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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
7:00 am -
7:15 am
Continental Breakfast in the Executive Networking Lounge and Registration
7:15 am -
8:00 am
Executive Breakfast Forums: Topics TBD
8:00 am -
8:15 am
Chairmen’s Welcome and Opening Remarks
Tom Gavinski
Vice President, Healthcare Division
IC System

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Michael Zimmerman
President
Zimmerman LLC

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8:15 am -
9:00 am
Opening Keynote Panel – Improving Administrative Simplification: Developing a Patient-Centered Billing System
  • Strategies for integrating hospital and physician billing: What will make payers and providers agree?
  • How can the industry collaborate to revamp the current system?
  • What are the step by step ways to implementing a simple approach?
  • Case Studies: HFMA’s Patient Friendly Billing Project, Mayo’s Strategic Front, and the MN Collaborative
Panelists:
William Bertschinger
Division Chair, Patient Financial Services
Mayo Clinic

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Michael Jex
Assistant Vice President, Revenue Cycle/PAS
Intermountain Healthcare

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Jeffrey Nieman
Vice President - Operations, Patient Financial Services
Tenet Health

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Brian W. Rotty, J.D.
Executive Director
MMSI
9:30 am -
10:15 am
Networking and Refreshment Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
10:15 am -
11:15 am
Improving Patient Financial Services Performance through the Assistance of External Partners
  • Strategies for improving cash flow through the utilization of external resources
  • Understanding how to minimize risk, improve compliance and overcome the perceived lack of control when external partners are involved
  • How to enhance the level of staff competency in your organization
  • Methodologies for achieving a level of comfort at the executive level when integrating partners into your revenue cycle management
Michael I. Bernstein
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Valley Medical Center

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11:15 am -
12:30 pm
Educating Revenue Cycle Managers and Staff through Modern Learning Techniques
  • What forward thinking strategies can be utilized by high performing hospitals to aid in revenue cycle-wide educational efforts?
  • How can your organization be the exception in designing an ongoing training program that leverages modern learning concepts?
  • Discussion on the educational tools and techniques your organization can utilize to increase staff members’ knowledge retention while decreasing employee turnover and error rates
Mike Doyle
Managing Director
The Academy of Healthcare Revenue

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Michael Zimmerman
President
Zimmerman LLC

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12:30 pm -
1:45 pm
Closing Luncheon Keynote Address: Update on the Severity Adjusted DRGs for FY 2009
  • Discover the changes in store for FY 2009 for Medicare-Severity Diagnosis Related Groups (MS-DRGs)
  • Review the Coding Clinic advice and Official Coding Guidelines applicable to the demonstration target RAC reviews
  • Learn about the Medicare non-payment of hospital acquired conditions and reporting of present on admission indicators
  • Consider the impact of upcoming changes on your HIM strategy
  • Hear best practices for staff training and hospital-wide coordination considerations
Nelly Leon-Chisen, RHIA
Director of Coding and Classification
American Hospital Association

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1:45 pm
Conference ends, closing remarks
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