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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
9:00 am -
9:45 am
Maximizing Yield on Your Revenue Cycle: Assessing Processes from the Front to the Back
  • Defining yield: What does it mean and why should I care?
  • What are the areas that your financial team needs to focus on to maximize yield?
  • A holistic view from the front to the back: Maximizing yield at all points of your revenue cycle
    • Front: patient access
    • Middle: CMD, chargecapture and clinical case management
    • Back: bill drop and medical eligibility
Jeffrey Nieman
Vice President, Operations
Conifer Health Solutions
(A Tenet Healthcare Corporation)


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9:45 am -
10:30 am
Case Study: How a Hospital Can Face the Challenge of Uncollected Self-Pay Receivables
  • Face the challenge of uncollected self-pay receivables headon: Learn innovative solutions for the improved fiscal health of your organization
  • Discover how a simple addition to the front-end of your revenue cycle process can effect dramatic results on the back-end
  • A step-by-step guide to integrating actionable solutions into your collection practices: How you can realize a marked improvement in your collection rates and a dramatic decrease in days to collect
  • Collaborating with the patient: Strategies to maximize opportunities that enable patient understanding of financial obligations
Presenters TBD
10:30 am -
11:00 am
Networking and Refreshment Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
11:00 am -
11:45 am
Best Practices in Managed Care Contracting: Strategies for Improving Collaboration, Negotiations and Contract Administration
  • Health plan contracting and the revenue cycle: Obtaining and administering fair and profitable managed care contracts for maximized performance
  • Contract management strategies to improve operations, adherence, compliance and financial performance
  • Successful administration of a managed care contract: How to effectively manage appeals, grievances and ongoing operational issues
  • Contemplate best practice strategies and approaches for negotiating new contract terms with payers in the critical areas that impact the revenue cycle
Mayumi Fukui
Vice President, Managed Care
University of Chicago Hospitals and Health Systems

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11:45 am -
12:30 pm
"Finding the Right Balance": A Pricing Strategy Case Study
  • Best practices in creating a rational, compliant pricing strategy: Assessing both the gross and net revenue impact of potential pricing changes
  • Examine how Montefiore Medical Center performed a comprehensive review of their pricing strategy and Charge Description Master (CDM)
  • The impact of a merger: Discover how the pending acquisition of another non-profit facility mandated price uniformity across the continuum
Ed Kerner
Director, Revenue Cycle Operations, Finance Department
Montefiore Medical Center

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12:30 pm -
1:45 pm
NETWORKING LUNCHEON AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS — Managing Patient Financial Responsibility in the Changing Health Care Environment
Timothy Mills
Vice President Provider Network, Sales and Operations
NaviNet, Inc

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1:45 pm -
2:30 pm
Improving Hospital/Physician Engagement: Without the Docs, There's No Revenue to Manage!
  • Increasing physician alignment and satisfaction from the C-Suite downward: A paradigm shift in executive thinking
  • Case Study: How Resurrection Health Care implemented a successful physician satisfaction improvement program
Patrick McDermott
Senior Vice President, Revenue Services
Resurrection Health Care

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2:30 pm -
3:15 pm
Connecting the Dots: How to Bridge the Gap between the C-Suite and Revenue Cycle Teams
  • Discover the importance of a collaborative service and governance model: How the positive byproduct of patient and physician satisfaction can drive financial success
  • Information in action: Learn how to establish an advisory council or program at your organization
  • Frameworks to develop better communications: Fostering relationships with the C-Suite to drive revenue cycle results
Janie Patterson
Vice President, Revenue Cycle Services
Conifer Health Solutions
(A Tenet Healthcare Corporation)


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