MGMA 12 Annual Conference

 MGMA 2012 Annual Conference Key Content Areas

 

MGMA 2012
Annual Conference content areas

Suggested topics

 

Definition

Academic  Practice

 
  • Accountable care organizations
  • Centralized operations
  • Clinical trials
  • Employed physicians
  • Health system perspective
  • Physician governance
  • Research
  • Systems thinking
  • Teaching
  • Healthcare from the private-practice perspective

Academic Practice sessions appeal to practice executives in academic institutions with multiple missions (for example, patient care, teaching and research).

 

Alignment and Integration Strategies

 
  • The administrator’s role in alignment
  • Clinical integration
  • Compensation plans using quality and outcomes data
  • Economic forces driving alignment and integration
  • Evaluating integration options
  • Executing successful alignment and integration
  • Managing physician practices within a health system
  • Physician involvement in health-systems governance
  • Physician group-to-group mergers and acquisitions

Alignment and Integration Strategies focus on the critical legal, operational, financial and strategic issues that arise when physician practices, health systems and hospitals pursue efforts to successfully align and integrate.

Compliance and Risk Management

 

 
  • American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
  • Fraud and embezzlement
  • Governmental audits – Recovery Audit Contractors, Medicare Administrative Contractors, Zone Program Integrity Contractors, Medicaid Integrity Contractors
  • HIPAA
  • Health Information Technology For Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act
  • Information technology (IT) security
  • Red flags
  • Mitigating technological disasters
  • Stark Law
  • Tort reform
  • Outsourcing compliance and risk management

Compliance and Risk Management describes the processes and practices by which healthcare organizations ensure that their practices are protected from medical malpractice and adverse legal events. 

Health Information Technology (HIT)

 
  • EHR record destruction
  • EHR record security
  • EHR selection, implementation, optimization
  • EHR and meaningful use
  • eRx, e-prescribing, managing refills
  • health information exchanges/sharing data with the community
  • HIPAA Version 5010, ICD-10
  • Remote access options: iPads, smart phones, etc.
  • Patient portals
  • Social media, marketing, communication and reputation defense
  • Staffing vs. outsourcing IT services
  • Wired/wireless  practice
  • Upcoming office technologies (both hardware and software)

 

Health Information Technology (HIT) describes the comprehensive management of health information and its secure exchange between consumers, providers, government and quality entities, and insurers. HIT also includes the use of technology to create operational efficiencies and improve the management of healthcare services.

Patient Care and Quality  

 
  • Care coordination
  • Customer/patient service
  • Lean operations
  • Managing the high-risk patient
  • Mid-level providers
  • Regulatory concerns: National Committee for Quality Assurance, Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, Joint Commission, URAC
  • Patient education
  • Patient flow
  • Patient registries
  • Patient satisfaction, patient surveys
  • Patient-centered medical homes, patient-centered medical neighborhoods
  • Quality outcomes

 

Patient Care and Quality refers to the systems and processes that result in efficient operations while ensuring patient safety and high-quality care.

Professional and Staff Development

 

 
  • American College of Medical Practice Executives
  • Career management
  • Change management
  • Disruptive behavior
  • Generational issues
  • Leadership
  • Managing physician relations
  • Organizational culture
  • Physician recruiting/retention
  • Staffing/staff ratios/right-sizing
  • Staff training and development
  • Working with staff – clinical, front office, back office

 

Professional and Staff Development refers to the processes and practices through which healthcare practices optimize the performance of the people in their organizations.

Revenue Strategies and Cost Containment

 

 
  • Ancillary revenue
  • Billing claims/denial management
  • Coding, including ICD-10 and HIPAA Version 5010
  • Collections
  • Fee schedule analysis
  • Financial reporting
  • Payer contracting and negotiating
  • Physician compensation
  • Practice valuation
  • Revenue cycle management
  • RVU analysis
  • Value-based payment structures

 

Revenue Strategies and Cost Containment encompasses the processes and operations and strategies by which companies continuously monitor, modify and implement programs for maximum financial results.

Specialty-specific

 

 
  • Specialty-specific topics
  • Specialty-specific trends

Specialty-specific sessions are hot-topic and roundtable sessions provide content that is particular to certain medical specialties and does not fall within other content areas. 

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