State Legislative Conference
State Legislative Conference 2020
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Be an advocate for family medicine.
State Legislative Conference 2020
Check back at a later date for more information on SLC 2020.
Past SLC Conference: October 25-27, 2018, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Learn about issues influencing health care and how to effect change where you live. Connect with health policy experts, family physicians, chapter leaders, and AAFP staff. Build your list of contacts to call on for insights and recommendations.
Share your experience, participate in discussions, and attend sessions on:
- Administrative simplification
- Prescription drug pricing
- Election update
- Primary care spend
- Medicaid
- Scope of practice
- The opioid epidemic
Be a resource for your state. Attend the State Legislative Conference.
| Thursday, October 25 | Location: Ocean Terrace |
| 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. | Pre-conference Welcome Reception |
| Join us for networking, hors d’oeuvres, and drinks as we welcome conference attendees to Florida | |
| Friday, October 26 | Location: Grand Bahama Ballroom Salon A & C |
| 7:30 - 8:30 a.m. | Registration and Breakfast |
| 8:00 - 8:15 a.m. | Welcome to Florida |
| Speaker: John Cullen, MD, FAAFP, President, AAFP, and Karen Smith, MD, FAAFP, Chair, Commission on Governmental Advocacy | |
| 8:15 - 9:45 a.m. | State Advocacy Roundtable |
| Leadership in State Government Advocacy Award Winners: California AFP, Kansas AFP, Pennsylvania AFP, and South Carolina AFP | |
| 9:45 - 10:15 a.m. | Standardizing the Measurement of Commercial Health Plan Primary Care Spending |
| Speaker: Rachel Block, Program Officer, Milbank Memorial Fund | |
| Resources: Primary Care Spend, Primary Care Spend Toolkit (chapter staff only) | |
| 10:15 - 11:00 a.m. | Primary Care Spend: A Chapter Focus |
| Speakers: California AFP, Colorado AFP, and Oregon AFP | |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | State Efforts to Rein in Drug Costs |
| Speaker: Jennifer Reck, Project Director, National Academy for State Health Policy and Tracy Sims, Senior Advisor, Eli Lilly and Company | |
| Resources: Drug Pricing and Transparency, NASHP’s Center for State Drug Pricing | |
| 12:00 - 1:30 p.m | Election Update: What’s at Stake? |
| Speakers: Mark Cribben, FamMedPAC Director, AAFP and Elizabeth Tseng, Associate Consultant, Fiscal Note | |
| 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. | What’s Going on with Medicaid? Waivers, Parity, and Other Trends |
| Speakers: Jack Rollins, Senior Policy Analyst, National Association of Medicaid Directors and Michael Pesko, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Georgia State University | |
| Resources: Medicaid Expansion, Medicaid-to-Medicare Parity Toolkit (chapter staff only), Medicaid Primary Care Payment Parity, Medicaid Work Requirements, Section 1115 Demonstration Waivers | |
| 2:30 - 3:15 p.m. | Medicaid: A Chapter Focus |
| Speakers: Georgia AFP, Ohio AFP, Virginia AFP | |
| 3:15 - 3:45 p.m. | State Strategies for Administrative Simplification |
| Speaker: Emily Caroll, MA, JD, Senior Legislative Attorney, American Medical Association | |
| Resources: Prior Authorization | |
| 3:45 - 4:30 p.m. | Administrative Simplification: A Chapter Focus |
| Speakers: Ohio AFP, Pennsylvania AFP, and Texas AFP | |
| Saturday, October 27 | Location: Grand Bahama Ballroom Salon A & C |
| 7:30 - 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 8:00 - 8:30 a.m. | Scope of Practice Legislative Landscape |
| Speaker: Shelby Mae King, MPA, Manager, Center for State Policy, AAFP | |
| 8:30 - 9:15 a.m. | Chapter Focus: Scope of Practice |
| Speakers: Michigan AFP, Missouri AFP, and South Carolina AFP | |
| Resources: Assistant Physicians, Education and Training Comparison, Naturopathic Providers, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists, Physician Assistants | |
| 9:15 - 9:45 a.m. | Prescription Nation 2018: Facing America’s Opioid Epidemic |
| Speaker: Tara Leystra Ackerman, MPH, State Government Affairs Manager, National Safety Council | |
| Resources: Medication Assisted Treatment, Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs | |
| 9:45 - 10:30 a.m. | Prescription Drug Abuse: A Chapter Focus |
| Speakers: Florida AFP and Illinois AFP | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. | Improving Health in U.S. Rural Communities: The Role of the AAFP |
| Speaker: Julie Wood, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President for Health of the Public and Interprofessional Activities, AAFP | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 a.m. | Rural Health: A Chapter Focus |
| Speakers: Georgia AFP and North Carolina AFP | |
| 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | AAFP Government Relations Update – Ways to Get Involved |
| Speaker: Bob Hall, JD, MPAff, Director of Government Relations, AAFP | |
| 12:00 p.m. | Wrap Up & Adjournment |
Hotel
Fort Lauderdale Marriott Pompano Beach Resort and Spa
1200 N. Ocean Blvd
Pompano Beach, FL 33062
Reservations made after September 26, 2018 will be confirmed on a rate and space-available basis. Conference room block rates are not guaranteed for reservations made after this date, or for check-in/check-out dates that fall outside of conference dates.
All reservations subject to hotel rate rules and room and cancellation policies. Taxes not included in hotel room block nightly rate.
Cancellation Policy
Need to cancel your registration to State Legislative Conference? Read about our Cancellation and Refund policy here.
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Questions?
Contact:
Shelby King
Manager, Center for State Policy
sking@aafp.org
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