HillCo Health to Sponsor and Join Medical Device Reimbursement 2010 Conference

Jan. 4, 2010 - PRLog -- Washington, DC - HillCo Health is a sponsor of Q1 Productions’ 4th annual medical device reimbursement conference focused on cost-and-comparative effectiveness.  HillCo Health’s Michael Beebe will be joining more than 20 medical device and diagnostic companies and experts.  The forum “Understanding the Complex Nature of Conducting Medical Device Studies that Support Regulatory and Reimbursement Goals in a Cost and Time Effective Manner” is expected to attract more than 300 members of the healthcare policy, medical, reimbursement, and executive community.  This conference program, the 4th annual event of it’s kind, will bring together executives from industry to discuss and debate the challenges that they face in designing and conducting studies that support an increasing array of corporate goals.  Keynote presentations will address topics of interest to clinical and reimbursement executives, on movements within the industry resulting in new evidence thresholds, as well as methods for bringing teams together throughout the product lifecycle to ensure targets are met.  (See http://www.q1productions.com/eventPages/event_LSCONF-143.php)

Mr. Beebe is Vice President of HillCo Health, a Washington, D.C. based full-service healthcare strategic business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-government (B2G) advisory firm serving a diverse client base within the United States and globally. The company's staff includes clinical, management, pharmacy and policy expertise from the public and commercial sectors focused on clinical development, strategic and tactical guidance, and execution on the most seminal reimbursement, market access, and public policy issues facing companies, investors, and organizations in healthcare.

Prior to Mr. Beebe joining HillCo Health, he worked for over a decade at the American Medical Association, most recently as Director of CPT.  In this capacity he had responsibility for all CPT content development and maintenance activities, as well as CPT education and licensing efforts in the United States and abroad.  Michael was a central participant in AMA advocacy efforts involving public and private coverage, coding and reimbursement issues; including provider class action litigation, CMS physician payment negotiations, and local coverage determinations.  During Michael’s oversight of CPT significant changes were made to the physician drug administration codes, Evaluation and Management services, wound and skin graft services, as well as 1,000s of other coding changes.  Michael also oversaw the development of two new CPT code sets: CPT Category II codes for performance measurement; and CPT Category III codes for new and emerging technologies.  In early 2007 Michael established the CPTAssistant Editorial Board as a means to create and disseminate accurate and consistent advice on the use and interpretation of CPT codes by all providers and payers.

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HillCo Health has assembled a number of former seasoned U.S. Department of Health and Human Services staffers with extensive experience at and working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Food and Drug Administration, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Veterans Administration and Department of Defense as well as state health programs and private payers whose goal it is to ensure that its client’s items, products and services are coded properly, covered appropriately, fully reimbursed, or contracted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), its parent and sister agencies, state Medicaid, and commercial insurance. For more information, visit: www.hillcohealth.com