News & Events

We are pleased to support the University of Michigan V-BID Center and their 2011 Symposium “The State of Value-Based Insurance Design” November 16, 2011. For more information and to register go to: http://www.sph.umich.edu/vbidcenter/

Value-Based Purchasing: Next Steps held September 22, 2011

Agenda

John Mahoney, MD: "Research Findings: Value-Based Insurance Plus Disease Management”

Mary Ellen Benzik, MD: “The Battle Creek Experience” - PHO Medical Director, Physicians focus on improving chronic care
Rick Hensley, City of Battle Creek Risk Manager, Public Employer implements Value-based Insurance Design (VBID)

Jeff Greene, CEO and founder, MedEncentive: “Mutual Accountability and Information Therapy - secret weapons in cost containment”

Jeff Greene: MedEncentive: Does it work? (Independent studies of the healthcare cost containment capabilities of the MedEncentive Information Therapy Program)

The Oklahoma Trial - Amy Chesser, PhD, University of Kansas School of Medicine
The Kansas Trial – Amy Chesser, PhD
The Washington Trial - Tom Forsberg, The Loomis Company

Jeff Greene and Amy Chesser, PhD: “Why does MedEncentive work?”

"Value-Based Purchasing for Small to Mid-sized Employers” held March 25, 2011

Agenda

Mark Fendrick - "Value-Based Insurance Design"

Andrew Webber - "Why Value Based Purchasing for Small to Mid-Sized Employers?"

Gary Kushner - "Value-Based Plan Design: Tools Employers Need"

Bruce Sherman

Mary Ann Tournoux - "Value-Based Insurance Design"

David Ellis - "Value Based Plan Designs"

Michael Chernew - "VBID: What we know and opportunities for research"

Speaker’s Bios

The presentations are available in DVD format. Contact Marilyn Bell mhbell@michpha.org or 269-668-4149 to request copies.

2010 Annual Fall Kickoff Conference - "Local Healthcare Reform: Cost Containment Opportunities for Employers"

Agenda

Presentations

Marilyn Bell - "A Business Strategy: Health Care Coalition"
Marianne Udow-Phillips - "Health Reform: The Impact on Michigan"
Peter Pratt - "National Health Care Reform - Now The Hard Work Begins"
Jennifer Aloff - "Health Care Reform: The Value of Primary Care"
Robert Casalou - "A Health System Perspective"
Rory Lafferty - "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"
Jeff Greene - "Incentives - Win/Win/Win for Employers/Insurers, Physicians and Employees – Part 2"
Robin Foust - "Data Driven Achievement of Optimal Healthcare & Financial Outcomes"
Herb Kops/Teresa Zaski - "Healthy Living Initiative"
Larry Schultz - "Role of Wellness and Culture of Health at Great Lakes Industry, Inc."

July 20, 2010 Media Release
Partnership Promotes Employee Health and Saves Money

June 9, 2010 Media Release
Local Organizations Collaborate to Improve Health Practices of Small Businesses

2009 Annual Fall Kickoff Conference - "Healthcare Reform: Survival Kit for Employers".

Agenda

Presentations
Marilyn Bell - “Healthcare Reform: Survival Kit for Employers”
Mary Ellen Benzik MD - "Community Journey Patient Centered Medical Home"
Mary Durfee MD - "Practice Transformation in a Physician Organization"
Thomas Ruane MD - "Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Experience with the Patient Centered Medical Home"
Dennis White - "The NBCH eValue8 Initiative"
Joseph Fortuna MD - "Is there a RHITEC In Your Future?"
Mary Bradley - "Pitney Bowes’ Value Based Purchasing"
Jeff Greene - “Incentives--Win/Win/Win for Employers/Insurers, Physicians and Employees”

2008 Annual Fall Conference - "Do You Know Your Numbers?"

Agenda

Presentations
Marilyn Bell - "Know Your Numbers"
Jan Blair - "Improving Community Health and Working to Contain Costs"
John Clymer - "Why Invest? - Recommendations for Improving Your Prevention Investment"
John Clymer - "Partnership for Prevention and the National Commission on Prevention Priorities"
Dee Edington - "Health Management as a Serious Business Strategy"
Art Franke - "Keys to Kidney Health"
Scott Foster - "ROI"
Bill Greer - "Kellogg Company"
Jed Jacobson - "The Value of a Dental Benefit Using an Evidence-Based ROI Model"
Tim Kelley - "Insisting on the Right Fit"
Cheryl Larson - "Employer Trends and Best Practices in Health Benefits and Wellness Initiatives"
Don Powell - "The Health and Economic Implications of Worksite Wellness Programs"

2007 Annual Fall Conference: “Value-Driven Health Care”

Agenda

Presentations
Marilyn Bell - "Welcome and Introductions"
Larry Boress - "Are Employers Ready to Change Benefit Design?"
Barry Bunting - "Asheville: An Ounce of Prevention"
Keith Bruhnsen - "U-M Drug Carve-out – Greater Plan Sponsor Involvement in Drug Benefit Management"
Brooke Bliss - "Patient Self-Management: Diabetes"
Maureen Lydon - "A Public/Private Collaboration"
Gordon Moore, MD - "The Emerging Role of the Physician"
Tom Simmer, MD - "Value Partnerships: Physician Incentive Program"
Denise Christy - "Change Health Care Now"
Jamie Spriet - "Real Benefits for Real People"
Leon Lamoreaux - "Providing Value-Driven Health Care"

Statement of Support for the Four Cornerstones of Value-driven Health Care

On January 29, 2007 at a Town Hall Meeting in Detroit with Health & Human Services Secretary, Michael Leavitt (center), MICHPHA Executive Director Marilyn Bell (right) and MICHPHA President James Mitchell (far right) sign the Employers Commitment Letters to Support the Four Cornerstones of Value-driven Healthcare.

Click here to read the Statement of Support. For more information, visit the Value-driven Health Care website.

2006 Fall Kick Off - "Are You Engaged?"

Agenda

Presentations:
Thomas Parry, PhD - "Workforce Health - From Cost to Value"
Gary Kushner - "Consumer-Directed Health Plans"
Laura Jacobus-Kantor, PhD - "Selected Results from Chronic Disease Management and Behavioral Health"
Dee Eddington, PhD - "Health Management as a Serious Business Strategy"
Mark Fendrick, MD - "Value-Based Insurance Design"
Patricia Marine Barrett - "Putting It All Together and Driving Quality"