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WA-AK HFMA Conference & Trade Fair

WA-AK HFMA Conference & Trade Fair

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  • Optional  Optional
  • Wednesday, February 22, 2012
  • 7:00 AM  -  12:00 PM
    WA-AK Chapter 2012 - 2013 Planning Retreat - Open to Everyone
    This is the chapter’s annual transition planning meeting for the upcoming fiscal year.
    		 Optional 
    12:00 PM  -  1:00 PM
    Meeting Registration
    1:00 PM  -  3:00 PM
    Critical Access/Rural: Medicare CAH Observation & One/Two Day I/P Stay Issues - A Case Study
     
    Speakers: Diane Meredith Gordon, Director, PacificEDI/Outreach Services and Jennifer Wilbur, Consultant 
     
    Defining the one day inpatient stay Medicare audit-the billing and handling denied claims, Case Studies, and Practical applications for managing the one day and observation stay in a CAH.
     
    Take Aways:
    1. What are the billing requirements for one and two day inpatient stays?
    2. Hospital chart audits of one and two day stays.
    3. Practical applications for meeting the billing requirements for one and two day inpatient stays.
    		  Optional 
    1:00 PM  -  3:00 PM
    Revenue Cycle/PFS: ICD10: Tactical Planning for Revenue Cycle – After the Impact Assessment

    Speakers: Sarah Lucas, MHA, ICD-10 Program Director, UW Medicine and Brenda Ding, OTB Solutions
     
    Take Aways:
    1. After the assessment…next steps 
    2. Resource impacts & risks 
    3. Collaboration strategies
    		  Optional 
    3:00 PM  -  3:15 PM
    Break
    3:15 PM  -  5:00 PM
    Critical Access/Rural: Medicare CAH Observation & One/Two Day I/P Stay Issues - A Case Study, Cont'd

    Speakers:         Diane Meredith Gordon, Director, PacificEDI/Outreach Services and Jennifer Wilbur, Consultant

    In this continuation, topics will include:

     

    1. What are the billing requirements for one and two day inpatient stays.
    2. Hospital chart audits of one and two day stays.
    3. Practical applications for meeting the billing requirements for one and two day inpatient stays.

     

    		  Optional 
    3:15 PM  -  5:00 PM
    Revenue Cycle/PFS: Business Strategies for a Successful Hospital
     
    Speaker: Shar Sheaffer, CPA, Principal, Dingus, Zarecor & Associates PLLC
     
    		  Optional 
    5:00 PM 
    Adjourn
    5:00 PM  -  6:30 PM
    WA-AK Leadership Councils and Committees (LCC)
    This is the HFMA chapter planning meeting for future programs and a great way to get to know other HFMA members. All HFMA members and prospective members are invited to attend and participate.
    		  Optional 
    6:30 PM  -  7:30 PM
    WA-AK LCC Dinner
    		  Optional 
    7:30 PM 
    Hospitality Suite - Sponsored by FMA Alliance
    Room 2304
    		  Optional 
    7:30 PM 
    WA-AK Board Meeting
    		  Optional 
  • Thursday, February 23, 2012
  • 7:00 AM  -  8:00 AM
    Registration and Breakfast - Trade Fair

    Please meet our exhibitors and sponsors in the trade fair and learn about their unique services and products.
    8:00 AM 
    Welcome and Introductions

    Brad Becker, HFMA WA-AK Chapter President
    8:05 AM  -  8:45 AM
    General Session: Reimbursement Update

    Speaker: Susan Ruchin, Moss Adams
     
    		  Optional 
    8:45 AM  -  9:30 AM
    General Session: WSHA Update

    Speaker: Andrew Busz,  Washington State Hospital Association (WSHA)
    		  Optional 
    9:30 AM  -  10:00 AM
    Break and Trade Fair

    Please meet our exhibitors and sponsors in the trade fair and learn about their unique services and products.
    10:00 AM  -  11:30 AM
    General Session: Working for the Best Care at the Least Waste to Lower Trend

    Speakers: Mary McWilliams, Executive Director, Puget Sound Health Alliance and Jim Andrianos, Calculated Risk, Inc.

    This presentation will discuss how a regional collaborative of purchasers, providers, plans and patients are working together to improve health care value.  Using strategies of performance measurement and public reporting, consumer engagement, payment reform, and performance improvement, the Puget Sound Health Alliance is addressing both the quality and affordability of health care.  The Alliance compares the quality of care in medical groups and hospitals as well as the intensity of resources between delivery systems for selected high volume hospitalizations.

    		  Optional 
    11:30 AM  -  1:00 PM
    Lunch and Trade Fair

    Please meet our exhibitors and sponsors in the trade fair and learn about their unique services and products.
    1:00 PM  -  2:00 PM
    Finance/Compliance: Cost Savings Opportunities in EE Health and Wellness Programs


    Speaker: Mary Cranstoun, Senior Director of Compensation and Benefits, Providence Health Services

    Cost Saving Opportunities in Employee Health and Wellness Programs. Employee benefit costs make up a significant portion of a health care employers operating costs. The goal of this session is to give finance managers and directors an overview on how successful employee wellness programs and benefit plans can drive down costs.

    Take Aways:

    1. Do wellness programs really work.
    2. Things you can do to change your health care trend, short and long term.
    3. The hidden costs of employee health you may not be considering.
    		  Optional 
    1:00 PM  -  3:00 PM
    Revenue Cycle/PFS: Legacy Health's Revenue Cycle MAP
     
    Speakers: Terrie Handy, Director of Legacy Health’s Revenue Cycle for Patient Business Services and Mary Kjemperud, Vice-President of Revenue Cycle Operations

    Legacy’s Revenue Cycle team is a two time Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) "MAP" award recipient, most recently with the 2011 award for Legacy Good Samaritan. Come hear their journey.

    Take Aways:

    1. Successful Strategies from a MAP Recipient.
    2. Collaboration and Shared Accountability is the Key!
    3. Inspiring and Motivating Ideas - You too can be a MAP Provider!
    		 Optional 
    2:00 PM  -  3:00 PM
    Finance/Compliance: Cost Savings Opportunities: The List and the How to Achieve Success


    Speaker: Eileen Walsh, Director in the Performance Improvement Practice, Ingenix Consulting 

    The objective of this program is to provide insight into those areas that often have the greatest opportunity for cost reduction. The specific tools and techniques that can be used to validate and quantify whether these can indeed translate to realistic opportunities within your organization will be presented

    Take Aways:

    1. Process for identifying cost savings opportunities.
    2. Use of tools and techniques to create a roadmap.
    3. Tips on how to engage and motivate departmental management and employees.

     

    		  Optional 
    3:00 PM  -  3:30 PM
    Break and Trade Fair

    Please thank our exhibitors and sponsors in the trade fair as they make our educational events possible.
    3:30 PM  -  5:00 PM
    Finance/Compliance: Managing Fraud: Practical Ways to Manage Fraud Risk In Turbulent Economic Times

    Panel Speakers: Vincent Stevens, Jason Mitchell, Jeff Eby and Kathryn Warma
     
    With prolonged turbulent economic times, comes increased risk for fraud from people both inside and outside of the organization. Come hear real life examples from our panel of how fraud is occurring and practical ways to manage this risk in cost effective manner.

    Take Aways:

    1. Hearing real life examples of how fraud is occurring in today’s economic environment
    2. Learning practical ways to manage fraud risks
    3. Tips for detecting fraud
    		  Optional 
    3:30 PM  -  5:00 PM
    Revenue Cycle/PFS: Analyzing the Health of Your Revenue Cycle with Real-Time Metrics

    Speaker: Leonard Wenyon, Director of Reimbursement, Inventurus Knowledge Solutions

    This session will cover how to analyze the health of your revenue cycle management with real-time metrics: 

    • Beyond the cure to prevention
    • Improving your current program and preventing errors
    • Establishing metrics-based RCM
    • Gaining visibility to make effective decisions
    • Track performance on a daily basis


    Take Aways:

    1. Gaining visibility to make effective decisions
    2. Establishing metrics-based RCM
    3. Improving your current program and preventing errors
    		  Optional 
    5:00 PM  -  6:00 PM
    Trade Fair Reception
    		  Optional 
    6:00 PM  -  7:00 PM
    Dinner
    		  Optional 
    6:45 PM 
    Casino Night
    		  Optional 
    9:45 PM 
    Casino Prize Drawing
    		  Optional 
    10:00 PM 
    Hospitality Suite - Sponsored by FMA Alliance
    Room 2304
    		  Optional 
  • Friday, February 24, 2012
  • 7:00 AM  -  8:00 AM
    Registration and Breakfast - Trade Fair
    Last opportunity to meet with exhibitors.
    8:00 AM 
    Welcome and Introductions
     
    Brad Becker, HFMA WA-AK Chapter President
    8:05 AM  -  9:15 AM
    Keynote: The Hunting of the Snark (Focus on Value)
     
    Speaker: Ralph E. Lawson, FHFMA, CPA, HFMA National Chair Elect and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Baptist Health South Florida

    The United States consumes more healthcare than any other country in the world while individuals, governments and employers struggle to pay the bill. The U.S. recession has exacerbated the problem for providers and payers alike. With an industry wide focus on increasing quality and decreasing costs, providers must implement innovative value based strategies to survive and thrive in the “new normal” for U.S. healthcare. As the one year anniversary of the passage of historic healthcare reform legislation has come and gone, many believe that the healthcare financing system remains unsustainable as the “Snark” continues to elude capture or even definition. 

    		  Optional 
    9:15 AM  -  10:00 AM
    Break and Trade Fair Giveaways - SPONSORED BY DATA SYSTEMS GROUP (DSG)

    Thank you to our generous exhibitors as they announce their trade fair winners.
    10:00 AM  -  12:00 PM
    Keynote: Quality Workshop - SPONSORED BY KEYBANK

    Speaker: Lucy Savitz PhD, MBA, Director of Research and Education of Intermountain's Institute for Health Care Delivery Research

    Workshop will contain:

    1. Goals, Expectations, and Introductions.
    2. Establishing the burning platform: health policy/reform context.
    3. How leading health care delivery systems are responding--e.g., The High Value Health Care Collaborative.
    4. Fundamentals in considering impacting cost + quality with Q&A.
    5. Real world examples demonstrating how delivery systems can impact cost + quality with Q&A.
    6. Small group break outs (participants will be given a worksheet to apply key concepts from their organization's perspective) and facilitated large group discussion.
    7. Resources Available for Moving Forward and Debrief

    Attendees will walk away with tools and resources to apply learned concepts.

    Thanks to KeyBank for sponsoring this session!
    		  Optional 
    12:00 PM  -  12:30 PM
    Lunch Break
    12:30 PM  -  3:30 PM
    Keynote: Quality Workshop, Continued - SPONSORED BY KEYBANK

    Speaker: Lucy Savitz PhD, MBA, Director of Research and Education of Intermountain's Institute for Health Care Delivery Research

    Attendees will walk away with tools and resources to apply learned concepts.

    Thanks to KeyBank for sponsoring this session!
    		  Optional 
    3:30 PM 
    Closing Comments
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