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The 8<sup>th</sup> Annual Physician Group Practice Summit

The WHCC 8th Annual Physician Group Practice Summit convenes over 150 CEOs and senior executives focused on physician/hospital integration, engaging physicians on the journey to accountable care, patient-centered medical homes and leveraging physician data analytics. Physician Group Practice and IPA CEOs, CIOs, CMOs, Administrators and Chief Physicians gather to exchange strategies with their peers on physician integration for improved efficiency and outcomes, establishing performance based contracting and reinventing primary are.

Monday, April 4, 2011
2:00 pm -
2:55 pm
Physician-Hospital Integration to form an ACO and Deliver Value-Based Care
  • Aligning the incentives, operations and outcomes of physicians and hospitals for successful ACO formation
  • Models to integrate physicians across points of care to improve care delivery
Dr. Bart Asner
Chief Executive Officer
Monarch HealthCare
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Martin E. Hickey, MD
Managing Director
Navigant
Former Chief Accountable Care Officer
Alegent Health Clinic
3:00 pm -
4:00 pm
Transitioning Performance Based Contracting and Reimbursement to Accountable Care
  • Negotiation strategies for performance-based contracts with payers and hospitals
  • Linking financial rewards to performance in order to reward value and to improve quality over time
  • Group practice reimbursement models to motivate and organize physicians
  • Forecasting reimbursement from patient-centered medical homes
Bill Gil Bill Gil
President and CEO
Facey Medical Foundation
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Eric Nielsen Eric Nielsen, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association (GRIPA)
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
10:40 am -
11:35 am
Leveraging Physician Data Analytics to Drive Operational Efficiencies
  • Utilizing data analytics to motivate physicians and demonstrate the value of care delivered
  • Employing medical business intelligence as a method to deliver coordinated care
  • Analyzing group practice and physician readiness for meaningful use
  • Optimizing ambulatory EMRs to meet meaningful use requirements
Peter Basch Peter Basch, MD, FACP
Medical Director, Ambulatory EHR and Health IT Policy
MedStar Health
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11:40 am -
12:35 pm
Reinventing Primary Care to Function as a True Medical Home
  • Trends in the evolving definition of a medical home - The emergence of e-visits, retail clinics and care at employer sites
  • Identifying the required system changes, EMR capabilities and support structures needed to create a primary care oriented system
  • Reimbursement strategies to financially motivate the reinvention of care
Albert Bothe Jr., MD, FACS
Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Geisinger Health System
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Theodore A. Praxel Theodore A. Praxel, MD, MMM, FACP
Medical Director of Quality Improvement and Care Management
Marshfield Clinic
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2:50 pm -
3:45 pm
Physician Payment Reform—Lessons Learned from the PGP Demonstration
  • Physician strategies to improve quality and generate shared savings – lessons learned from early adopters
  • Providing compelling incentives for physicians to take an active role in decreasing the total and individual cost of care
  • Strategies to create payment incentives that reward value and encourage closer provider integration
Nicholas Wolter, MD
Chief Executive Officer, Billings Clinic;
Former Commissioner, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC);
Member, Board of Trustees, American Hospital Association (AHA)
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H. Eugene Lindsey, MD
President and CEO
Atrius Health and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
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2:50 pm 3:45 pm
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