Physician/Hospital Alignment - Strength in Numbers

Executive Management Program: Employ, Contract & Compensate Your Physicians.

For in-house personnel only.

This seminar is designed to focus on the development/strategizing of physician/hospital (and perhaps others) working relationships from the C-Suite/Executive Director and physician perspectives. Attendees will focus on developing a long-term perspective and Action Plan development for their integration/alignment alternatives and overall strategies to assist both in the day-to-day challenges of practice and hospital operations.

PROPOSED SESSION TOPICS:

Session 1 - Strengh in Numbers: Physician/Hospital Alignment Models (1/2 day)

Session 2 - Conducting a Thorough Due Dilligence/Valuation Analysis (90 minutes)
- Physician Education and Managing Expectations
- Are Hospitals "Paying" for Physician Practices? -
- Where has all the Goodwill Gone?
- Financial and Operational Performance Repercussions on Value
-Compensation's Impact the Number
-Multiple Metholdologies to Comples
-Financial Modeling (Pro-Formas)

Session 3 - Developing Your EPN's Structure, Strategies, Goals and Governance (90 minutes)
- Department of the Hospital or Separate LLC
- Provider or Non-Provider Based Billing
- Primary Care, Specialists and Surgeons
- Evolving Hospital/Physician Relationships
- What is an"Acceptable Loss?"
- Joint Commission

Session 4 - Physician Productivity and Compensation Work Session (120 minutes)
- Emerging Models
- Physician Goals in the New Era
- P4P - Pay For Performance's Impact
- Call Coverage and Medical Directorship FMV Reviews
- Measuring Productivity and Modifying Behavior
- Cases Study/Work Session

Session 5 - Information Technology Considerations (90 minutes)
- A "Career Defining" Decision
- Priority Issues to Convey to Vendors
- Managing the Selection Process
- PM's interface with EHR
- Physician Readiness

Session 6 - Recruitment/Retention Strategies 960 minutes)
- Recruitment Support Models
- Completing the Physician Community Needs Analysis
- Retention Strategies

Session 7 - Regulatory/Legal Trends in Employment (90 mintues)
- Contractual Issues
- Stark's Impact
- Defining Fair Market Value
- FMV Opinion Process
- FMV Case Studies
- Compliance Stategies
- The Impact of RAC
- - - - - What is it?
- - - - - How to prepare for it?
- - - - - Compliance concerns and solutions

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Calendar & Locations:

Sept. 21-22, 2009 Chicago, IL

Nov. 9-10, 2009 Las Vegas, NV

If you can't attend: Handouts Only

To learn more about seminars, please view the Frequently Asked Questions. For companies looking to train several or more employees at once, you may be interested in an In-House Seminar.