On Monday, February 28, 2022, you are invited to join Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil for the next installment of our Policy Spotlight series, featuring Meena Seshamani, Deputy Administrator & Director, Center for Medicare, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), US Department of Health and Human Services.
Date: Monday, February 28, 2022 Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. (EST) Place:Online details will be shared with
registrants at least 24 hours in advance of the event
As CMS Deputy Administrator & Director, Dr. Seshamani leads the Agency’s efforts to provide affordable, quality coverage and care for more than 63 million Americans that rely on the Medicare program.
Some topics to be covered are:
CMS’s work advancing health equity, driving person-centered care, and promoting affordability and sustainability
Dr. Seshamani’s perspective as a physician at the head of Medicare
Value-based care and accountable care organizations
Before joining CMS, Dr. Seshamani was Vice President of Clinical Care Transformation at MedStar Health. She also cared for patients as an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Georgetown University School of Medicine.
Prior to MedStar Health, she was
Director of the Office of Health Reform at the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Dr. Seshamani recently co-authored, "Building On The CMS Strategic Vision: Working Together For A Stronger Medicare," for Health Affairs Forefront, with CMS colleagues
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure and Elizabeth Fowler, where they laid out a policy agenda for CMS focused on five key areas: advancing health equity; expanding access to affordable health coverage and care; driving high quality, person-centered care; promoting affordability and sustainability; and engaging partners and communities.
Please email your questions in advance to [email protected] and we will make every effort, in the limited time available, to have them addressed. Priority will be given to topics
relevant to the widest swath of the audience.
Stay tuned for details of additional upcoming events that are in the works for March.
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