"National Academy of State Health Policy's 15th Annual State Health Policy Conference" 8/6/2002 National Academy for State Health Policy, Philadelphia, Pa.
Webcast sessions include:
What Really Happened - and What Will Happen - to Health Programs in Budget Cuts?
The session will examine the current status of state budgets and what to expect in 2003. Moderator: Linda Wertz, deputy commissioner for Medicaid and CHIP, Texas Health and Human Services Commission.
Speakers: Neil Bergsman,
executive director, Department of Budget & Management and President-Elect of NASBO; and James Fossett, senior fellow, Rockefeller Institute of Government.
Simplified Enrollment: The New York Experience
A look at the implications the New York City experience has on the national Medicaid program. Moderator: Richard Gottfried, chair, Committee on Health, New York State Assembly
Speakers: Deborah Bachrach,
counsel, Prepaid Health Services Plans Coalition, Kalkines, Arky, Zall and Bernstein, LLP; Kathryn Kuhmerker, deputy commissioner,
Office of Medicaid Management
New York State Department of Health; and James Tallon, Jr.,
president, United Hospital Fund of New York.