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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/
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SUMMARY:The Fourth National Bundled Payment Summit and the Accountable Care Organization Summit
DESCRIPTION:The Fourth National Bundled Payment Summit and the Accountable Care Organization Summit will be offered consecutively from June 16-20 in Washington\, D.C. The Bundled Payment Summit will take place June 16-18 and feature Sean Cavanaugh as a keynote speaker. Cavanaugh is the deputy director for programs and policy at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation in Baltimore. The ACO Summit will follow from June 18-20 and feature Jonathan Blum as a keynote speaker. Blum is the deputy administrator and director of the Center for Medicare at the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/the-fourth-national-bundled-payment-summit-and-the-accountable-care-organization-summit/
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SUMMARY:NYC Chapter: Mining ACA data for stories
DESCRIPTION:KatherineHempstead \nLooking for new angles on the Affordable Care Act? The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will discuss the highlights of six databases on the law in an exclusive briefing for AHCJ members. The session will be led by RWJF’s Katherine Hempstead\, a rare data maven who spices her presentation with energy and humor. \nThe databases can answer many questions\, such as whether consumers are having trouble paying their sky-high deductibles or whether waiting lines are growing at doctors’ offices. Want to know how your state exchange differs from others? RWJF can help. Hempstead will also offer ideas for stories that can be mined from the data no matter your technical abilities. This is a can’t-miss event for journalists covering health care. \nPlease RSVP to Trudy Lieberman at trudy.lieberman@gmail.com \nJune 19\, 6-7:30 p.m.  \nLocation:New York Health Foundation1385 Broadway (between 37th and 38th) in New York City.Phone: 212-664-7656 \nLinks and more background can be found on RWJF’s ACA data page. Daily developments are at #ACAnumbers on Twitter. \nReform by the Numbers Datasets\nAs part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s efforts to monitor the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on coverage\, utilization and affordability\, we are working with a number of organizations to acquire and analyze timely and unique data. We have developed a website\, entitled Reform by the Numbers\, which will house downloadable data\, tables and graphs\, in addition to policy briefs\, blogs and other content that highlights key findings. The datasets and resources housed on the website are described below: \nEnrollment and Carrier Data \nThe National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) maintains an insurance database compiled from annual and quarterly financial statements of approximately 5\,000 insurance companies. NAIC is providing quarterly data of carrier reports that describe size and characteristics of group and individual markets. The annual version of the data will provide state breakdowns by quarter by carrier. Data will include\, in part\, information on the number of policies\, federal and state taxes\, health premiums\, and incurred claims. \nHospital ACA Monitoring Project \nThe New Jersey Hospital Association and Premier\, Inc. are managing collaborations of over 20 state hospital associations where each association will be providing quarterly discharge data. Data from other states is being submitted by Premier Inc. These data include total inpatient admissions and emergency department visits by payer\, as well as a number of select diagnoses and procedures likely to be sensitive to insurance. \nHealth Reform Monitoring Survey \nThe Urban Institute has launched the Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS)\, a quarterly survey of non-elderly adults that examine health insurance coverage\, health care access and affordability\, and health status. Starting with the second quarter of 2013\, each round of the HRMS will include supplemental questions on particular coverage-related issues. \nHIX 2.0 \nThe Health Insurance Exchange Research Group at The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania\, along with collaborators at other institutions\, has developed data detailing variation in governance and structure of ACA implementation across the 50 states. The data sets provide information in analytical formats on each state’s key implementation decisions regarding Health Insurance Marketplaces and Medicaid expansion\, among other topics. \nHIX Compare \nBreakaway Policy Strategies has compiled a dataset that details benefit design and cost sharing information for health plans offered in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. This dataset will include information on premiums\, network composition\, deductibles\, out-of-pocket limits\, and copayment and coinsurance amounts. \nACA View \nathenahealth\, which provides billing and claims processing software to more than 45\,000 outpatient practices and collects real time data on financial\, operational\, and clinical characteristics of patient encounter\, has developed 35 metrics that monitor trends in appointment wait time\, physician schedule density\, health status of new patients\, patient balances due\, claims processing\, and provider reimbursement. athenahealth will provide these metrics to the foundation on a monthly basis.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/nyc-chapter-mining-aca-data-for-stories/
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SUMMARY:Chicago End-of-Life Care Coalition hosts award-winning journalist and author Katy Butler
DESCRIPTION:Katy Butler\, award-winning journalist and author of “Knocking on Heaven’s Door:  the Path to a Better Way of Death\,” will be leading a discussion on June 19 at Loyola University School of Law\, Power Rogers & Smith Ceremonial Courtroom\, 25 East Pearson Street\, Chicago.  Registration will open at 6 p.m. with the discussion running from 6:30–7:30 p.m.\, followed by a book signing and cocktail reception until 8:30 p.m. \n“Knocking on Heaven’s Door” was named “One of Ten Best Memoirs of 2013” and “A Big Book for fall 2013” by Publishers Weekly. According to Abraham Verghese\, professor and senior associate chairman for the theory and practice of medicine at Stanford University\, and the author of the novel “Cutting for Stone\,” shares that the book “is a thoroughly researched and compelling mix of personal narrative and hard-nosed reporting that captures just how flawed care at the end of life has become. My hope is that this book might goad the public into pressuring their elected representatives to further transform health care from its present crisis-driven\, reimbursement-driven model to one that truly cares for the patient and the family. And since life is\, after all\, a fatal illness and none of us are spared\, there is an urgent need for us in America to reclaim death from medicine and\, whenever possible\, enable the ritual of dying at home with family present (and aided by all medicine can offer) so that we are allowed to take our leave from earth with dignity.” promises to be an engaging discussion! \nTickets for the event are $10. Register for the event and get more details. \n 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/chicago-end-of-life-care-coalition-hosts-award-winning-journalist-and-author-katy-butler/
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SUMMARY:VISIONS 2014
DESCRIPTION:This is the national conference of the Foundation Fighting Blindness. It is for individuals and families who are affected by retinal diseases. It’s billed as offering easy access to information on the latest retinal research and clinical trials\, the doctors performing the work\, and other people from around the country living with the same diseases. It will offer a wide range of science and research presentations\, practical coping sessions\, and networking and social activities. \nVISIONS 2014 Schedule  \nSession Information  \nVISIONS 2014 Speakers 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/visions-2014/
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