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Agenda: Pre-Conference
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Held at Renaissance Marriott Hotel
999 9th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001
Shuttle Busses Available between Capitol Hyatt and Renaissance
Click here for shuttle details
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PRECONFERENCE SYMPOSIA
OPTIONAL CONCURRENT SESSIONS
9:00 am to 12:30 pm (concurrent sessions; choose one session only)
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9:00 a.m. |
Preconference I: A Primer on Medicare and Pharmaceuticals
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Jack Rodgers, Ph.D
Director, Health Policy Economics Group
PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP
Washington, DC
Presentation Material (Acrobat)
Presentation Material (Powerpoint)
T. Reed Stephens, Esq.
Partner, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
Former Trial Attorney, Civil Fraud
U.S. Department of Justice
Washington, DC
Presentation Material (Acrobat)
Presentation Material (Powerpoint)
R. Alexander Vachon, III, Ph.D.
Hamilton PPB
Former Chief Social Security Analyst
Senate Finance Committee
Washington, DC
Presentation Material (Acrobat)
Presentation Material (Powerpoint)
Handout Material (Acrobat)
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9:00 a.m. |
Preconference II: The Compliance Implications of the New Medicare Prescription Drug Legislation and Other Pharmaceutical Sector Compliance Issues Update
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John Bentivoglio, Esq.
Partner, Arnold and Porter
Former Special Counsel for Healthcare Fraud and Chief Privacy Officer
United States Department of Justice
Washington, DC
Richard P. Kusserow
President, Strategic Management Systems, Inc.
Former Inspector General
Department of Health & Human Services
Washington, DC
Presentation Material (Acrobat)
Presentation Material (Powerpoint)
Handout Material (Acrobat)
Handout Material (Microsoft Word)
Lewis Morris, Esq.
Chief Counsel to the Inspector General
Office of Inspector General
Department of Health and Human Services
Washington, DC
Janet Rehnquist, Esq.
Partner, Venable LLP
Former Inspector General
Department of Health & Human Services
Washington, DC
Presentation Material (Acrobat)
Presentation Material (Powerpoint)
Sheryl Vacca
Western Region Practice Leader
Health Care & Life Science Regulatory
Deloitte & Touche
Immediate Past President, Health Care Compliance Association
Los Angeles, CA
Presentation Material (Acrobat)
Brenton L. Saunders, JD, MBA
Senior Vice President
Global Compliance and Business Practices
Schering-Plough Corporation
Past President, Health Care Compliance Association
Founder and Chair-elect
International Association of Privacy Officers
Kenilworth, NJ
(Moderator)
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12:30 p.m. |
Preconference Adjournment
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Agenda: Day 1
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Held at Renaissance Marriott Hotel
999 9th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001
Shuttle Busses Available between Capitol Hyatt and Renaissance
Click here for shuttle details
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NATIONAL MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG CONGRESS
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1:00 p.m. |
Welcome and Introduction
John Iglehart
Founding Editor
Health Affairs
Washington, DC
(Congress Co chair)
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1:05 p.m. |
Overview of the New Medicare Prescription Drug Legislation
The Honorable Tommy Thompson
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Department of Health and Human Services
Baltimore, MD
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1:30 p.m. |
Medicare Prescription Drug Legislation: A Perspective from the Battlefield
Thomas Scully, Esq.
Partner, Alston & Bird
Senior Adviser, Welsh, Carson, Anderson and Stowe
Former Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Department of Health and Human Services
Washington, DC
Presentation Material (Acrobat)
Presentation Material (Powerpoint)
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2:15 p.m. |
Medicare Politics and Policy: House and Senate Staffers Comment on Building the New Medicare Prescription Drug Legislation
Mark Hayes
Director of the Health Staff
Finance Committee
United States Senate
Washington, DC
Liz Fowler
Senate Finance Committee
Democratic Staff
Washington, DC
Patrick Morrisey
Deputy Staff Director, Committee on Energy & Commerce
United States House of Representatives
Washington, DC
David Nexon
Health Policy Director
Office of Ranking Member, Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA)
Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee
Washington, DC
Dean A. Rosen
Staff, Office of Majority Leader Bill Frist
United States Senate
Washington, DC
Joel White
Staff of the Ways and Means Committee
United States House of Representatives
Washington, DC
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3:30 p.m. |
Break
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4:00 p.m. |
The Implications of the New Medicare Prescription Drug Legislation to the States: A Governor's Perspective
Governor Dirk Kempthorne
State of Idaho
Chairman, National Governors Association
Boise, ID
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4:30 p.m. |
The Implications of the New Medicare Prescription Drug Legislation to the States: A Legislative Perspective
Kevin Concannon
Director, Iowa Department of Human Services
Des Moines, IA
S. Peter Mills
Member, Appropriations Committee
Maine House of Representatives
Skowhegan, ME
Presentation Material (Acrobat)
Presentation Material (Microsoft Word)
John A. Hurson
Chair, Health and Government Operations Committee
Maryland House of Delegates
President-Elect, National Conference of State Legislatures
Annapolis, MD
(Moderator)
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5:00 p.m. |
Medicare Politics and the Press: The Perspectives of the "Stake Out Group" of Press Representatives on the Politics of the New Medicare Prescription Drug Legislation
Mary Agnes Carey
Health Care Reporter
Congressional Quarterly Weekly
Washington, DC
Joanne Kenen
Reporter, Reuters
Washington, DC
Sarah Lueck
Staff Reporter, Wall Street Journal
Washington, DC
Julie Rovner
Health Policy Correspondent, National Public Radio
Special Correspondent, National Journal's CongressDaily
Contributing Editor, Business and Health
Washington, DC
Steve Teske
Reporter, Bureau of National Affairs
Washington, DC
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6:00 p.m. |
Adjournment
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