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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
9:00 am -
9:45 am
Starting at the Point of Service to Reduce Bad Debt: Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital's Story of Success
  • Increase cash flow through point of service collections: Techniques for improving upfront collections to maximize reimbursement
  • Re-educate the revenue cycle community: Strategies to combat pre-billing errors, post-billing denials and write-offs
  • Case Study: How Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital increased its upfront collections to $4 million in 2008
  Sue R. Carlson, CPAM
Administrative Director, Revenue Cycle and Managed Care
Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital

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9:45 am -
10:30 am
Driving Financial Returns with e-Invoicing: The Experience of Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
Learn how significant hard dollar benefits can be achieved by implementing e-Invoicing to improve your A/P and Supply Chain operations.
  • Reduce touch points and use automation to increase efficiencies
  • Optimize payment terms and dramatically increase P-Card rebates
  • Ensure price compliance by automatically matching invoices to PO's before the invoice is received in your systems
Donald Sands, Jr., CPA
Director, Systems Accounts Payable
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System

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Daron Whisman
Director of Finance – Supply Chain
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System

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10:30 am -
11:00 am
Networking and Refreshment Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
11:00 am -
11:45 am
Utilizing Financial Counseling, Financial Clearance and Charity Care: Strategies for Managing Bad Debt Opportunities to Reduce Doubtful Accounts
  • Ahead of the curve: What forward-thinking strategies are high performing institutions utilizing to identify and enroll uninsured patients?
  • Beyond charity care: How can your organization take advantage of programs available at the federal, state, local and private levels?
  • Economic impact on the availability of funds: What steps can your team take to ensure that the economic downturn does not increase accounts written off as bad debt?
Ann Gilbert, MBA
Corporate Director, Physician and Patient Access
Elliot Health System
11:45 am -
12:30 pm
Best Practices in Documentation and Coding Process Improvement
  • Identifying missed charges due to chargecapture, service documentation and CDM complexities
  • Leverage points and challenges to positioning strategic Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI)
  • Examining CDI as a building block for patient safety, quality
  • improvement, strategic technology, RAC readiness and financial success
  • Case Studies: Results from both inpatient and outpatient documentation projects
  • Explore options around structuring and staffing CDI programs
  • Discuss the key success factors in engaging physicians
Yvonne Focke, RN, BSN, MBA
Director of Revenue Cycle and Integrated Care Services
St. Elizabeth and St. Luke Hospitals

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12:30 pm -
1:45 pm
NETWORKING LUNCHEON AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS — Managing Patient Financial Responsibility in the Changing Health Care Environment
Timothy Mills
Vice President Provider Network, Sales and Operations
NaviNet, Inc

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1:45 pm -
2:30 pm
Examining Successful Collections Techniques to Maximize Reimbursement: Collections Strategies for the Rising Self-Pay Population
  • Identifying patient friendly collection techniques to assist your internal collection team: Key points to successful internal and external collection efforts to increase your bottom line
  • Best practices for maintaining patient satisfaction while simultaneously resolving patient debt
  • Discovering the importance of PCI vendor compliance, data security standards and payment transaction security: Examining PCI security standards, Telephone Consumer Protection Act, Red Flag Rules) Fair & Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) and Fair Credit Reporting Act
Tawana (Angel) Covington
External Vendor Liaison, Quality Strategy, Patient Accounting
Northwestern Memorial Hospital

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Arnold S. Harris, Esq.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Harris & Harris, Ltd.

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2:30 pm -
3:15 pm
Maximizing Staff Effectiveness and Business Process Efficiency through Exception-Based Payer Management
  • Doing more with less: Getting your systems to work for YOU though exception-based payer management utilization
  • Decrease errors, maximize staff effectiveness and achieve cost savings: How exception-based payer management will dramatically increase staff efficiency and business office effectiveness
  • Learn industry best practices for automated workflow, including processes that flag accounts, payers or internal departments that don’t meet standard criteria
  • Implement technology to seamlessly interface with payer platforms
  Cheryl Boucher
Administrative Director, Accounts Receivable Management
Memorial Health Systems
Steve Scibetta
Director, Product Development
Ontario Systems

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