2009 State Health Research and Policy Interest Group Meeting
Saturday, June 27, 2009 * 9:45 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Continental Room C * Hilton Chicago
MEETING SUMMARY
AGENDA & PRESENTATION SLIDES
9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Welcome and Outline for Day
Joel Cantor, ScD
Rutgers Center for State Health Policy
SHRP Interest Group Chair
10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Panel: Innovative State Approaches to Improve Outcomes and Manage Costs
Moderator: Jill Rissi, PhD, Associate Director, St. Luke's Health Initiatives
Strategies and Policies to Advance Medical Homes for Medicaid/SCHIP Participants
Neva Kaye, Senior Program Director
National Academy for State Health Policy
Developing Quantitative Methods to Identify Actionable Causes of Excess Emergency Department Utilization in a Managed Care Medicaid Program
William McQuade, DSc, MPH, Senior Health Policy Analyst
ACS, State Health Services, INC.
How a Systems Dynamic Model of Childhood Obesity Can Inform State Policymaking
Karen Minyard, PhD, Executive Director
Georgia Health Policy Center, Georgia State University
11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Box Lunch and Poster Session
1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Panel: New State Strategies to Expand and Sustain Coverage
Moderator: Shelly Ten Napel, MSW, MPP, Senior Associate, AcademyHealth
Preliminary Evaluation of the Maryland Kids First Act’s Use of Tax Forms to Find Eligible Enrollees
David Idala, MA, Senior Research Analyst
The Hilltop Institute, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County
How States Are Financing Health Coverage Initiatives
Courtney Burke, MS, Director
Health Policy Research Center, Rockefeller Institute of Government
2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Networking Break
2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Panel: Early Results from the State Health Access Reform Evaluation (SHARE) Program
Moderator/Overview of SHARE and “What We Are Learning”
Lynn Blewett, PhD, Director
State Health Access Date Assistance Center, University of Minnesota
Evaluation of Small Group Employer Participation in New Mexico’s State Coverage Insurance Program
Anna Sommers, PhD, Senior Research Analyst
The Hilltop Institute, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County
State Policies Expanding Dependent Coverage to Young Adults in Private Health Insurance Plans
Joel Cantor, ScD, Director
Center for State Health Policy, Rutgers University
Achieving Universal Coverage through Comprehensive Health Reform: The Vermont Experience
Ronald Deprez, PhD, Executive Director
University of New England Center for Health Policy
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Interest Group Business Meeting
The State Health Research and Policy Interest Group Meeting
is sponsored, in part, by:
The Commonwealth Fund, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
Rutgers Center for State Health Policy, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, and
State Coverage Initiatives
