Accountable Care Organizations, A New Pathway for Physicians and Hospitals

Accountable Care Organizations:
A New Pathway for Physicians and Hospitals

Thursday, April 29th, 2010
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Eastern (10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Pacific)
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Examination of Elements and Requirements of ACOs
Consideration of Hospital & Physician Opportunities under ACOs

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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

Faculty:
William J DeMarco MA CMC
Pendulum HealthCare

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 prominent hospital systems launching single specialty initiatives to bundle payments based upon severity as well as larger efforts 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.

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.

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

Individual Registration Fee: $195. Audio Conference CD-ROM: $40 for attendees; $255 for non-attendees after the event.

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William DeMarco
President & CEO
Pendulum HealthCare Development Corporation

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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