BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Association of Health Care Journalists - ECPv6.17.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Association of Health Care Journalists X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://healthjournalism.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Association of Health Care Journalists REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20030406T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20031026T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20040404T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20041031T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20050403T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20051030T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20060402T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20061029T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20080309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20081102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20090308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20091101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20100314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20101107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20110313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20111106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20120311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20121104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20040716T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140717T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T163514Z CREATED:20231025T161620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T163514Z UID:24011-1089939600-1405558800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Private Healthcare Exchanges Conference DESCRIPTION:The Private Healthcare Exchanges conference July 16-17 in Chicago will focus on how the Affordable Care Act is changing the way insurers sell health insurance. Instead of marketing almost exclusively to employers\, the ACA has forced insurers to focus on enrolling consumers. The conference is sponsored by Employee Benefit News. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/private-healthcare-exchanges-conference/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131029T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131029T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160252Z CREATED:20231103T153453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160252Z UID:25874-1383008400-1383008400@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:The Next Wave of Wellness and Disease Management Strategies for Health Plans DESCRIPTION:Oct. 29\, 2013Westin Tysons CornerWashington\, D.C. \nThis conference will address the challenges wellness programs and disease managers face from employers and health plans today. \nhttp://www.corporateresearchgroup.com/conferences/ZW13515.cfm URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/the-next-wave-of-wellness-and-disease-management-strategies-for-health-plans/ CATEGORIES:None END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131029T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131029T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150836Z CREATED:20231103T153553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150836Z UID:25884-1383008400-1383008400@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Webcast: Will families buy kids’ dental benefits on new exchanges? DESCRIPTION:Resources\nRecorded webcast \nSpeakers’ presentations (PDFs): \n\nColin Reusch\nEvelyn F. Ireland\nMary E. Foley\n\nTip sheet: Pediatric dental benefits on the health insurance exchangesHow is your state coping with the challenges of offering pediatric dental benefits? And will the benefits result in getting more kids the dental care they need? Oral health topic leader Mary Otto explains the issues and why states could be making some controversial decisions in implementing this part of the law. \nHow I did it: Covering pediatric dental benefitsAs Mary Otto wrote in a recent blog post\, Chad Terhune of the Los Angeles Times has done a good job of writing about the complexities of fitting pediatric dental benefits into California’s exchange. He shares his insights into the unfolding story and offers advice to AHCJ members who might want to see how this issue is playing out in their own states. \nHandouts:9-26-13_Joint-Dental-Org-Letter-to-Treasury-IRS.pdfACA-Dental-Coverage-Basics-Sept2013Update.pdfNADP-Issue-Brief-ACA-Dental-Tax-Credits-July2013.pdf \n\nApproximately 8.7 million children could gain extensive dental coverage through the ACA by 2018. For children\, the expansion will be almost evenly split among Medicaid (3.2 million)\, health insurance exchanges or marketplaces (3 million) and employer sponsored insurance (2.5 million). The inclusion of pediatric dental benefits in the health care reform law was hailed as a breakthrough by advocates working to get dental services better integrated into the nation’s larger health care system. \nNow states are tackling the challenges of offering dental benefits on their exchanges. What services are they offering? Are they affordable? Are families buying them and will they know how to use them? \nAs for Medicaid expansions\, how are qualifying kids who need coverage going to get it? \nDo states have strategies for guiding new families to care in places where there is a short supply of dentists? \nWe’ll get early assessments of whether health care reform is actually getting dental care to more kids\, through private insurance and Medicaid expansions. Panelists will include Colin Reusch of the Childrens Dental Health Project\, who will offer a national look\, as well as Evelyn Ireland\, executive director of the National Association of Dental Plans. Mary Foley\, executive director of the Medicaid CHIP State Dental Association\, will address how Medicaid expansions may be working in some states to get dental benefits to kids under the ACA. \nTo participate\n Click here and choose the “Enter as a Guest” option. Type your name in the box where indicated and then click on the “Enter Room” button. \nSpeakers:\nMary E. Foley\, R.D.H.\, M.P.H.\, has served as executive director of the Medicaid CHIP State Dental Association since 2009. The association works to develop and promote evidence-based oral health best practices and policies. Previously\, Foley was the dean of the Forsyth School of Dental Hygiene at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. She has worked as a project director at the Children’s Dental Health Project and as director of the Office of Oral Health at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. \nColin Reusch is a policy analyst at the Children’s Dental Health Project where he tracks implementation of health care reform\, researches and drafts issue briefs and policy documents\, and provides guidance and direction in identifying and pursuing policy initiatives as they relate to improving oral health. CDHP is a national nonprofit organization that works to achieve equity in children’s oral health. Prior to joining CDHP\, Reusch worked on young alumni programs at Eastern Kentucky University and local government policy issues at the Kentucky League of Cities. \nEvelyn F. Ireland is executive director of the National Association of Dental Plans\, which promotes and advances the dental benefits industry to improve consumer access to affordable\, quality dental care. Ireland has more than 40 years of experience in government and insurance. She worked for 10 years as an insurance regulator and for the Texas legislature as well as Congress. \nModerator: \nMary Otto is AHCJ’s oral health core topic leader\, keeping AHCJ members updated on the latest resources on dental care and policy. Otto\, an independent journalist\, got interested in covering oral health in 2007\, writing about the death of a child who had suffered complications from an untreated dental infection. At the time\, she was working at The Washington Post. She left that job in 2008 but has continued to write about oral health\, as a freelance writer for the Post\, drbicuspid.com\, and other publications. \nMary E. Foley \nColin Reusch \nEvelyn F. Ireland \nMary Otto URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/webcast-will-families-buy-kidsae-dental-benefits-on-new-exchanges/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131029T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131029T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160251Z CREATED:20231103T153608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160251Z UID:25891-1383008400-1383008400@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Tackling Diseases of Aging: Why Research Collaboration Matters DESCRIPTION:The U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging will host a roundtable to discuss the latest developments in aging research and ways to increase collaboration. The panel will feature the director of the National Institute on Aging\, along with five of the country’s leading experts on aging. U.S. Sens. Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Susan Collins (R-ME)\, the committee’s chairman and ranking member\, will also be on hand. \nThe roundtable will serve as a prelude to the National Institutes of Health’s first-ever Geroscience Summit\, entitled\, “Advances in Geroscience: Impacts on Healthspan and Chronic Disease\,” which will be Oct. 30-31.  More than 500 public and private sector researchers\, educators and policy experts will gather at the two-day summit to discuss recent research into mechanisms of aging\, the link between aging and chronic disease progression\, and novel ways for cross-disciplinary research collaboration in the field of aging research. \nThe roundtable will convene at 4 p.m. Tuesday in Room 562 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building and live video will be available at this link.           \nParticipants: \n\n\nRichard Hodes\, M.D.\, director\, National Institute on Aging\, National Institutes of Health \n\n\nJohn Alam\, M.D.\, head\, Therapeutic Strategic Area for Diseases of Aging\, Sanofi-Aventis \n\n\nJames Kirkland\, M.D.\, Ph.D.\, professor\, Noaber Foundation Professor of Aging Research and director\, Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging\, Mayo Clinic \n\n\nRichard Morimoto\, Ph.D.\, professor\, Department of Molecular Biosciences and director\, Rice Institute for Biomedical Research\, Northwestern University \n\n\nDavid Morgan\, Ph.D.\, chief executive officer and director\, Byrd Alzheimer Institute and director of neuroscience research\, University of South Florida College of Medicine \n\n\nModerator: Michael Hodin\, Ph.D.\, executive director\, Global Coalition on Aging and Managing Partner\, High Lantern Group URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/tackling-diseases-of-aging-why-research-collaboration-matters/ CATEGORIES:None END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR