Symposium Proceedings
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Medicare Part D: Current Issues and the Future of the Benefits
Thomas Barker
Counselor for Health Policy, U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services
Session One
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Will Medicare Wither on the Vine?
How Congress Has Advantaged Medicare Advantage
Robert A. Berenson
Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
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Medicare Advantage: Pouring Good Money After Bad?
What are We Trying to Achieve Anyway?
Timothy D. McBride
Professor of Health Management and Policy,
Saint Louis University School of Public Health
Lunch Presentation
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The Road to High-Value Healthcare for All
David F. Durenberger
Chair, National Institute of Health Policy;
Former U.S. Senior Senator for Minnesota
Session Two
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Legal and Regulatory Barriers to Value Purchasing for
Traditional Medicare
Timothy S. Jost
Robert L. Willett Family Professor of Law, Washington &
Lee University Law School
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Redefining the Role of Medicare Contractors:
Moving Toward Evidence-based Medicine in Medicare
Susan Bartlett Foote
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Health Policy & Management
School of Public Health
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Competition after the Medicare Modernization Act:
What Does It Mean and How
Is It Working Out?
Thomas L. Greaney
Saint Louis University School of Law
Session Three
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Cooperative Federalism and Health Care Reform:
The Medicare Part D “Clawback” Example
Elizabeth A. Weeks
Associate Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law
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Finding Fraud in All the Unusual Places
Malcolm J. Harkins
Partner, Proskauer Rose LL
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