North Bay Business Journal

NORTH BAY — Health care reform is here to stay and employers must adjust quickly in order to meet compliance with the complex law, whether they find it politically palatable or not.

Providers, meanwhile, are themselves rapidly adjusting to new incentives and payments under the law, resulting in transformational changes that will begin to address, though not completely solve, some of the high cost curves seen over the last decade.

The political and legal challenges to federal health reform may finally be settled with the reelection of President Obama and the Supreme Court’s upholding of the Affordable Care Act, but, even with that seeming sense of finality, a host of challenges lay ahead for all levels of the industry.

The Business Journal presents its 2012 Health Care Conference and Awards Presentation for the Healthiest Companies in the North Bay on Wednesday, Nov. 14, from 7:30-11:30 a.m. at Hyatt Vineyard Creek Hotel in Santa Rosa.