Connecticut & U.S. Healthcare Cost Drivers Forum

December 1, 2022
Legislative Office Building, Hartford, CT
9:00AM Room 1D

Host Agencies:

• Connecticut Insurance Department
• Office of Health Strategy, State of Connecticut
• Office of the Healthcare Advocate, State of Connecticut

1. Panel: What are the main drivers of healthcare costs in the U.S. & Connecticut?
   • Cynthia Cox (VP, Kaiser Family Foundation)
   • Industry perspectives
     • Pharmaceutical Care Mgmt. Assoc. – Sam Hallemeier
     • CT Hospital Association – Jim Iacobellis & Paul Kidwell
     • America’s Health Insurance Plans – Miranda Motter, SVP
     • PhRMA – Kelly Ryan, Dep. VP, State Policy
     • Anthem BCBS of CT—Lou Gianquinto, President
2. Panel: How are medical prices determined? (Current state of price determination processes: hospital, pharma, other providers.)
   • Medicare – Craig Lisk – (Craig K. Lisk Health Policy Analysis; former Senior Policy Analyst, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC))
   • Carrier perspective – Roberta Wachtelhausen (Interim President ConnectiCare) & Neil Kelsey (VP & Chief Actuary ConnectiCare)
   • Hospital perspective - Pat Charmel (CEO, Griffin Hospital)
   • Non-hospital Provider perspective – Greg Shangold, M.D. (President, Northeast Emergency Medicine Specialists/CT State Medical Society)
3. Panel: Other factors in setting prices (focus on hospitals & pharma)
   • Loren Adler (Assoc. Director, USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy) – public/private cost shift literature review
   • Peter Bach, M.D. (Chief Medical Officer, Delfi Diagnostics; former Director, Center for Health Policy, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) – Drug pricing: Innovation & other considerations
   • Michael Bailit (President Bailit Health) & Adney Rakotoniaina (Nat’l Academy of State Health Policy (NASHP)) & Marilyn Bartlett (Senior Policy Fellow, Nat’l Academy of State Health Policy (NASHP)) – CT cost drivers and NASHP hospital break-even analysis
   • Kurt Barwis – (CEO, Bristol Hospital)
4. Comments From Legislators:
   • Connecticut General Assembly, Insurance & Real Estate Committee: Co-Chairs and Ranking Members
5. Wrap-up preview of solutions & future topics
   • Insurance Department, Office of Health Strategy, Office of The Healthcare Advocate

Watch the full program on CT-N