THE COMMONWEALTH FUND Dirigo Cyber Seminar Leading the Way?: Maine’s Experience in Expanding Coverage Sponsors: The Commonwealth Fund’s State Innovations Program and Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO)--a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation February 1, :00 – 1:30 pm (EDT)

2 THE COMMONWEALTH FUND Technical Assistance 1.Due to the volume of participants today, we’ve automatically muted your phones to eliminate interference. 2.During the program, you are encouraged to type a question in the chat area at the bottom right of your screen and hit send. 3.Please make sure that your telephone or computer speaker volume is turned up. If you experience any technical problems during the seminar, please dial *10* and a Genesys representative will contact you. Alternately, you can call the helpdesk line at and reference the meeting number: And finally, please close all other applications, especially , so that your system will run more smoothly.

THE COMMONWEALTH FUND Dirigo Cyber Seminar Leading the Way?: Maine’s Experience in Expanding Coverage Sponsors: The Commonwealth Fund’s State Innovations Program and Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO)--a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation February 1, :00 – 1:30 pm (EDT)

4 THE COMMONWEALTH FUND Why Dirigo? First state attempt at comprehensive health reform Goals: –Provide affordable health insurance coverage to all residents by 2009 –Slow the growth of health care costs –Improve the quality of care Evaluation efforts intended to provide guidance and lessons learned for other states looking to expand coverage, improve quality, and contain costs going forward

5 THE COMMONWEALTH FUND Study Findings Study findings featured during today’s presentation can be found online at: The complete report, including information about the study methods, can be found on Mathematica's Web site at:

6 THE COMMONWEALTH FUND Leading the Way?: Maine’s Experience in Expanding Coverage February 1, 2008, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. (EDT) Presenters: Debra Lipson, M.H.S.A. Senior Researcher Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Jim Verdier, J.D. Senior Fellow Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Discussants: Trish Riley, M.S. Director Governor's Office of Health Policy and Finance, State of Maine Karynlee Harrington Executive Director Dirigo Health Agency Enrique Martinez-Vidal Director State Coverage Initiatives Moderator: Rachel Nuzum, M.P.H. Program Officer The Commonwealth Fund

7 THE COMMONWEALTH FUND Please Send Questions or Comments Chat Feature Please type your questions at any point during the cyber seminar and click send. They will be answered at an appropriate time in the order they are received or answers will be posted following the event. If you experience any technical problems, please dial *10* and a Genesys representative will contact you.

8 THE COMMONWEALTH FUND Unanswered Questions? If you have any unanswered questions, please send an to: We will try to answer as many questions as we can and will post these at:

9 THE COMMONWEALTH FUND Cyber Seminar Products For an archive of today’s event, including an audio recording, presenters’ slides and contact information, and links to study findings, please visit For an e-forum of today’s event, please visit

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