1. Micro Health Insurance Forum 2011
Agenda: Day 1 - Wednesday, July 20, 2011
09:15 AM - 09:45 AM Registration
Welcome and Agenda – Ms. Rupalee Ruchismita, Executive Director,
09:45 AM - 10:15 AM
CIRM
From Innovation to Mainstreaming anchored by Mr. Anil Swarup,
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM Dir. General, Labour Welfare, Jt. Secretary, Ministry of Labour and
Employment, Government of India
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Networking break; refreshments
Adding Product Benefits To Contain Costs - facilitated by Ms.
Jeanna Holtz, Chief Project Manager, Microinsurance, International
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Labour Organization
Panel discussion The case of value added services - including outpatient services
 Mr. Pragnesh Gor, General Manager, Krupa
 Mr. Sundeep Kapila, Director, Swasth India Services Pvt Ltd
 Dr. L. Manjunath, Executive Director, SKDRDP
12:30 PM - 01: 00 PM Q&A; summary of the panel discussion
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch
Streamlining MHI Pricing - anchored by Mr. Francois Xavier, Co-
Founder and Director, Uplift Health
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Specialized underwriting and integrated composite products as a
Interactive breakout path to value for money and scale
sessions
Diversity In Distribution - facilitated by Mr. Gunaranjan, Founder,
Yousee
Learnings from the partner-agent model, provider-driven
model, and community-based mutual model
03:00 PM - 03:15 PM Networking break; refreshments
Effective Claim Management as a Key to Sustainability -
facilitated by Mr. Sanath Kumar, General Manager, New India
Assurance
03:15 PM - 04:10 PM Auto-adjudication vs. manual adjudication, in-house processing vs.
Panel discussion TPA processing.
 Mr. Shailabh Kumar, General Manager, Uplift Mutuals
 Mr. Alam Singh, Assistant Managing Director, Milliman India
 Dr. Suresh D.J, Project Manager, Yeshasvini
04:10 PM - 04: 30 PM Q&A; summary of the panel discussion
04:30 PM - 05: 30 PM Technology In Micro Health Insurance
Innovator Dialogue Mr. Prakash CV, Founder & CEO, Gradatim
05:30 PM – 05:40 PM End of Day Wrap-up
07:30 PM - 09:30 PM Networking and Dinner
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2. Agenda: Day 2 - Thursday, July 21, 2011
09:15 AM - 09:45 AM Refreshments and networking
Need for health financing interventions
09:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Part of the health delivery puzzle: BRAC’s perspective and plans
Innovator Dialogue
Mr. Faruque Ahmed, Director, BRAC Health Program
Innovative Uses Of Technology For Cost Reduction
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Easing out-of-pocket expenditure
Innovator Dialogue
 Dr. Aslam Nadri, Health Analyst, CIRM
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Networking break; refreshments
Telemedicine – facilitated by Dr. K. Ganapathy, President, Apollo
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Telemedicine Network Foundation
Panel discussion An essential value added service and risk reduction strategy for MHI
 Mr. Charles Antony, CEO, Healthnet Global
 Dr. Ajay Nair, Managing Director, mHealth Ventures India
12:30 PM - 01: 00 PM Q&A; summary of the panel discussion
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch
Service Providers As Stakeholders - anchored by Dr. V.
Renganathan, Co-Founder & Vice – President, Vaatsalya
The emergence of evidence-based medicine and technology
02:00 PM - 02: 45 PM should make health care quality an affordable reality
Interactive breakout Learnings From The MFI Crisis - facilitated by Mr. Suresh Krishna,
sessions Managing Director, Grameen Koota 
Micro credit and micro health insurance (MHI) both have high
client value and social impact. Is the MFI crisis a growth
opportunity or a learning opportunity for MHI?
02:45 PM - 03: 00 PM Q&A; summary of the breakout sessions
03:00 PM - 03:15 PM Networking Break; refreshments
Reaching Out To BPL Households – facilitated by Mr. Satish Raju,
CEO, TTK Health Care Services Pvt Ltd
Third-party payer-based mass health insurance schemes (RSBY,
Aarogyasri, TN health insurance scheme, Weavers Health Insurance
03:15 PM - 04: 45 PM Scheme and Yeshasvini)
Panel discussion  Dr. Vijayakumar – Ex-CEO, Tamil Nadu State Insurance
Scheme
 Mr. Birendra Mohanty, Vice President, ICICI Lombard General
Insurance
 Mr. Sanjay Pande, Executive Director, Amicus Advisory
 Dr. S Prakash, Executive Director, Star Health & Allied
Insurance
04:45 PM – 05:00 PM Q&A; summary of the panel discussion
05:00 PM - 05:15 PM Forum Summary by Ms. Rupalee Ruchismita, Executive Director, CIRM
05:15 PM - 05:45 PM Closing Remarks
07:30 PM - 08:30 PM Dinner for field visit participants
08:30 PM - 09:00 PM Briefing for the field visit
09:30 PM Assemble for field visit departure
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