Health Affairs: Value in Cancer Care 

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

W Hotel Washington

Agenda

8:30 a.m.: Opening Remarks

Susan Dentzer, Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs

8:40 a.m.:  Remarks

J. Ross Maclean, Vice President, Health Services, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Dana Goldman, Director, Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California

8:50 a.m.: The Value Of Higher Cancer Spending in the United States Versus Europe

Tomas J. Philipson, Daniel Levin Professor of Public Policy Studies, Harris School, University of Chicago

9:00 a.m.: How Cancer Patients Assign Value To Hope

Darius Lakdawalla, Director of Research, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California

John A. Romley, Research Assistant Professor, School of Policy, Planning and Development, and Economist, Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Economics and Policy, University of Southern California

           Q & A

10:00 a.m.: Break

10:15 a.m.: Challenges Of Assessing Value In Cancer Care For Medicare And Other Payers

Peter Neumann, Director, Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, and Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine

Peter Ubel, Professor of Marketing and Public Policy, Duke University

10:45 a.m.: Are We Spending Money Appropriately In Cancer Care: The Case Of Prostate Cancer

Danil V. Makarov, Assistant Professor of Urology, New York University School of Medicine, and Assistant Professor of Health Policy, NYU Wagner School of Public Service

Jean Mitchell, Professor, Georgetown University Public Policy Institute

Bruce L. Jacobs, Fellow in Urologic Oncology and Health Services Research, University of Michigan

Joshua N. Mirkin, First-Year Medical Student, State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine

          Q & A

Noon: Break for Box Lunches

12:15 p.m.: The Case For Lung Cancer Screening of High-Risk Patients

Bruce S. Pyenson, Principal, Milliman

12:30 p.m.: Improving Payment And Delivery Of Cancer Care

Lee N. Newcomer, Senior Vice President, Oncology, Genetics and Women’s Health, United Healthcare (via telephone)

Douglas W. Blayney, Ann and John Doerr Medical Director, Stanford University Cancer Center

1:00 p.m.: Variations, Best Practices and Patients’ Choices In Advanced Cancer And End of Life Care

Nancy E. Morden, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice

Amy J. Berman, Breast cancer patient, Narrative Matters author, and Senior Program Officer, John A. Hartford Foundation

Q & A

1:30 p.m.: Adjourn

 

The briefing was made possible by funding support from Bristol-Myers Squibb; the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California; and Precision Health Economics.