Don Crane is President and CEO of America’s Physician Group, the nation's only professional association exclusively representing capitated, coordinated care organizations, and is a leading voice promoting the interests of physicians practicing accountable care across the nation. APG consists of approximately 200 multi-specialty medical groups and IPAs that provide medical care to over 16 million patients across 40 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
Mr. Crane is in the forefront of national public policy advocacy on behalf of accountable care organizations across the country as they make the journey from volume to value and move into risk-based alternative payment models. He is the lead producer and moderator of APG's nationally acclaimed healthcare conferences.
A seasoned healthcare attorney, Mr. Crane practiced healthcare law for over 30 years and served as corporate counsel for several major integrated health systems. Mr. Crane speaks regularly on healthcare issues to a wide variety of physician groups, hospital boards, and academic meetings. He has been a guest lecturer on healthcare management issues to graduate students at major California universities.
Alice M. Rivlin is an expert in monetary, fiscal and health policy. She was Director of the Office Management and Budget (OMB) in the first Clinton Administration (1993-96) and served as Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Board (1996-1999). She was the Founding Director of the Congressional Budget Office (1975-83) and served as chair of the District of Columbia Financial Management and Assistance Authority (1998-2001). She was director of the Economic Studies Program at Brookings (1983-87). She also served at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (1968-69). She is currently a visiting professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown.
In 2010, Ms. Rivlin was named by President Obama to the Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and also co-chaired, with former Senator Pete Domenici, the Bipartisan Policy Center's Task Force on Debt Reduction.
Ms. Rivlin received the Paul A. Volcker Lifetime Achievement Award for Economic Policyfrom the National Association of Business Economics (2015) and the President's Medal from Indiana University). In 2015 she also received the Leadership Award from the Economic Club of New York. She has received a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship in 1983 and the Moynihan Prize in 2008. She was named one of the greatest public servants of the last 25 years by the Council for Excellence in Government in 2008. In 2013 she is received Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance from the National Academy of Social Insurance. She has taught at Harvard, George Mason, and The New School Universities. She has served on the boards of directors of several corporations, and as president of the American Economic Association.
Joseph Antos, PhD, is the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at the American Enterprise Institute and adjunct associate professor of emergency medicine at the George Washington University. He is also serving a third term as a commissioner on the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission. Dr. Antos recently completed seven years as a member of the Panel of Health Advisers for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). His research focuses on the economics of health policy, including the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, the uninsured, and the overall reform of the healthcare system and its financing. He also studies the impact of health care expenditures on federal budget policy.
Noam N. Levey is an award-winning national healthcare reporter for the Los Angeles Times, based in Washington, DC. He has reported on health reform from more than 20 states, and his stories about the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Medicaid, and other healthcare issues regularly appear in newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Baltimore Sun.
Mr. Levey has also been published in Health Affairs, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Milbank Quarterly. He is currently working on a book about health policy innovators who are charting a more hopeful path toward affordable, high-quality care.
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