Public and Private Health System Integration: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Oral Health Experience
June 4, 2024: Day 1 —Medicare and Oral Health Integration: The Way Forward
9:00 AM | Welcome
William Giannobile, DDS, MS, DMSc, Dean and Professor, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
9:15 AM | Medicare Advantage Growth, Success and Challenges
David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, Professor of the Practice of Public Health and Health Policy at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Heath
10:15 AM | Oral Health Advancements: Update from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service
Natalia Chalmers, DDS, MHSc, PhD, Chief Dental Officer, CMS
11:00 AM | Break
11:15 AM | Creating a Standard CMS Dental Benefit for Dual Eligible Individuals with Disabilities
Mary Foley, RDH, MPH, Executive Director, State Medicaid Programs
11:30 AM | Galvanizing Stakeholders and Policy Makers for Change
Ralph Fuccillo, MA, President, Santa Fe Group
David Lipschutz, JD, Associate Director/Senior Policy Attorney, Center for Medicare Advocacy
John McDonough, DrPH, MPA, Director, Center for Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
12:15 PM | Lunch
1:15 PM | Panel Discussion: Multiple Perspectives on Navigating Medicare Advantage Provider Perspective
Kyu Rhee, MD, MPP, CEO, National Association of Community Health Centers, Provider Perspective
Megan O’Reilly, JD, VP Legislative Affairs, AARP, Patient Perspective
Solomon Brotman, DDS, VP, USAble Life, Payer Perspective
Moderator: Andrew Dreyfus, Former President and CEO, Massachusetts Blue Cross Blue Shield
2:45 PM | Break
3:00 PM | Panel Discussion: Health Policy Research and Evidence for More Integrated Dental Coverage and Care Health Improvements and Downstream Cost
Impact of Integrated Care on Health Outcomes and Costs
Sung Choi, PhD, SM, Assistant Professor, HSDM
Disparities in Medicare and MA Related to Dental Care
Darien Weatherspoon, DDS, MPH, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Dentistry
Spending on and Utilization of Dental Services in MA and Medicare
Lisa Simon, MD, DMD, Associate Physician, Mass General Brigham
Moderator: Catherine Hayes, DMD, SM, DMSc, Chair of the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology and Program Director of Dental Public Health, HSDM
5:00 PM | Networking and Refreshments
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June 5, 2024: Day 2 — Integrated Care That Works: A Playbook for the Future
8:15 AM | Opening Remarks
Jane Barrow, MS, Executive Director for the HSDM Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine, Director of Global and Community Health, Lecturer Part Time
8:30 AM | Building a Holistic Care Network for Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries
David Kim, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Memorial Care CA
Steve Thorne, BA, MHA, CEO, PDS Health
Moderator: Russ Phillips, MD, Director of the HMS for Primary Care and the William Applebaum Professor of Medicine and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, HMS
9:30 AM | Panel Discussion: Experiments in Integrated Care
Integrating Dental Care into Protocols for Chronic Kidney Disease
Stefanie Park, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer, Hawaii Medical Services Association
Integrating Hygienists into PC Practices
Patricia Braun, MD, MPH, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Integrating Behavioral Health Screenings into the Dental Office
Caleb Tam, DDS, Instructor, Chief Dental Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance
Moderator: John Da Silva, DMD, MPH, ScM, Professor, Prosthodontics, Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs, Tufts
11:00 AM | Lunch
12:00 PM | Panel Discussion: Educating a Multidisciplinary Work Force for Oral Health
100 Million Mouths, Training Oral Health Champions in 50 States
Shenam Ticku, MPH, Instructor and Pre-doctoral Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology Discipline Director, HSDM
An Oral Health Competency Module for Physician Trainees at UGHE
John Michael Ray, DDS, MPH, Faculty, Part Time, HSDM
Training Nurses in Oral Health Competencies: The NDA Model
Nicole Cheek, DDS, President, National Dental Association
Oral Health Curriculum for Promotoras
Josefine Wolfe, PhD, MPH, RDH, MBA, Education Specialist, CareQuest, Institute for Oral Health
Moderator: Hugh Silk, MD, MPH, Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, UMass Medical School, and Instructor, HSDM
1:30 PM | Panel Discussion: Thinking Differently About Holistic Care for Older Adults
MOTIVATE
Leonard Brennan, DMD, Co-Director of the HSDM Geriatrics Fellowship, Clinical Instructor, Part Time
MOTIVATE at Home
Labrini Nelligan, MS, Executive Director, Mass General Brigham
Hospital Acquired Aspirational Pneumonia and Oral Health
Michael Klompas, MD, Infectious Disease Specialist, Mass General Brigham
Moderator: Christine Riedy, PhD, MPH, Delta Dental of Massachusetts Associate Professor and Director of Oral Health Workforce Innovation and Population Health, HSDM
3:00 PM | Closing Remarks and Next Steps
Robert Lewando, DDS, MBA, Chair, HSDM Initiative Board, Executive Director, Specialty Benefits Professional Services, BCBSMA
3:15 PM | Networking