HFMA Lone Star Central Texas Regional Meeting

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Up to 7.0 CPE Credits Available
Sponsored by the Lone Star Chapter of HFMA, Sponsor#1140. All sessions are presented as Group Live and there are no prerequisites.

Conference Location:
Hilton Garden Inn-Temple
1749 Scott Boulevard | Temple, Texas 76504

Thursday, February 16, 2012

7:30 - 8:15 am Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:15 - 9:15 am
Employee Focus During Time of Change
Course 120201 | CPE: 1.0 | Level: Intermediate | No Prerequistes

Dorothy Sisneros - Founder and Partner, Thunderbird Leadership Consulting |Dorothy Sisneros is the founder and a Managing Partner of Thunderbird Leadership Consulting. Prior to Thunderbird’s formation in 2007, Dorothy was the founder and principal of Sisneros and Associates (1999). Dorothy knows the power of effective teams in the workplace and she is skilled at guiding leaders to engage the wisdom of their employees; helping people at all levels understand their contribution to mission, and assisting leaders to develop the authenticity and skills to accomplish their goals in a complex environment. While the majority of Dorothy’s work over 30 years (as an employee and then as a business owner) has been with hospitals, physician practices and clinics, she has also worked extensively within higher education in the community college system. Dorothy has extensive experience in service excellence, leadership, strategic planning, talent management and organizational dynamics. She has served in a variety of leadership roles including Director of Cardiac/Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Department Chair/Faculty and District Director of Executive Talent/Succession Planning. Dorothy is a seasoned executive coach, facilitator, trainer, and strategic partner. Dorothy earned a B.S. in Education, M.S. and M.B.A. She is a DiSC facilitator and a member of SHRM and ASTD. She is a Founding Fellow of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.

9:15 - 9:30 am Refreshment Break

9:30 - 10:30 am
Quality with a Pay for Performance Focus
Course 120202 | CPE: 1.0 | Level: Basic | Prerequisites: None

Tiffany Berry, MD, Scott & White bio

10:30 - 11:30 am
Quality Measures Alignment / Pay for Performance
Course 120203 | CPE: 1.0 | Level: Intermediate | Prerequisites: A basic understanding of hospital operations and/or CMS reimbursement procedures is recommended

Course Description: The world of quality reporting and performance measurement has grown more complex over the past ten years. Many stakeholders work on interrelated projects and initiatives. At the heart of all of these initiatives is the desire to improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes, but the reality is that many providers are struggling to navigate the maze of program requirements. As quality reporting moves from pay for reporting to pay for performance, many changes will be required in the EHR systems as well as in the quality reporting/performance structure for hospitals. This session discusses the expanding world of quality, the overlaps and conflicts between measures, and the challenges involved in implementing eMeasures.

Learning Objectives: After this session, the attendees will be able to 1.) describe the four current or proposed programs that will affect Medicare quality reporting for hospitals and the potential impact to hospital reimbursement; 2) compare and contrast the quality reporting requirements in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) for Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) with existing quality reporting programs.

Target Audience: Financial and Quality Professionals responsible for quality and performance measurement

Amy Thorpe - Consultant-Clinical Advisory Services, Encore Health Resources| Amy Thorpe has over 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry leading major clinical system and implementation and re-engineering projects. She is proficient in planning, organizing, and managing major projects and has expertise in the management of high-profile software development and implementation projects. Amy’s experience also includes the software development process, requirements definitions, system design, and testing. She has her Lean/Sigma Green Belt certification and she her product-specific experience includes McKesson Horizon Clinicals, McKesson STAR, McKesson RelayHealth, eClinicalWorks, and many others.

11:30 am - 1:00 pm Lunch

1:00 - 2:00 pm
Total Cost of Ownership: Procedure Implications
Course 120204 | CPE: 1.0 | Level: Intermediate | Prerequistes: None

Course Description:Clinical, financial and operational perspectives on the impact of applying cost accounting to medical procedures will be presented. Understanding the value of cost accounting to various constituencies enables us to communicate effectively to build a business case or gain support. Additionally, an IT-agnostic technical explanation of calculating procedure cost will be shared so that you may apply the methodologies in your own organization. Having the ability to understand precise costs for every encounter, procedure or episode of care is essential to demonstrate both value to purchasers and the impact of innovations in care delivery.

Learning Objectives:After this session, the attendees will be able to understand the value of cost accounting to various constituencies enabling attendees to communicate effectively to build a business case or gain support.

Target Audience: Those with responsibilities in financial operations, decision support, managed care and health reform impact

Ann Marie Huddleston - Director Health Industries Advisory-Provider, PwC| Former OR administrator aligns people, process and technology to support organizational change. Ann Marie Huddleston specializes in healthcare performance improvement. With over 20 years of hospital and healthcare consulting experience, she has led financial turnarounds, technology, and change enablement projects in both clinical and non-clinical areas. Ms.Huddleston's notable assignments include process improvement, labor and nonlabor optimization, interim management, managed care, and physician practice management for over 30 healthcare organizations throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, UK and Mexico. Ms. Huddleston excels at aligning physicians' and other stakeholders' incentives to achieve change. Prior to joining PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mrs. Huddleston was a Senior Director with a Restructuring firm. She was President of a privately-held healthcare consulting corporation, and before that, she spent six years with the Business Consulting division of Arthur Andersen, specializing in healthcare. She completed her Administrative Residency at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, and has six years of Hospital Administration experience in the Surgical Services department of Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas,Texas. Ms. Huddleston received a bachelor's degree in business administration from Baylor University and a master's degree in healthcare administration from Texas Woman's University.

2:00 - 2:15 pm Refreshment Break

2:15 - 3:15 pm
Charge Capture with a Focus on ICD-10
Course 120205 | CPE: 1.0 | Level: Strategic | No Prerequisites

Course Description: Predictive Analytics can help solve charge capture issues. This session will discuss how hospitals are able to use these analytics to identify issues and inaccuracies in the revenue cycle and supplement clinical documentation improvement, coding audits, and other data quality improvement efforts. In reviewing a case study participants will gain an insight into an evolving method of process improvement.

Seth S. Avery - Chief Executive Officer, AppRev | Mr. Avery has over 20 years of experience as a healthcare executive, serving as auditor, consultant, Administrator, and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mr. Avery has served as the CFO for a major teaching hospital in Texas, and the Executive Director of a leading New Jersey Medical School. He has worked at government, for-profit, and not-for-profit health care providers, as well as at a Big 6 organization. He has been certified by the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) as a Certified Professional Coder (CPC) and is a past member of the National Advisory Board for the AAPC. Mr. Avery has a B.S. from Campbell University, an M.A. in Economics from the University of New Mexico, and a Juris Doctor from Texas Wesleyan University. Mr. Avery is also a 14 year veteran of the U.S. Military, serving both as a member of 5th Special Forces Group and as a Medical Service Corps officer.

3:15 - 4:15 pm
ICD-10: Beyond the Assessment (Clinical Documentation)
Course 120206 | CPE: 1.0 | Level: Strategic | Prerequisites: None

Gloria Doehling - ICD-10 Practice Lead, Encore Health Resources, Dallas, TX | Ms. Doehling has a depth and breadth of healthcare education and many years of real life hands on experience that span the healthcare provider operations industry. In her career, she has focused on business performance and process improvement beginning as an industrial engineer who specialized in healthcare through senior level executive position in operations, business development, revenue cycle management and revenue integrity to clinical coding. In the healthcare industry where change is a constant, she uses her drive for new knowledge to produce efficient and efficacious processes associated with quality outcomes for her clients. After working in the C-Suite of tertiary community and quaternary teaching hospitals, Ms. Doehling developed her skill at bridging the gaps between the finance, clinical and operations processes to coalesce the processes between Case Management, the Revenue Cycle and the delivery of quality healthcare. She now consults with healthcare organizations to share that knowledge and in bringing the local staff together to improve processes.

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