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Conferences / Webinars NEW! Audio Webcast Scheduled for Thursday, October 23, 2008 from 1:30-3:00 PM Eastern Time The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reported that Medicare has recovered more than $1 billion through the Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program since 2005, with 85 percent of the recovered improper overpayments collected from inpatient hospitals. CMS is required by law to make RAC a permanent, national program by Jan. 1, 2010. Join Health Reimbursement Monitor and three diverse RAC experts in the live 90-minute audio webcast. NEW! Audio Webcast Scheduled for Thursday, October 16, 2008 from 1:30-3:00 PM Eastern Time Disease Management ROI: Benchmarks, Metrics, and Case Studies for Success There is an ongoing controversy surrounding how return-on- investment (ROI) of disease management programs is calculated. Historically there's been a high level of difficulty measuring the financial impact of DM programs because of unclear parameters. Join the Managed Care Information Center and experts on disease management analysis for a discussion about disease management and ROI in this special live 90-minute audio webcast. NEW! Audio Webcast Scheduled for Tuesday, October 7, 2008 from 1:30-3:00 PM Eastern Time Partnerships between nursing homes and hospices have been on the rise from a 23 percent rate of collaboration in 1993 to around 80 percent today. It has been shown that residents of nursing homes who enroll in hospice are less frequently hospitalized and have a higher quality of life and end-of-life care. Join hospice letter and three dynamic speakers to learn how hospices can overcome the hurdles to build a successful and positive partnership in order to provide the best possible end-of-life care for nursing home residents in this 90 minute audio webcast. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM Wellness Management Boot Camp: How to Select the Best Health Risk Appraisal for Your Organization Health Risk Appraisals or Assessments (HRA’s) are one of the most important elements, and often the starting point, of an organization’s wellness and health promotion program. Ideally, the HRA is the first step to driving employee behavior change. Join the Wellness Program Management Advisor and Robin Foust from Zoe Consulting to learn what the best HRA is for your corporate environment in this 60 minute audio webcast. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM Management Briefing: Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule for FY2009 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its fiscal year 2009 Medicare inpatient prospective payment system final rule that will become effective October 1, 2008. FY 2009 marks the end of the transition to the new Medicare-Severity DRG (MS-DRG) system. The changes will result in redistributions of Medicare reimbursement. Join Healthcare Reimbursement Monitor and the reimbursement experts from CBIZ KA Consulting Services in this new 90-minute audio webcast. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM Integration of Psychological First Aid into Mass Disaster Response Behavioral Health professionals are uniquely qualified with a wonderful set of skills, training, and personal characteristics that position them to effectively respond to human need during a mass disaster…..unless they rush in to “do clinical things.” This presentation will outline how critical incident response organizations and professionals can integrate the core activities of Psychological First Aid into a phase-sensitive, multi-component approach. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM Overwhelmingly, proving Return-on-Investment (ROI) of a workplace wellness and health promotion program to senior management ranks as the top concern expressed by professionals responsible for the administration and management of their organizations wellness programming, according to the Workplace Wellness Management Year End Survey. Join the Wellness Program Management Advisor to find out the financial viability of wellness programs to ensure senior management’s continued support in this 90 minute audio webcast. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM Never Events: Reducing Preventable Errors and Their Impact CMS launched its Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HAC) initiative in October 2007. This coming October, Medicare will expand the current list of eight HAC to 17 preventable errors that they will no longer pay for. Join the Managed Care Information Center and three industry leaders in this 90 minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM Money Follows the Person Initiatives: How Adult Day Services Can Tap Into Existing Medicaid Funds The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 created the Money Follows the Person (MFP) Rebalancing Demonstration, the largest demonstration program in the history of Medicaid. The goal of the project is to help reduce existing barriers to allow people to live in the community in a meaningful way. Join Adult Day Service Letter and the National Adult Day Services Association for this 90 minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM How to Successfully Market Your Women’s Healthcare Program and Build Community Awareness Most Healthcare executives know that today's women make 85% of all household healthcare decisions, including choice of doctor and hospital loyalty. Traditional healthcare marketing does NOT work for women. Many women’s health professionals say they are challenged with finding new and creative ways to reach women with an effective, compelling message. Join Women’s Health Professional.com and three dynamic speakers to find out how your organization can capture the attention and gain the loyalty of women in your community in this 90 minute audio conference and webinar. Disease management reporting is a skill which few have mastered. In fact, roughly 70% of disease management outcomes reports contain fundamental errors invalidating their results...right in the report itself. If you are a writer of these reports it is critical to spot these errors before the customer does. If you are a reader of these reports, it is imperative for you to spot these errors before you accept the findings. Join The Managed Care Information Center and Al Lewis from the Disease Management Purchasing Consortium for this audio conference, certification training and optional certification examination. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM The New Hospice Conditions of Participation: Details and Insight into CMS’ Final Rule The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the long awaited final rule revising the conditions of participation (CoPs) that hospices must meet to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The rule was published in the June 5 Federal Register. Join hospice letter and officials from the CMS for a comprehensive review of the final Conditions of Participation regulations in this 90 minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM Value considerations, including price and quality, are beginning to transform how consumers make healthcare decisions. As a result, health plans need to provide information that is useful to consumers, instead of just publishing technical data, experts say. Learn how leading US healthcare payers are approaching transparency and what future opportunities transparency will lead to in the future. Join The Managed Care Information Center in this 90 minutes audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM Tapping into Your Hospice Referral Sources: Successful Strategies for Boosting Referrals and ALOS More timely hospice patient referrals is a chief concern to the majority of hospice professionals, according to hospice letter’s annual executive survey. There are strategies you can use to develop effective, ongoing programs to strengthen referrals and ALOS. Join hospice letter to hear real-life case studies on what’s working to improve hospice referrals in this 90 minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM Value-based purchasing (VBP), which links payment to performance, is a key policy mechanism that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing to transform Medicare from a passive payer of claims to an active purchaser of care. Join Healthcare Reimbursement Monitor to hear the overview of Medicare Hospital VBP program plans for FY2009 in this 90 minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM The new IRS Form 990 Schedule H requires that nonprofit hospitals report their finances and community benefits in much greater detail. Starting for the tax year 2009, nonprofit hospitals will be required to collect and analyze data and determine the value of both according to uniform standards for the reporting of charity care and other community benefits activities. Join Health Resources Publishing and the experts from McDermott Will & Emery and Deloitte Tax in this 90 minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM A key topic in the upcoming US presidential election is the issue of providing high-quality healthcare and simultaneously controlling costs. Data pooling can help fuel quality and efficiency measures and provide real knowledge about local trends. Join the Managed Care Information Center and Milliman to learn about the best practices and lessons learned in current data pooling initiatives and its future potential in in this 90 minute audio conference and webinar. Join Kathy Cash, a nationally recognized expert in the field of health promotion, and your colleagues who face the same challenges you confront for this interactive session. Kathy will answer your most nagging questions and help solve your biggest challenges in workplace wellness in this 60 minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM What’s Ahead for Healthcare Reimbursement: Are You Ready for the New Payment Models and Initiatives? There is widespread agreement that the current healthcare fee-for-service payment system needs to be to be revamped. Today, more than ever, a significant amount of attention is being spent on finding ways to improve health care quality and health outcomes while controlling health care cost growth. Learn which new strategies for payment restructuring most effectively address the current fee-for-service problems in this 90-minute session. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM Consumerism in healthcare is giving individuals better access to information, more control over their own health care and allowing them to make informed decisions about their healthcare. Savvy consumers are looking for the best blend of service, price, and quality. Learn how developing a strong customer-centric culture can have a significant impact on healthcare outcomes and bottom line revenue. And recognize the critical elements that affect a customer’s experience and your customer satisfaction scores in this 90-minute session. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM The 2008 Office of the Inspector General's (OIG) work plan provides a list of areas considered subject to abuse, and therefore, increased scrutiny. The recovery audit contractor (RAC) demonstration program was slated to end this month, but the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 has made the RAC program permanent. Join Healthcare Reimbursement Monitor to identify the coding, billing and reimbursement compliance issues identified by RAC audits and the OIG FY2008 Work Plan in this 2-hour audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM Practical EAP Performance Measures for Clinical and Workplace Outcomes Today more than ever, EAPs need to measure their impact and demonstrate business value. Benchmarking with the use of standardized performance measures offers a powerful tool for demonstrating value and engaging in continuous quality improvement. This 90-minute presentation will describe practical and field-tested EAP performance metrics for clinical and workplace outcomes, provide national comparison data on these same metrics, and show how this information can be used to demonstrate value, improve program quality, increase return-on-investment, and direct future research. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM Senior healthcare and related aging services are seeing an evolution toward personalized medicine, an emphasis on prevention, and an increased focus on keeping seniors in their own homes with new modes of remote caregiving. New partnerships are developing in senior services within the community and between the older adult, the caregiver and the medical team. Join Elderly Health Services Letter and three leaders in senior health services in this 90-minute audio conference and webinar.
Keeping Score: A Comparison of Pay-for-Performance Programs Among Commercial Insurers Pay-for-performance (P4P) represents a radical departure from traditional payment methods. P4P has been gaining traction, largely because the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has told hospitals and physicians that future increases in payment will be linked to improvements in clinical performance. Join The Managed Care Information Center and PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute in this 60-minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM The incidence of diabetes in the elderly is reaching epidemic proportions, according to a new study of Medicare claims published last month in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Today, 40% of older adults have diabetes. The costs of caring for elderly people with diabetes are threatening to overwhelm the system designed to pay for their medical care. Join Adult Day Services Letter and NADSA to learn how you can strengthen your adult day services by participating in this 90-minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM During the past five years there has been a significant increase in enforcement activity by the FTC in response to complaints alleging that physician networks are engaging in the suppression of price competition and utilizing structures that fail to meet FTC guidelines. Join the Managed Care Information Center for this 90-minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM Too often the Internet is a marketing afterthought, when in fact it can be a key factor in driving traffic to your door. You do not need fancy bells and whistles to use the Web to its fullest. A simple understanding of the Internet's strengths and weaknesses will help you to parlay this unique medium to your best advantage. Join hospice letter for this 90-minute audio conference and webinar.
Learn practical, creative and do-able ways to strengthen how your organization serves your employees or members with online wellness programs and services that meet their needs and promote healthy behaviors. Join Wellness Program Management Advisor for this 90-minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM Forecast: What's Ahead for Managed Care in 2008 The managed care market faces a series of challenges and opportunities in 2008 that may change the face of the industry and therefore impact both health providers and payors. Join The Executive Report on Managed Care and the Managed Care Information Center in this 90-minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) just released the first major overhaul of its not-for-profit reporting rules in almost 30 years.This significant redesign of the 2008 Form 990, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax, is based on three guiding principles: enhancing transparency of the finances, promoting tax compliance, and minimizing the burden on the filing organization, according to the IRS. Join Health Resources Publishing in this 90-minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM MRSA, the “Super-Bug,” has been making headlines in recent months. Cases of these antibiotic-resistant staph infections are occurring much more frequently than previously believed, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), published in The Journal of the American Medical Association. Join Health Resources Publishing in this 90-minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM Managed care contracts are one of the most important drivers of a healthcare organization’s financial reimbursement, cash flow and profitability. Developing strategic contracting language can dramatically improve your revenue stream. But failing to clarify certain payment terms could also lead to long-term financial problems. Join The Managed Care Information Center and three experts in managed care negotiations in this 90-minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM Mergers and Acquisitions in the Managed Care Industry: The Trends, Issues and Outlook for 2008 The recent credit debacles caused by the subprime mortgage mess and over-leveraged private equity transactions will certainly be remembered as we look back on 2007. The current wild gyrations in the financial market have jeopardized several large mergers and acquisitions deals and severely depressed the stock of a number of leveraged buyout firms. Join The Managed Care Information Center to discover what the future may hold for health plan M&A’s in the months and year ahead in this 90-minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM How to Develop an Effective Hospice Compliance Program to Ensure Adherence and Quality EOL Care Ensuring compliance with regulations tops the list of job responsibilities for hospice executives, according to hospice letter’s annual Hospice Executive’s Salary and Benefits Survey. While hospice administrators are extremely aware of what the regulations are, hospice staff is not always fully informed or compliant. Join hospice letter and two renowned leaders in hospice compliance in this 90-minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM The disease management industry is in transition today as it evolves to include interventions across the care continuum. Stand-alone programs focused on a single disease are transitioning to integrated care programs that include health and wellness promotion, disease management, and care coordination. Join the Managed Care Information Center and three of the nation’s top disease management experts for in this 90-minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM Management Briefing: New Medicare 2008 Outpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule Changes The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced its final rule for Medicare policies and payments effective on January 1, 2008 for hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgical centers. This new rule represents perhaps the most drastic change since the Outpatient Prospective Payment System was first implemented. Join Healthcare Reimbursement Monitor and the reimbursement experts of CBIZ KA Consulting, a leading advisory firm in healthcare financial management and operations, to get a better understanding of the new Medicare changes for OPPS and how it will impact your organization in this 90-minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM “Six Sigma” and “Lean” are both buzzwords in healthcare today. These highly effective improvement approaches have been successfully implemented across many industries. Today, the application of Lean and Six Sigma techniques at healthcare organizations are achieving astonishing results. Join The Managed Care Information Center to hear how healthcare organizations participating in Lean / Six Sigma programs can experience significantly higher incomes through increased revenues and the lowering of operating costs in this 90-minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM Health plans are joining forces with competitors, technology vendors, pharmacies and other organizations in a collaborative effort toward the successful adoption of ePrescribing in order to improve patient safety, healthcare affordability, quality and delivery. Join The Managed Care Information Center to learn how leading collaborations are driving ePrescribing in this 90-minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM EAP Performance Metrics: Benchmarks, Best Practices and Case Studies for Proving ROI Demonstrating value and return on investment (ROI) to senior management consistently ranks as one of the top concerns and challenges for EAPs. To educate your organization on the value of EAP, results need to be measured and outcomes need to be demonstrated. Join Employee Assistance Programs Management Letter to discover ways to prove the value of your EAP in this 90- minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM Today’s Role of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Adult Day Services Developing a relationship with the Department of Veterans Affairs can provide profitable opportunities for adult day service providers. More recently, there had been considerable support from the VA for attendance of veterans at adult day service centers leading to increased referrals. Join Adult Day Services Letter and NADSA for details surrounding this business opportunity in this 90-minute audio conference and webinar. NEW! Now Available on CD-ROM Management Briefing: 2008 Final Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System Rule The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its final rule on the 2008 Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment system. The changes will significantly affect how hospitals are reimbursed in order to improve the accuracy of Medicare’s inpatient hospital payments by using hospital costs rather than charges, to set rates. The reforms include significant changes to the inpatient diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) in order to account more fully for the severity of each patient’s condition. Attend this 90-minute audio conference / webinar to get a comprehensive summary of the changes. Now Available on CD-ROM Claim denials by managed care organizations continue to plague healthcare providers, according to a new survey by the Managed Care Information Center. It’s one of the leading problems confronting both hospitals and physicians. Learn how to prevent claim denials before they happen to obtain the revenue your organization is entitled to! Join Healthcare Reimbursement Monitor and three reimbursement experts to find out how to submit approvable claims in this 90-minute audio conference. Now Available on CD-ROM Retail Clinics: Opportunity or Threat for Today’s Healthcare System The explosion in retail health clinics is changing the healthcare system as we know it. It is having an effect on all areas of the industry – and getting the attention of both health plans and providers. Looking for an easy way to get up to speed on the opportunities available in this new outlet? Join The Managed Care Information Center and three experts on this industry trend for this special 90-minute audio conference. Available on CD-ROM Healthcare Reform: Will It Really Happen This Time? The national healthcare crisis is growing in severity. Costs are spiraling out of control. Forty-seven million Americans are without health insurance and there is a general lack of access to quality care. Americans are concerned. With a change in the way healthcare is delivered rapidly approaching, join The Managed Care Information Center for an assessment of current legislative forces and how they are shaping the future of the health and managed care industry in this executive level audio conference. Available on CD-ROM Health Grants Boot Camp: Best Practices For Securing Funding For Your Organization Looking for a comprehensive reinforcement training session for you and your staff on the essential grant seeking strategies and skills needed to successfully secure funding in the competitive health grants market? Join Health Grants Funding Alert for the fundamentals of health grants funding in this special 90-minute audio conference. Available on CD-ROM Proven Strategies for Improving Physician Performance and Commitment with Technology Investment in healthcare information technology is critical to improving the quality of care, practice efficiency and participating in many current Pay- for-Performance programs. Adoption of HIT, such as e-prescribing and electronic medical records, is essential for practices to meet the demand for quality care in the 21st century. Join Health Resources Publishing to learn how healthcare technology is improving quality and helping save lives, while at the same time improving efficiency in this 90-minute audio conference on CD-ROM. Available on CD-ROM Wellness Committees: Best Practices and Proven Strategies for Success Workplace wellness committees are one of the most important elements of a successful workplace health promotion program. Learn how wellness committees can benefit your organization and the “how-to’s” of starting and running them successfully in this special 90-minute audio conference Now on
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Beyond HIPAA: Today's Critical Strategies in Healthcare Privacy and Data Security With stolen laptop computers and misplaced CDs containing confidential patient information and the risks and reliability of contracting with third-party vendors, healthcare providers and payors are becoming increasingly susceptible to data security breaches. Although HIPAA security regulations provide a guideline concerning data safeguards, there hasn’t been enough enforcement to ensure that the proper protections are in place. Hear the recent legal developments surrounding data security, experts' best practices and recommendations for good privacy and security. Available on CD-ROM Today’s Hottest Hospice Marketing Trends: How to Increase Business and Develop Public Awareness As the hospice industry continues to grow, it is also becoming more competitive. It is now a necessity for hospices to focus on their marketing efforts in order to increase their referrals and admissions. Listen in to this program with your staff members and walk away with some concrete ideas you can use to market your hospice right away! Available in CD-ROM Join Adult Day Services Letter and the National Adult Day Services Association (NADSA) for a discussion of the hidden value of developing community partnerships. Learn how partnerships can cost effectively expand awareness and boost census. And explore the benefits of partnership development as a means of supporting organizational mission and program excellence in this 90-minute audio conference. Available on CD-ROM Consumer-Driven Healthcare: Key Drivers and Future Market Adoption Consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) continue to be considered the solution to reducing healthcare costs and the roles of the uninsured in the nation. Join the Managed Care Information Center and experts of consumer-driven healthcare for a discussion of the current trends and future expectations in this 90-minute audio conference. Available on CD-ROM Disease
Management ROI: Benchmarks, Metrics, and There is an ongoing controversy surrounding return-on-investment (ROI) of disease management programs is calculated. What are the true cost savings of specific disease management programs? And what is the best way to calculate the ROI of your DM programs? Join the Managed Care Information Center and experts on disease management analysis for a discussion about disease management and ROI in this 90-minute audio conference. Available on CD-ROM Pay-for-Performance: Lessons Learned and Future Predictions Are physician incentives the panacea to a struggling healthcare system leading to strengthening quality measures, improved outcomes, and increased patient and health plan member satisfaction? Join Pay-for-Performance Reporter and the Managed Care Information Center along with the pioneers of pay-for-performance for a discussion of past successes and the challenges ahead in this 90-minute audio conference. Available on CD-ROM Employee assistance programs are becoming increasingly more common in today's worksites, and as the field grows, the responsibilities of employee assistance professionals are expanding as well. But many EAP experts have expressed deep concern over the numerous ethical and quality issues existing in the field today. Join Employee Assistance Program Management Letter for a review of the multiple forces shaping the EA industry in the 90-minute audio conference. Available on CD-ROM Forecast: What's Ahead For Managed Care in 2007 The managed care industry faces a series of challenges in 2007 that may change how business is conducted for both health providers and payors. Pressures to lower healthcare costs and increase the quality of care, along with the growing army of uninsured, will all have an effect on managed care plans. Join The Managed Care Information Center for a review of the challenges ahead in the 90-minute audio conference. Available on CD-ROM Nondiscrimination and Wellness Programs: What You Need to Know About the Final HIPAA Regulation The final HIPAA nondiscrimination and wellness program regulations were jointly issued by The Departments of Treasury, Labor and Health and Human Services in December 2006. Join Wellness Program Management Advisor and experts from Jackson Lewis and Holtyn and Associates for a review of the final HIPAA nondiscrimination and wellness program regulations in this special 90-minute audio conference. Available
on CD-ROM Beyond Mugs and T-Shirts: Wellness Incentives That Boost Participation and Health Improvement Do incentives really improve participation and outcomes? And if they do, what kind of incentives gets the best results? Join Wellness Program Management Advisor to explore the types of wellness incentives that work to boost participation and, most importantly, health improvement in this 90-minute audio conference. Management Briefing: Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System 2007 Final Rule Changes The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has changed the method for reimbursing hospitals for inpatient stays for fiscal year (FY) 2007. It is the first significant change in the reimbursement system since it was first implemented in 1983. The revised payments will be effective for discharges on or after October 1st. Join the reimbursement experts of BESLER Consulting to get a better understanding of the new Medicare methodology and how it will affect your organization. Management Briefing: New Medicare 2007 Outpatient and Reimbursement Final Rule Changes The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced its final rule for billing and coding outpatient and ASC services for Medicare payments effective on January 1, 2007. Attend this 90-minute audio conference to get a better understanding of the new Medicare coding and reimbursement changes for OPPS and how it will impact your organization. Forecast: What's Ahead For Managed Care The managed care market faces a series of challenges that may change the face of the industry and therefore impact both health providers and payors. But what are the most challenging issues in the year ahead? Listen to leaders in the managed care industry to hear payor, provider, and consultant perspectives of the challenges ahead. The Employee Assistance Professional as Executive Coach There is much interest today on the subject of EAP and coaching, especially in management circles. In some organizations HR turns to the EA professional for executive coaching for management. Coaching may present new opportunities for EAPs to provide new services and to generate new sources of revenue. The goal of this program is to acquaint employee assistance professionals with the growing trend toward EAPs acting as executive coaches. Mergers and Acquisitions in the Managed Care Industry: The Trends, Issues and Impact During the first three quarters of 2005, $111.8 billion was committed to healthcare mergers and acquisitions. In the third quarter, $57.5 billion was committed to finance healthcare deals. And the managed care sector alone posted three billion dollar deals in the third quarter totaling $16.9 billion. Join speakers from three leading investment banking companies that focus on merger & acquisition services in the healthcare industry for both providers and payors to learn the current trends in M&A's, what are the issues, what are state officials' issues, what acquirers are seeking in a suitable fit, the strategic buyer's interests, and, finally, the impact on providers in a consolidated market. Management Briefing: New Medicare 2006 Outpatient Coding and Reimbursement Changes The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has just announced dramatic changes to the rules for billing and coding hospital outpatient services in 2006. More than 500 codes will be deleted and new ones created with no grace period for compliance. And there will be over 230 code changes that directly affect the chargemaster. Join the reimbursement experts of BESLER Consulting, a leading advisory firm in healthcare financial management and operations, to get a better understanding of the new Medicare coding and reimbursement changes for OPPS and how it will impact your organization in this special 90-minute audio conference. Winning
Ideas in Health Plan Wellness and Health Improvement Programs: What's
Working Today to Achieve Member Commitment and Participation The growth and market adoption of consumer-driven health plans will continue to drive health plans to develop more widespread member health improvement initiatives. In fact, some plans are developing innovative approaches. Discover what?s working in health plan wellness and health promotion programs, award winning and unique programs, best practices, ROI, and lessons learned in this special audio conference. How to Develop Defensible Yet Optimum Hospital Pricing Increased scrutiny of hospital prices by Federal agencies, patients and the public in general, at a time when hospital operating margins are weak, has provided great impetus for hospital financial managers to become more sophisticated in their approach to establishing prices. New methods must integrate payor contract information with market analysis and the actual cost of the CDM line item to ensure that prices are established at “Defensible yet Optimum” levels. How can optimal financial results be achieved in an era of ever diminishing financial resources and expanding regulatory complexities? Find out at this special audio conference “How to Develop Defensible Yet Optimum Hospital Pricing.” Hospice Medicare Reimbursement Rates and the New 2006 Wage Index As expected, the final rule setting the Hospice Wage Index for Fiscal Year 2006 has recently been announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The new hospice wage index will be used to reflect local differences in area wage level by adjusting payment rates for hospices under the Medicare programs. The CMS identifies the revised labor market and metropolitan core based statistical areas. Join Tom Boyd from Boyd and Nicholas to get a better understanding of the new Medicare reimbursement methodology and how it will affect your agency in this special 60-minute teleconference. Can We Get To Yes? Key Issues in Managed Care Payor-Provider Contracting Increasingly hospitals are walking away from payor contracts. Physicians are not only dropping out of health plan networks, but also some are not accepting health insurance. And the headlines carry more and more news about physicians-payor lawsuits. How do you get to "yes" in this environment? Can payors and providers find room to reach agreement? Are providers willing to leave money on the table? The
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reimbursement when up against the proverbial "900 pound gorilla?" Management Briefing: Medicare FY 2006 Reimbursement Changes With the updates to inpatient rates, reduction in labor-related share, expansion of the post-acute transfer policy, adjustments for coding changes, market basket update, and change to the outlier threshold, there is an abundance of new information for healthcare executives to grapple with. The new Medicare policies and payment rates became effective October 1, 2005. Looking for a comprehensive summary of the changes to help you make sense of it all? Join the reimbursement experts of BESLER Consulting, a leading advisory firm in healthcare financial management and operations, to get a better understanding of the new Medicare methodology and how it will affect your hospital in this special 90-minute audio conference. What's Working in P4P 'Box Set' Looking for an easy way to acquaint your team with “pay-for-performance” (P4P)? Introducing the P4P Audio Conference CD Box Set. These highly rated, executive-level telebriefings on CD are ideal for low cost, affordable team training. The programs feature four early adopter insiders providing details, metrics, payment structure, characteristics of successful programs, design principles and what's working are key points covered in three hours of high-level management discussion on details on pay for performance. Physicians and hospitals alike are faced with the challenge of “Crossing the Quality Chasm” which was raised by the Institute of Medicine report and has been reinforced by numerous subsequent analyses. Achieving the highest clinical performance is increasingly critical to the success of both hospitals and physicians. Discover how physicians on the medical staff of a community hospital are using an innovative organizational model to drive clinical performance improvement. Funding For Women's Health Programs: How to Secure the Money Needed to Help Your Program Thrive The goal of this program is to help you make the case for adequate funding for your program, to make you aware of the potential for funding opportunities that do exist, provide you with ideas to help strengthen your existing funding efforts, and provide you with an overview of how to generate gifts and grant support for your organization. "Funding For Women's Health Programs: How To Secure The Money You Need To Help Your Program Thrive" 'sets the stage,' with an overview presentation on the vision of what can be achieved and the practicalities of "thinking funding;" a case history of a successful women's health center and the center's successes in funding and philanthropy, and, finally what needs to be done -- the nuts and bolts of organizing to start a grants funding effort. Getting It Right: Designing Outcomes-Based Physician Incentive Compensation Over the past 3 years, millions of dollars have been awarded to physicians as quality improvement incentives. Health plans are "rushing" to develop performance-related physician incentive programs. Capitalizing on Preventive Care Opportunities Created by the Medicare Modernization Act Would you believe that less than half of Medicare beneficiaries between the ages of 65 and 74 years old have had a relationship with their primary care givers for five or more years? All segments of the healthcare industry are or will be affected by the growing adoption movement - implementation of the 'wired' or digital hospital.
How can employee assistance programs prove their value to management in the current atmosphere of diminishing budgets and tighter benefit dollars. EAPs are not doing an adequate job educating senior management and employees about the value of services employee assistance provides.
Marketing your adult day care center can significantly increase awareness and boost census. The problem, however, is adult day centers are often strapped for additional funds to advertise their programs or are unable to identify the most effective ways to market the uniqueness of their center.
Health plans have launched a variety of innovative initiatives to balance the cost-quality equation and streamline the referral and pre-authorization processes. Learn how these major health plans have developed approaches that help employers and their employees manage costs while still maintaining access to quality healthcare.
The proposed Federal rules are the first set of what will be uniform standards for an electronic prescription drug program under the Medicare Modernization Act. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposes to make the compliance date for the foundation standards January 1, 2006, so that they will be ready for immediate use when the Medicare drug benefit begins. Successful Hospice Marketing Methods
Managed Care Formulary and Pharmaceutical Benefit Management Under E-Prescribing E-prescribing makes formularies automatically and electronically accessible, and therefore considerably more enforceable, at the point of prescription," says Dr. Martin B. Silverstein, co-author of the BCG report “Vital Signs: e-Health in the United States.” Plus, guidelines have recently been adopted by the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates to help physicians safely and securely prescribe medications to patients over the Internet. Health Savings Accounts 2005: Market Adoption, Acceptance, Growth and Regulatory Refinements For the past year, health insurors have been developing and launching health savings accounts, their newest product offering. Health savings account (HSAs) are part of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. HSAs are designed to help individuals save for future qualified medical and retiree health expenses on a tax-free basis New Directions in Disease Management: Medicare- Medicaid, Strategies, Outcomes, ROI Disease management (DM) is now in the forefront of efforts to improve overall member health status and have an impact on health costs. Early DM programs focused primarily on such illnesses as diabetes, congestive heart failure, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. But over the past few years, some DM providers have branched out into offering DM programs for rare and sometimes even fatal conditions such as cancer, Parkinson's disease, lupus, ALS and sickle cell anemia. Next Generation - MCO Web Site Strategies
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