EVENTS

THE GEORGIA ACADEMY OF GENERAL DENTISTRY PRESENTS

Early Career Dentist Symposium
Crowne Plaza Ravinia — Atlanta, GA
Friday, April 27th, 2012
How to Register:
Online Registration is available at www.gagd.org
Complete and send the enclosed registration form by fax or mail to:
GAGD Executive Office
2711 Irvin Way, Suite 111
Decatur, GA 30030
Fax: (404) 299-7029
Questions:
Contact Rachel Mathews at rachel@gagd.org or (404) 299-7987.

12th Annual Spring Conference

Start Date/Time: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:00 PM
Join us for our 12th Annual Spring Conference held at Sea Palms Golf & Tennis Resort on St. Simons Island, GA.
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Hear from key speakers on issues & solutions to rural Georgia’s healthcare market.

HFMA Spring Seminars

Seattle, Washington: May 7-9, 2012
Attending one of HFMA’s popular seminars will provide the tools, takeaways and metrics that you can adapt to your organization’s goals for success in today’s challenging environment. An in-depth workshop, guided by experienced and inspiring seminar leaders, encourages discussion and interaction in a lively group setting.
Choose from a new session on a currently vital topic in the industry or one of our popular core sessions. Sessions are available for all levels of experience whether you are new to the industry or a seasoned executive.
All programs reflect today’s changing healthcare environment and cover two main content areas:
Financial management strategies and operations
Revenue cycle improvements, payment trends, managed care, and reimbursement
Topics include:
Leveraging revenue cycle benchmarks for process improvements
Transitioning to new payment and reimbursement models, including value-based purchasing and bundled payments
Eliminating waste and reducing costs while maintaining quality
Clinical and financial collaboration strategies for improved performance
Leveraging financial data to maximize outcomes and decisions
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WEBINARS

Medicaid Monthly Update

Start Date/Time: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 10:00 AM
Description: HTH Medicaid Monthly Update
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Medicare Monthly Update

Start Date/Time: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 10:00 AM
Description: HTH Monthly Medicare Update
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Physician Lunch & Learn

Start Date/Time: Tuesday, may 15, 2012 12:30 PM
Description: HTH Monthly Physician Update
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Medicaid Monthly Update

Start Date/Time: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 10:00 AM
Description: HTH Medicaid Monthly Update
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Medicare Monthly Update

Start Date/Time: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 10:00 AM
Description: HTH Monthly Medicare Update
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Physician Lunch & Learn

Start Date/Time: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 12:30 PM
Description: HTH Monthly Physician Update
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Using RAC Data Mining to Drive Process Improvement

Date and Time: Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Central Time
Speakers:
Samuel A. Donio Jr.
President, CBIZ KA Consulting Services LLC
George L. Kelley
Chief Operating Officer, CBIZ KA Consulting Services LLC
Summary:
This session will demonstrate how providers have used their RAC data to make significant documentation improvements across many areas of their organization, specifically in coding, supporting medically necessary admission determinations and improving revenue capture. In addition this improved documentation will support readmission rates reduction initiatives as well as promote improved case mix index levels. Overall, this approach will lead to better compliance practices, which will result in improved financial outcomes and significant risk reduction.
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Performance Improvement Reform: A Strategy for Gaining Rapid Adoption of Improvement Initiatives

Date and Time: Thursday, May 10, 2012, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Central Time
Speaker:
Deborah Bulger, CPHQ
Executive Director, Product Management
McKesson Enterprise Intelligence
Summary:
With the rapid changes occurring in healthcare today, nothing in your organization is business as usual. From payment reform to patient engagement to talent management you are faced with a need to re-evaluate your processes and make rapid, large scale improvements in quality, cost, revenue and patient experience. Is your current performance improvement approach designed to meet these new challenges? Are you getting the value from your improvement initiatives to sustain financial security? This session will outline a unique way to approach performance improvement that will enable you to leverage organizational data to prioritize the most critical opportunities, model the results of process engineering and hardwire leading practices into your workflow.
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Post-Deal Integration Specifics: Standardizing Delivery Processes and Contracting

Date and Time: Thursday, May 17, 2012, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Central Time
Speakers:
To Be Announced
Webinar Summary
This webinar will center on Post Deal Integration and Planning. Topics include:
Discussion of redesigning/standardizing clinical care delivery processes to reach the highest efficiency and promote the best outcomes
Employment contracting
Managed care contracting
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Improving Margin with Agile Planning for Capital Allocations

Date and Time: May 29, 2012, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Central Time
Speakers:
Larry Van Kuran
Executive Director Pharmacy Consulting Services
National Pharmacy Programs & Services
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Inc.
Ben Lamorte
VP Marketing
Alight Planning
Summary:
This webinar will feature best practices for improving margins by taking an applying agile planning to capital allocations. Based on Kaiser Permanente’s Pharmacy Information Management System (PIMS) capital planning project, the webinar will illustrate how to set up agile capital planning models that enable finance to more effectively and rapidly communicate financial impacts to key stakeholders and executives. The discussion will include best practices for creating agile planning models that quickly analyze three types of benefits: 1) expense-reducers, 2) cost-avoiders, and 3) revenue-enhancers. These agile planning models enhance margins by rapidly providing answers to three types of “what-if” questions: 1) “take it out” 2) “push it out” or 3) “reduce it by a percentage,” leading to better, faster capital allocation decisions that drive the organization forward.
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Why the Item Master Doesn’t Support Value Analysis Efforts

Date and Time: Thursday, May 31, 2012, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Central time
Speaker
Phil Oaten
President & CEO
Meperia LLC
Summary
Today’s hospitals require comprehensive, accurate, accessible supply chain data to support cost savings initiatives. Yet, the item master—the baseline for item and spend data—is inaccurate, the data fields limited, and the surrounding ordering conventions outdated. Simple data cleansing alone is not enough. Instead, a more comprehensive strategic sourcing approach is needed, one that uses a virtual item master and artificial intelligence to perpetually capture, cleanse, and rationalize the entire med-surg spend. This improves visibility and control, and prevents spend leakage.
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Point of Service Collections: What You Need to Do Now!

Date and Time: Wednesday, MAY 16, 2012
If the practice saw the same number of patients, did the same number of treatments and procedures in 2009 as they did in 2008, the economic result will not be the same. Why?
Presented by:
Karen Zupko of KarenZupko & Associates
Chicago, Illinois
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Strategies to Manage a Chaotic Workload

Date and Time: June 7, 2012
90 Minute Live Audio Conference
1 pm ET (12 pm CT, 11 am MT, 10 am PT)
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JOB SEEKERS

Talk to the Expert about Resumes that Result in Interviews

Date: Thursday, May 3rd
Time: 11:00am EST (8:00am PST, 9:00am MST, 10:00am CST)
Description: Your resume will either screen you IN or OUT for an interview. We will be joined on this Webinar by the individuals who conduct our FREE resume reviews. They KNOW what it takes to write a resume that gets attention! This call is a MUST ATTEND for anyone involved in a Job Search.
Registration Link.