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Did you know that current industry estimates show 1% of lost net revenue is due to errors in coding and documentation? Were you aware that bad debt causes hospitals to write off between 4-8% of their revenue? Have you considered the implications of hospitals spending between 2-4% of their net revenue on revenue cycle administration? The 2nd Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on Revenue Cycle Innovation will address the aforementioned issues and present the nation’s best practices for improving process efficiency to combat cycle leakage and maximize realized revenue.
  • Strategies to Offset the Impact of Uncompensated Care
  • Critical Issues in Medicare Reimbursement and Managed Care Contracts
  • Exploring the Benefits of Pre-financial Clearance and Pricing Transparency in Today's Healthcare Market
  • Leveraging Bolt on Tools to Overcome Legacy System Deficiencies
  • Best Practices in Process Efficiency, Denials Management and Accuracy in Coding
  • Discovering and Seizing Revenue Enhancement Opportunities
  • Strategies for Leveraging Bad Debt and the Selling Off of Receivables
Three New Executive Seminars!
New Cutting Edge Topics, Including:
The Bank Driven Revenue Cycle: Addressing Strategies for the Next Generation of Cash Management Services
  • Exploring how banks can better streamline patient accounting functions
  • Discovering the holistic approach for implementing measurable improvements to the revenue cycle
  • Utilizing banks for receivables management: Moving from a third-party reimbursement system to a first-party payment model
Featured Presenters:
 
Asif Ahmad
Vice President Diagnostic Services and Chief Information Officer, Duke University Health System and Duke University Medical Center
Associate Dean, Academic Computing, Duke University School of Medicine
 
John Powers
Chief Administrative Information Officer
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
William Bertschinger
Division Chair, Patient Financial Services,
Mayo Clinic
 
Gregory Snow, MPM
National Vice President, Revenue Cycle
Kaiser Permanente
 
Donald C. Riefner
Chief Revenue Officer, Hospital Services,
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
 
Tom Gavinski
Vice President, Healthcare Division
IC System
 
Patrick McDermott
Senior Vice President, Revenue Services
Resurrection Health Care
 
David Harris
National Healthcare Revenue Cycle Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers
 
Conference Chairman
Michael Zimmerman
President
Zimmerman LLC
 
Karen Geisler
Vice President of Corporate Patient Financial Services
Mount Carmel Health
 
Gretchen Case Horkins
Director Compliance and Revenue,
Cedar-Sinai Medical Center
 
Denny Roberge
Revenue Operations Manager,
Concord Hospital
 
Marilyn Hart Niedzwiecki, RN, CNOR, CPC, CPC-H, CPA
Manager, Revenue Integrity
Children's Memorial Hospital of Chicago
 
  Ed Berenblum
General Manager
Genpact Healthcare Solution
 
Paul Bradley, Ph.D.
Managing Partner, Data Mining Technologies
Apollo Data Technologies
 
Lawrence K. Connell, FHFMA
Director, Patient Financial Services
Swedish Covenant Hospital
Former Director, HFMA
Chair, Patient Financial Services Committee
Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council
 
Yvonne Focke, RN, BSN, MBA
Sr. Regional Director, Revenue Cycle Management
Mercy Health Partners
 
  Nick Fricano
Vice President
The Academy of Healthcare Revenue
 
Mayumi Fukui
Vice President, Managed Care
University of Chicago Medical Center
 
Renee George, MBA
Regional Vice President, Revenue Cycle Management
Mercy Health Partners
 
Chris Graves
Vice President, Portfolio Acquisitions
Portfolio Recovery Associates, Inc.
 
David S. Hefner
President
University of Chicago Medical Center
 
Ellie E Henry
Director, MyVisit, Pre-Financial Clearance
Geisinger Health System
 
Warren Hern
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Unity Health System
 
Jackie Hodges, MBA, RHIA
Senior Vice President - Revenue Cycle Solutions
MedAssets Net Revenue Systems
 
April Langford
Vice President, Revenue Cycle Operations,
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
 
  Cathy Neher
Director of Business Development
Medibase
 
Jeffrey Nieman
Senior Director, Patient Financial Services
Tenet Health
 
  Jody Ohlmeyer
System Vice President of Finance
Ochsner Health System
 
Kimberly A. Pederson
Principal
KP Healthcare Consultants, LLC
 
  Edward M. Rafalski, PhD, MPH
Vice President, Planning & Marketing
Sinai Health System
 
John Sherman
Director, Revenue Cycle Operations
Nassau Health Care Corporation
 
  Brian Snedeker
Vice President, Client Services
Genpact Healthcare Solutions
 
  Bill Specht
Vice President
Genpact Healthcare Solutions
 
Steven Speil, J.D., M.P.H.
Senior Vice President, Health Finance and Policy
The Federation of American Hospitals
 
Thomas Valuck, MD, JD
Director, Special Program Office for Value-Based Purchasing
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
 
Julie Waddell
Product Owner, Accuro CarePricer®
Accuro Healthcare Solutions
 
Daniel T. Yunker
Vice President, Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council
 
Gary Zmrhal
Chief Financial Officer
Holy Cross Hospital
 
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