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The 17th National Health Insurance Summit will provide discussion on legislative reform, regulatory changes, and the future direction of the Private Health Insurance (PHI) industry.

Recent reforms mean the PHI industry has the opportunity to overhaul the current system in order to provide a higher level of transparency and affordable value for consumers reversing the trend for members to opt out of having any level of cover due to growing dissatisfaction.

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES:
Private Health Insurance – Paying for Value for Health Fund Members
Dr Rachel David, Chief Executive, Private Healthcare Australia

APRA’s Current Views of the Private Health Insurance Industry
Peter Kohlhagen, Senior Manager, Policy Development, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority

Transparency of Non-Performing Devices
Tracey Duffy, Assistant Secretary, Medical Devices Branch, TGA

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP | RISK CULTURE
30th MAY 2018 2:00PM-5:00PM

Assessing Risk Culture in the PHI Sector
Natasha Hall, Managing Director, Hall Advisory
Leah Lovrek, Associate Director, Hall Advisory

Macquarie University Risk Culture Scale
Elizabeth Sheedy, Associate Professor, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre

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CRITICAL ISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED INCLUDE:

Avoiding the Cliff-How Do We Grow Private Health Insurance Participation?
Measuring the Prevalence, Costs and Trends on Low-Value Care: A Necessary Precondition to Action
Declining Health Insurance Membership
Changing Health Insurance for Millennials
Putting Our Members at the Heart of Care – Giving Consumers Choice
Key Issues for PHI – A Refreshed View from the “Sideline”
The Future Buyers: How Valued-Based Healthcare Will Impact the Medtech Industry?
Post Natal Care – Reinforcing the Member Value Proposition in a Changing Market
Leveraging Digital Technologies to Improve the Customer Experience
Entering the Genomic Age: Impact of Personal Genome Information on Healthcare and Our Lives
The Myth of the Informed Consumer – Why do we Continue to Pursue It?
What is Really Driving PHI Premium Increases-What Can we do About It?

PANEL DISCUSSIONS:

Consumer Empowerment in the PHI
Improving Transparency Around Medical Out-of-Pocket Costs
Future Innovations for Private Health Insurance

The Inaugural Health Insurance Summit PitchFest Showcase DAY ONE 31st MAY 2018

Enjoy a refreshment while watching a handful of startups building innovations for the health insurance industry. This is a dedicated platform for innovators to give a 5-minute pitch before taking 5 minutes’ worth of questions from the panel and audience.

PitchFest Startups:
Dr Zachary Tan, Director of Business Development, Australia & Asia-Pacific, CancerAid
Scott Taylor, Co-Founder, Perx Health
Sam Holt, CEO, AllergyPal
Tori Fox, CEO and Co-Founder, Siara Health

Moderator:
Adam Wardell, Head of Innovation & Strategy, Novartis

Industry Experts:
Nicole Blair, Innovation, BUPA
Andrea Selleck, CEO, Australian Regional Health Group
Dr Andrew Wilson, Group Executive Healthcare & Strategy, Medibank

Partners

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Insights

Private Health Insurance – Paying for Value for Health Fund Members
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Debunking the myths around private health insurance
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Australia’s private health insurance industry – a refreshed view from the sidelines
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Workshop

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP | RISK CULTURE | 30 May 2018 | 2:00pm – 5:00pm

Assessing Risk Culture in the PHI Sector

APRA requirements and expectations in respect of risk culture, assessments and Board involvement
Elementary approaches to risk culture assessments – Employee engagement surveys, periodic documentation of internal assessments, internal risk culture surveys / workshops
Better practice approaches to risk culture assessments – Independent diagnostics, interviews, externally facilitated workshops, intra / cross industry benchmarking, data analytics
Developing road maps and action plans for further development of risk awareness and expected risk behaviors, desired state of risk culture
Employee engagement, communications and training programs to facilitate well-functioning three lines of defence as part of the risk management framework
Case studies and workshop activities

Natasha Hall, Managing Director, Hall Advisory
Leah Lovrek, Associate Director, Hall Advisory

Macquarie University Risk Culture Scale

Development of the Macquarie University Risk Culture Scale for assessing risk culture in the financial services sector
Outcomes of the risk culture research project for Australian / Canadian banks and associated wealth management / insurance subsidiaries
Outcomes of the risk culture research project for Australian superannuation funds
Process for application of the Macquarie University Risk Culture scale to the private health insurance sector

Elizabeth Sheedy, Associate Professor, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre