Advisory Committee

Advisory Committee Members
 

Next Meeting

- TBD 

Past Advisory Committee Meeting Materials

• Wednesday, March 28, 2012
  Agenda (PDF)  | Word 

Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Agenda (PDF) 
 

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

• Agenda (PDF) 

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Minutes (PDF) 
• Massachusetts Health Care Cost Trends Briefing (PPT)  file size 2MB file size 1MB
• HCQCC Committees: Review and Discussion presented by Jessica Moschella, MPH, Administrative Director, Massachusetts Health Care Quality and Cost Council (PPT) 

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Minutes (PDF) 

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Minutes (PDF) 

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Bylaws of the Advisory Committee to the Health Care Quality and Cost Council (PDF) 

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Minutes (PDF) 

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

• Agenda (PDF) 

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Minutes (PDF) 

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

• Agenda (PDF) 

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

• Agenda (PDF) 

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

• Agenda (PDF) 

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

• Agenda (PDF) 

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Presentations from health care provider representatives
  • Mass. Medical Society - Dr. Jack Evjy (PPT) 
  • Home Care - Pat Kelleher (PPT) 

Monday, December 21, 2009

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Minutes (PDF) 
• Presentations from health care provider representatives:
• Primary Care -Dr. John Lentini
  
  • Dr. Dennis Dimitri, President of the Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians
  • Health Care for All: A Framework for Moving to a Primary Care-Based Health Care System in the United States
  • Ted Epperly, M.D., American Academy of Family Physicians
  • Douglas E. Henley, M.D., American Academy of Family Physicians
  • Supplemental Report of the Commission on Education
  • Family Medicine Residents Completing Training in Massachusetts
    
• Hospitals - Karen Nelson
  
  • Massachusetts Hospital Association - Administrative Simplification: An underestimated and overlooked opportunity for significant savings
  • Massachusetts Payment Reform - An Overview of Critical Foundational Issues
  • Creating Accountable Care Organizations in Massachusetts
  • Infection Prevention: Highlights from Massachusetts Hospitals
  • Massachusetts Hospitals Advancing Reform
    
• Behavioral Health - David Matteodo
  
  • Testimony to the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing Re: Recommendations of Special Commission on Health Care Payment 
    
• Nurse Practitioners - Nancy O'Rourke
  • Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners Perspective on HCQCC: Roadmap to Cost Containment presented by Leah McKinnon-Howe, MS, ANP-BC (PPT) 
    
• Massachusetts Medical Society - Dr. Jack Evjy
  • Building a Better Health Care System: Phase 2 - Implementation: The Massachusetts Experience presented by Jack T. Evjy, MD, Senior Medical Advisor, Massachusetts Mecial Society (PPT) 

Monday, November 23, 2009

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Minutes (PDF) 
• Health Plan Perspectives on Health Care Reform and Controlling Health Care Costs presented by Sarah Gordon, Vice President of Legal Affairs, Massachusetts Association of Health Plans (PPT)  file size 1MB

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Minutes (PDF) 
• Employer Perspectives on Health Care Reform and Cost Containment Efforts (PPT) 

September 23, 2009

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Minutes (PDF) 
• RAND Presentation on Cost Containment Options (PPT) 

July 22, 2009

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Minutes (PDF) 
• Massachusetts Health Quality Partners Final Report to the Quality and Cost Council, Barbra Rabson (PPT) 
• Overview of recommendations of Special Commission on Payment Reform, Jack Evjy
  (Note: See recommendations at: http://www.mass.gov/dhcfp/paymentcommission)
• Continuing the Development of the Roadmap to Cost Containment: Review of Cost Goal and Strategies, Anya Rader Wallack, Cost Committee Co-Chair and Beth Waldman, Bailit Health Purchasing (PPT) 

June 18, 2009

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Minutes (PDF) 
• Framework for Annual Meeting (PPT) 
• Roadmap to Cost Containment: Review of Work to Date and Development of Committee Recommendations (PPT) 

May 27, 2009

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Minutes (PDF) 
• Update on the Special Commission on the Health Care Payment System's Draft Recommendations (PPT) 
• Update on DHCFP's Annual Cost Trends Report - Kate Nordahl (PPT) 

April 22, 2009

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Minutes (PDF) 
• Continued Discussion of Potential Roadmap Strategies presented by Anya Wallack (PPT) 
• Special Commission on the Health Care Payment System Update - Glide Path to Global Payment (PPT) 
• Article from The Annals of Internal Medicine - "The Obama Administration's Options for Health Care Cost Control:Hope Versus Reality" (PDF) 

March 25, 2009

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Minutes (PDF) 
• Minutes - Executive Committee (PDF) 
• Potential Roadmap Strategies: Request for Initial Feedback (PPT) 
• Special Commission on the Health Care Payment System - Draft Principles for Health Care Payment Reform (PPT) 
• Blueprint for Health Care Cost Containment in Massachusetts (PPT) 

February 24, 2009

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Minutes (PDF) 

September 24, 2008

• Minutes - Quality and Cost Council Advisory Committee (PDF) 

May 7, 2008

• Agenda - Advisory Committee (PDF) 

Advisory Committee Members

Committee Chair: Sarah G. Gordon, Esq.
Committee Secretary: Deb Wachenheim
Other executive committee seats: Lynda Young, M.D., JD Chesloff, Patricia Kelleher

Dalene Basden
Consumer Representative

Diane Bergeron, Executive Director, VNA Hospice Care, Inc.
Representing Hospice Care

JD Chesloff, Deputy Director, Massachusetts Business Roundtable
Representing the Massachusetts Business Roundtable

Jessica Costantino, Director of Advocacy, AARP
Representing AARP, MA Chapter

Dan Driscoll, CEO of Harbor Health Services
Representing the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers

Sarah G. Gordon, Esq., Vice President of Legal Affairs ,  MAHP
Representing the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans

April Greene, Senior Director
Representing Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Patricia Kelleher, Executive Director, Mass Home Care Alliance
Representative of Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts

Roderick King, M.D.
Representing Racial or Ethnic Minority Groups Concerned with Health Care

John Lentini, D.O., President, Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians
Representing Primary Care

Kristen Lepore, Vice President of Government Affairs, Associated Industries of Massachusetts
Representative of Associated Industries of Massachusetts

Gene Lindsey, M.D., CEO and President, Atrius Health and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
At large member

Louis Malzone, Executive Director, MA Coalition of Taft Hartley Trust Funds
Representative of the Massachusetts Coalition of Taft Hartley Trust Funds

Wendy Mariner, Professor of Health Law, Boston University School of Public Health
Representing the Massachusetts Public Health Association

David Matteodo, Executive Director, MABHS
Representing the Massachusetts Association of Behavioral Health Systems

Michael McManus, M.D., Senior Associate in Anesthesia and Critical Care;
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Children's Hospital
Representing Pediatric Health Care

Gregg S. Meyer, M.D., MSc, Senior VP for Quality & Patient Safety, MGH & MGPO
Representing a public seat

Nicholas O'Connor, M.D.
Representing Medical Education

Nancy O'Rourke, President, Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners
Representing the Nursing Profession

W. Scott Plumb, Senior VP, Massachusetts Senior Care Association
Representing the Massachusetts Extended Care Federation

Dana Safran, BCBS Massachusetts
Representing the Pharmaceutical Field

William B. Vernon, Massachusetts State Director, NFIB
Representing the National Federation of Independent Businesses, MA Chapter

Deborah Wachenheim, Consumer Health Quality Manager, HCFA
Representing Health Care for All

Michael Weekes, President and CEO, Massachusetts Council of Human Service Providers
Representing the Massachusetts Council of Human Service Providers

Michael Widmer, President, Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation
Representing the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation

Lynda M. Young, M.D. President, Massachusetts Medical

This information is provided by the Health Care Quality and Cost Council.