Wednesday events - Calendar

Healthcare Financial Management, June, 2003

June 25,2003

Events

Continental Breakfast

7:30 a.m.--8:30 a.m.

Ballroom Foyer, 400 Level

Baltimore Convention Center

Start your day off energized with a free continental breakfast for all conference participants.

ANI 2004 Sneak Preview Lunch

12:30 p.m.--1:30 p.m.

Ballroom, 400 Level

Baltimore Convention Center

We're off to Nashville for the 2004 ANI!

When you're not tapping your foot to the Nashville sound at the Grand Ole Opry or the honky-tonks at Third and Broadway, you'll be devouring a succulent meal aboard the General Jackson Showboat or in a down-home cooking diner. One thing's for sure--your trip to Nashville at the 2004 ANI will include a big helping of Southern hospitality. Join us at the ANI 2004 sneak preview lunch and get a taste of these Nashville sights and sounds and enter a drawing to win a complimentary trip to ANI 2004!

Annual Chairman's Reception and Banquet

6:30 p.m.--7:00 p.m., Reception

7:00 p.m.-- Midnight, Banquet

Ballroom Foyer and Ballroom, 400 Level

Baltimore Convention Center

The Annual Chairman's Reception and Banquet is always one of the most memorable highlights of ANI. It's not only a time to dine and dance, but also to be part of the installation of HFMA's new Board of Directors and the presentation of the Frederick C. Morgan Individual Achievement Award, the Association's highest honor for career-long contributions to healthcare financial management and HFMA.

Highlights

General Assembly

8:30 a.m.--10:00 a.m.

Ballroom, 400 Level

Baltimore Convention Center

Quint Studer

Founder,

Studer Group

Quint Studer, founder of the Studer Group, has been instrumental in demonstrating that patient, employee and physician satisfaction create bottom-line results. Based on his 19 years in healthcare, including President of Baptist Hospital, Inc. and COO of Holy Cross Hospital, Quint has created tools and techniques to help organizations achieve superior operating results. Learn how this level of excellence can reduce employee turnover, rejected claims, and agency costs, as well as increase clinical outcomes, volume, and the bottom line.

Concurrent Sessions

E01

HFMA Accounting and Financial Update

Room 327, BCC*

Who Should Attend

CPAs and accountants working in health care.

Level

Update/Intermediate/Operational

You'll Learn

The most current information on accounting and financial reporting requirements--FASB and GASB activities. The effect of these on your organization and clientele. Activities of the AICPA and HFMA's Principles and Practices Board.

Speakers

Kelly A. Barnes, CPA,

Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, Dallas, TX, Chair, HFMA's Principles and Practices Board

Martha Garner, CPA,

Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, Florham Park, NJ

E02

Measuring Performance Indicators

Room 328, BCC*

Who Should Attend

CFOs, CEOs and COOs.

Level

Intermediate/ Operational

You'll Learn

How to correlate performance measures to resource consumption and net revenue. What indicators should be measured and monitored consistently, how to measure them and how to determine what the data reveals.

Speakers

Greg Mason, FHFMA, CPA, VP, Cambio Health Solutions, Brentwood, TN

Steve Blame, FACHE, Senior Operations Executive, Cambio Health Solutions, Brentwood, TN

E03

Five Steps to Transform A/R Management

Room 329, BCC*

Who Should Attend

CFOs, directors of PFS, revenue cycle managers and business office managers.

Level

Intermediate/Operational

You'll Learn

The financial value of closing the loop on claims. To understand and be able to describe an automated claims status system. The appropriate processes, technology, and measurements to use. Implementing an automated claims tracking and management system in your facility.

Speakers

Dennis Byerly, CPA, CEO,

Third Millennium Healthcare Systems, Inc., Decatur, GA

Kimberly A. Pederson, VP

Revenue Cycle Improvement, Minnetonka, MN

E04

Keeping Compliance Real: Defining an Honest Billing Error

Room 336, BCC*

Who Should Attend

Patient financial services managers, compliance officers and financial directors

Level

Intermediate/Operational

You'll Learn

A review of the four elements of a clean claim, personal accountability for keeping compliance real, department head implementation of department specific audits and tools for tracking patients' concerns and complaints. Documenting the facility's efforts to provide an honest billing error: monitoring, auditing, educating and preventing.

Speaker

Day Egusquiza, President, AR Systems, Inc., Twin Falls, ID

E05

Navigating an Internal Compliance Investigation

Room 337/338, BCC*

Who Should Attend

Compliance officers, in-house counsel, healthcare executives and managers.

Level

Intermediate/Strategic

You'll Learn

The importance of establishing and maintaining a compliance infrastructure in order to minimize the risk of corporate misconduct. To become informed about potential risks and benefits of voluntary self-disclosure to the OIG and mechanics of self-reporting. How to successfully navigate an internal compliance investigation, respond when an internally detected violation has occurred and effectively make use of legal counsel in your response. The use of various types of audits and billing samples both retrospectively and prospectively.