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Accountable
Care Organizations:
A New Pathway for Physicians and Hospitals |
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- Examination of
Elements and Requirements of ACOs
- Consideration of
Hospital & Physician Opportunities under ACOs
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Register for $195
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Click here to register |
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- Introduction and overview
of Accountable Care Organizations
- Structural components of
ACOs
- Organizational
requirements to function as an ACO
- Business opportunities
resulting from new federal regulations being discussed
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Health Reform is happening at the local level even more rapidly
than the federal rules can be launched. Integration of various
aspects of health care is occurring in this respect, with single
specialty like Geisinger's program that bundles payments based
upon severity, to larger efforts by Dean Health System and
Baylor health system to offer a system wide Accountable Care
Organization model for their delivery system, to compete at
differentiate themselves in shifting markets.
At the same time health plans are experimenting with bundled
payments as part of their performance contracting strategy to
entice physicians and hospitals into working more closely
together. The difference between the IPAs and PHOs of the past
,and the ACOs for the future, is that in addition to clinical
integration of provider services, we are now seeing
reimbursement integration offering an additional revenue above
billed charges for those organizations that can make their care
system more efficient in resource use and more effective in
clinic outcomes. |
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Participants will:
- Receive a brief introduction and overview of Accountable
Care Organizations.
- Examine structural components of ACOs.
- Ascertain the various requirements involved to function
as an ACO.
- Obtain summary case
examples of systems with models functioning as ACOs.
- Consider the potential business opportunities for
providers and health plans resulting from new federal
regulations being discussed.
- Engage in interactive
learning through online question submission, attendee
feedback and opportunity for follow up questions, and
networking with attendees, faculty and other professionals
through dedicated LinkedIn group.
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Interested attendees would include:
- C-Suite Executives
- Strategy and Planning
Executives and Staff
- Legal, Regulatory and
Policy Executives and Staff
- Managed Care and Revenue
Cycle Executives and Staff
- Business Development
Executives and Staff
- Provider Network Managers
and Staff
- Provider Contracting
Managers and Staff
Attendees would represent
organizations including:
- Hospitals
- Provider Networks
- Medical Groups
- Health Plans
- Business Process
Organizations
- Solutions Providers
- Associations, Institutes
and Research Organizations
- Media
- Other Interested Parties
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Individual Registration Fee: $195. Audio Conference CD-ROM:
$40 for attendees; $255 for non-attendees after the event.
Corporate
Site licensing also available. Click
here to register or call 209.577.4888 We look forward to
your participation in this event!
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William DeMarco
President & CEO
Pendulum HealthCare Development Corporation
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William
J. DeMarco MA CMC is the President & Chief Executive
Officer of Pendulum Health Development Corporation, and
DeMarco & Associates, Inc., a national, independent
healthcare consulting firm specializing in healthcare
delivery system redesign and transformation. The firm
specializes in research and strategy development,
organization development of successful provider owned
enterprises and marketing management including product
design and promotion. Mr DeMarco is recognized as a
leader in the research, design and implementation of
community based healthplans. Since his involvement in
several startup health plans in Minnesota in the early
1970s Bill and his team of management consultants
clinical specialists and reimbursement analysts have
assisted employers and physicians in developing better
relationships with insurers up to and including
developing local solutions to deliver and finance care.
Using Health Services
Research from its affiliate Pendulum HealthCare
Development Corporation (www.pendulumhealth.com),
DeMarco and Associates assists both provider and
employer clients in addressing prospective payment
approaches in order to build Pay for Performance models
to develop direct employer/provider contracting
entities, benchmarking collaboratives under the new
value purchasing legislation as well as single specialty
centers of excellence. Mr. DeMarco is a well-known
author having written or contributed to over a dozen
books on managed care topics. He holds a master’s degree
in organizational development from DePaul University. He
a past faculty member of Loyola Law School’s graduate
program and was recently awarded the Follomer Bronze
award from the Healthcare Financial Management
Association for his outstanding service and
contributions to HFMA chapters and members |
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