Payment Reform – Three Years Later: Are Policies Delivering on the Promise of Lower Costs & Higher Quality?

Opening Remarks, His Excellency Charlie Baker, Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Presentation of Attorney General’s Report: Examination of Health Care Cost Trends and Cost Drivers: Courtney Aladro, Assistant Attorney General and Senior Health Care Policy Advisor, Health Care Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office

Provider Consolidation: Mergers, Acquisitions & Affiliations – Where is the Market Heading? Martin Gaynor, Ph.D., E.J. Barone Professor of Economics and Health Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

Are ACOs the Answer? Stuart Altman, Ph.D., Chair, Health Policy Commission and Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University; Jeff Goldsmith, Ph.D., President of Health Futures, Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia; Barak D. Richman, Ph.D., Edgar P. and Elizabeth C. Bartlett Professor of Law, Professor of Business Administration, Duke University School of Law; Moderator: Meredith Rosenthal, Ph.D.,Professor or Health Economics and Policy, Harvard University School of Public Health

Integrating Behavioral Health into Patient Centered Care: Linda Rosenberg, MSW, President & CEO, National Council for Behavioral Health

A View of the Marketplace: The State & Stakeholders Respond: Nancy Kane, Ph.D., Professor of Management & Associate Dean for Case-based Teaching and Learning, Harvard School of Public Health; Rick Lord, President & CEO, Associated Industries of Massachusetts; Dolores Mitchell, Executive Director, Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission; Lynn Nicholas, President & CEO, Massachusetts Hospital Association; David Seltz, Executive Director, Health Policy Commission; Steve Walsh, Executive Director, Massachusetts Council of Community Hospitals; Moderator: Jim Braude, Host, WGBH Greater Boston; Co-Host, 89.7 WGBH’s Boston Public Radio