Health Plan Contracting Web Summit - 2010

• Contracting Strategies to provide flexibility for changes from health reform, ICD-10 transition and more
• Positioning organizations to address value based payment models and other innovative structures
• Contracting implications in case experience from denials management initiatives
• Plus Podcasts on: Contracting success: Just how avoidable are you?; The Big Picture: Contracting Change Drivers; Amendments: An obvious contractual landmine that often goes unnoticed; and Analysis and Implications of a Provider's Uninsured Population

• 1:00 pm - 1:05 pm Introductions and logistics
• 1:05 pm - 1:30 pm Contracting in a Time of Uncertainty - Robin J. Fisk, Esq., Managed Care Contracting Author and Attorney, Fisk Law Office
• 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Preparing for Innovative Payment Methodologies - Terri L. Welter, Principal, ECG Management Consultants, Inc.
• 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Contracting Lessons Learned from Denials Management Task Force Outcomes - Jeffrey Gold, Vice President, Managed Care and Special Counsel, HANYS (Healthcare Association of New York State)

• Contracting Success: Just How Avoidable Are You?, by Ben Jacobowitz, Director, Matrix Strategies, Inc.
• The Big Picture: Contracting Change Drivers - Considerations in Planning, Process & Implementation by Christopher J. Kalkhof. Director, Healthcare Industry Group, Alvarez & Marsal
• Amendments: An obvious contractual landmine that often goes unnoticed by Gil Weber, MBA, Practice Management and Managed Care Consulting
• Analysis and Implications of a Provider's Uninsured Population by Al Mytty Director, Payer Contracting Carle Foundation Hospital
• Plus other Web Summit features including a Contracting Article Library, and an exclusive Contracting e-poll

1. Gain an overall sense of what change agents are impacting the contracting environment, and their implications.
2. Examine health reform provisions, ICD-10 conversion, and other relevant change drivers as they relate to contracting.
3. Consider innovative payment structures, such as value based models, from a contracting perspective.
4. Ascertain contracting strategies to address a change-driven environment that requires flexibility to address with shifting regulatory, marketplace, demographic and payment structure demands.
5. Understand provider initiatives to address contracting pressures, including denial management and market positioning.
6. Discover the range of potential issues to monitor in contract amendments, which become more prevalent in an environment of change.
7. Obtain relevant case experience and marketplace intelligence offered by the faculty.
8. Experience e-learning at the attendees' convenience, with podcasts, article library, and other online Summit features available 24/7.
9. Engage in interactive learning through live webinar providing online question submission, attendee surveys, feedback and opportunity for follow up questions, and networking with attendees, faculty and other professionals through dedicated LinkedIn group.

• CEOs and CFOs
• Planning and Strategic Executives and Staff
• Managed Care Executives and Staff
• Revenue Cycle Executives and Staff
• Network Management Executives and Staff
• Provider Relations Managers and Staff
• Provider Contract Administrators
• Health Benefit Managers
• Contract and Payment System Solutions Staff
• Business and Market Intelligence Staff
• Legal and Regulatory Affairs Executives and Staff
• Other Interested Parties

Attendees would represent organizations including

• Hospital Systems
• Medical Groups
• Provider Networks
• Other Providers
• Health Plans
• Third Party Administrators
• Contracting Organizations
• Employers
• Solutions Providers
• Associations, Institutes and Research Organizations
• Media

We look forward to your participation at this event!