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Dirigo Cyber Seminar Leading the Way?: Maine’s Experience in Expanding Coverage

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Dirigo Cyber Seminar Leading the Way?: Maine’s Experience in Expanding Coverage

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  1. Dirigo Cyber SeminarLeading the Way?: Maine’s Experience in Expanding Coverage Sponsors: The Commonwealth Fund’s State Innovations Program and Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO)--a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson FoundationFebruary 1, 200812:00 – 1:30 pm (EDT)

  2. Technical Assistance • Due to the volume of participants today, we’ve automatically muted your phones to eliminate interference. • During the program, you are encouraged to type a question in the chat area at the bottom right of your screen and hit send. • Please make sure that your telephone or computer speaker volume is turned up. If you experience any technical problems during the seminar, please dial *10* and a Genesys representative will contact you. Alternately, you can call the helpdesk line at 1-800-305-5208 and reference the meeting number: 2926756. • And finally, please close all other applications, especially email, so that your system will run more smoothly.

  3. Dirigo Cyber SeminarLeading the Way?: Maine’s Experience in Expanding Coverage Sponsors: The Commonwealth Fund’s State Innovations Program and Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO)--a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson FoundationFebruary 1, 200812:00 – 1:30 pm (EDT)

  4. Why Dirigo? • First state attempt at comprehensive health reform • Goals: • Provide affordable health insurance coverage to all residents by 2009 • Slow the growth of health care costs • Improve the quality of care • Evaluation efforts intended to provide guidance and lessons learned for other states looking to expand coverage, improve quality, and contain costs going forward

  5. Study Findings Study findings featured during today’s presentation can be found online at: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=605785 http://www.hcfo.net/DirigoReport.pdf http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/publications/PDFs/dirigooverview.pdf The complete report, including information about the study methods, can be found on Mathematica's Web site at: http://www.mathematicampr.com/health/dirigochoice.asp

  6. Leading the Way?: Maine’s Experience in Expanding CoverageFebruary 1, 2008, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. (EDT) Moderator: Rachel Nuzum, M.P.H. Program Officer The Commonwealth Fund Presenters: Debra Lipson, M.H.S.A. Senior Researcher Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Jim Verdier, J.D. Senior Fellow Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Discussants: Trish Riley, M.S. Director Governor's Office of Health Policy and Finance, State of Maine Karynlee Harrington Executive Director Dirigo Health Agency Enrique Martinez-Vidal Director State Coverage Initiatives

  7. Please Send Questions or Comments Chat Feature Please type your questions at any point during the cyber seminar and click send. They will be answered at an appropriate time in the order they are received or answers will be posted following the event. If you experience any technical problems, please dial *10* and a Genesys representative will contact you.

  8. Unanswered Questions? If you have any unanswered questions, please send an email to: dirigoregistration@academyhealth.org We will try to answer as many questions as we can and will post these at: www.hcfo.net

  9. Cyber Seminar Products For an archive of today’s event, including an audio recording, presenters’ slides and contact information, and links to study findings, please visit www.hcfo.net For an e-forum of today’s event, please visit www.commonwealthfund.org

  10. Please stay tuned . . . In order to help us improve future cyber seminars, please stay with us and complete the brief survey at the end of the session. It will only take a few minutes!

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