Mintz Levin Attorney Stephen Weiner to Deliver Keynote Address at American College of Healthcare Executives Spring Conference
5/9/2011
Boston, MA – Stephen M. Weiner, a member and chair of the Health Law practice of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., will present a keynote address at the American College of Healthcare Executives of Massachusetts spring meeting, “Clinical Integration and Physician Alignment: ACOs and Successful Responses to Healthcare Payment Reform Initiatives.” The conference is being held on May 10 in Framingham, MA.
Mr. Weiner joins fellow keynote speakers Regina Herzlinger, Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School; and Marty Manning, Chief Executive at Advocate Physician Partners, who will share their experiences and success stories in meeting the challenges of clinical integration and responding to the changing payment system landscape as the cost of health care and health insurance continues to spiral upward, and federal health reform encourages the development of ACOs.
The reactor panel for the keynote speakers will include Jeanette Clough, President and CEO of Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA; Patrick Gilligan, Senior Vice President for Health Care Services, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts; Howard Grant, JD, MD, President and CEO of the Lahey Clinic; and Alice Tolbert Coombs, MD, President of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
Mr. Weiner has more than 30 years of experience in health care as a policy maker, educator, and attorney representing health care services providers in a broad array of matters, in the U.S. and abroad. He has been active in the development of Massachusetts’ signature health care reform program as well as in the implementation of the Commonwealth’s electronic health record initiative. Internationally, he played a key role in structuring the health care regulatory system for Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC), currently serves as a member of the licensing board for DHCC, and represents organizations engaged in “medical tourism.”
Mr. Weiner currently serves as a board member of the Massachusetts Health Council and is the board chair of The HealthWell Foundation, one of the leading national charitable organizations providing financial assistance to underinsured persons in need of high cost drug treatments. He served as a board member of the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and of the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and as a member of the House of Delegates of the Massachusetts Easter Seal Society.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Weiner served as Chairman of the Massachusetts Rate Setting Commission, Special Assistant to the Governor of Massachusetts for health policy and Director of the Boston University Center for Law and Health Sciences. Nationally ranked by Chambers USA for his strategic and policy work, he has been named among The Best Lawyers in America as well as an “Outstanding Hospital Lawyer” by Nightingale’s Healthcare News.
Outside of the health care field, Mr. Weiner is a member of the board of trustees of The Boston Ballet, Opera Boston and the New England Conservatory Lab Charter School Foundation.
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