JD Kleinke

Speech Topics

• Repeal and Repeat: After Obamacare, Maybe Obamacare by Another Name?

  The situation is fluid…or is it? The new Congress and Administration rushed in to repeal and replace Obamacare, until they started looking at the details. This session provides a hard look at the realistic options for Republicans seeking to replace the ACA while minimizing the political damage to themselves and economic damage to health care insurers, providers, and beneficiaries. This session examines potential health insurance market upheavals, collateral impacts on hospitals, and the potential reshuffling of different patient populations in and out of coverage. And it lays out a practical framework and set of critical success factors for your organization going forward, as health care enters what may be the most volatile transition in the history of an industry already defined by uncertainty. This speech is not for the faint of heart!

• Risky Hospital Business 2: Remake of the 1990s Managed Care Classic

  Do payers really mean it this time…or are we just partying like it’s 1999? Value-based payment, global package pricing, MACRA, ACOs, medical homes – these are only a few of the latest attempts to correct the health system’s economic, behavioral and organizational disorders a century in the making.  The cost and quality problems that gave rise to the national managed care companies in the 1990s have not gone away, inspiring both the government and large health plans to simultaneously revisit many of those same managed care strategies.  Will this second round - and double dose - of harsh economic medicine prove worse than the disease? Or are certain aspects of health care’s cost and quality problems simply incurable? How can provider organizations cope with a system that, as the government and payers attempt to re-engineer it around reimbursement, seems to yield only more chaos? This session will outline how your organization can navigate the latest attempt to use reimbursement and other payment reforms to re-engineer the U.S. health care system.

• American Medicine 2.0: The Revolution will be Computerized

  Health care has finally caught up with the rest of industry. Now, the one element central to the business strategies of almost all health plans and provider systems is information technology. These technologies are now mission-critical, as they are required to support: new payment models for hospitals and physicians for acute cases; the transfer of financial risk from insurers and the government to ACOs for the aggregate cost of chronically ill patients; and cost-driven re-engineering of antiquated clinical workflows. All of these new initiatives are highly dependent on major expansions in the availability of patient clinical data - including all lab and imaging data and related studies – along with the creation of new information flows within and across provider systems. This session will outline how your organization can avoid the pitfalls and seize the opportunities associated with this long overdue computerization of American medicine.

• The Patient Is In: Health Care’s Next Economic Revolution

  Over the past two decades, the locus of medical decision making – via the rise and fall of “managed care” - has shifted from physician to health plan to patient. Tiered co-payments and the introduction of high-deductible health insurance, coupled with Health Savings Accounts, are ushering in the inevitable decline of first-dollar coverage by health plans and the often irrational demand-inducement behavior of consumers. How will people behave when they are confronted daily with a financial document that looks like a 401(k) plan statement - one which shrinks with every doctor visit, lab test, new prescription and refill? Everything we think we know about how consumers will behave when purchasing routine care from these new cash accounts - and about how desperately ill patients will behave when confronted with draining those same accounts when fighting a life-threatening illness - is completely speculative. This session examines key moments in health care system history and policy for clues as to what the future will hold for all of us, not just as patients, but as real health care consumers.

• eHealth 2.0: The Once and Future Health Care Information Revolution

  $17.2 billion in Federal funding later…and the provider industry is finally almost computerized, sort of. And while everyone has been busy implementing EMRs, there has been explosive growth in all kinds of digital tools for patients to share exquisite details about their medical conditions and experiences – with their current providers, with new providers, and with each other. New reimbursement methods and models – including insurer-paid e-visits and annual “connectivity” fees from patients – are emerging in parallel with these technologies, as the health IT community finally addresses the need for privacy, security, physician income preservation, and liability protection. The sum total of these trends is the long overdue computerization of health care, and the "liquification" of patient data from paper charts and institutional silos - with far-reaching strategic consequences for every organization in health care. This session will outline how your organization can avoid the technical pitfalls and seize the market opportunities associated with this long overdue connectivity between providers and patients.

• The High Price of Progress: Who Pays for Medicine's Good Bad Luck?

  The majority of medical research compels the utilization of ever newer and ever more expensive drugs and other medical technologies. At the same time, the majority of actions by private and public health plans seek to constrain their use – or outright shift the bulk of payment for them to patients and their families. The result is an emerging collision course - between the march of medical science and the countermarch of medical policy - arising from often bitterly divided views about the optimal use of expensive medical resources. The turmoil in the private health care system's approach to managing health benefits and costs can be remedied through adoption of a value-based (rather than price-based) approach to pharmaceutical and other medical technology spending - and all stakeholders in the system have the opportunity to enable, rather than resist, the hard economic news associated with all of our good clinical luck.

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