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FINAL AGENDA

National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics

Subcommittee on Population-Specific Issues

April 14-16, 1998

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Conference Room E-275C, Lowrise
John F. Kennedy Federal Building
100 Cambridge Street
Boston, Massachusetts

THIS MEETING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.


Topic: Medicaid Managed Care


Minutes

Tuesday, April 14, 1998


Transcripts: AM | PM
10:00 a.m. Opening Remarks
Regional Office Welcome
Dr. Lisa Iezzoni, Chair
Sam Shekar
Tony Robbins
10:15 a.m. Overview Panel Medicaid Managed Care: Data Policy, Collection, Analysis, and Evaluation Dr. Jack Fowler, University of Massachusetts
Dr. Phillip Caper,
Jo Anne Lutz,
Manon Spitzer Ruben,Codman Research, Inc.
Brian Burwell, The MEDSTAT Group
11:30 a.m. Managed Care Policy and Issues Panel Barbara Fain, Office of the Attorney General
Wendy Mariner, Boston University School of Public Health
Nora Wells, Family Voices
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Advocacy and Issues Panel Elliot Stone, Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, Inc.
Robert Restuccia, Health Care for All
3:00 p.m. Privacy, Program Data, and Provider Panel Phyllis Freeman, University of Massachusetts Law Center
Dr. Kate Ackerman, Boston Medical Center Health Net
Dr. Castellano Turner, University of Massachusetts
5:00 p.m. Adjourn

Wednesday, April 15, 1998

Transcripts: AM | PM
9:30 a.m. Collection, Analysis, and Alliance Panel Dr. Sally Bachman, Boston University School of Social Work
Debbie Thompson, Alzheimer's Association of Eastern Massachusetts
Zolia Torres Feldman, Great Brook Valley Health Center
Lisa Federman, Neighborhood Health Plan
11:00 a.m. Quality of Care and Medicaid Data Panel Carol Tobias, Medicaid Working Group
Diane Flanders, Division of Medical Assistance
Dr. Bruce Landon, Harvard Medical School
Representative Harriette Chandler, Joint Committee on Health Care of the Massachusetts Legislature
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Medicaid Data and Special Populations Panel Dr. Richard Frank, Harvard Medical School
James Michel, Massachusetts Mental Health Substance Abuse Carve Out
Dr. Barbara Dickey, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital
2:45 p.m. Policy, Data, and Quality: State Perspective Mary Beth Fiske,
Anthony Asciutto,
Marjorie Porell, Division of Medical Assistance
4:00 p.m. Provider and Research Panel Dr. Andrew Bergman, Tufts Associated Health Plan
Dr. Carol Upshur, University of Massachusetts
Frank Wong, Institute of Asian American Studies
5:00 p.m. Adjourn

Office of the Regional Director
21st Floor Conference Room
Working Session

Thursday, April 16, 1998

8:30 a.m. Discussion of Medicaid Managed Care Report Development
Priorities and Process to Develop
Outline Report
GW Contract: status, comments, and State selection
Carolyn Rimes
Dale Hitchcock
Mary Moien
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Discussion of Insular Areas Meeting
Review materials including: agenda, questions, and status of meeting
Lynnette Araki
Dale Hitchcock
12:00 p.m. Adjourn

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