Members of Bailit Health are frequently asked to speak at conferences and meetings about strategies to improve the quality of health care and contain cost growth. Below is our calendar of recent and upcoming speaking engagements.
"In States With Health Care Spending Targets, Spending Growth Moderated In 2022 But Still Exceeded Targets"
NASEM Health Care Expenditure Collaborative
– Jessica Mar and Michael Bailit
"Leveraging Medicaid Managed Care to Address Health-Related Social Needs"
State Health and Value Strategies - Webinar, 2:00 PM ET
– Erin Campbell and Mary Beth Dyer
"U.S. Health Care Costs: Trends, Drivers and State Actions"
National Conference of State Legislatures - Chicago, IL
–Grace Flaherty
"Leveraging the Buying Value Resources to Advance Health Equity Measurement"
State Health and Value Strategies Webinar (3:00-4:00 PM ET)
–Michael Bailit and Caitlin Otter
"Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, Health Care Expenditure Collaborative: Health Care Spending and Related Data"
The National Academies - Webinar (11:30 AM - 1:30 PM EDT)
–Michael Bailit
"What State Advocates Should Know: CMS' New AHEAD Model"
United States of Care - Webinar
–January Angeles
"Strategies States are Exploring to Address Health Care Cost Growth Drivers"
Oregon Cost Growth Target Advisory Committee
–Michael Bailit
"Leveraging Hospital Financial Analyses to Inform State Policy"
Peterson-Milbank Program for Sustainable Health Care Costs – Webinar - 2PM EDT
–Sarah Kinsler
"Establishing an Effective Hospital Accountability Mechanism"
Peterson-Milbank State Meeting - Denver, CO
–Michael Bailit
"New State Resources for Hospital Cost Analyses"
Peterson-Milbank State Meeting - Denver, CO
–Michael Bailit and Alyssa Vangeli
"Understanding the Drivers of Health Care Costs"
Our American States - Podcast, Episode 197
–Alyssa Vangeli
"U.S. Health Care Costs: Trends, Drivers and State Actions"
National Conference of State Legislatures - Chicago, IL
–Alyssa Vangeli
"Leveraging Buying Value to Advance Health Equity Measurement"
State Health and Value Strategies - Webinar, 2PM-3PM EST
–Deepti Kanneganti
"Medicaid Managed Care Strategies to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in Mental Healthcare for Adults"
State Health and Value Strategies - Webinar, 1PM EST
–Erin Taylor
"Highlights of the State Health Equity Measure Set: Measures to Assess and Improve Equity"
State Health and Value Strategies - Webinar, 2PM (Registration Required)
–Deepti Kanneganti and Jessica Mar
"The National Landscape of Health Care Cost Growth Target Programs"
American´s Physician Groups Annual Spring Conference - San Diego, CA
–January Angeles
"Defining Non-Claims-Based Primary Care Spending"
Washington Advisory Committee on Primary Care - Webinar
–Michael Bailit
"State Strategies for Controlling Healthcare Spending"
Health Policy Institute of Ohio
–January Angeles
"Development of Statewide Health Equity Data Standards in Massachusetts"
State Health and Values Strategies – Webinar, Thursday 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. EST
–Matt Reynolds
"States’ Uphill Battle to Stop Runaway Health Care Costs"
Tradeoffs – Podcast
–Michael Bailit
"Making Health Care More Affordable: Implementing a State Cost Growth Target"
Milbank Memorial Fund – Webinar 1PM EST
–January Angeles
"How States are Leveraging Medicaid Managed Care to Address Health-Related Social Needs"
State Health and Value Strategies – Webinar 3PM-4PM EST
– Mary Beth Dyer, Erin Campbell, and Erin Taylor
"State Cost Growth Target Oversight Programs"
America's Physician Groups – Newport Beach, CA
– January Angeles
"Health Care Cost Containment"
National Conference of State Legislatures – Atlanta, GA
– Michael Bailit
"State Cost Containment Efforts and Implications for Children's Hospitals"
California Children's Hospital Association – La Jolla, CA
– Beth Waldman
"Buying Value: Measures that Matter"
State Health and Value Strategies – Webinar
– Deepti Kanneganti
"Experience Implementing Social Risk Factor Screening Measures in Medicaid"
State Health and Value Strategies – Webinar
– Michael Bailit
"How to leverage cost growth targets to advance value-based payment and mitigate price growth"
Peterson-Milbank state meeting Washington, D.C.
– Ann Hwang and Michael Bailit
"Results of the Connecticut 2018-19 Cost Growth Benchmark Analysis"
Connecticut Healthcare Affordability Forum
– Michael Bailit
"Promoting Health Equity in Medicaid Managed Care"
NASHP State PACE Action Network Final Meeting
– Erin Taylor
"A Path to Hospital Sustainability and Health Care Affordability in Vermont"
Vermont Green Mountain Care Board
– Michael Bailit
"Trends in Connecticut Commercial Health Care Spending, 2015-2019"
Connecticut Health Care Cabinet
– Michael Bailit
"Driving Affordability and Appropriateness"
National Alliance of Health Care Purchaser Coalitions
– January Angeles
"Promoting Health Equity in Medicaid Managed Care"
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
– Erin Taylor and Mary Beth Dyer
"Using State Cost Growth Targets to Slow Health Care Spending Growth"
California Health Care Coalition
– Michael Bailit
"State Strategies for Primary Care and for Cost Containment"
Healthcare Purchaser Alliance of Maine
– Michael Bailit
"Webinar: Organizations React to Medi-Cal Managed Care Procurement Draft RFP"
California Health Care Foundation
– Beth Waldman
"Highlights of the Buying Value Benchmark Repository: Innovative Homegrown Measures"
State Health and Value Strategies
– Deepti Kanneganti
"MedWorks: Medicaid Buy In Across the Country"
Work to Include - 2021 Virtual Employment First Summit
– Beth Waldman
"Core Competencies of High-Performing Accountable Care Organizations "
Vermont Green Mountain Care Board
– Michael Bailit
"Implementing Stakeholder Accountability to Limit Healthcare Spending Growth"
National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions
– Michael Bailit
"Building Accountability for Social Risk Screening into State Medicaid Programs"
Social Interventions Research & Evaluations Network
– Michael Bailit
"Analyzing Health Disparities in Medicaid Managed Care"
State Health and Value Strategies
– Stacey Yi and Michael Bailit
"Improving Medicaid Buy-In Programs for Workers with Disabilities"
Beth Waldman – Bipartisan Policy Center
"Introduction to Cost Growth Benchmarks"
National Academy for State Health Policy
– Michael Bailit
"Making the Evidence-Based Case for Primary Care Investment"
Primary Care Collaborative
– Michael Bailit
"Screening for Social Risk Factors: Developing a Screening Measure"
State Health and Value Strategies
– Michael Bailit
"Screening for Social Risk Factors Part I: Working with Medicaid Managed Care to Design Screening Requirements"
State Health and Value Strategies
– Rachel Issacson and Michael Bailit
"States Seeking Success to Bend the Cost Curve"
Midwest Health Initiative - Webinar
– Michael Bailit
"Cost Growth Targets: What Are They and How to Define Them"
Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement – Webinar
– Michael Bailit
"Buying Value: Measures that Matter for Quality and Equity"
State Health and Value Strategies - Webinar
– Deepti Kanneganti
"National Trends in State Affordability and Sustainability Strategies"
Vermont Green Mountain Care Board
– Michael Bailit
"Impact of COVID-19 on Medicaid Managed Care Performance Incentives"
State Health and Value Strategies – Webinar
– Erin Taylor
"SDOH Screening Measures"
New England Medicaid Quality Collaborative – Webinar
– Michael Bailit
"Strengthening Health Care Delivery Systems that Serve Pregnant and Parenting Women in Medicaid"
32nd Annual NASHP State Health Policy Conference – Chicago, IL
– Beth Waldman
"Level Setting: The Levers for High–Performing Managed Care"
NAMD Best Practices in Managed Care Workshop – Minneapolis, MN
– Mary Beth Dyer
"Advancing Child Health Outcomes"
CCF Annual Child Health Policy Conference 2019 – Washington, D.C.
– Michael Bailit
"Influencing Medicaid Managed Care and Other Payer Contracts: Musings from a Former Medicaid Director"
Delta Center for a Thriving Safety Net – Webinar
– Beth Waldman
"Raising the Bar: Strengthening Purchasing and Oversight of Medi–Cal Managed Care"
California Health Care Foundation – Sacramento, CA
– Beth Waldman
"Leveraging Multi–Payer Claims Databases for Value"
State Health and Value Strategies – Webinar
– Erin Taylor
"Using Performance Measurement to Drive Improvement in the Quality of Care Provided in Medicaid and CHIP Programs"
2019 CMS Quality Conference – Baltimore, MD
– Michael Bailit
"Measure Selection, Alignment and Performance Benchmarking: A New Resource for States"
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Webinar
–Deepti Kanneganti and Michael Bailit
"Buying Value Benchmarking Repository: Helping States Use Non–HEDIS Measures in Value–Based Purchasing"
NASHP Annual Conference – Jacksonville, FL
–Deepti Kanneganti
"Shifting Sands at the Provider Level, What’s a State to Do?"
NASHP Annual Conference – Jacksonville, FL
–Erin Taylor
"Purchasing and Oversight of Behavioral Health Services in Medicaid Managed Care"
NASHP/SHVS Ancillary Meeting – Jacksonville, FL
–Mary Beth Dyer and Beth Waldman
"Safeguarding Financial Stability of Provider Risk–Bearing Organizations"
NAIC 2018 Summer National Meeting – Boston, MA
–Erin Taylor
"Innovative Strategies for State Health Benefits Purchasers"
New Jersey Governor's State Health Benefits Quality and Value Task Force – Trenton, NJ
–Michael Bailit
"Payment Transformation to Address Social and Emotional Determinants of Health for Children"
AcademyHealth invitational meeting – Washington, DC
–Michael Bailit
"Multi–Purchaser Collaboration to Advance Value–Based Health Care"
National Value–Based Payment and P4P Summit – San Francisco, CA
–Megan Burns
"How State Programs are Defining and Tracking MCO Implementation of APMs"
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Webinar
–Beth Waldman
"Categorizing Value–Based Payment Models According to the LAN"
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Webinar (2PM – 3PM EST)
–Megan Burns
"The Playbook: Payment Reform Strategies for Patients with Complex Health and Social Needs"
Institute for Healthcare Improvement – Webinar
–Michael Bailit
"National Medicaid Landscape"
Dell Medical School Conference on Building Value in Texas Medicaid – Austin, TX
–Mary Beth Dyer
"Getting Ready for Value–Based Purchasing"
National Association for Children's Behavioral Health – St. Petersburg, FL
–Mary Beth Dyer
"Value-Based Purchasing for Managed Long–Term Services and Supports"
National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) – Portland, OR
–Erin Taylor
"Value–Based Purchasing"
National Governors Association – Washington, D.C.
–Beth Waldman
"Standardizing the Measurement of Commercial Health Plan Primary Care Spending"
Milbank Memorial Fund – Webinar (3PM EST)
–Michael Bailit and Mark Friedberg
"Engaging Safety Net Providers to Design a Statewide Quality Measurement Strategy"
AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting 2017 – New Orleans, LA
–Deepti Kanneganti
"Using Social Determinants of Health Data in Medicaid Managed Care"
RWJ Foundation State Health and Value Strategies Program – Webinar
–Amy Lischko
"State Strategies: Medicaid Value–Based Payment for LTSS"
RWJ Foundation State Health and Value Strategies Program – Webinar
– Erin Taylor
"Procurement Tools to Support Value–Based Purchasing"
RWJ Foundation State Health and Value Strategies Program meeting – Minneapolis, MN
– Mary Beth Dyer
"Value–based Purchasing Strategies for State Employee Health Benefits Purchasers"
RWJ Foundation State Health and Value Strategies Program meeting – Minneapolis, MN
– Michael Bailit
"Strategies for Driving Alternative Payment Models in Medicaid Managed Care"
National Association of Medicaid Directors meeting – New Orleans, LA
– Mary Beth Dyer
"The Buying Value Measure Selection Tool"
RWJ Foundation's State Health and Value Strategies Program – (Webinar)
–Michael Bailit and Deepti Kanneganti
"A VBP Payment Model for Children's Health"
NY Medicaid Children's Health Clinical Advisory Group – New York, NY
–Marge Houy
"Systems Integration Academy Related to State Implementation Grants to Enhance Systems Integration for CYSHCN"
NASHP Conference – Pittsburgh, PA
–Mary Beth Dyer
"MCO Accountability: Challenges and Strategies in Procurement, Contracting, and Oversight"
NASHP Conference – Pittsburgh, PA
–Mary Beth Dyer
"Involving Managed Care in Delivery System and Value-based Payment Reforms"
NASHP Conference – Pittsburgh, PA
–Beth Waldman
"Value–Based Purchasing – A Quality Perspective"
Association for Community–Affiliated Health Plans – Miami, FL
–Michael Bailit
"Bolstering Current Efforts at Value–Based Care and Payment"
National Academy of Medicine – Washington, DC
–Michael Bailit
"Study of Cost Containment Models and Recommendations for Connecticut"
Connecticut Healthcare Cabinet – Hartford, CT
–Megan Burns and Marge Houy
"Medicaid Value–based Purchasing in the States"
Council of State Governments Health Committee – Boston, MA
– Marge Houy and Megan Burns
"Lessons Learned in Effective State Purchasing in Managed Care"
Governor's Commission on New Hampshire's Medicaid Care Management Program –Concord, NH
– Michael Bailit
"All–Payer Payment Reform In Vermont"
BCBSVT Board Forum – Berlin, VT
– Michael Bailit
"Supporting Physicians with Payment Reform"
Physicians Foundation - Newport Beach, CA
– Michael Bailit
"Delivery System Reform & the National View and State Payment Reform Strategies at FQHCs"
Community Health Centers of Arkansas – Little Rock, AR
– Beth Waldman
"PCMH Evaluations: Key Drivers of Program Success and Measurement Developments"
PCPCC Annual Fall Conference – Washington, DC
– Michael Bailit
"Driving Value, Getting Results"
National Association of Medicaid Directors Conference – Arlington, VA
– Beth Waldman
"Value–Based Purchasing with Medicaid Health Plans"
National Academy of State Health Policy – Dallas, TX
– Mary Beth Dyer and Beth Waldman
"Value–Based Purchasing with Medicaid Health Plans"
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Dallas, TX
–
Beth Waldman
"What Can We Learn From Pennsylvania´s PCMH Experience"
Maine Advanced Primary Care Summit – Hallowell, ME
– Michael Bailit
"Examples of Teamwork Across Sectors and Why it Can be Powerful"
Catalyst for Payment Reform – WEBINAR
– Michael Bailit and Megan Burns
"High–Need, High–Cost Patients"
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Meeting on ACOs – Princeton, NJ
Presented by Michael Bailit
"Safety–net ACOs"
MACPAC (Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission) – Washington, DC
– Beth Waldman
"Accountable Care Organizations and Accountable Communities for Health"
National Governors Association – Baltimore, MD
– Beth Waldman
"How to Get What You Want: Leveraging State Contracting with Managed Care Organizations for Payment Reform"
National Governors Association – Baltimore, MD
– Michael Bailit
"Primary Care Payment and Provider Compensation Reform: Emerging Trends"
Maine Quality Counts Conference – Augusta, ME
– Michael Bailit
"How to Build a Measure Set"
Buying Value - Webinar
–Michael Bailit and Christine Hughes
"Primary Care Payment and Provider Compensation Reform: Emerging Trends"
Maine Primary Care Payment Reform Summit
– Michael Bailit and Christine Hughes
"The Evidence Base for PCMH and Evolving Strategies for Measuring Success"
Patient–Centered Primary Care Collaborative 2014 Annual Fall Conference – Washington, DC
– Michael Bailit
"Aligning Measure Sets: Methods & Tools for States"
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) – WEBINAR
– Michael Bailit & Beth Waldman
"Key Steps to Successfully Implement Bundled Payments"
Health Care Intentives Improvement Institute (HCI3) – WEBINAR
– Michael Bailit & Marge Houy
"Primary Care Payment & Provider Compensation Reform: The Way Forward"
Maine Primary Care Payment Reform Summit – Augusta, ME
– Michael Bailit & Marge Houy
Erin Campbell, Mary Beth Dyer, and Anna Rothenberg
State Health and Value Strategies – October 31, 2024
Sarah Kinsler
Milbank Memorial Fund Blog – October 17, 2024
January Angeles and Jessica Mar
Health Affairs Blog – August 8, 2024
Erin Campbell, Deepti Kanneganti, Matt Reynolds, Ellie Shea-Delaney, Erin Taylor, and Beth Waldman in partnership with Abt Associates and Westat Insight Policy Research
U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services – July 15, 2024
Erin Taylor and Mary Beth Dyer
State Health and Value Strategies – April 30, 2024
Sarah Kinsler, Peter Hayes, Christopher Romero-Gutierrez, and Michael Bailit
Peterson-Milbank Program for Sustainable Health Care Costs – April 5, 2024
Sarah Kinsler, Peter Hayes, Christopher Romero-Gutierrez, and Michael Bailit
Peterson-Milbank Program for Sustainable Health Care Costs – April 5, 2024