Map out a customized educational program for yourself through eight program tracks - HFMA ANI 2003 Baltimore

Healthcare Financial Management, June, 2003

PFS/Revenue Cycle

Discover advanced solutions, tools and knowledge to significantly impact your revenue cycle operations and accomplish your organization's goals. ANI's revenue cycle sessions provide you with the ability to secure your organization's success using leading-edge revenue cycle strategies.

Payment and Reimbursement

Create successful strategies to improve your payment processes and find out the strategic and operational impact of the many prospective payment systems. Perfect your ability to manage current payment issues and develop ways to identify and collect underpayments through effective denials management.

Financial Management

Strengthen the foundation of your organization by gaining a higher level of knowledge of the industry's most current issues: strategic financial planning, profitability through better healthcare pricing strategies, financial reporting and tax updates, benchmarking and pro ductivity measurements, and alternative revenue resources.

Senior Financial Executive

Master the skills you need to enhance your leadership role by expanding your and strategic planning capabilities and gaining a comprehensive knowledge of market trends and their impact. Explore leading-edge ways to reduce bad debt and payment denials so you can successfully manage the revenue cycle process and improve your cash flow.

Compliance/Legislative

Examine the latest developments in compliance monitoring and auditing, including upcoming HIPAA mandates, and get the latest information on reimbursement, regulation and legislation trends so you can steer your business practice in the right direction.

Leadership/Professional Development

Discover innovative ways to recruit and retain healthcare employees through proficient interview practices and effective communication skills. Cain a deeper understanding of how your sharpened leadership and organizational skills as a financial manager will enhance your organization's financial performance and your career growth.

Technology/Information Management

Pinpoint the technology that can best suit your organization's needs so you can make wise decisions and investments in information management. Once implemented, you'll reap improved business performance and a higher level of patient and supplier satisfaction as a result of streamlined processes.

Managed Care

Manage your contracts better by enhancing the management of claims denials and rejections through a series of sessions that will help tighten your current managed care procedures and provide mandatory skills needed to negotiate and administer managed care contracts. Explore the most talked-about issues and trends in payer/provider disputes.