Raising the Bar / Payment Reform and Cardiovascular Disease - Conferences

Raising the Bar /
Payment Reform and
Cardiovascular Disease
June 12, 2009 | Washington, DC

Avalere Health is proud to have assembled a diverse group of leaders and decision-makers in government, industry, and advocacy. These key players will engage you and each other in a dialogue on the current and future state of health reform are in the United States. The insights of these speakers at the Avalere Health Payment Reform and Cardiovascular Disease conference will illustrate how payers and policy makers are raising the bar..

Speaker Profiles /

		Peter V. Lee, JD Executive Director, National Health Policy Pacific Business Group on Health Peter Lee, JD, the Executive Director for National Health Policy of the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH), oversees the efforts of PBGH to shape national and state policies to reinforce purchasers’ efforts to improve the affordability and accessibility of high quality health care. Mr. Lee represents the perspective of purchasers seeking to promote high value in health care by working on California and national policy and quality reform efforts. Mr. Lee is a member of the boards of the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA), the National Quality Forum (NQF), the National Priorities Partnership, and is the co-chair of the Consumer/Purchaser Disclosure Project, a national effort to promote better transparency of health care providers' performance. Mr. Lee has served on numerous national and statewide bodies, such as the Institute of Medicine's Crossing the Quality Chasm Summit Committee and the State of California's Managed Health Care Improvement Task Force. He is a frequent speaker and commentator on national health care quality issues. Mr. Lee testifies and speaks regularly on health care quality issues, presents at conferences and has authored a number of studies on health care issues, including reports on health care quality information and patient advocacy programs. Mr. Lee served as the Chief Executive Officer of PBGH from 2000 to 2008. Before joining PBGH, Mr. Lee was the Executive Director of the Center for Health Care Rights. There he oversaw the Center's direct service, research and advocacy efforts seeking to ensure that consumers are represented at every level of the health care system. Previously, Mr. Lee was an attorney with the Los Angeles firm of Tuttle & Taylor. In the 1980s, he worked on health care issues in Washington, DC, where he was the Director of Programs for the National AIDS Network. He received his law degree from the University of Southern California and his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

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