4th NATIONAL MEDICAL BANKING INSTITUTE

February 22-23, 2006

Nashville, TN

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Dr. HSA's National Town Meeting

Updates (as of 2/14/06)

Members of the Press: For online arrangements please send name/demographics to info@mbproject.org.

Wendy Borow-Johnson, President, Healthy Living Channel to Co-Moderate.

Dean Mason, COO, UnitedHealthcare/Exante Financial Services, to join panel.

Moderators:

MBProject's 'Dr. HSA', David Harris, CMPA, MBA, CHE - National Healthcare Revenue Cycle Partner

PricewaterhouseCoopers, New York, NY

Wendy Borow-Johnson, SVP, The Networks Group; President, Healthy Living Channel, Turner Media Group, Inc., Chicago, IL

Panel:

Barry Stokes, "Consumer-Driven Guy" (SkyRadio & Fox News); CEO, 1Point Solutions, Dickson, TN

Greg Scandlen, Founder, Consumers for Health Care Choices, Hagerstown, MD

Webster "Web" Golinkin, Chief Executive Officer & Director, InterFit Health, Houston, TX

Dan Perrin, Founder, HSA Insider, Inc., Washington, DC
Dean Mason, Chief Operating Officer , United Healthcare | Exante Financial Services, NYC

Session Focus/Summary:

Consumer-driven healthcare is emerging as a new force in healthcare. Industry pundits, however, have varying viewpoints regarding how effective this new area can be in our fight against rising healthcare costs. As Health Savings Accounts (HSA) emerge, much tighter integration between banking and healthcare systems is portentous of a basic shift in money and power among healthcare stakeholders. Well recognized experts will review this dynamic area and discuss the underlying benefits and risks to our healthcare system.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will understand market trends and opportunities associated with the consumerism movement currently taking place in the healthcare industry.

2. Participants will have gained valuable market insight, having listened to various stakeholders from insurance, banking, provider and HSA industry experts.

3. Participants will better understand how their company fits into the HSA market segment of banking and healthcare.

Biographies:

Davis Harris is a Partner with the Healthcare Advisory Practice in PricewaterhouseCoopers' New York office. He has twenty years industry experience in the health care and information systems field. David is the National Partner for PwC's revenue cycle practice that specializes in, payer, hospital and physician revenue cycle operations improvement, operation turnarounds/workouts, process redesign and business office integration, as well as denial management. He is responsible for the thought leadership, products and methodologies used by PwC's more than 100 revenue cycle professionals with in-depth knowledge of patient access, clinical documentation, health information management, inpatient and ambulatory coding, billing, claim adjudication, collections, A/R management and information systems. David also leads the Medical Banking Project's HSA Workgroup as part of the consumer directed healthcare initiative. Prior to becoming a consultant, David worked for IBM and Electronic Data Systems (EDS) where he assisted in the design, testing and implementation of the first national claims processing system dubbed BMCS, which later became the NASCO system.

Consumer-Driven Guy Barry Stokes is President of 1Point Solutions, a leading provider of employee benefit and retirement programs.  Barry has contributed his knowledge of consumer-driven health plans to programs and publications across the country, providing Americans with a greater understanding of the future of healthcare and how to make cost-effective decisions about their own healthcare. Prior to founding 1Point Solutions, Stokes was a senior partner with ePoint Investments, serving as a chief strategist and benefits consultant.  He joined the firm in 1994 when it was a traditional insurance and financial services firm affiliated with Penn Mutual; Stokes was Pen Mutual's top representative for its 401(k) product line, and previously was recognized as a lead agent for Blue Cross of CA.  Stokes graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Tennessee. Website: www.consumerdrivenguy.com

Greg Scandlen is the founder of Consumers for Health Care Choices, a non-partisan, non-profit membership organization aimed at empowering consumers in the healthcare system.  Mr. Scandlen is an accomplished writer, researcher, and public speaker.  He is considered one of the nation's experts on healthcare financing, insurance regulation and employee benefits.  He testifies frequently before Congress, and appears on such television shows as the O'Reilly Factor, NBC Nightly News, and CNN.  Mr. Scandlen gives three dozen speeches a year to organizations representing employers and labor, hospitals and physicians, insurers and pharmaceutical companies.  He has published many papers on topics such as healthcare costs, insurance reform, employee benefits, individual insurance programs, HSAs and HRAs, and every aspect of consumer driven healthcare.  Mr. Scandlen has worked for several Washington-based think tanks, was the president of the Health Benefits Group and the founder and executive director of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance.  He also spent 12 years in the BlueCross BlueShield system, most recently as the director of state research at the national association. Website: www.chcchoices.org. Related article: Health Affairs, Vol 24, Issue 6, 1554-1558 (c) 2005 by Project Hope.

Webster "Web" Golinkin is the President and Chief Executive Officer of InterFit Health, which provides health screenings and flu shots at retail outlets and employer worksites nationwide and operates RediClinic 'convenient care' facilities located in Duane Reade, HEB, and Wal-Mart stores in four states.  For the past 19 years, Mr. Golinkin has served as chairman, vice chairman, president and/or chief executive officer of four companies, including two in the health field.  In 1988, he co-founded and served as President and Chief Executive Office of American Medical Communications, Inc., which became one of the nation's largest producers and distributors of health-related television and video programming before it was acquired by Medsite.  In 1993, he co-founded and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of America's Health Network, Inc., which became the nation's largest health-related cable television network, with one of the most popular health-related websites, before it was acquired by Fox Entertainment Group, a division of NEWS Corporation.  Mr. Golinkin eared a B.A. from Harvard University and is a member of World President's Organization.

Dan Perrin founded HSA Insider in 2004 and joined Canopy Financial in 2005.  Mr. Perrin is responsible for managing all editorial aspects of Canopy Financial Media.  Mr. Perrin is recognized as one of the nation's most knowledgeable individuals in the consumer-driven healthcare arena, particularly Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).  He is the author of HSA Road Rules, the most widely-read publication in HSAs, and is frequently quoted in major media publications such as The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, and Kiplinger's.  Prior to his work in healthcare, Mr. Perrin served as a staff member for two U.S. Senate committees - the Steering Committee and the Committee on Foreign Relations. Website: www.hsainsider.com

Dean Mason is the Chief Operating Officer of Exante Financial Services, a unit of UnitedHealthcare. (Bio not available).