This public policy conference will look at the role of essential benefits in improving care, governors’ perspectives on essential health benefits, the HHS bulletin’s implications for states and the factors under consideration in their choice of benchmark plans, ensuring patient access to innovations in care and how the benchmark approach to essential benefits should be evaluated against the long-term goal of ensuring a minimum level of quality coverage for patients nationwide. The keynote speaker will be HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius.
Other participants will include former HHS Secretary and Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt; Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick; John McDonough, director of Harvard University’s Center for Public Health Leadership; Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger and Rhode Island Insurance Commissioner Chris Koller.
Feb. 28, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
National Press Club
529 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20045
The registration deadline for this event has passed. For questions regarding conference content, contact George Kelemen at American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network at 202-661-5721 or via e-mail at george.kelemen@cancer.org.
Sponsored by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.