Educational Breakout Sessions, many offering CME credits, will address the issues that affect operations of large and small physician groups. Please check your agenda for scheduling on these and other sessions.
Integrating Pharmacist-Led Transitional Care for High-Risk Seniors
Designed to prevent re-admissions among high-risk senior patients, this program is built on models of transitional care proven effective by such researchers as Coleman and Naylor. It addresses key enhancements, including in-home pharmacist assessment following discharge, risk stratification, and medication optimization.
Stuart Levine, MD, Corporate Medical Director, HealthCare Partners Medical Group; Professor Internal Medicine, UCLA
M.A. Coding and Documentation: Like Bread and Butter?
Faced with more pressure from CMS and OIG and pending Healthcare Reform, Medicare Advantage plans are conducting audits of individual medical group coding, and they expect medical groups to have strong coding and documentation compliance programs in place. This session will provide the information medical groups need to meet these new expectations.
Greg Sinaiko, CEO, The Coding Source, LLC
Mastering the Healthcare Rubik's Cube of "Meaningful Use"
Current healthcare initiatives place more emphasis on the requirements that lead to collaboration rather than on the actual mechanisms for achieving those requirements. Only with insight and forethought will practices be able to twist six core, interconnected priorities to achieve a truly collaborative approach to healthcare.
Ute Burness, RN, CEO, Muir Medical Group, IPA, Inc.
Medicare Value-Based Purchasing of Services
Medicare has been moving toward value-based purchasing for physician services for some time. This presentation will focus on recent and current demonstrations, including physician group practice, medical home, acute care episode, and Medicare care management, and on how information gained will support such future developments as Accountable Care Organizations.
David Sayen, Regional Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Region IX
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Patient-Centered Medical Home Meets the Delegated Model
This presentation will focus on group practices that are redesigning their workflow processes to achieve best-in-class patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes with a focus on major chronic diseases.
Leonard M. Fromer, MD, FAAFP, Assistant Clinical Professor/Executive Medical Director, UCLA School of Medicine/Group Practice Forum
Quality and Performance Improvement Incentives: One Successful Program
Learn how a "home-grown" program developed by Sansum Clinic ensures that all clinical areas maintain the highest clinical standards as outlined by various accrediting and regulatory agencies while encouraging excellent customer service and fiscal responsibility.
Paul Jaconette, CAO & EVP, Sansum Clinic
Re-Igniting the Passion for Practice in Primary Care
Explore a program developed over two years to work with primary care physicians on building an improved skill set for providing high-quality, cost-effective care to patients in a medical home environment.
John Jenrette, MD, CEO and CMO, Sharp Community Medical Group
The Hypocrisy of Healthcare Reform
In the future, the government will control a larger percentage of every dollar spent on healthcare and exert more influence on how and who will deliver that care. What are the challenges of doing more with less under the guidance of our well-intentioned government?
Rick Shinto, MD, CMO, NAMM California
Why California's Physician Groups Are Poised to Thrive in the New Medicare
Despite their many differences, the programs proposed as alternatives to today's Medicare options all hold a few key elements in common: some risk-taking by providers, better integrated delivery systems, patient-centric care, and continuous care across specialties and facilities. Sound familiar?
John Gorman, CEO, The Gorman Health Group
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