its prospects as health care reform moves forward. It is a "must attend" event.
Following are areas that are expected to be addressed in the Congress:
- trends in Medicaid costs and enrollment
- state and federal HIT initiatives
- the view from the Governor's mansion
- Medicaid issues in the current Congressional landscape
- long-term care reform and integrated care for dual eligibles
- e-prescribing initiatives
- State withdrawal from Medicaid?
- Medicaid managed care plans - challenges and opportunities
- care management and quality improvement programs
- managing eligibility and enrollment in an expanded Medicaid program
- the battles ahead in the State legislatures
- increased program integrity and compliance actions
- pay for performance projects and results
- Medicaid and the medical home
- State strategies for HIEs
- and more
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Federal and State Policymakers
- Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
- Health Services Researchers and Academics
- Pharmaceutical and Health Care Executives and Board Members
- State Medicaid and Pharmacy Directors and Managers
- Federal and State Legislators and Staff
- Patient Advocates
- Community Health Centers
- Medicaid Managed Care Directors
- Health Plan, Health System, and Physician Organizations
- Medical Directors
- State Budget Officers
- Physicians
- Healthcare IT Companies and Consultants
- Pharmacists
- Purchasers, including Private Employers and Public Purchasers
- Pharmacy Benefit Management Companies
- Health Plans and Health Insurers
- State Inspectors General and Program Integrity Managers
- Wholesale, Retail, Mail Order, and Internet Pharmacies
- Health Care Attorneys and In-house Counsel
- Pharmaceutical Consultants
- Investment Bankers
- Venture Capitalists
