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Pharmaceutical/Medical Packaging Leadership Summit 2012


June 6-7, 2012
Sheraton Baltimore North Hotel
Baltimore, MD
United States

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Conference Details:
With the healthcare industry rapidly changing, pharmaceutical and medical device industry leaders need, now more than ever, to be equipped with the strategies and technologies to produce and distribute quality and cost-effective drugs. Our Pharmaceutical and Medical Packaging Leadership Summit will present these strategies and facilitate the development of a new age for the pharmaceutical industry.

By joining together leaders and innovators from the packaging, labeling and pharmaceutical industries, The Pharmaceutical and Medical Packaging Leadership Summit will bring its guests the most up to date and important information on hot topics such as: serialization- from the theoretical to practice and how to ensure compliance and excellence by 2015, insight to the new sustainability efforts the industry is planning, incorporating human factors research into package testing and development to adapt to evolving populations and much more!
Intended Audience:
Opal Events' Pharmaceutical and Medical Packaging Leadership Summit has been researched and developed specifically for: Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Packaging Industry Professionals, including Managers, Directors and VP's of:
  • Research & Development
  • Clinical Research
  • Supply Chain
  • Logistics
  • Distribution
  • Security
  • Global Logistics
  • Regulatory Affairs
  • Transportation
  • Risk Management
  • Engineering
  • Product Development
  • Scientific Affairs
Our Distinguised Speaking Faculty Includes:
Day Two Chair:
Jeff Mesaros, Board Member, Florida Board of Pharmacy

Richard Smith, Managing Director- Life Sciences and Specialty Services, Global Trade Services, FedEx Express
William E. McCune, DrPH, CPP, Consultant, McCune Consulting
George Wright IV, VP, Consulting and Business Development, Product Identification & Processing Systems Inc
Delmar R. Mineard, Manager Packaging Engineering, Boehringer-Ingelheim
Shanna L. Moore, Global Director of Sustainability, DuPont Packaging and Industrial Polymers
Richard K Bank, Director, Sustainable Supply Chain Foundation
Ray McCabe, Sr. Product Sales Specialist, Bahnson Environmental Specialities
John Rocco, Executive Vice President, The Mundy Companies
Michael Greenholtz, Vice President Reliability Solutions, Genesis Solutions
Joe Rettinger, VP, Soliance
Mike Mills, Senior Manager, Mundy Companies
Oliver Stauffer, VP Inspection Technologies, PTI inspection Systems
Patrick McGrath, General Manager USA, Berlinger
Jeff Mesaros, Board Member, Florida Board of Pharmacy
Don Singer, Global Manager, GlaxoSmithKline
Walter Berghahn, President, SmartRmeds for Life, Executive Director, HCPC
Dave Restaino, Attorney, Fox Rothschild LLP
Dr. Laura Bix, Associate Professor, Michigan State University School of Packaging
Reid Graves, Senior Pharmaceutical Advisor, 6DCP
Minal Mistry, Senior Manager, Sustainable Packaging Coalition, GreenBlue
Joe Samudovsky
, Managing Director, Alaska Airlines
Speaker Bios

Hotel Info:
Sheraton Baltimore North Hotel
903 Dulaney Valley Road
Baltimore, MD 21204
Tel: 410-321-7400

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2012 Agenda (current as of 6/05/12)
Past Conference Day 1: Monday, February 27, 2012
8:00 am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Opal Events' Welcome
9:05 am
Chair's Welcome and Keynote Address:
TRYING TO HIT A MOVING TARGET: WHAT WE KNOW DRIVES YOUR SCORE
  • What's changed since last year's ratings.
Chair:
Vice President, GORMAN HEALTH GROUP, LLC
9:50 am
Spotlight Session:
STAR PERFORMERS PANEL DISCUSSION

Hear from the 2011 top-rated plans on bonus payments and other competitive advantages.

Moderator:
VP Sales, MATRIX MEDICAL NETWORK

Panelists:
Vice President, Medicare, MARTIN'S POINT HEALTH CARE
Senior Medical Director, Senior Products, TUFTS HEALTH PLAN
Director, Content of Care, Group Health Cooperative, GROUP HEALTH COOPERATIVE INC.
Associate Director of Medical Quality Management, Government Programs, MVP HEALTH CARE
10:50 am
Mid-Morning Refreshment & Networking Break
11:20 am
HEALTH ADVOCATE MEDICARE STARS PLATFORM: DRIVING MEMBER ENGAGEMENT TO MAXIMIZE REIMBURSEMENT

This talk will focus on Member engagement as the key to improving a plan's Medicare Stars levels. Motivating Medicare members to address their own health needs presents unique challenges and is not easy. Putting in place complementing services like paying for transportation, arranging for home monitoring and testing, and facilitating physician appointments builds success.

Speaker:
Co-Founder, EVP, and Chief Medical Officer, HEALTH ADVOCATE, INC.
12:05 pm
Luncheon
1:05 pm
INTEGRATING HEALTH PLAN OPERATIONS TO IMPROVE STAR RATINGS
  • IT & data management tactics to impact ratings
Speaker:
Senior Director of Clinical and Quality Outcomes, MEDASSURANT
1:50 pm
Mid-Afternoon Refreshment & Networking Break
2:20 pm
Provider and Member Engagement Spotlight:
CALIFORNIA QUALITY COLLABORATIVE SPOTLIGHT-LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE METEOR PROGRAM: SUPPORTING PHYSICIAN GROUPS IN THE STARS' IMPROVEMENT JOURNEY

Moderator:
Director, Pacific Business Group on Health, CALIFORNIA QUALITY COLLABORATIVE

Panelists:

IPA Administrator, CHOICE MEDICAL GROUP/CHOICE PHYSICIANS NETWORK
Quality Incentive Program Coordinator, COAST HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT, LLC
Quality Incentive Programs Specialist, COAST HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT, LLC
3:05 pm
Provider and Member Engagement Strategies
PART 2: HEALTH PLAN PERSPECTIVES
  • Pro-active member surveys
  • Intervention strategies
Speaker:
Vice President, Medicare, MARTIN'S POINT HEALTH CARE
3:55 pm
PART D CAHPS SCORES – THE MOST IMPORTANT MEASURES
  • How are part C and part D scores interrelated?
  • How are part D CAHPS scores and adherence scores related?
  • How do claims payment, formulary design and UM programs interact to drive those scores?
  • What are the implications for adherence?
  • Suggestions for programmatic interventions
Speaker:
Executive Director, Center of Excellence for Payer Quality Improvement, OPTUM INSIGHT CONSULTING
4:40 pm
Case Study
STARS IMPROVEMENT IN A NETWORK MODEL HMO
  • Making a business case for quality
  • Organizing for simultaneous improvement in multiple metrics
  • Strategies for engaging the provider network in star-focused quality improvement
  • Overcoming the challenges in organizing and engagement
  • When measures change
Speaker:
Senior Medical Director, Senior Products, TUFTS HEALTH PLAN
5:25 pm
Day One Adjourns; Cocktail Reception Immediately to Follow
5:30 pm
Past Conference Day 2: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Chair's Day One Recap

Chair:
Vice President, GORMAN HEALTH GROUP, LLC
9:15 am
Spotlight Address:
SERVICE MODEL OVERHAUL: WHAT HEALTH PLANS HAVE TO LEARN FROM ZAPPOS

In this era of Star Ratings, with a third of the rating coming from HEDIS and member service related survey questions, the service model has a huge level of impact. How do you get your members to act on your recommendations?

Speaker:

CEO, GORMAN HEALTH GROUP, LLC
10:00 am
Mid-Morning Refreshment Break; Hotel Check-Out
10:30 am
THE PHYSICIAN GROUP'S ROLE IN STAR RATINGS: WHY SHOULD AN IPA CARE ABOUT HEALTH PLAN RATINGS?
  • Is your physician compensation model set to facilitate physicians performing on the measures and receiving additional performance dollars?
  • What metrics can you track as an organization?
  • What tools at the point of care delivery do you have in place to facilitate the physician and office staff to achieve the measures?
  • What processes does the plan have in place to meet plan based measures?
  • What is your current revenue stream and how does the CMS stars opportunity tie to additional revenue?
  • What percent of a physician's practice would be influenced through a CMS star-based P4P and/or other P4P programs?
Speaker:
Chief Medical Officer, ARIZONA INTEGRATED PHYSICIANS
11:15 am
Luncheon
12:45 pm
QUALITY DRIVES HEALTH CARE REFORM: IHA P4P AND MEDICARE STAR INITIATIVES AS THE KEY FOR COST EFFECTIVE QUALITY CARE FOR ACOS AND MANAGED CARE

Speaker:

Chief Medical Director, HEALTHCARE PARTNERS MEDICAL GROUP OF CALIFORNIA

1:30 pm
DRIVE YOUR HEALTH PLAN TO 5 FAST VIA A STAR CARD
  • Creating an integrated data driven model for 5 stars
  • Using a Star Card as a tool for daily management of star levels derived from members in order to achieve a 5-star threshold
  • How to keep a score cared for measuring the effectiveness of your health plan's initiatives
Speaker:
Senior Director of Quality Initiatives, PHARMMD
2:15 pm
Mid-Afternoon Refreshment and Networking Break

2:45 pm
MVP HEALTHCARE CASE STUDY

Speaker:
Associate Director of Medical Quality Management, Government Programs, MVP HEALTH CARE
3:30 pm
STAR RATINGS IN REVIEW: SYMPOSIUM KEY TAKE-AWAYS

Speaker:
Chief Medical Director, HEALTHCARE PARTNERS MEDICAL GROUP OF CALIFORNIA
4:00 pm
Symposium Adjourns
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