SCI: Summer Workshop for State Officials / Agenda

State Coverage Initiatives

Sponsored by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Coverage Initiatives Program and Conducted by AcademyHealth

Presentations are available in PPT and PDF formats

Monday, June 28, 2004

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 9:10 a.m.	Session 1. Welcome Presenter: Pamela S. Dickson, Senior Program Officer The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
9:10 – 9:30 a.m.	Session 2. Conference Overview Presenter: Alice Burton, Director State Coverage Initiatives
9:30 – 11:00 a.m.	Session 3. Keeping Coverage at the Forefront Moderator: Alan Weil, Director Assessing the New Federalism The Urban Institute Panelists: The Honorable John Hurson, Chairman Health and Government Operations Committee Maryland House of Delegates PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Anne Marie Murphy, Administrator Division of Medical Programs Illinois Department of Public Aid PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Adam Thompson, Legislative and Constituent Liaison Maine Governor’s Office of Health Policy and Finance This session will examine how several states have managed to create and maintain momentum for coverage expansions, including what resources or strategies have been effective for keeping coverage expansions on the table and communicating their importance in difficult budgetary times.
11:00 – 11:15 a.m.	Break
11:15 – 12:30 p.m.	Session 4. Managing Premiums and Cost-Sharing Changes in Public Programs Moderator: Alice Burton, Director State Coverage Initiatives Panelists: Jeanene Smith, M.D., Ph.D. Deputy Administrator Office of Oregon Health Policy and Research PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Tricia Roddy, Director Planning Administration Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Christy Bonstelle, Senior Policy Analyst Massachusetts Office of Medicaid PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout This session will address recent changes in premiums and/or cost-sharing in public programs with particular attention to state research on how these modifications are impacting public program take-up and utilization.
12:30 – 1:45 p.m.	Lunch
1:45 – 3:00 p.m.	Session 5. Evolving Models for Building on Employer-Sponsored Insurance Moderator: Jeremy Alberga, Senior Manager State Coverage Initiatives PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Panelists: Kate Brewster, RIteShare Employer Contact Unit Manager Rhode Island Department of Human Services PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Carolyn Ingram, Director Medical Assistance Division New Mexico Human Services Department PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout This panel will provide lessons learned from states with practical experience operating premium assistance programs and new state approaches to partnering with employers and operating employer buy-in programs.
3:00 – 3:15 p.m.	Break
3:15 – 4:30 p.m.	Session 6. Creating New Mechanisms to Support Employer-Sponsored Insurance Moderator: Alice Burton, Director State Coverage Initiatives Panelists: Deborah Chollet, Ph.D. Senior Fellow Mathematica Policy Research PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Anthony Rodgers, Director Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Gerald Roueche, Executive Assistant to the Director West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout -and- Mary Angel, SCI Project Coordinator West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency This session will explore various mechanisms for subsidizing the insurance market through reinsurance and state efforts to leverage large public purchasers to expand coverage.
4:30 – 5:15 p.m.	Break
5:15 – 6:30 p.m.	Reception and Light Buffet

Tuesday, June 29, 2004

7:45 – 8:50 a.m.	Session 7. State Research Roundtable Sessions Roundtable A SCHIP's Impact on Access and Quality Karen VanLandeghem, Health Policy and Program Consultant Child Health Insurance Research Initiative PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Roundtable B Studying Growth in Premiums and Medical Claims Costs Julie Sonier, Assistant Director Health Economics Program Minnesota Department of Health Roundtable C Evaluation of Primary Care Network Wu Xu, Director Office of Health Care Statistics Utah Department of Health PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout These breakfast roundtables will highlight cutting-edge research being conducted in and by states and the lessons learned for translating research into policy.
9:00 – 9:30 a.m.	Session 8. The Pursuit of Coverage and Quality Health Care Speaker: Lynn Zehnder, Director Benefits Strategy Sears, Roebuck and Co. PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout The speaker will discuss two recent initiatives in which Sears, Roebuck is involved: the Affordable Health Care Solutions Coalition to offer coverage to four million uninsured employees at 50 Fortune 500 companies; and Care Focused Purchasing, a new approach to equip consumers with tools and incentives to make informed care decisions.
9:30 – 10:45 a.m.	Session 9. The New Consumerism in Health Care: Why States Should Care Moderator: Anne Gauthier, Senior Consultant State Coverage Initiatives PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Panelists: Tony Lo Sasso, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor Institute for Policy Research Northwestern University PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Bill Lindsay, Principal Benefit Management & Design, Inc. PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Mila Kofman, Assistant Research Professor Georgetown University Health Policy Institute PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout This panel will tackle the new consumerism in health care and repercussions for state regulatory and policymaking capacities. Specifically, how are employers reacting to rising costs and what kind of benefit designs are they turning to? What are the regulatory implications for states of the new Health Savings Accounts (HSA) allowances under the Medicare Modernization Act?
10:45 – 11:00 a.m.	Break
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.	Session 10. Limited Benefit Packages: Trends in the Public and Private Markets and Impacts on the Uninsured Moderator: Isabel Friedenzohn, Associate State Coverage Initiatives Panelists: Steven Findlay, Director of Research and Policy National Institute for Health Care Management PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Patricia Stromberg, Deputy Commissioner of CHIP and adultBasic Pennsylvania Department of Insurance PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout Wardell Sanders, Executive Director New Jersey Individual Health Coverage Program Board & Small Employer Health Benefits Program Board PowerPoint Slides \| PDF Handout This panel will examine how limited benefit packages have sold in the private market and their take-up in public programs. Speakers will address how insurance carriers and state agencies have experimented with benefit design to reach individuals and small employers and how they have worked together to market – and in some cases – subsidize these products.
12:15 p.m.	Adjourn (box lunches available upon request)