Principal and Practice Leader for Bundled Payments, ECG Management Consultants, and a nationally recognized expert and Keynote speaker in the area of bundled payments. Author of more than 20 papers on bundled payments, healthcare reform, and payment transformation and featured expert on National Public Radio's Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Planet Money. In 2012 Ms. Baggot was an appointed expert reviewer by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") for the BPCI for Models 2-4. Ms. Baggot also served as a former lead for CMS Acute Care Episode ("ACE") Bundled Payment Demonstration. Prior to joining ECG Management Consultants spent ten years in academic healthcare at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and The University of Michigan Health System in key leadership roles. Ms. Baggot holds a Doctor of Philosophy, University of Colorado; Masters in Business Administration and Gregory LaVert Scholar, Loyola University Graduate School of Business; Bachelor of Science in Nursing (summa cum laude), Southern Illinois University.

Harold D. Miller is the President and CEO of the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform (CHQPR), a national policy center that facilitates improvements in healthcare payment and delivery systems. Miller is a nationally-recognized expert on healthcare payment and delivery reform; he has given invited testimony to Congress on how to reform healthcare payment, has worked in more than 40 states and metropolitan regions to help physicians, hospitals, employers, health plans, and government agencies design and implement payment and delivery system reforms, and has written many widely-used reports on healthcare payment and delivery reform. Miller is one of eleven appointed members of the federal Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee that was created by Congress in 2015 to advise the Secretary of Health and Human Services on the creation of alternative payment models. Miller also serves as Adjunct Professor of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University.

Pamela is a healthcare consultant with the New York office of Milliman. She has a broad background in integrated delivery system administration and healthcare payment reform. She has worked in both clinical and payer settings and has extensive experience in alternative risk contract strategies.

Pamela has particular expertise in analysis of healthcare claims and the development of episode-based payment definitions and benchmarking methodologies.

Prior to joining Milliman, Pamela held a technical advisory role in the U.S. federal government. She was responsible for developing and implementing novel payment methodologies to transform healthcare delivery and payment nationwide. Previously, Pamela also worked in quality improvement at an academic medical center.

Prior to taking a role at PACCR, Erin served as the Director of the Division of Technical Model Support at CMS in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, where she led the team that implements the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative and develops new bundled payments models. Prior to CMS, Erin was a tobacco control policy analyst at the World Health Organization. More recently, Erin served as a Senior Manager at Avalere Health, where she provided strategic insights into Medicare fee-for-service payments and innovative payment policies, with particular insight into the development and operationalization of alternative payment models.

Francois de Brantes is the Executive Director of the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute, a not-for-profit that develops and implements new models that create better incentives for patients, physicians and hospitals in order to achieve greater affordability and quality of health care. Francois has also authored many papers and articles on the role of incentives in health care and how to improve them. His latest book, The Incentive Cure, describes how reformed incentives could change the dialogue between patients and providers on the costs of health care.

Patrick Conway, MD, MSc, is the CMS Acting Principal Deputy Administrator and Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Quality & CMS Chief Medical Officer. As the CMS Acting Principal Deputy Administrator and CMS Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Conway is responsible for overseeing the programs that serve the over 130 million Americans that access health care services through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace. He and the CMS team focus on health system transformation by improving quality, affordability, access to care, and health outcomes.

Dr. Conway is also Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) at CMS. The CMS Innovation Center is responsible for testing numerous new payment and service delivery models across the nation that reward quality and value. Models include accountable care organizations, bundled payments, primary care medical homes, state innovation models, and many more. These models involve millions of people and hundreds of thousands of providers across the nation. Successful models can be scaled nationally.