pay for performance healthcare conference
pay for performance healthcare conference
pay for performance healthcare conference
pay for performance healthcare conference
pay for performance healthcare conference
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GRANTORS & EXHIBITORS

We thank the following Grantors and Exhibitors for their support in helping to make this conference possible.

GRANTORS
SILVER

Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is a health care company with an 89-year history of innovation and achievement in diabetes care. Novo Nordisk is Changing Diabetes® by helping to improve diabetes care through partnerships, research, products and services that make a significant difference to patients, the medical profession and society at large. Our portfolio of diabetes pharmaceuticals and delivery systems is the most comprehensive available and now includes the first human glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analog for the treatment of diabetes. For more information visit www.novonordisk-us.com or call (609) 987-5800.

BRONZE

Davis Wright Tremaine
Those of us in the Davis Wright Tremaine health care practice group devote nearly all of our time to industry-specific matters. This allows us to develop niche practices within the field that serve needs unique to the health care market. We also understand the business issues and regulatory developments that affect health care delivery and compliance, and as a unified team we can match the attorney with the niche expertise that best addresses client needs. For more information visit our website at www.DWT.com.


McKesson Health Solutions
Engage your provider networks and enable episodes of care and bundled payments today. McKesson delivers the expertise, industry-accepted clinical content and proven technology to ease payers' and providers' transitions to new care and payment models. We're ready with consultative and technology solutions to help you design and implement effective, scalable episodes that meet your business needs.

Visit the McKesson booth to learn about new approaches to managing the challenges of growing your episodes of care and bundled payment programs. For more information visit our website www.mckesson.com or call us at 800-782-1334.


MedAssets
MedAssets (NASDAQ: MDAS) helps healthcare organizations to improve financial strength through innovative revenue cycle, spend and clinical resource management solutions that enable improved margins, cash flow, quality of care and patient satisfaction. More than 4,200 hospitals and 100,000 non-acute healthcare providers currently use the company's Web-based technologies and evidence-based solutions to help capture revenue, control cost, increase regulatory compliance and optimize operational efficiency to improve the care delivery process. As a result, the company manages annually $48 billion in healthcare supply spend and touches over $340 billion in gross patient revenues.

For more information, visit www.medassets.com, call (888) 883-6332.


TriZetto
TriZetto provides world-class healthcare software and services that drive administrative efficiency, improve the cost and quality of care, and increase payer-provider collaboration and connectivity. TriZetto solutions touch half the U.S. insured population and reach more than 21,000 physician practices. TriZetto's payer offerings include enterprise and component software, application hosting and management, business process outsourcing, and consulting. Provider offerings, delivered through TriZetto's Gateway EDI subsidiary, include tools and services that monitor, catch and fix claims issues before they can impact a practice. TriZetto's integrated payer-provider platform will enable deployment of promising new models of post-reform healthcare. For information, visit www.trizetto.com.

ADDITIONAL

TransUnion Healthcare
TransUnion Healthcare, a wholly owned subsidiary of the global data and information management company TransUnion, empowers providers with Intelligence in an Instant® by providing a series of data and decisioning solutions, including MedConnect. In addition to being the market leader for encounter data capture, TransUnion Healthcare has collected clinical data for the IHA's Pay for Performance Initiative for more than 9 years. For more information please visit www.transunionhealthcare.com.


EXHIBITORS

AbbVie
AbbVie is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on developing advanced therapies that address some of the world's most complex and serious diseases. AbbVie is a leader in addressing these challenges, with an expanded focus on biologics and targeted medicine. We use our knowledge and expertise to develop therapies that address difficult conditions affecting significant patient populations. Our priority is our patients and helping them lead healthier lives.

AbbVie has a solid financial foundation, a strong product portfolio, and a compelling new product pipeline that provide us with the resources we need today and for the long term. We have delivered industry-leading pharmaceutical performance over the last decade. Our senior leadership understands how to manage our company and its 21,000 employees for success and long-term, profitable growth. Our global footprint serves patients in more than 170 countries. For more information please visit www.abbvie.com.


The American Medical Association (AMA)
The American Medical Association (AMA) is the largest medical association of physicians in the nation. Representing physicians from every state and specialty, we are dedicated -- and have been for more than 160 years -- to promoting the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health.

www.ama-assn.org

Visit the AMA booth to learn about the Guidelines for Reporting Physician Data, which were designed to improve the utility, transparency, and uniformity of physician data reports. To join us in this important initiative that will help physicians get the data they need from health plans and ultimately improve the quality and cost efficiency of care, stop by the AMA booth or visit www.ama-assn.org/go/physiciandata to learn more.


Ascender Software, a Division of Matrix Medical Network
Ascender Software, a division of Matrix Medical Network, is a national leader in healthcare analytics for medical groups, IPA's, MSO's and health plans. Ascender's comprehensive solutions facilitate improved quality and risk scores through HEDIS, P4P, PQRS, STARS and HCCs across multiple markets: Medicare, Medicaid and commercial. With 20+ years of experience, Ascender empowers organizations to reduce costs, improve patient satisfaction and increase revenues through focused population management. This comprehensive web-based solution is available via hosted or self-hosted implementation which allows the ability to create unlimited ad-hoc reporting, and EHR integration. In combination with Matrix Medical Network's prospective risk adjustment solutions, Ascender clients can access a full spectrum of services including software, analytics, clinical chart reviews, coding and in-home patient assessments. For more information, please visit the Ascender booth or contact us at www.ascendersoft.com.


California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG)
The California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG) is the voice of organized medicine in California. We are the nation's largest professional association representing physician groups practicing in the accountable care model. Our members are committed to the delivery of coordinated, accountable, clinically integrated health services. We support our members through public advocacy, educational services and collaboration with other stakeholders in California healthcare. For more information visit www.capg.org or contact Lura Hawkins, MBA, Director of Member Services, (213) 624-CAPG.


Health Policy Publishing
Health Policy Publishing, LLC offers selected paid subscription monthly newsletters in print and electronic formats including Readmissions News, Accountable Care News, Medical Home News, and Predictive Modeling News, as well as free subscription newsletters in electronic format. Health Policy Publishing newsletters are administered by MCOL, a leading publisher of health care business information since 1995. For more information visit https://www.managedcarestore.com/ypg/hpp.htm or contact HPP at 209-577-4888.


Healthy Communities Institute (HCI) - Managing Population Health Risk
HCI provides the leading cloud-base population health management system in the United States. The system, called the Healthy Communities Network, supports hospitals, health systems, foundations, coalitions, insurers, local health departments and community collaborations with population health improvement and risk management strategies. The system provides regional health dashboards and best practices and is in use in over 30 states. Stakeholders in a region can use this web-based community health system to access health, economic, environmental, and quality of life data as well as analytic and evaluation tools. HCI is winner of the 2012 US HHS Health Data Initiative competition "Best Community App," and winner of the 2011 US HHS national competition MyHealthyPeople Award, "Helping Attain The Health Goals Of Healthy People 2020." Please come visit us at booth # 4! Contact: Sheila Baxter, Director Business Development, West/Central | Megan Yee, Director Business Development, East | For more information please visit www.healthycommunitiesinstitute.com.


IMPAQ International, LLC
IMPAQ International, LLC is a premier research, evaluation and technical assistance firm headquartered in Columbia, Maryland. We collaborate with government, the private sector, and the public to develop and refine policies and programs that improve the lives of millions. Our firm leverages innovative thinking and methodological integrity to produce practical results, enabling clients to measure the real-life impact of their decisions. IMPAQ is the lead organization providing implementation support to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Medicare Data Sharing Program, to be exhibited at the 2013 Pay for Performance Summit. Through this program, organizations qualified to handle Medicare data will produce comprehensive public reports on provider performance. These reports will assist individuals, consumer groups, employers, and providers in making informed decisions about their health care. For more information on IMPAQ's role in this program, visit www.impaqint.com, follow IMPAQ on Twitter (@impaqint), or go directly to www.qemedicaredata.org.


Intelligent Healthcare
About Intelligent Healthcare -- Intelligent Healthcare is the most cost-effective, easily deployed foundation for accountable care and demonstrating meaningful use. With Intelligent Healthcare's secure Web-based registries, organizations achieve significant breakthroughs in:

  • Accountable Care
  • Clinical Integration
  • Pay for Performance
  • PQRS reporting
  • Medicare STAR reporting
  • Medicare's Shared Savings Program, and
  • Medicare Advantage HCC and other risk coding conventions tracking and management.
Intelligent Healthcare's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) approach solves one of the most vexing challenges in demonstrating meaningful use -- collecting, integrating, and managing patient data.

Intelligent Healthcare is pleased to be the choice of Advocate Physician Partners nationally recognized Clinical Integration program and more than 30 groups participating in California's IHA-P4P initiative. For further information, please contact Faye Jarow at (310) 458-6966 or visit us at www.intelhc.com.


MCOL
MCOL is a leading publisher of health care business information, offering online memberships, newsletters, webinars, training software, resource books, directories, web content, and much more to health care business professionals since 1995. MCOL is a privately held corporation based in Modesto, California, with additional office locations. For more information visit www.mcol.com or contact MCOL at 209-577-4888.


NCQA
NCQA is America's most trusted independent authority on health care quality. We evaluate a wide range of health care organizations and recognize clinicians and practices in key areas of performance. NCQA's Health Plan Accreditation is considered the industry's gold standard. Our Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) is the most widely used performance measurement tool in healthcare, safeguarding the health of more than 118 million Americans.

To learn more, visit us online at www.ncqa.org.


The Registry of Physician Specialists (RPS)
The Registry of Physician Specialists (RPS) is a nationwide preferred provider of medical and mental health professionals since 1988. RPS works with various medical and mental health service organizations and agencies nationwide to provide flexible and lucrative independent contractor work opportunities and direct-hire employment opportunities. RPS has placed over 775 health care practitioners who have provided treatment for over 1,000,000 clients/patients. The Community Services Division of RPS was created in 2009 to focus specifically on consulting services and training programs that serve the needs of community health care centers and other agencies and organizations that are working with underserved and uninsured populations. We look forward to becoming a flexible and reliable STAFFING AND RECRUITING option for your business, or a source for nationwide tailored opportunities to diversify your practice and supplement your income. If you want more information about our dynamic opportunities visit www.mdregistry.org and stop by our booth OR call us at 800-882-0686.


Treo Solutions
Since 2002, Treo Solutions has been an essential partner with healthcare payers, providers, and state government agencies in transforming care to improve quality and control costs. We guide our clients as healthcare delivery shifts from a system that is procedure-centric and based on services to one that is people-centric and based on the health of populations.

Treo Solutions believes payers and providers must work together to improve the healthcare value equation. We recognize that future relationships between payers and providers are based on communication and the sharing of actionable information. Our mission -- successful at scale with numerous clients to date -- is to enable partners in the new healthcare economy to share data, manage patient care, and impact population health, through a focus on the total cost-of-care. For more information, visit www.treosolutions.com or contact Bryan Ness.


Verisk Health
Verisk Health helps organizations identify, manage, and mitigate healthcare risk to improve quality, reduce costs, and maximize profitability. Our data-driven risk assessment technologies and business decision analytics enable clients to proactively seize opportunities for improving clinical, financial, and performance results. Our solutions optimize the efficiency of key business objectives, including care management; risk identification and stratification; HEDIS compliance; benefit program measurement; fraud, waste, and abuse prevention; payment accuracy; and revenue cycle management. For more information, please visit www.veriskhealth.com or call (781) 693-3700.



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