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Health Care Reform & Its Impact on Your Bottom Line
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Jim Pshock
President
Bravo Wellness, LLC
Jim Pshock is a leader known for cutting-edge innovation in the healthcare sector. Jim has developed a comprehensive and unique expertise in the regulations related to governing wellness programs and the practical application of incentives to improve employee health. He frequently presents to regional and national audiences, including human resource professionals, occupational health professionals and insurance industry associations.
Jim’s career spans over 20 years in the health insurance industry including executive positions in technology, operations, sales, marketing and corporate strategy with carriers and third-party administrators.
In 2008, Jim launched Bravo Wellness, LLC and serves as its president. Bravo offers results-based wellness program technology, support and resources to employers and business partners for immediate employer cost savings and employee rewards for actually achieving positive results instead of rewards simply for participating in programs.
Bravo Wellness now has over 85 customers using outcome based incentives or penalties for wellness and has coordinated and processed results for over 100,000 participants. Bravo clients are demonstrating both immediate ROI and significant health improvement and Bravo’s experience is helping to form healthcare legislation in America.
Jim resides near Cleveland, Ohio with his wife and four children.
Scott Perlman
Partner
Mayer Brown LLP
Scott Perlman, a Partner in Mayer Brown’s Washington, D.C. office, concentrates his practice on mergers and acquisitions and other transactional work, as well as on antitrust litigation and counseling. He has worked on a variety of mergers involving the health care industry, including health insurance and hospital mergers, and the pharmaceutical, software, petrochemical, and oil and gas industries. Scott frequently counsels clients on antitrust compliance issues, and he has assisted numerous clients with preparation of compliance materials as well as organizing compliance programs for their employees.
He also has advised on joint ventures in the health care, agriculture, transportation, and entertainment industries, and has counseled business-to-business exchanges in the healthcare, chemicals, metals, and retail industries. Scott has extensive experience in antitrust class actions involving alleged price fixing, exclusive dealing and bundling claims, predatory pricing, and government investigations of pricing and marketing policies. In addition, Scott has primary responsibility for the entire firm for counseling clients on Hart-Scott-Rodino compliance.
Notable Engagements:
· Aetna's acquisitions of US Healthcare, NYLCare and Prudential.
· The merger of Strong Memorial and Highland Hospitals in Rochester, New York.
· The merger of St. Joseph's and Candler Hospitals in Savannah, Georgia.
· Fresenius AG's acquisition of Renal Care Group.
· UnitedHealth Group Incorporation’s acquisition of Sierra Health Services, Inc.
· Defending VHA and Novation in antitrust case against allegations of exclusive dealing and bundled rebates relating to contracting for pharmaceutical distribution and retractable syringes.
· Defending NorthShore University HealthSystem in class action alleging Chicago hospitals fixed nurse wages.
Janet Trautwein
Executive Vice President and CEO
National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU)
Janet Trautwein is the Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) in Arlington, Virginia. NAHU represents more than 100,000 employee benefits professionals involved in the design, sale, implementation and management of health plans all over the United States. Her responsibilities include oversight of all NAHU activities and primary representation of the association to the media, government agencies and elected officials at all levels. Prior to becoming the CEO of NAHU in 2005, Janet served for many years as the head of NAHU's government affairs department, working with members of Congress, senior government officials, governors, and state legislators, and directing the government and political affairs of the organization. A frequent speaker on health policy issues, Janet is considered an expert in health insurance markets and health plans of all sizes and frequently testifies before Congress on these issues. Her expertise in issues related to the uninsured, health insurance pools, risk and reinsurance pooling, health related tax issues, and both national and global health reform has been recognized throughout the industry. In 2004, Janet received the Harold R. Gordon Memorial Award, which honors the “Health Insurance Person of the Year” and is considered to be the most prestigious award in the health insurance industry. Since 2006, Janet has been named one of the 100 most powerful people in the insurance industry. She has been published in major newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Los Angles Times and she has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs around the world.
Peter Armstrong Egan
Partner
Nixon Peabody LLP
Peter Egan is a partner in the firm's Health Services practice group. His practice includes routine and complex business transactions, as well as regulatory and tax analysis on behalf of for-profit healthcare companies, medical centers, and not-for-profit providers. He has considerable experience implementing and restructuring relationships between clients and their employed/affiliated physicians.
Peter represented the lead agency in an accountable care organization demonstration project and he has formed numerous joint ventures among for-profit and not-for-profit health care entities. He also represents physicians and lately structured the merger or four medical practices.
Peter is also a member of the firm's higher education practice. He recently represented a university in connection with a new markets tax credit transaction.
Before joining the firm, Peter worked as a consultant in Ernst & Young's Health Care Group, where he focused on identifying and addressing financial and corporate structure issues facing the area's health care providers. In this position, he helped advise a wide range of clients, from entrepreneurs to large health care systems.
Michael Thompson
Principal, Global Human Resources Solutions Group
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Michael Thompson is a Principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers with over 25 years of experience in healthcare and employee benefits strategy development and implementation, design, financing, operations and analysis. Mike consults with major employers and other stakeholders on sustainable cost reduction, integrated health, wellness and consumerism, retiree health, and health reform.
Mike serves as one of PwC's national thought leaders for health strategies for the health industries practice, and has participated on the steering board of the World Economic Forum "Working for Wellness" initiative. For the past decade has been a leader in developing and promoting collaborative cross-sector health industry initiatives.
Mike is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and serves on the Federal Health Committee, Disease Management Committee, Medicare Committee as well as chaired the Quality Initiatives Work Group of the American Academy of Actuaries (AAA) in the release of issue briefs on pay-for performance, comparative effectiveness and value-based insurance design. Mike also serves on the boards of the New York chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and the New York Business Group on Health.
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