Christopher Koller is president of the Milbank Memorial Fund. The Fund is a 114 year operating foundation that improves population health by connecting leaders with the best information and experience. Before joining the Fund, he served the state of Rhode Island as the country’s first health insurance commissioner, an appointment he held from March of 2005 through June of 2013. Under Mr. Koller’s leadership, the RI Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner was nationally recognized for its rate review process and its efforts to use insurance regulation to promote payment reform, primary care revitalization, and delivery system transformation. The Office was also one of the lead agencies in implementing the Affordable Care Act in Rhode Island. Prior to serving as health insurance commissioner, Mr. read more
Chief of the Division of Health Policy and Economics, Weill Cornell Medical College
Dr. Casalino is Chief of the Division of Health Policy and Economics at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is interested in comparative effectiveness research focused on the healthcare delivery system. Put simply, this means asking: which types of organizations, using which types of processes, provide higher quality, cost-effective care? For example: at present, large numbers of primary care and specialist physician practices are being purchased by hospitals. Does this lead to higher or lower quality care? Higher or lower cost care? Dr. Casalino is particularly interested in unintended consequences of policies and in the effects of policies and of the organization of practice on physician professionalism and on racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in healthcare delivery. At present, Dr. read more
President and CEO, Open Door Family Medical Centers
Ms. Farrell is President and CEO of Open Door Family Medical Centers. She has dedicated her professional life to high-quality community-based care, efficient care delivery and population health management to assure a more equitable healthcare system for us all. Homegrown at Open Door, where she originally served as a volunteer, Ms. Farrell has also served as Open Door’s Director of Operations and Director of Development. During Ms. Farrell’s tenure as President and CEO, Open Door has grown significantly and doubled the number of people served. Today, Open Door is accredited by the Joint Commission, recognized by the National Committee on Quality Assurance as a Level 3 patient-centered medical home and has won the prestigious national Davies Award from the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Ms. read more
Louise Cohen is the Chief Executive Officer of the Primary Care Development Corporation (PCDC), a not-for-profit Community Development Finance Institution dedicated to expanding and strengthening the primary care safety net in the United States. PCDC provides capital and technical assistance to a wide variety of primary care providers, and advocates for improved and increased primary care access, capacity, quality, reimbursement, and capital resources in order to improve health outcomes, create healthier communities, increase health equity, and reduce overall health care system costs. read more
Dr. Glied is the Dean of NYU Wagner. From 1989-2013, she was Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She was Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management from 1998-2009. On June 22, 2010, Dr. Glied was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services, and served in that capacity from July 2010 through August 2012. She had previously served as Senior Economist for healthcare and labor market policy on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in 1992-1993, under Presidents Bush and Clinton, and participated in the Clinton Health Care Task Force. read more
Acting Executive Deputy Superintendent, Insurance Division, New York State Department of Financial Service
Mr. Oechsner is the Acting Executive Deputy Superintendent for the Insurance Division at the New York State Department of Financial Service (DFS), with responsibilities for the regulatory oversight of all commercial insurance (including health, life and property insurance) in New York State. He previously served for over eight years as Deputy Superintendent for Health at DFS, with responsibilities including licensing, examination and regulation of all health insurers. Mr. Oechsner was part of a team that implemented the Affordable Care Act in New York, restored regulatory oversight of health insurance rates and passed legislation protecting consumers from surprise bills from out-of-network doctors, among other initiatives. He is also an adjunct professor at Albany Law School. Before joining DFS, Mr. read more
Primary care faces a growing responsibility to improve outcomes while reducing costs in new delivery and payment models. However, of the over $3 trillion spent each year on healthcare, primary care receives only approximately five to eight percent.
Join PCDC on Wednesday, March 9 at the Primary Care Innovation Circle Third Annual Summit, where a distinguished panel of experts will discuss the fundamental inadequacy of spending on primary care, and how, through adequate and appropriate investments, primary care can deliver on the promise of better care, smarter spending and healthier people.