Agenda – Day 2

Don Crane is the President and CEO of CAPG, a national professional association composed of physician groups dedicated to coordinated, accountable care. These groups are in the forefront of national healthcare reform and represent the care model and payment methodologies adopted by federal legislation for the entire nation.

Mr. Crane joined CAPG in 2001 and has served as President and CEO since that time. During his tenure CAPG has expanded from being a division of a regional hospital trade association consisting of 40 member groups to a national professional association consisting of more than 250 physician organizations.

Mr. Crane serves on the Board of Directors of the National Coalition on Health Care. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of CAPG Health, a magazine that reports on business trends, legislation, and industry initiatives impacting coordinated care.

Dr. Robert Pearl is the former CEO of The Permanente Medical and former president of The Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group. In these roles, he led 10,000 physicians, 38,000 staff, and was responsible for the nationally recognized medical care of almost 5 million Kaiser Permanente members in California, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. Recently named one of Modern Healthcare’s 50 most influential physician leaders, Pearl is an advocate for the power of integrated, prepaid, technologically advanced and physician-led healthcare delivery.

He serves as a clinical professor of plastic surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and is on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

In 2017 he authored “Mistreated: Why We think We’re Getting Good Healthcare—And Why We’re Usually Wrong” a Washington Post bestseller that offers a roadmap for transforming American healthcare.

Dr. Kate Goodrich joined the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in September of 2011 where she serves as Director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ). This Center is responsible for over 20 quality measurement and value-based purchasing programs, implementation of the new Merit-based Incentive Payment System and the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act, quality improvement programs in all 50 states, clinical standards and survey and certification of all providers across the nation, and all coverage decisions for treatments and services for CMS. The Center budget exceeds $1.3 billion annually.

Allison Brennan is the Vice President of Policy for the National Association of ACOs. In this role, she advocates for improving policies to benefit ACOs and to further enable their success. Ms. Brennan joined the association in 2015. Prior to her position with NAACOS, she was a Senior Advocacy Advisor with the Medical Group Management Association. Leading up to that role, Ms. Brennan held positions at The Brookings Institution and the National Patient Advocate Foundation and served as an intern in the U.S. Senate.

Joseph F. Damore, FACHE is Vice President of Population Health Management (PHM) at Premier, Inc. He is responsible for assisting physician groups, hospitals and health systems, health plans, and integrated health systems in implementing population health management arrangements, including Accountable Care Organizations. Prior to joining Premier, Mr. Damore served as the President/CEO of Mission Health System in Asheville, NC and Sparrow Health System in Lansing, MI. He also served in leadership positions with the Greenville Hospital System (SC) and the Sisters of Mercy Health Corporation (now Trinity Health).

He also has served in numerous voluntary roles including Chair of the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association of The Ohio State University and on the Boards of both the North Carolina and Michigan Hospital Associations. He also served on the Board of Directors of the National Alliance for the Advancing not for profit Health care.

Dr. Kloos began serving as President of the AHS Accountable Care Organization in 2016. He continues to serve as Executive Director of the Atlantic Management Services Organization, which provides management services to two Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) affiliated with AHS: Optimus Healthcare Partners and Atlantic ACO. In this capacity, he manages a network that serves over 84,000 Medicare beneficiaries and more than 310,000 commercial attributed beneficiaries.

Dr Kloos serves on the Board of Trustees for the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations. He is a board certified internal medicine practitioner in Warren, NJ, Dr. Kloos was past president of Optimus Healthcare Partners ACO and Vista Health System IPA, and a Trustee and past Board Vice President of the Affiliated Physicians and Employers Health Plan, a self-funded MEWA plan in NJ.

Robert Mechanic is a Senior Fellow at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University and Executive Director of the Health Industry Forum. His research focuses on health care payment systems and the adaptation of organizations to new payment models. Mr. Mechanic has evaluated both commercial and Medicare payment reforms and is known for his expertise in bundled payment. Prior to Brandeis, Mr. Mechanic was a Senior Vice President with the Massachusetts Hospital Association, and Vice President with the Lewin Group. Mr. Mechanic’s work has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and Health Affairs. He is a trustee of Atrius Health, a 850-physician multispecialty group practice and Next Generation ACO.

Principal and Practice Leader for Bundled Payments, ECG Management Consultants, and a nationally recognized expert and Keynote speaker in the area of bundled payments. Author of more than 20 papers on bundled payments, healthcare reform, and payment transformation and featured expert on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Planet Money. In 2012 Ms. Baggot was an appointed expert reviewer by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) for the BPCI for Models 2-4. Ms. Baggot also served as a former lead for CMS Acute Care Episode (“ACE”) Bundled Payment Demonstration. Prior to joining ECG Management Consultants spent ten years in academic healthcare at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and The University of Michigan Health System in key leadership roles. Ms. Baggot holds a Doctor of Philosophy, University of Colorado; Masters in Business Administration and Gregory LaVert Scholar, Loyola University Graduate School of Business; Bachelor of Science in Nursing (summa cum laude), Southern Illinois University.

Akin Demehin is a director of policy at the American Hospital Association (AHA) in Washington, D.C. Akin leads and supports public policy development and advocacy efforts related to quality and patient safety on behalf of the AHA’s nearly 5,000 member hospitals and health systems. Specifically, he manages policy issues related to national quality measurement and pay-for-performance programs for hospitals, physicians and post-acute care providers. Before joining the AHA, Akin worked in roles of increasing responsibility at the National Quality Forum in Washington, D.C., and the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA.

David Muhlestein is Chief Research Officer at Leavitt Partners. He directs the study of accountable care organizations through the LP Center for Accountable Care Intelligence and leads the firm’s quantitative evaluation of health care markets. He is an expert in using policy analysis, predictive modeling, and applied analytics to understand the evolving health care landscape. David also serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor of The Dartmouth Institute (TDI) at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College and is a visiting fellow at the Accountable Care Learning Collaborative. In both of these roles he conducts research to translate learnings of high performing organizations for the benefit of the broader health care system. David earned his doctorate in health services management and policy, JD, MHA, and MS from The Ohio State University, and a BA from Brigham Young University

Brock joined NRHA in 2008. He has administrative responsibility for all areas of member services, including membership, communications and meetings/exhibitions. Brock was a rural hospital administrator for more than 21 years. He has been on the board of the National Rural Health Association and the regional policy board of the American Hospital Association, as well as many regional and state boards involving rural health. He earned a master of public health degree in health administration from the University of Oklahoma and a B.S. degree in biology from Oklahoma Baptist University. He is a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Tim Gronniger is the Senior Vice President for Development and Strategy at Caravan Health. He is also a principal with Piney Branch Strategies and a nonresident fellow with the Center for Health Policy in Brookings’ Economic Studies program. He is the former Chief of Staff and Director of Delivery System Reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where he led the agency’s work on drug spending issues, policy development for the agency’s implementation of the new physician payment system created by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, creation of new payment models, and other topics. He was previously a senior adviser for health care policy at the White House Domestic Policy Council, where he was responsible for coordinating administration activities in health care delivery system reform. Tim also served senior roles at the Committee on Energy & Commerce and the Congressional Budget Office.

Susan Dentzer is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI). One of the nation’s most respected health policy thought leaders and journalists, and a frequent speaker and commentator on television and radio, including NPR, she previously served as senior policy adviser to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, editor-in-chief of the journal Health Affairs, and on-air Health Correspondent for the PBS NewsHour. Dentzer is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, and serves on the Boards of Directors of the American Board of Medical Specialties, Research!America, and the Public Health Institute.