Medicare Part D Implementation Issues


Invitational Summit for State Policy Makers Medicare Part D Implementation Issues October 7-8, 2004 Philadelphia, PA PRESENTATIONS *(Please note that all presentations are in PDF format.)*

Thursday, October 7, 2004 Medicare Part D - Prescription Drug Coverage - Key Decisions for States Joan Henneberry, Director Policy Studies, Inc. Chairman, SPAP Transition Commission Barbara Coulter Edwards, Director Ohio Medicaid Program Member, SPAP Transition Commission Roundtable Discussion: SPAP's Experience Coordinating with Medicare Drug Discount Cards and Lessons for Part D Kimberley Fox, Senior Policy Analyst Rutgers Center for State Health Policy Kathleen Mason, Assistant Commissioner New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services Evelyn Dudley, Manager Pharmacy Programs Connecticut Department of Social Services Assessing the Medicare Pharmacy Benefit's Impact on Medicaid Vernon Smith, Principal Health Management Associates, Inc. Jocelyn Guyer, Associate Director Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured Options for Supplementing Part D: State Initiatives Jack Hoadley, Research Professor Health Policy Institute, Georgetown University Cindy Parks Thomas, Senior Scientist Schneider Institute for Health Policy Brandeis University Tom Snedden, Director PACE/ PACENet Programs, Pennsylvania Impact on Existing Disease Management Programs and Managed Care Initiatives Stephen A. Somers, President Center for Health Care Strategies Anthony Rodgers, Director Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System Roberta Kelley, Bureau Chief Florida Medicaid Health Systems Development James Hardy, Project Manager Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare Medicare Pharmacy Coverage and Implications for Long-Term Care Jim Verdier, Senior Fellow Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Chuck Milligan, Executive Director Center for Health Program Management and Development University of Maryland Baltimore County		Friday, October 8, 2004 Meeting the Challenge of Expanded State Eligibility Determination Requirements Gale Arden, Director Disabled Elderly Health Programs Group Center for Medicaid and State Operations, CMS Laura Summer, Senior Researcher Georgetown University Kenneth D. Nibali, Consultant on Social Security Former Associate Commissioner for Disability with the Social Security Administration Formulary and Cost-Sharing Issues Stephen Crystal, Research Professor & Associate Director for Research Rutgers Center for State Health Policy Bruce Stuart, Professor and Director The Peter Lamy Center on Drug Therapy and Aging University of Maryland School of Pharmacy Haiden Huskamp, Associate Professor of Health Economics Harvard Medical School Geoffrey Joyce, Economist RAND State Drug Purchasing in a New World Steve Schondelmeyer, Director PRIME Institute, University of Minnesota Paul Reinhart, Director Michigan Medicaid Program Mark Gibson, Deputy Director Center for Evidenced Based Policy Oregon Health Sciences University

Last updated: December 7, 2005