National Press Club to Host "NEWSMAKER" Media Briefing: Panel on Affordable Care Act

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Jun 28, 2012, 10:54 ET

WASHINGTON, June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the National Press Club:

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What: The National Press Club will host a Newsmaker press conference on the impact of the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act

When: Friday, June 29 at 1 p.m. It is expected to run 90 minutes to 2 hours.

Where: The Zenger Room, The National Press Club, 13^th floor, The National Press Building, 520 14^th Street NW, Washington, D.C.

Details:

The panel will focus on answering the question: What next -- for families, for business, for participants in the health care system -- now that the Supreme Court has ruled. The panel includes Washington policy experts as well as practitioners from outside the beltway.

Confirmed participants are:

American Association of Medical Colleges -- Darrell Kirch, president/ceo, or Atul Grover, chief public policy officer.

Colin Roskey, a partner at Alston & Bird.

Area of expertise: General insight on the ACA and its potential impact on Romney's campaign
- Background: Colin is a partner in the firm's Health Care Legislative & Public Policy Group, where he advises stakeholders with issues before federal health care programs, the U.S. Congress and Executive Branch agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of Inspector General (OIG). A former health policy advisor and counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Colin specializes in coverage, payment and regulatory policy development for health care providers, suppliers and manufacturers. He crafts legislative and regulatory solutions to common and novel problems emerging from federal statutes and has experience in developing new payment and regulatory provisions and new benefit structures in the Social Security Act and the Public Health Service Act.

Dan Maynard, president of Connecture. They are the people behind the marketplaces and exchanges more than 25 million Americans use to purchase their health insurance. The company's customers include half of the 20 largest carriers and it's also working closely with the states to build exchanges.

Paul Keckley, Ph.D., executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.

Keckley is considered one of the country's leading experts on U.S. health reform. He is a health economist and policy expert..

He can discuss the implications for consumers, hospitals, insurers, life sciences companies, employers and government entities. His views are informed by original research on consumers, physicians and employers. He is also working on a "2020 Forecast" that models what the insurance industry may look like under different Supreme Court scenarios.

Keckley and the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions just released their annual study on consumer opinions and habits in engaging the health system. A survey on physicians and reform was issued earlier, and data on how employers (jobs) are reacting to reform and medical costs will be available near term.

"The real debate about health reform, perhaps sparked by the ACA, is how to transform the health system to address its underlying problems: it's expensive, fragmented, confusing and cascading out of control," said Keckley.

Jenny Englerth, Executive Director and CEO of Family First Health, a community-based health care organization in Central Pennsylvania. She can break down the nuances of Health Care Reform and the Affordable Care Act, explaining it in terms that people can understand and explaining what it means to a patient.

Michael M. Dudley, president and CEO of Optima Health Plan and a senior vice president of Sentara Healthcare. He's also on the board of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP).

Serving 435,000 members in Virginia, Optima Health Plan provider network consists of nearly 22,000 physicians and 80 hospitals. Optima is a division of Sentara Healthcare, a not-for-profit provider in Virginia and North Carolina with annual revenue of $5 billion. The integrated health system is composed of 10 acute care hospitals, health plans with 436,000 members and 618 provider medical groups. Sentara was ranked the number one integrated health care network in the United States in 2011 by "Modern Healthcare" magazine and is the only health care system to be named in the top 10 for 15 years.

SOURCE National Press Club