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Controlling Waste, Fraud and Abuse



Symposium Proceedings

Keynote Speaker:

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

Will Medicare Wither on the Vine?
How Congress Has Advantaged Medicare Advantage

Robert A. Berenson
Senior Fellow, Urban Institute

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

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

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

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 

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

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

Finding Fraud in All the Unusual Places
Malcolm J. Harkins
Partner, Proskauer Rose LL

 

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