Seth Katz, MPH, RHIA, FAHIMA Associate Chief Information Officer Truman Medical Centers
Mary Bessinger VP Middle Revenue Cycle Hospital Services Optum360
Commercial payers have shown more and more focus on clinically oriented denials, particularly those related to clinical validation, or DRG downgrades. Few payers provide transparency about the clinical criteria they use to assess DRG selection, while others constantly change their criteria.
Kelley Blair SVP, General Manager, Hospital and Health System Change Healthcare Raghu Bukkapatnam Chief Strategist, Technology Enabed Services Change Healthcare
There's no denying that reducing bad debt is at the top of revenue cycle leaders' agendas. Patient liability has skyrocketed in recent years due to the rise in high deductible health plans and erosion in coverage. And many, if not most providers are being tripped up by these changes.
Ana Agostini
Administrative Director, IT Services
Memorial Healthcare System
Wes Wright
Chief Technology Officer
Imprivata
Learn more about industry perspectives and personal experiences about seamless identity and access management to meet the unique, demanding, and constantly changing security, compliance, and workflow challenges of the modern healthcare enterprise.
John Showalter, MD, MSIS
Chief Product Officer
Jvion
As defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) and recognized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), social determinants of health (SDH) are the conditions in which people live, work, play, and age.
Brian Eigel
Chief Operating Officer
RQI Partners, LLC
High-quality CPR is the single highest determinant of survival from cardiac arrest. Join Brian Eigel, who will provide hospitals with a roadmap to implement a cost-effective, low-dose, high-frequency program that verifies CPR competence and achieves the new standard of care.
With the focus on reforming health care it is no surprise that the emergency department is under intense scrutiny. Hospitals face the difficulty of responding to multiple challenges including price transparency, quality of care, and evolving payer policies.
Like many hospitals and healthcare providers, Mercy Health wants to accelerate market share growth, improve network utilization, expand business-to-business sales opportunity, and better track pipeline.
LaTonya O’Neal
Vice President of the Revenue Integrity and Centralized Coding Practice
Change Healthcare
Many organizations neglect to focus on charge capture processes because they are typically decentralized across organizations and considered a lower administrative function. But let’s face it -- overlooking missed, incorrect, and inconsistent charges is akin to leaving money on the table.
The shortage of talent in healthcare is real. Competing for talent requires the development of a comprehensive strategy. Organizational culture is key to both attracting and retaining high quality employees.
Mercedes Dullum, MD, FACS, FACC
Regional Medical Director
Nuance
Lucian Newman, III, MD, FACS
CMO and Founder
Vincari
Benjamin Ditty, MD
Neurosurgeon
HealthLeaders looking to mitigate margin pressures exacerbated by program cuts and the accelerated out migration of procedural care need to improve revenue cycle operations, including a high degree of focus on improving the IT experience for their surgeons.
Tom Schwieterman, MD, MBA
Vice President, Clinical Affiars and Chief Medical Officer
Midmark Corporation
Jonathan Bees
Research Analyst
HealthLeaders
In March 2019, HealthLeaders conducted a survey to our leadership audience on the Fully Connected Point of Care Ecosystem. With over 100 responses collected, two goals became clear: optimizing workflow efficiencies and providing a greater patient experience. But that wasn’t all.
Hospitals and health networks are under an immense amount of pressure to provide coordinated patient care to maximize performance, achieve regulatory compliance, and promote better patient health outcomes.
Sarah Bryan
Director, Product Management
Wolters Kluwer – Health Language
Health leaders are expected to abide by the latest regulatory requirements, report accurate system-wide metrics for quality measures, and produce reliable data analytics, all while addressing organizational initiatives and lessening clinician administrative burden.
Priscilla Bragg, MSN, MSEd, RAC-CT
Manager, Clinical Services
Good Samaritan Society
Learn how you can become a Superhero to your organization by implementing key initiatives to battle the challenges. Hear first-hand success stories from guest Superheroes on how moving to standardized products has made a significant difference.
Dr. Amit Amin
Assist Professor of Medicine; Medical Director, Cardiac Cath Lab Quality and Outcomes Committee
Washington University St. Louis; Barnes Jewish Hospital
Anne Beekman
Senior Manager, Care Pathway Solutions
Terumo Business Edge
With the growing demand on acute care facilities to manage costs and declining reimbursements, understanding the economic and clinical perspectives of care pathways that are void of care variation are essential.
Debra Spargo, CDI and Coding Manager, Halifax Health
Richard Sovacool, Senior Project Manager, IT Project Management, Halifax Health
Tony Oliva, VP & CMO, Nuance
To take their CDI program to the next level, Halifax Health is using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to engage physicians with guidance at the point of care, and to prioritize CDS team focus on patient encounters with the greatest opportunities for documentation improvement.
