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The way we receive and pay for medical care is facing disruption. What will our health care system in North Carolina look like in five years? And how should we navigate all the changes?
Join us for a morning of discussion and insights into where the health care market is headed in North Carolina and the Triangle, and what it means for your workplace and your employees.
PANELISTS:
Gale Adcock, Chief Health Officer, SAS Institute
Gale Adcock is Chief Health Officer at SAS Institute, a global leader in business analytic software. She is a family nurse practitioner of 30 years with an undergraduate degree from ECU and a graduate degree from UNC-Chapel Hill. Adcock is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
Under Adcocks leadership the SAS onsite Health Care Center delivers comprehensive primary care to 14,000 SAS employees and families, saves the company almost $8 M annually in avoided medical plan costs and saves employees over $1 M in avoided co-pays.
Adcock is co-author of Do-It-Yourself Employee Health Care in MIT Sloane Management (2012) and co-principal investigator of research on the cost effectiveness of the SAS health care delivery model published in the American Journal of Managed Care and in Inquiry (2015). She is co-principal investigator of a current 3 year longitudinal study of SAS employee health status as a result of receiving onsite primary care.
Adcock is in her second term in the NC House of Representatives. She is the first Advanced Practice Registered Nurse elected to the NC legislature.
Steve Burriss, President, UNC Rex Healthcare
Steve Burriss was named president of UNC REX Healthcare, an affiliate of UNC Health Care, in April 2015. In that role, he leads all aspects of the 660-bed health system’s operations and its 6,500 co-workers at six campuses across Wake County including the North Carolina Heart & Vascular Hospital. This state-of-the-art facility, which opened in March, is UNC REXs largest expansion since moving to its main Raleigh campus in 1980.
In April 2012, Burriss was named chief operating officer at Rex. Prior to his role as COO, he served as senior vice president of operations and ambulatory services, managing a variety of areas, including Rex Cancer Center, heart and vascular services, physician services and ambulatory services. Under Burriss leadership, Rex added three new health campuses, two joint-venture surgery centers and more than 150 physicians.
J. Michael Parkerson, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
As chief strategy officer for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, Michael Parkerson is responsible for driving the companys enterprise strategy and ensuring that it forges and follows a sustainable long-term path.
Since joining Blue Cross NC in 2001, Michael has taken on leadership roles of steadily increasing responsibility including as vice president of the ancillary markets, business transformation and marketing areas. He was promoted to the senior leadership team in January 2016.
In his current role, Michael is accountable for guiding the companys strategic direction, evaluating and recommending market investments, building collaborative industry partnerships, improving the experience of Blue Cross NCs 3.9 million members, and upholding the companys mission to improve the health and well-being of its customers and communities.
Dr. Ravish Sachar, Physician In Chief, UNC Rex Heart and Vascular Service Line
Dr. Ravish Sachar is the physician-in-chief of the UNC-REX Heart and Vascular Service Line in Raleigh, NC. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, and fellowship in Interventional Cardiology and Peripheral Vascular Intervention at The Cleveland Clinic. His clinical interests include carotid artery stenting, acute stroke intervention, peripheral vascular intervention, and critical limb ischemia.
He is actively involved in clinical research and has published extensively. He is a frequent lecturer at national and international conferences, and has directed several teaching programs on carotid artery disease and peripheral vascular disease. He has authored two textbooks on peripheral vascular intervention. He is the founder and CEO of Contego Medical LLC, a Raleigh, NC based medical device company which has developed a novel embolic protection platform, and holds twenty-four issued or pending patents. He is also the Co-Managing Director of Rex Health Ventures, a hospital based VC fund focusing on the healthcare space.
Skip Woody, Executive VP, Hill, Chesson & Woody
Skip Woody, CEBS, serves as Area Executive VP, Health & Welfare Consulting with Hill, Chesson & Woody, a division of Gallagher Benefit Services, Inc. Skip began his professional career in 1990 as a college intern with the firm and in 2001 was named a partner at Hill, Chesson & Woody.
Skip serves as the practice leader and key visionary in helping the firm remain an industry front-runner. Under Skips leadership, HCW has grown exponentially, now with over 80 employees in four locations across North Carolina.