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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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7:00 am - 7:15 am
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7:15 am - 8:00 am
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8:00 am - 8:15 am
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8:15 am - 9:00 am
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- 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
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9:30 am - 10:15 am
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10:15 am - 11:15 am
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- 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
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11:15 am - 12:30 pm
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- 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
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12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
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- 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
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1:45 pm
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