From 10:00 a.m. until noon on Thursday, June 6 at McCormick Place, Lakeside Center in Chicago, the SVS Vascular Annual Meeting® will feature the E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum.
SVS President-Elect Richard P. Cambria, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital, MA, will be the Forum moderator. The Forum topic is: Health Care Reform: Issues for Vascular Surgeons.
“The Forum discussion will include: provisions of the Affordable Care Act, the economic basis for health care reform, tort reform that could emanate from the Affordable Care Act, and likely changes in the current fee-for-service reimbursement model,” said Dr. Cambria. “We look forward to a lively discourse on this timely topic.”
The Forum presenters are:
— Drew E. Altman, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Menlo Park, CA
— David M. Cutler, PhD, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
— David A. Hyman, MD, JD, Richard & Marie Corman Professor of Law, Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
— Derek J. Robinson, MD, MBA, FACEP, Chief Medical Officer; Region V, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Chicago, IL
For complete details on all of the Vascular Annual Meeting sessions, please visit VascularAnnualMeeting.org.
