Web-based Audio Conference /
Position Yourself / Innovations in Care Integration
May 6, 2010 | 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT

Examining Long-Term Care Reform /

Avalere Health, in partnership with The SCAN Foundation, recently launched an innovative web-based tool that enables users to explore critical issues related to the design and implementation of a federally run long-term care benefit. This tool – called the Long-Term Care Policy Simulator – allows users to model various policy options for a long-term care benefit and explore alternate policy approaches to understand how different policy choices affect cost and coverage estimates.

The launch of this tool follows passage of the Community Living Assistance and Supports (CLASS) program, a provision of health reform that for the first time creates a public long-term care insurance program. Although Long-Term Care Policy Simulator does not model CLASS specifically, it offers similar policy options and allows users to explore key issues related to its implementation.

Join Avalere Health and The SCAN Foundation for a 90-minute audio conference that will discuss:

• How the Long-Term Care Policy Simulator works, including a full demonstration of its ability to generate cost and participation estimates based on user choices for benefit designs
• How important policy decisions – including making the benefit voluntary versus mandatory – affect premium and federal savings estimates over a 75-year budget window
• Issues for policymakers and long-term care advocates to consider beyond immediate CLASS implementation action

• Anne Tumlinson, Vice President, Avalere Health
• Eric Hammelman, Senior Manager, Avalere Health
• Gretchen Alkema, Vice President Policy and Communications, The SCAN Foundation
• Judy Feder, Professor, Public Policy, Georgetown University and Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

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Questions /

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For information, please call Zach Drouin at 202.207.3838 or email zdrouin@avalerehealth.net.

Cancellation Policy: To receive a refund, notice is required at least seven business days prior to the audio conference. With proper notice, fees are refunded minus a $40 service fee. No refunds are given for cancellations received with less than seven days notice. Avalere Health reserves the right to cancel or reschedule an audio conference due to unforeseen circumstances.