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Appendix B
Public Committee Meeting Agendas
Committee Meeting 1 Agenda
September 16–17, 2010
20 F Street, NW, CoNFereNCe room b,
WaShiNgtoN, DC 20001
DAY 1: Thursday, September 16, 2010
Open SeSSiOn One
10:30 – 10:45 Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Frank Sloan, Ph.D., Chair and Moderator
Policy and Legislative Context for the Study
10:45 – 11:15 Remarks from Study Sponsor (CMS)
Jonathan Blum, M.A., Director, Center for Medicare Management, Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services
11:15 – 12:00 Legislative Perspectives
The Honorable Bruce Braley, U.S. House of Representatives (D-Iowa)
The Honorable Allyson Schwartz, U.S. House of Representatives
(D-Pennsylvania)
Joint Q and A
Adjourn Open Session
12:00
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Open SeSSiOn TwO
Payment Adjustment Factors
1:00 – 2:00 Current Geographic Adjustment Factors Under Medicare: The Hospital Wage
Index and Physician Fee Schedule
Marc Hartstein, Deputy Director, Hospital and Ambulatory Policy Group, CMS
2:00 – 2:40 MedPAC’s Approach to the Hospital Wage Index and Geographic Practice
Cost Indexes (GPCIs)
Mark Miller, Ph.D., Executive Director, MedPAC
2:40 – 3:30 Physician and Hospital Perspectives on the Geographic Adjustment Factors
Sherry Smith, M.S., C.P.A., Director, Physician Payment Policy and Systems,
American Medical Association
James Bentley, Ph.D., Former Senior Vice President, American Hospital
Association
Joint Q and A
Adjourn
3:30
DAY 2: Friday, September 17, 2010
Open SeSSiOn Three
Labor Markets
8:00 Welcome
8:05 – 8:50 Theoretical Approaches to Labor Market Variations
Dan A. Black, Ph.D., Professor and Dean, Harris School of Public Policy,
University of Chicago
SeSSiOn Three, pArT 2:
Practitioners’ Recommendations for Change
8:50 – 10:00 Recommended Changes in Physician and Hospital Geographic Adjustment
Factors
Michael Kitchell, M.D., Neurologist and President of Board of Directors,
McFarland Clinic, Ames, Iowa, and President, Iowa Medical Society
Jennie Rhinehart, Administrator and CEO, Community Hospital, Tallassee,
Alabama, American Hospital Association Task Force on Variations in Health
Care Spending
Larry deGhetaldi, M.D., Family Medicine, Palo Alto Medical Foundation,
and Chair of Medicare Committee, California Medical Association
Douglas Reding, M.D., F.A.C.P., M.P.H., Vice President, Marshfield Clinic,
Marshfield, Wisconsin
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Karen Heller, M.B.A., Executive Vice President, Greater New York Hospital
Association, New York, New York
Alice Tolbert Coombs, M.D., Anesthesiologist and President, Massachusetts
Medical Society
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:00 Q and A
Adjourn Open Session
11:00
Day 2: Friday, September 17, 2010
Open SeSSiOn FOur
Public Comments
1:00 – 2:00 Additional Public Statements on Hospital and Physician Adjustment Factor
Components and Calculations (by request through IOM website)
Dario de Ghetaldi, Corey, Luzaich, Pliska, de Ghetaldi & Nastari LLP,
Millbrae, California
Dale Baker, Baker Healthcare Consulting, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana
Edward Bentley, M.D., California Medical Association, Santa Barbara,
California
Jerome Connolly, American Academy of Family Physicians, Washington, DC
Craig Boyer, North Country Health Services, Bemidji, Minnesota
Tim Bartholow, Wisconsin Medical Society, Madison, Wisconsin
Steve Speil, Federation of American Hospitals
Adjourn
2:00
Committee Meeting 3 Agenda
JaNuary 20, 2011
500 FiFth Street, NW, room 101
WaShiNgtoN, DC 20001
3:15 – 3:30 Speaker arrivals and room set-up
3:30 – 4:45 Panel One: Provider Perspectives on Medicare Payment
10-minute individual presentations followed by Q and A with committee and
audience
Roland Goertz, M.D., President, American Academy of Family Physicians
Jan Towers, Ph.D., F.A.A.N.P., F.A.A.N., Health Policy Director, American
Academy of Nurse Practitioners
James G. Potter, Senior VP of Advocacy and Government Relations, American
Academy of Physician Assistants
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Elena Rios, M.D., President, National Hispanic Medical Association
Byron Sogie-Thomas, M.S., Director, Office of Health Policy and Government
Relations
Panel Two: Open Forum for Stakeholders
4:45 – 6:00
5-minute individual presentations followed by Q and A with committee and
audience
Dale Baker, President, Baker Healthcare Consulting, Inc.
Adjourn
6:00
