Employees at UNMC, The Nebraska Medical Center and UNMC Physicians will have the opportunity on Friday, Aug. 7, to learn about the latest in health care reform and how it may affect them, both as health care providers and consumers.
An employee forum — focused solely on health care reform and its impact — will begin at noon on Aug. 7 in the Durham Research Center Auditorium. It will be broadcast to sites in Lincoln, Kearney and Scottsbluff.
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UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., will provide the welcome at the forum, and Bowen will provide an overview of the status of proposed legislation in Congress. An ensuing panel discussion will feature health policy expert Keith Mueller, Ph.D., interim dean of the College of Public Health; Glenn Fosdick, FACHE, president and CEO of The Nebraska Medical Center; and Rodney Markin, M.D., Ph.D., president of UNMC Physicians.
The forum is part of the effort of UNMC, UNMC Physicians and The Nebraska Medical Center to be an objective resource for elected officials, business and community entities in communicating the potential impact of health care reform proposals.
As part of its efforts, the med center formed a health care review group to study the issues that will affect the medical center and its employees. The group includes 19 people from the medical center as well as the local business community.
Some of the issues of health care reform include:
- Universal health care coverage;
- A potential public insurance plan;
- Payments and Reimbursement Costs;
- Health care workforce & training.