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 /

		Sarah Thomas Director of the Public Policy Institute Sarah Thomas is the Director of the Public Policy Institute (PPI) Health Team. The team works on issues of cost, access, and quality relating to health care reform, Medicare, Medicaid, prescription drugs, private insurance and public health. Ms. Thomas joined AARP after 13 years of experience in the federal government – at the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, where she was deputy director, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She also has worked for national associations, in state government and for the Advisory Board Company. Ms. Thomas holds a M.S. in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health.

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