Speakers:

• Understand and effectively mitigate financial impacts of the “Perfect Storm” of continued revenue pressure from reduced government and commercial insurance payments and increased cost reduction efforts in response to diminishing margins and payer expectations.
• Understand and discuss specific and applicable elements of success from a recent comprehensive $70M turnaround; including:
  • Prioritizing high-dollar impact areas
  • Focusing on execution (80%)
  • Eliminating barriers to success
  • Emphasizing results
  • Promoting senior-leader accountability
  • Coordinating organization-wide efforts
  • Planning for continuity and long-term sustainability
• Understand frequently overlooked high impact margin improvement tactics with significant and sustainable impact on the organizational bottom line; including:
  • Pay policies and practice review
  • Open position review
  • Premium pay use
  • GPO market basket optimization
  • Purchased services agreements
  • Physician preference items and demand matching

• Why benchmarking and productivity systems alone, can’t yield strategic change and results
• Margin Improvement
• Building staff support and acceptance for necessary labor changes
• How to improve through-put
• The need for a quality-based approach to achieve staff buy-in and support for labor changes
• Introduction to In-Quality Staffing (IQS) concepts
• Overview of real life application: Achieving rapid variance response to sustain gains in labor productivity  
• Review Case Study of an organization who has successfully optimized labor with a quality driven approach
• Rapid Response

Speakers:

• The Human Factor: Understanding why people resist change
• How to make change safer than the status quo
• Five obstacles that block your path to success and how these are costing you success
• How to ensure your PI initiatives achieve their full potential
• 28 Proven methods for coaching people through change

• Understand and effectively mitigate the current operating environment challenges impacting improved physician-hospital alignment and clinical integration; including:
  • Continued revenue pressure from reduced government and commercial insurance payments
  • Increased cost reduction efforts in response to diminishing margins and payer expectations
  • Patient volumes shifting to outpatient setting, meaning less revenue
  • Need for increased provider integration and coordination as cost and quality measurements become more popular in commercial and mandated in government models
  • CMS moving quickly from volume-based reimbursement (fee for service to value, linking quality and payment
• Compare and evaluate the common physician-hospital alignment models to determine potential financial exposure in accordance with the organization’s strategic goals.
• Understand effective models for increasing physician alignment and clinical integration while improving clinical quality, patient safety, patient experience, access, and efficiency by engaging and supporting providers as ‘co-managers’.
• Assess and understand how to close the current gap between the hospital’s physician-hospital alignment needs and financial performance.
• Understand and leverage the benefits of clinical co-management to both physicians and the hospital