The first in the NAPH Health Reform 2010: Educational Webinar Series, this call provided an overview of topics, pertaining to the recently enacted Health Reform legislation, important to safety net health systems that will be covered more in-depth in the future webinars scheduled in this series.

Claudine Swartz, NAPH and Barbara Eyman, Ropes & Gray

• 5/6/2010 Health Reform Educational Webinar - "Coverage Expansion Issues"

  The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act extends health care coverage to over 32 million Americans by 2019. This in-depth webinar discussed unnderstanding how the statute works to expand coverage; implications for safety net health systems; and raised key strategic questions.

  Claudine Swartz, NAPH and Sarah Mutinsky, Ropes & Gray

  • 5/20/2010 Health Reform Educational Webinar - "Provider Payment Issues"

    This webinar, the third in the NAPH Health Reform Implementation Educational Webinar Series, discussed health reform policy changes that impact hospital and physician provider payments.

    Barbara Eyman and Charlie Luband, Ropes & Gray, LLP

    • 6/3/10 Health Reform Educational Webinar: "Innovation & Funding Opportunities"

      This webinar focuses on delivery system innovations and new funding opportunities for safety net providers made available through the health reform law.

      Sarah Mutinsky, Ropes & Gray, LLP and Claudine Swartz, NAPH

      • 6/17/10: Health Reform Educational Webinar - "Exchanges & Health Plan Issues"

        The fifth in the NAPH Health Reform Educational Webinar Series, this webinar provides an overview of the creation of exchanges and changes for health plans in the reform law.

        Sandra Caron George, Ropes & Gray, LLP and Claudine Swartz, NAPH

        • 7/1/2010 Health Reform Educational Webinar - "Primary Care & Community Health Center Issues"

          This webinar provided an overview of issues impacting primary care and community health centers in the health reform law.

          Sarah Mutinsky, Ropes & Gray, LLP & Xiaoyi Huang, NAPH

          • 7/15/10 Health Reform Webinar: Compliance Issues

            This webinar provided an overview of hospital compliance issues in the the new health reform law. Strategic questions were raised for consideration at member hospitals and health systems.

            Stephen Warnke and Kristen Kim - Ropes & Gray, LLP

            • 7/29/10 Health Reform Webinar: Employer Issues

              This webinar provided an overview of issues in the new health reform law that impacts employers.
            • 8/5/2010: HIT Call with Dr. David Blumenthal

              Click on the Adobe icon for a background presentation from the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services on the EHR Incentive Program.