2008 Archive: Video Question and Answer
Durwin Long, Assistant Dean, Opus College of Business
Former U.S. Senator David Durenberger, Chair, National Institute of Health Policy
A.M. Panel:
Moderator: Konrad (Kit) Friedemann, J.D., Attorney, Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
Left to right, facing panelists:
Far left - Former U.S. Senator David Durenberger, Chair, National Institute of Health Policy
Left center Stuart Guterman, M.A., Senior Program Director, Fund’s Program on Medicare’s Future (Commonwealth Fund)
Right center Forrest Burke, J.D., President of Public Sector, Labor & Trust, UnitedHealthcare
Far right Jeff Schiff, M.D., M.B.A., Medical Director, Minnesota Health Care Programs
Are consumer-directed plans just another way of shifting costs to the consumer?
How can we address the question of tort reform-making the right decision, being able to live with those results (i.e. a primary care physician making the decision not to refer a patient to a specialist)-and how can any of this happen in our medical legal environment?
What is the value proposition of the U.S. health insurance industry? What value is added? How can a company like United Health Group improve its processes to prepare for the future?
P.M. Panel:
Moderator: Joe White, M.B.A., Principal, LarsonAllen LLP
Left to right, facing panelists:
Left Michael Rock, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Mayo Rochester Hospitals
Center Mark Eustis, President and CEO, Fairview Health Services
Right Jim Coleman, Chief Operations Officer, Marshfield Clinic
How do payment system reforms reward health care organizations that are already providing low-cost, high-quality services, and yet are on the fringe of failing under the current fee-for-service system?
How did the Medica/Fairview relationship get started, and how is it going?
What EHR system does Marshfield Clinic use? What was the long-term decrease in productivity among MDs related to the EHR? How did you get 700 MDs to agree to a compensation change?
How can health care reform effectively control costs and be consumer-driven in light of the apparent relentless appetite of the consumer for the use of newer and more expensive technologies?
How are Mayo Rochester Hospitals, Marshfield Clinic, and Fairview Health Services expanding how physicians engage patients, including using telemedicine, patient interaction via telephone, and web interconnectivity?
What role should public media and television/radio play in the health care reform effort? What issues should they address? With whom should they partner?
To combat significant reductions in reimbursement, large integrated health care systems have increased the amount of services/procedures they offer to maintain their margins. How will they be willing and able to adopt innovative best practices that actually represent greater value and less revenue generated per patient?
What is your organization’s definition of primary care, and how do you see that changing in health care and within your organization?
