FULL Brochure Now Available for Download! Don't miss this unique opportunity to bring your executive and financial teams together at The 4th Annual Hospital and Health System Financial Management Congress, where you will learn the mission-critical steps that your organization must take in 2009-2010 to ensure its financial health,

sustainability and profitability amidst the new economic reality. This Executive Congress is designed to maximize your understanding of how current market forces and reform initiatives will impact your organization's short and long term strategic plans, as well as provide your team with the tool kits to employ next generation revenue cycle solutions. Attending the Congress allows you to:

• Define your long term financial strategy and foster staff and physician engagement
• Build a strategic framework for premier revenue cycle efficiency, maximized reimbursement and operational sustainability
• Hone best practices and innovative solutions from industry leading provider institutions, financial analysts, health care economists and academicians
• Identify cutting edge market opportunities and investment strategies for increased profitability and long term growth
• Position your organization for both survival and success in 2010 and beyond

"Paying by the Bundle": An In-Depth Assessment of How Medicare Payment Reform and the Future of Health Care Reimbursement Is Impacting Your Business Model and Long Term Profitability	Evaluating Mergers, Acquisitions and Determining Unprofitable Lines of Business: Strategies to Keep Moving Ahead in a Time of Economic Restraint (Tentative Confirmation)	Strategic Financial and Revenue Cycle Collaboration: How the Executive Team at the 8th Largest IDN in the Nation Worked Together for a Strategic Financial Turnaround
The International Perspectives on Health Care Financial Management: Examining How Apollo Hospital Group Pioneered Corporate Health Care in India	Utilizing Lean Principles to Manage the Revenue Cycle: Increasing Efficiency for Higher Returns	Employing Predictive Modeling to Determine Likelihood of Payment: Strategies to Increase Back Office Collections
People Management Strategies Promoting Staff Engagement and Patient Satisfaction: Getting Them to Care About Your Money	The Intersection of the Supply Chain and the Revenue Cycle: Successful Strategies for Collaboration and Cost Savings	Starting at the Point of Service to Reduce Bad Debt: Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital
Utilizing Financial Counseling, Financial Clearance and Charity Care: Strategies for Managing Bad Debt Opportunities to Reduce Doubtful Accounts	Examining Successful Collections Techniques to Maximize Reimbursement: Collections Strategies for the Rising Self-Pay Population	Maximizing Staff Effectiveness and Business Process Efficiency through Exception-Based Payer Management
How a Hospital Can Face the Challenge of Uncollected Self-Pay Receivables	Best Practices in Managed Care Contracting: Strategies for Improving Collaboration, Negotiations and Contract Administration	"Finding the Right Balance": A Pricing Strategy Case Study
Improving Hospital/Physician Engagement: Without the Docs, There's No Revenue to Manage!	Enterprise Risk Management: Utilizing ERM to Assess and Manage Risk (Tentative Confirmation)

• Evaluating Mergers, Acquisitions and Unprofitable Lines of Business
• Strategic Budgeting and Capital Formation
• Revenue Cycle Management
• Charity Care Policies and Financial Counseling
• Managed Care Contracting, Payer Relations and Contract Compliance
• Capital Access, Capital Structure and Treasury Management
• CDM, Charge Capture and Charge Protocols
• Enterprise Risk Management and Alternative Asset Allocation
• Documentation and Coding Process Improvement
• Claims Processing and Denials Management
• Revenue Leakage and Cash Flow Maximization
• Accounts Receivable and Bad Debt Management
• The Rise of the Self Pay Population and Uncompensated Care
• Financial Clearance and Pricing Transparency
• EMRs, HIT Integration and Next Generation Revenue Cycle Technology

Revenue Cycle Innovations Leadership Summits Included at This Year's Congress: Leadership Summit A: Revamping the Revenue Cycle via Patient Financial Services: A Focus on Billing, Coding, Documentation and Compliance Starting at the Point of Service to Reduce Bad Debt: Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital's Story of Success Driving Financial Returns with e-Invoicing: The Experience of Memorial Hermann Healthcare System Utilizing Financial Counseling, Financial Clearance and Charity Care: Strategies for Managing Bad Debt Opportunities to Reduce Doubtful Accounts Best Practices in Documentation and Coding Process Improvement NETWORKING LUNCHEON AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS — Managing Patient Financial Responsibility in the Changing Health Care Environment Examining Successful Collections Techniques to Maximize Reimbursement: Collections Strategies for the Rising Self-Pay Population Maximizing Staff Effectiveness and Business Process Efficiency through Exception-Based Payer Management Leadership Summit B: Solutions for Increasing Revenue Cycle Yield and Maximizing Revenue Capture Maximizing Yield on Your Revenue Cycle: Assessing Processes from the Front to the Back Case Study: How a Hospital Can Face the Challenge of Uncollected Self-Pay Receivables Best Practices in Managed Care Contracting: Strategies for Improving Collaboration, Negotiations and Contract Administration "Finding the Right Balance": A Pricing Strategy Case Study NETWORKING LUNCHEON AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS — Managing Patient Financial Responsibility in the Changing Health Care Environment Improving Hospital/Physician Engagement: Without the Docs, There's No Revenue to Manage! Connecting the Dots: How to Bridge the Gap between the C-Suite and Revenue Cycle Teams Please see these sessions for more mission-critical revenue cycle content! Workshop 1 — Utilizing Benchmarking for Improved Revenue Cycle Yield: An In-Depth Analysis of How Your Organization Measures Up to Your Peers Workshop 2 — The Fire on the Horizon: Preparing for ICD10 Clinical Modification Workshop 3 — Achieving Quick Resolution of Unpaid Balances by Improving Your Patient Financial Services Workshop 4 — No Longer Optional: Examining the Increased Complexity and Heightened Consequences of the New IRS 990 Schedule H Requirements CLOSING KEYNOTE ADDRESS — Strategic Financial and Revenue Cycle Collaboration: How the Executive Team at the 8th Largest IDN in the Nation Worked Together for a Strategic Financial Turnaround