Agenda Day 1

Sunday, May 4, 2008

2:00pm-4:45pm

“ ACG University” Pre-Conference Training Sessions

2:00pm-2:45pm

Training Session 1-A: Introduction to the ACG Method

Speaker: Mr. Dale Fordyce, DST Health Solutions

3:00pm-3:45pm

Training Session 1-B: Basic Review of ACG Applications (both clinical and financial)

Speaker: Mr. Dale Fordyce, DST Health Solutions

4:00pm-4:45pm

Training Session 1-C: Understanding the New Pharmacy Predictive Modeling (Rx-PM) Module

Speaker: Mr. Dale Fordyce, DST Health Solutions

5:00pm-5:30pm

Training Session 1-D: International use of ATCs in the New Pharmacy Predictive Modeling (Rx-PM) Module

Speaker: Dr. Patricio Muniz, The Johns Hopkins University

Agenda Day 2

Monday, May 5, 2008

8:45am-10:00am

Plenary I: Welcome and ACGs & Beyond: State-of-the Art Technology in Predictive Modeling and Risk Adjustment

Speakers: Dr. Jonathan Weiner, The Johns Hopkins University

Mr. Dave Knutson, University of Minnesota

10:15am-11:30am

Plenary II: Disease or Morbidity Burden: Managing Patients Rather Than Diseases

Speaker: Dr. Barbara Starfield, The Johns Hopkins University

12:30pm-1:45pm

General Session: Transforming Medical Care Delivery and Population Health: The Impact of Health IT and Electronic Medical Records*

Speaker: Dr. Chris Forrest, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

1:45pm-2:45pm

Workshop Session 1

Workshop 1

Getting the Full Value from ACG Benchmark Data

Speaker: Mr. Dale Fordyce, DST Health Solutions

Workshop 2

Using ACGs for Case Management

Speaker: Ms. Marianne Moulet, Johns Hopkins Healthcare

3:00pm-4:00pm

Afternoon Special Session: Healthcare: A View From Inside the Beltway*

Speaker: Mr. David C. Main, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

Agenda Day 3

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

8:30am-10:00am

Concurrent Sessions I

Concurrent Session 1

Physician Prescribing Patterns

-Adjusting for patients’ clinical case mix explains variation in general practice prescribing

Speaker: Dr. David Bodycombe, The Johns Hopkins University

-Extending the Value of ACG-Rx) – A Pharmacy Episode Grouping Strategy (PEGS) Links Risk Scores and Classification to Current Treatment

Speaker: Ms. Manon Ruben, Plan Data Management

Concurrent Session 2

Elderly Care Payment: U.S. Medicare and Internationally

-The ACG System as an Adjunct Tool for Medicare Advantage Plans Seeking to Optimize Their HCC Risk Scores

Speaker: Mr. Richard Lieberman, Health Data Management

- Using Rx-MGs as Part of a Comprehensive HCC Management Program

Speaker: Ms. Meg McGinn, DST Health Solutions

- Validating the Johns Hopkins ACG Case-Mix System of the elderly in Swedish primary health care

Speaker: Mr. Anders Halling, Blekinge Institute, Sweden

10:30am-12:00pm

Plenary III: Patient Care Clusters: An Innovative Approach for Case Identification and Clinical Performance Assessment

Speaker: Dr. Bruce Leff, The Johns Hopkins University

Discussants: Dr. Robert Kritzler, Johns Hopkins Healthcare
Mr. Stephen Jackson, Plan Data Management

Moderator: Dr. David Bodycombe, The Johns Hopkins University

1:00pm-2:30pm

Concurrent Session II

Concurrent Session 3

Population Management

- Assessing Change in Patient Morbidity Over Time: A Lesson from a Study of Health Among Older Individuals Pre and Post Hurricane Katrina

Speaker: Dr. Klaus Lemke, The Johns Hopkins University

-ACGs in the UK: Clinical and financial management in primary care using GP EMR data

Speaker: Mr. Steve Sutch, The Johns Hopkins University

- Comparison of the contribution of objective and subjective measures of health status in predicting physician utilization in Ontario, Canada.

Speaker: Dr. Lyn Sibley, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences ( Toronto)

Concurrent Session 4

High Risk Case Identification and Medicaid

- Understanding “Pathway Patients” in Johns Hopkins Health Care’s SSI and TANF Populations in Maryland

Speakers: Dr. David Bodycombe, The Johns Hopkins University
Ms. Martha Sylvia, Johns Hopkins Healthcare

-Strategies for Medicaid Care Management Programs

Speakers: Ms. Linda Shields, Mercer
Ms. Denise Blank, Mercer

-Alabama’s Patient 1 st Program

Speaker: Steven Johnson, AmeriChoice

Session 3

International Users Poster Session and Exchange: Innovations from Europe and Asia

Presenters from Europe:
Dr. Paulo Boto, The Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Arvydas Martinkenas, Klaipeda University (Lithuania)
Dr. Lennart Carlsson, Karolinska Institute (Sweden)
Dr. Antonio Sicras Mainar (Spain)
Mr. Steve Sutch, The Johns Hopkins University ( UK)

Presenters from Asia:
Ms. Shih-Hsin Hung, Taipei Veterans General Hospital (Taiwan)
Dr. Wui-Chiang Lee & Ms. Jen-Luen Wang, National Yang Ming University (Taiwan)
Dr. Supasit Pannarunothai, Naresuan University (Thailand)
Dr. Choon Siew Eng, Ministry of Health ( Malaysia)

Agenda Day 4

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

8:30am-10:00am

Concurrent Session III

Concurrent Session 5

Clinical Screening and Case Management

-Migrating from ACG Version 7 to Version 8 – Implications for Care Management Initiatives

Speaker: Ms. Heather Castro, Johns Hopkins Healthcare

-Utilizing Disease-Specific Cut Points in the Clinical Screening of Health Plan Enrollees for Disease and Case Management Interventions at Johns Hopkins HealthCare

Speaker: Ms. Shannon Courtney, Johns Hopkins Healthcare

- Characterizing the utility of the ACG PM system for population management at the health plan level.

Speaker: Dr. David Labby, CareOregon

Concurrent Session 6

Financial Applications of ACGs

-ACG Predictive Patient Selection Models Drive Significant ROI In Telehealth Interventions

Speaker: Ms. Ileana Welti, Encompass Medical Management

-Predictive Modeling for Small Group Underwriting

Speaker: Mr. Chad Abrams, The Johns Hopkins University

- Risk-Adjusted Episode Profiling for Pay-for-Performance

Speaker: Dr. Andy White, Hawaii Medical Service Association, Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Hawaii

10:45am-11:45am

Plenary IV and Closing Remarks: Future Frontiers in Predictive Modeling and Risk Adjustment in an EMR/HIT Environment

Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Weiner, The Johns Hopkins University

Discussant: Dr. Christopher Forrest, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia