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October 1 Conference on Health Care Costs and Insurance
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The cost of health care
and health insurance inMaine will be the focus of a statewide conference on
Wednesday, October 1 sponsored by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and the
Maine Health Management Coalition. "Health Care Costs:Maine's Burning
Platform -- Can We Extinguish the Fire?" will examine strategies to moderate
Maine's cost of health care and health insurance.
The conference will feature keynote speeches by two national experts: Dr.
Arnie Milstein, Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health and the
National Health Care Thought Leader at Mercer Consulting will examine
innovative approaches to moderate health care costs and Michael Chernew,
Professor, Harvard Medical School, Dept. of Health Care Policy, will address
ways that health insurance can be designed to get the best value from the
policies.
AMaine-based speaker, Dr. Erik Steele, Vice President and Chief Medical
Officer, Eastern Maine Health Systems, will open the conference with a
presentation on why it is critical thatMaine control health care cost
increases.
More than 200 people have already registered for the conference from the
business and health care provider community. Registration and conference
information is available online at www.anthem.com/maine/conference .
Registration closes on September 26. The cost to attend the conference is $25.
The morning conference will take place at the University of Southern
Maine's Abromson Community Center.
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield's Health Care Leadership Conference
series examines critical health care issues facingMaine. A series of
conferences over the past three years has focused on wellness and preventative
strategies to improve the health ofMaine people.
The October 1 conference will be of special interest to health care
providers and theMaine business community, as well as public policy makers
and the general public.
About Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield is the trade name of Anthem Health Plans
ofMaine, Inc., and an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Association. (R)ANTHEM is a registered trademark of Anthem Insurance
Companies, Inc. The Blue Cross and Blue Shield names and symbols are
registered marks of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Additional
information about Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield inMaine is available at
www.anthem.com .
About MHMC
The Maine Health Management Coalition is a non-profit organization whose
over 50 members include public, private and non-profit employers, hospitals,
health plans and doctors working together to measure and report healthcare
quality and use this information to drive quality improvement. Currently,
more than 200,000 member employees and thousands of others are benefiting from
the Maine Health Management Coalition's work. For more information, visit
www.mhmc.info .
SOURCE Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield
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