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The APG, America’s Physician Groups, one of the leading national associations representing physician groups involved in risk-based contracting, will be hosting its fall conference Oct. 31-Nov. 2 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. Entitled “Transitions 2022: APG Colloquium,”the conference will bring together a roster of high-powered healthcare policy leaders, as well as representatives of hundreds of APG member organizations.
Among the speakers will be Anthony Fauci, M.D., Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Chris Jennings, former Chief Health Advisor to President Bill Clinton, and president of Jennings Policy Strategies; and Thomas Insel, M.D., author and executive director of Vanna Health. What’s more, on Tuesday, Nov. 1, Susan Dentzer, APG’s president and CEO, will moderate a panel entitled “The Bumpy, Slow, and Circuitous Route to Value-Based Healthcare,” and whose panelists will be Adam Boehler, former Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI); Patrick Conway, M.D., former Director, CMMI; Seema Verma, former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS); and Gail Wilensky, Ph.D., former director of the Health Care Financing Administration (now CMS). In addition, the various tracks will offer sessions that focus on the integration of primary and specialty care; creating, scaling, and sustaining behavioral health integration in primary care; integrating value-based oncology into primary care; innovations in care delivery; the future of advanced care at home; pharmacy in team-based care; caring for homeless older adults in value-based arrangements; geriatric and urgent care in the home; healthcare workforce recruitment and retention; and policy developments at the federal and state levels.