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Medicare Payment Bundling and Hospitals: Strategies for Surviving and Prospering
Webinar
August 6, 2009
Time: 11 a.m.-12 p.m. CENTRAL TIME
Register for this event online:
August 6, 2009 ($295 per line)
Program Description
By October 2009, President Obama expects to sign a health care reform bill that will include changing the Medicare payment system for acute and post-acute care. Bundling acute and post-acute care payment is estimated to save Medicare between $19B and $26B through 2019, according to the Office of Management and Budget and the Congressional Budget Office respectively. Payment bundling likely will begin with a single payment for hospital admission and readmission of the same patient within a 30-day period, and then transition to a single payment for a Medicare beneficiary's hospital admission, readmissions and all post-acute care within 30 days.
Although the "banker" for payment distribution has not yet been defined, hospitals are initiating strategies now to manage and reduce unnecessary readmissions and create a low cost post-acute continuum with positive patient outcomes.
The webinar will provide the latest available information on Medicare payment bundling. Specific strategies will be described that will enable hospitals to effectively reduce unnecessary readmissions through targeting patient conditions and developing evidence based programs such as Care Transitions Intervention, Guided Care and ACE units. In addition, illustrative processes will be provided for hospitals to upgrade cost effectiveness and outcome measurements in their existing post-acute venues; and, to create preferred provider relationships for an effective care continuum that delivers low cost, positive patient outcomes and reduced hospital readmissions.
Who Should Participate
CEOs
CFOs
Business office directors
Business development managers
Financial personnel
Hospital Trustees
Faculty
Kathleen Griffin, PhD, National Director, Post Acute & Senior Services, Health Dimensions Group
Kathleen M. Griffin, PhD, is the national director, post acute and senior services with Health Dimensions Group, one of the nation's leading health care management and consulting firms. Griffin is recognized as one of the nation's foremost authorities in post-acute care and senior services continuums. She pioneered the development of sub-acute units, rehabilitation facilities, and long-term acute care hospitals as components of integrated health systems and is considered to be one of the most prominent of our nation's thought leaders in post-acute care and senior services, as related to health systems and organizations. She is a nationally recognized author and lecturer on these topics.
Griffin has distinguished herself in many areas of health care. In a career that spans more than 30 years, she has assisted over 300 hospitals, health systems, and health organizations with strategic planning, feasibility studies, and development and operations of post-acute care, as well as senior services care continuums. She received a bachelor of science degree from the University of Wisconsin, a master of arts from Stanford University and a PhD from the University of Oregon. Griffin was the founding chair of the national Sub-acute Care Association, is a Fellow in the American Society of Association Executives, and a Fellow in the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
The views expressed by the speaker do not necessarily reflect the policies or opinions or the Wisconsin Hospital Association.
Registration Information
Fee
$295.00 for one phone line per site
Please register only one name per connection.
Additional phone lines will be billed at $295.00 each.
How the Webinar Will Work
Dial-in instructions, on-line login instructions and any other reference materials will be emailed to each registrant approximately three days prior to the conference. If you do not receive them by this date, please email llittel@wha.org.
It is the responsibility of the registrant to access presentation materials prior to the day of the event. If your e-mail address changes, you do not receive an e-mail with instructions from WHA, or if you are unable to open presentation materials, please contact Lisa Geishirt at WHA two days prior to the event to allow time to address the issue.
Substitution, Transfer and Cancellation Policy
Cancellations received in writing up to five business days prior to an event will be given a full refund less a $50 processing fee. No refunds will be given for cancellations received less than five business days prior and day-of-program no-shows. Substitutions are accepted.
Register for this event online:
August 6, 2009 ($295 per line)
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