Accountable Care Bulletin             |           January 31, 2011             |           Volume Two Issue Two
Complimentary from the publishers of Accountable Care News      www.accountablecarenews.com

  
Public ACO Forum featuring Berwick, DeParle, McClellan, Fisher and other luminaries

The Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice is hosting a public forum to discuss the most effective and thoughtful path forward for ACOs to achieve such transformation. Speakers will include Donald Berwick, CMS Administrator and Nancy-Ann DeParle, Counselor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Health Reform. A public webcast of the event will be available tomorrow, Tuesday February 1st from 9:30AM to 1:30PM  Eastern time.

The webcast link will be available at http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/0201_accountable_care.aspx (the web site doesn't include webcast login information as of press time. The site indicates this information will be available shortly before or at the time of the event.)

Speakers during the event include Mark B. McClellan, Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform; 
Donald Berwick, Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services;  Debra Ness, President
National Partnership for Women and Families;  Elliott Fisher, Director, Center for Population Health, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice;  Francis J. Crosson, Associate Executive Director
The Permanente Group, Inc.; John Rother, Director of Legislation and Public Policy, Government Relations and Advocacy, AARP;  John Bertko, Guest Scholar, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, The Brookings Institution,  Ed Cymerys, Chief Actuary, Blue Shield of California;  John Goodman, President and CEO
National Center for Policy Analysis;  Gene Lindsey, President and CEO, Atrius Health;  and Nancy-Ann DeParle, Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy