Make Your Move /
Health Reform & the Commercial Marketplace
May 4, 2009 | Washington, DC

Conference Overview /

New federal legislation, if enacted, will reshape relationships among health plans, manufacturers, employers, consumers, and the government. Avalere Health’s Symposium, Make Your Move / Health Reform & the Commercial Marketplace, will focus on the critical intersection of unfolding policy decisions and their imminent impact on the commercial healthcare world. We will help you understand:

• Coverage: How will coverage expansions change the demand for healthcare products and services, and what lessons can we learn from recent program expansions like Medicare’s Part D program, and various state-based coverage expansions?
• Cost controls: How will the federal government’s dramatic increase in comparative effectiveness research change the way manufacturers and payers adjust their business strategies?
• Coordination: How will new payment incentives, increased support for health information technologies, and the emergence of new models of care delivery shape decision-making by physicians, hospitals, and payers?
• Competition: As healthcare reform changes the rules of the insurance marketplace, what impact will changes in health benefit design and premium structure have on the marketplace?
• Capital: Hospitals, physician groups, and the nursing home communities face unprecedented challenges in accessing capital – even as health reform proposals contemplate significant changes in care delivery and payment systems. How will the marketplace adjust, and what are policymakers thinking?

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