1. Do Quality Indicators Truly Help Assess Risk? MODERATOR: Matthew Dolan, CPCU, President, IronHealth PANELISTS: Samantha Collier, MD, MBA, Senior VP, Medical Affairs/Chief Medical Officer, HealthGrades Nathaniel Cross, Underwriter, Beazley plc Sarah E. Pacini, RN, BSN, JD, Administrator, Risk and Captive Management Advocate Health Care

2. Do Quality Indicators Truly Help Assess Risk?

3. What are today’s prevailing indicators of quality?

4. What are the various sources of and methodologies behind measuring quality?

5. How valid is the data?

6. Does the data enhance the underwriting process? What about the risk management process?

7. Are risk managers benchmarking their own facility against others when measuring quality?

8. How effective are today’s prevailing underwriting methodologies in evaluating the real drivers of risk and losses?

9. Can quality indicators be used as a key component of predictive modeling?

10. When and how are quality initiatives and quality improvements demonstrable? How can these initiatives be proactively incorporated into the risk transfer program

11. How do quality indicators help organizations measure and improve the cost of risk?

12. Is there a direct correlation between higher quality outcomes and lower risk?

13. Do quality measures drive more directed risk management initiatives?

14. How wide is the quality distribution curve?

15. How do we achieve a more effective degree of collaboration between providers, insurers and those who evaluate quality?