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AGENDA

7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Registration, Breakfast, Networking & Exhibit Hall 
***Sponsored by McGriff Insurance***

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Welcome & Opening Remarks

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION 
***Sponsored by Platinum Sponsor - Populytics***
State of the Industry
Ford Koles, Advisory Board

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Networking Break & Exhibit Hall

10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
HEALTH INNOVATOR SHOWCASE
***Sponsored by Platinum Sponsor - St. Luke's Care Network***

AposHealth - Harry Leider, MD
Ovia Health - Mary Elizabeth H. Myers, RN BSN
United Concordia Dental - Roosevelt Allen, DDS 

11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
REVOLUTIONIZING PHARMACEUTICALS
TO RADICALLY REDUCE COST 
Alex Oshmyansky, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company 
Samir Mistry, Capital Blue Cross 

12:00 p.m. - 12:05 p.m.
PRESENTATION OF 2023 CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS
American Heart Association & Habitat for Humanity

Networking, Exhibit Hall & Lunch
***Sponsored by Trustmark***

1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
GEN Z, MENTAL HEALTH & THE WORKFORCE
***Sponsored by Platinum Sponsor - Novo Nordisk***
Karen Rech, Health Advocate 

1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
10TH ANNUAL TYPE 2 DIABETES REPORT 
***Sponsored by Platinum Sponsor - United Concordia Dental***
Jake Olsen, Forte Analytics
Hilary Weismantel, PharmD, St. Luke's University Health Network
Mark Wendling, MD, Valley Preferred 

2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
PRIVATE EQUITY IN HEALTHCARE
***Sponsored by Platinum Sponsor - KPCM***
Why Private Equity in Healthcare is Bad for Your Health
Laura Katz-Olsen, Lehigh University
Response - Collaboration Between Healthcare and Private Equity
Brian McGough, JD, Ziegler 

2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 
Thank You & Adjournment

PRESENTATIONS

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - State of the Industry

We examine the health care industry’s increasingly tough business climate dominated by increasing costs and prices, tightening margins and capital, and staffing upheaval. This array of urgent, disruptive market forces mean that leaders must navigate an unusually high number of short-term crises and opportunities—and that strategic choices have an outsized impact on their long-term goals. We’ll discuss the market forces that leaders should be watching and the key strategic decisions that maximize health care organizations' ability to influence the industry’s future structure

HEALTH INNOVATOR SHOWCASE

Presentations from health innovators, who through technology and services, are reshaping how employers are empowering employees and members to live healthier and more productive lives. 

AposHealth is passionate about revolutionizing the treatment of musculoskeletal conditions simply, by addressing peoples' gait to help  them alleviate pain, move better, and live better. The flagship solution, Apos, is CE-marked and FDA-cleared to temporarily reduce knee pain cause by osteoarthritis and has been used by over 120,000 patiences. It can also be used as a general wellness device to help patients live well with chronic lower back and hip pain. With 96% satisfaction rate and over 60 peer-reviewed clinical studies, this system - consisting of gait analysis, a personalized foot-worn device, and a customized treatment plan - has helped patients worldwide move, live, and thrive. 

Ovia Health is the digital platform transforming episodic care into continuous support while improving family wellbeing and fostering positive outcomes. Ovia's one platform supports the complete family care continuum, and is proud to serve millions of people with clinical programs, predictive interventions, and personalized pathways spanning the spectrum of family health, parenting, and menopause, including: women's health, family building, maternity, paternal wellbeing, and children's health. Ovia has conducted years of clinical research to elevate the standard of care for families, focusing on complex challenges that include the cesarean epidemic and social determinants of family health. 

United Concordia Dental has more to offer than the obvious by providing additional benefits that employers and employees can take advantage of, including addressing the connection between mental health and dental insurance. Mental health, and managing stress, is an integral part of well-being. And studies show a strong link between stress and oral health issues, like teeth grinding and jaw clenching. United Concordia Dental recognizes this connection and can help employers implement strategies to improve employee stress levels as well as other dental benefits that support members mental health. 

REVOLUTIONIZING PHARMACEUTICALS
TO RADICALLY REDUCE COST 
Alex Oshmyansky, MD, PhD, the founder and CEO of Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, will share how the pharmaceutical company is radically reducing prescription costs with a direct-to-consumer pharmacy. Their model removes the middleman and price negotiations to drastically expand access and affordability of lifesaving prescriptions. His inspirational story will remind us that transformation is achievable. 

Following his presentation, Alex will be joined by Samir Mistry, Vice President of Pharmacy Strategy of Services, Capital Blue Cross for a fireside chat. Capital Blue Cross is the first health plan in the nation to collaborate with the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company to help bring high-quality, lower cost prescription drugs to its members as well as the communities it serves. 

GEN Z, MENTAL HEALTH, AND THE WORKFORCE

According to Pew Research Center, members of Generation Z – individuals born between 1997 and 2012 – are growing up in an age of increased stress and anxiety. Now, entering the workforce following an unprecedented pandemic, they also face higher college debt, a housing crisis, inflation, racial and gender inequity, political upheaval, and increased violence. While some mental health challenges are unique to Generation Z, employers can implement strategies that benefit the entire workforce, including increasing recognition of employees experiencing difficulties and creating a stigma-free workforce.

10TH ANNUAL TYPE 2 DIABETES REPORT

The 10th Annual Type 2 Diabetes Report for 2022 from Sanofi and LVBCH provides an overview of key demographic, utilization, pharmacotherapy, and change measures. To commemorate to 10th year of the report, multi-year retrospective views demonstrate how the care of Type 2 diabetes patients has changes in the last decade, provide directional insight into the health care trends affecting the Lehigh Valley, and identify national benchmarks that can help providers and employers identify opportunities to better serve the needs and patients and members. 

PRIVATE EQUITY IN HEALTHCARE

Why Private Equity in Healthcare is Bad for Your Health
The Private Equity (PE) industry does not make products or provide social services—it trades businesses, using considerable debt and other people’s money, with the aim of earning supersized profits. This talk will address the secret world of PE and its lack of accountability to anyone except its investors. This presentation will explain the PE playbook and assess the consequences for the U.S. healthcare system, consumers, front line workers and taxpayers. General Partners accumulate vast wealth through a variety of tactics and these can lead to financial distress, even bankruptcy, for the companies they buy. It will also examine the reasons that PE has now entered the healthcare sector as well as suggested actions that should be taken to control the industry.

Response: Collaboration Among Healthcare and Private Equity 

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