EXCELLENCE EVIDENCE-BASED UNIQUECOLLABORATION LEADERSHIPACHIEVEMENT
25TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER ANNIVERSARY DINNER NOVEMBER 27, 2018 RENWICK GALLERY I SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM
THE EVENING’S PROGRAM 6:00 PM COCKTAIL RECEPTION
6:45 PM DINNER Celebrating NIHCM’s 25th Anniversary and Honoring Nancy Chockley, NIHCM’s Founding President & CEO Welcome Andrew Dreyfus, NIHCM Chairman TRANSFORMINGHEALTH President and CEO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts NIHCM 25th Anniversary Video CARETHROUGHEVIDENCE Remarks John Forsyth, Chairman and CEO, Wellmark, Inc. ANDCOLLABORATION Presentation of Award Remarks by Nancy Chockley
FOLLOWING MAIN COURSE Tributes to Governor Mike Leavitt, Founder and Chairman, Leavitt Partners; former Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and former Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency under President George W. Bush; Three-term Governor of Utah Andrew Dreyfus Senator-Elect Mitt Romney (R-UT), Former Governor of Massachusetts Patrick Conway, MD, President and CEO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
Alex M. Azar II, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Presentation of Uwe E. Reinhardt Outstanding Leadership in Health Care Award
Remarks by Governor Leavitt
DESSERT ANDREW DREYFUS JOHN FORSYTH MITT ROMNEY PATRICK CONWAY, MD ALEX M. AZAR II PRESIDENT AND CEO, BLUE CROSS CHAIRMAN AND CEO, WELLMARK INC. SENATOR-ELECT (R-UT) PRESIDENT AND CEO, BLUE CROSS AND SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS Mitt Romney is the Senator-Elect for BLUE SHIELD OF NORTH CAROLINA SERVICES John Forsyth is Chairman and CEO of Alex M. Azar II was sworn in as the Andrew Dreyfus is President and Utah. He was the 2012 Republican Patrick Conway joined Blue Cross and Wellmark, Inc., the largest health insurer in Secretary of Health and Human Services Chief Executive Officer for Blue nominee for President of the United Blue Shield of North Carolina as President both Iowa and South Dakota. Previously, Mr. on Jan. 29, 2018. Sec. Azar has spent Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts States, and a candidate for the 2008 and CEO in 2017. Dr. Conway most Forsyth served in a variety of executive roles his career working in both the public (BCBSMA). During his tenure, Republican presidential nomination. recently served as Deputy Administrator over a 26-year career with the University of and private sectors, as an attorney and BCBSMA has consistently been He served as the Governor of the for Innovation and Quality at the Centers Michigan, including president and CEO of in senior leadership roles focused on recognized as one of the nation’s Commonwealth of Massachusetts from for Medicare and Medicaid Services the University of Michigan Health System. advancing healthcare reform, research best health plans for member 2003 through 2007. Prior to his time (CMS) and as the Director of the Center He joined Wellmark as CEO in August 1996 and innovation. From 2001 to 2007, Sec. satisfaction and quality. Prior to as Governor, he led the 2002 Salt Lake for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. and was named chairman in 2000. He has Azar served at the U.S. Department of becoming CEO in 2010, Mr. Dreyfus Organizing Committee for the Winter As the most senior non-political leader repositioned Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Health and Human Services – first as was Executive Vice President, Health Olympics. Senator-Elect Romney was at CMS, he worked in both Republican Shield as a health improvement company General Counsel and then as Deputy Care Services. During his tenure, the co-founder of Bain Capital, a leading and Democratic administrations. He dedicated to serving the people of Iowa Secretary, during which time he helped he created the Alternative Quality investment company, and the turnaround was elected to the National Academy and South Dakota. Under his leadership, oversee the rollout of the Medicare Part Contract, one of the first value-based CEO of Bain & Company, an international of Medicine in 2014. He is a practicing Wellmark has achieved exceptional D prescription drug program. In 2007, payment arrangements in the nation management consulting firm. He pediatric hospitalist and was selected operating efficiencies, and its administrative Sec. Azar joined Eli Lilly and Co as senior to reward providers for the quality currently serves in both corporate as a master of hospital medicine from costs and rates now rank among the lowest vice president for corporate affairs and and efficiency of their services. Mr. and charitable organizations including the Society of Hospital Medicine. in the nation. He has chaired and served on communications. From 2012 to 2017, he Dreyfus was also founding President Marriott International, Solamere Capital, Before joining CMS, he oversaw clinical the boards of many organizations, including served as president of Lilly USA LLC. of the BCBSMA Foundation, where CharityVision of Salt Lake City and the operations and quality improvement at NIHCM. In 2011, Mr. Forsyth received the Sec. Azar clerked for U.S. Supreme Court he developed the “Roadmap for Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Diversity Journal CEO Leadership in Action Justice Antonin Scalia prior to practicing Coverage,” an initiative which led to Research. Senator-Elect Romney earned Center. Dr. Conway completed his Award, and he was inducted into the Iowa law. Sec. Azar has a bachelor’s degree Massachusetts’s 2006 Health Reform his bachelor’s degree from Brigham pediatrics residency at Harvard Medical Insurance Hall of Fame in 2017. A native of in economics and government from law. Mr. Dreyfus chairs the NIHCM Young University and his JD and MBA School’s Children’s Hospital Boston, Saginaw, Michigan, he holds a bachelor’s Dartmouth College and a law degree board and serves on several boards from Harvard University. He is the proud graduated with high honors from Baylor degree in business administration and a from Yale University. For the past 10 and advisory boards. He holds a B.A. husband to Ann Romney, father to five College of Medicine, and graduated master’s degree in economics from Michigan years, Sec. Azar has lived in Indiana with in English from Connecticut College. State University. sons, and grandfather to twenty-four summa cum laude from Texas A&M EXCELLENCEgrandchildren. University. his wife and their two children. Nancy has long appreciated that researchers and journalists play a critical role both in identifying and evaluating issues, and in educating decision- makers and the general public. In 1994, she launched the NIHCM Awards for exceptional research and journalism in THE UWE E. REINHARDT OUTSTANDING health care to encourage a sustained commitment to the health care field. LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH CARE AWARD
In 1998, Nancy led NIHCM through a reorganization to maintain the LLC while NIHCM’s Outstanding Leadership launching NIHCM Foundation. Through York Times, USA Today and The Washington Post. the Foundation, NIHCM has pursued an in Health Care Award was Best known for NIHCM’s work on prescription drug agenda to build brighter futures for women established in 2006 to recognize pricing, Nancy has testified before the Senate, and and children in partnership with the federal NIHCM has been featured in hundreds of news exceptional leaders who have government. Nancy has broadened the stories. made significant contributions Foundation’s focus over the years to build to health care through public the evidence base for health policy on Prior to founding NIHCM, Nancy was a principal in a policy, industry, government, or a wide range of issues, and to promote strategy firm that is now part of Oliver Wyman. She humanitarian work. collaboration across sectors. advised CEOs and senior executives, some of whom became initial NIHCM board members. Nancy’s discernment and innovation has Last year, we renamed the award in positioned NIHCM ahead of the policy Nancy lived in Calcutta, India, as a child, which honor of the late Uwe E. Reinhardt, NANCY CHOCKLEY debate for 25 years. While the health fueled her commitment to helping others, particularly PhD, a renowned health economist care landscape has changed dramatically, vulnerable children. She and her husband Fritz have who served as an advisor to Nancy Chockley is the founding President she has continued to confront the tough been married for 31 years, and they are the proud NIHCM from 1996 until his passing and CEO of the National Institute for problems and spark innovative solutions. parents of Katie and Wil Chockley. Nancy is an avid in 2017. He left a profound mark on Health Care Management (NIHCM). In the In 2013, Nancy created grant programs to tennis player and she represents the Chevy Chase early 1990s, Nancy recognized a need for fund independent research and journalism. Club in competition. the work we do and the culture we an organization that could bring business Through an investigator-initiated approach, strive to create. leaders together with policy makers and Nancy has established NIHCM as a Nancy received her MBA and her BA, with Distinction other experts to lower health care costs trusted partner that amplifies important in Economics, from the University of Virginia. Tonight, we honor him by granting and improve quality. She pitched the stories, educates journalists, and connects the award in his name. idea to an outstanding group of forward- policymakers to nonpartisan evidence on looking health plan CEOs, and with their timely topics. leadership and support, NIHCM LLC was PREVIOUS WINNERS Nancy is a national voice in the health care incorporated in 1993. Today, members 2013 – Uwe E. Reinhardt of the NIHCM Board insure more than arena and has been featured on numerous 2008 – Jack Wennberg 40 percent of commercially insured national broadcasts such as ABC, NBC, 2006 – Leonard Schaeffer Americans and have a combined revenue BBC and CNN, and in print outlets such of over $250 billion. as The Wall Street Journal, The New 2018 WINNER Governor Mike Leavitt Leavitt Group, a family business that is what some thought was a significant governors to elect him as chairman of now the nation’s second largest, privately political and financial risk, Mike instigated the National Governors Association, the held insurance brokerage. a design-build system, creating cost and Republican Governors Association and quality incentives between the state and its Western Governors’ Association. His In 1993, Mike was elected governor contractors. The project was finished in half book—Finding Allies, Building Alliances— of Utah. He served three terms (1993- the originally projected time and well under was released in September 2013 by 2003). In 2003, he joined the Cabinet budget. Jossey-Bass Publishers and chronicles his of President George W. Bush, serving Mike is, at heart, an entrepreneur. As expertise and passion for collaboration. in two positions: first as administrator of governor, he organized a group of his the Environmental Protection Agency Mike is a seasoned diplomat, leading U.S. colleagues to form Western Governors (2003-2005) and then as secretary of delegations to more than 50 countries. He University. At WGU, degrees are earned Health and Human Services (2005-2009). has conducted negotiations on matters based on competency rather than credit At HHS, he administered a $750 billion related to health, the environment, and hours. WGU now has more than 90,000 budget — nearly 25 percent of the entire trade. At the conclusion of his service, the students who reside in each of the 50 federal budget — and 67,000 employees. Chinese government awarded him the states and several foreign countries. China Public Health Award – the first time He led the implementation of the Enrollment is growing at 35 percent a year. this award has ever been given to a foreign Medicare Part D Prescription Drug In November 2008, TIME magazine named government official. Program. The task required the design, WGU “the best relatively cheap university systematization, and implementation of a you’ve never heard of.” He and his wife Jacalyn S. Leavitt lead a full life with five children and 15 grandchildren. plan to provide 43 million seniors with a Collaborator is a word that comes up MIKE LEAVITT Mike is an avid golfer. He got his first hole new prescription drug benefit. By the end repeatedly when one examines Mike’s Mike Leavitt is the founder of Leavitt in one on his 60th birthday. of the first year, enrollments exceeded background. His skill led his colleague Partners where he helps clients navigate projections, prices were lower than the future as they transition to new and projected, and seniors expressed high better models of care. In previous roles, levels of satisfaction. Mike served in the Cabinet of President George W. Bush (as Administrator of the Mike’s strategic ability can be seen in his Environmental Protection Agency and redesign of the nation’s system of quality Secretary of Health and Human Services) and safety standards for imported goods. and as a three-time elected governor of In the spring of 2006, President Bush Utah. assigned him to lead a government-wide response. Within months, he commended Mike grew up in Cedar City, Utah, where a major strategic shift in U.S. policy on his upbringing was rooted in the values import regulation and trade. of the American West, with its emphasis on hard work and common sense. He A pattern of innovation runs throughout earned a bachelor’s degree in business Mike’s career. When he was elected while working in the insurance industry. In governor, Utah’s major freeway system 1984, he became chief executive of The was dangerously inadequate. Taking LELEADERSHIP ACHIEVEMENT NIHCM Board of Directors
NIHCM CHAIRMAN ANDREW DREYFUS President and CEO Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
NIHCM VICE CHAIRMAN DAVID S. PANKAU President and CEO BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina DAVID W. ANDERSON President and CEO HealthNow New York Inc. CURTIS BARNETT President and CEO Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield GAIL BOUDREAUX President and CEO Anthem, Inc. KEVIN CONLIN Chairman, President and CEO Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey PATRICK CONWAY, MD President and CEO Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina JOHN D. FORSYTH Chairman and CEO Wellmark, Inc. PATRICK J. GERAGHTY Chief Executive Officer Florida Blue W. DAVID HELMS, PHD Senior Associate Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University JD HICKEY, MD President and CEO BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee DANIEL HILFERTY President and CEO Independence Blue Cross DANIEL J. LOEPP President and CEO Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan JEFF ROE President and CEO Premera Blue Cross CRAIG SAMITT, MD President and CEO Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota PAULA STEINER President and CEO Health Care Service Corporation NIHCM Advisory Board
DONALD M. BERWICK, MD Institute for Healthcare Improvement
JAMES C. CAPRETTA American Enterprise Institute
MICHAEL E. CHERNEW, PHD Harvard Medical School
PAUL B. GINSBURG, PHD The Brookings Institution and University of Southern California
ROBERT P. KOCHER, MD Stanford University and Venrock
GOVERNOR MIKE LEAVITT Leavitt Partners
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