Hospital Value Based Purchasing: A Roadmap

Hospital Value Based Purchasing: A Roadmap

In October, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will launch its value-based purchasing program for hospitals. Part of the Affordable Care Act, it is an ambitious initiative intended to improve patient outcomes by encouraging hospitals to closely follow best clinical practices.

What is going on at hospitals in California and elsewhere to prepare for this program? Where might the savings be found? Where might care and outcomes be improved?

Join Payers & Providers for this dynamic webinar event, Hospital Value-Based Purchasing: A Roadmap

Participants will be able to:

Have a clearer understanding of the value-based purchasing system and how it will impact healthcare delivery in the coming years
Understand where value-based purchasing will impact your hospital and the way it delivers care
Determine how to best position your institution to prosper in a value-based purchasing environment

Interested attendees would include:

C-Suite Executives
Medical Staff
Quality and Outcomes Staff
Finance Executives and Staff
Legal, Regulatory and Compliance Executives and Staff
Business Development Executives and Staff
Marketing and Business Intelligence Executives and Staff
Public Relations and Communications Executives and Staff
Patient and Consumer Advocate Executives and Staff
Members of the Healthcare and Local Media
Other Interested Parties

Attendees would represent organizations including:

Hospitals

Health Systems

Medical Groups

Health Plans

Patient and Consumer Advocacy Groups

Government Agencies

Consulting Firms

Media

Other Interested Parties

Individual Registration Fee: $195. Audio Conference CD-ROM: $40 for attendees; $285 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!

Robert A. Minkin, Senior Vice President, The Camden Group		Mr. Minkin is a senior vice president with The Camden Group with over 30 years of experience serving in senior leadership roles in hospitals. He is one of the nation’s leading experts on bundled payments. Prior to joining The Camden Group, Mr. Minkin served as the president and chief executive officer of Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital, a 565-bed tertiary teaching center in Denver, Colorado. Under his leadership, Exempla Saint Joseph applied and was approved to participate in a three-year CMS Acute Care Episode (“ACE”) demonstration project to “bundle” payments to hospitals and physicians. Exempla Saint Joseph is one of only four hospitals with cardiac programs to participate in the pilot demonstration. Prior to his role at Exempla Saint Joseph, he served as the chief operating officer and executive vice president for St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, California, a 448-bed tertiary care medical center. He has also served as chief executive officer for Desert Hospital in Palm Springs, California for eight years. Mr. Minkin has held senior positions at other facilities including Riverside Community Hospital, Riverside, California; Memorial Hospitals Association, Modesto, California; Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California; and Community Hospital of Santa Rosa, Santa Rosa, California. Mr. Minkin’s professional affiliations include American College of Hospital Executives, Healthcare Association of Southern California, and the Hospital Financial Management Association. He has served on the Boards of the United Way of the Inland Valley, the Riverside Chamber of Commerce, and the American Heart Association.

Guy D’Andrea, President, Discern, LLC		Guy D’Andrea founded Discern in 2004. Since that time, Mr. D’Andrea has worked with leading healthcare organizations nationwide – including The Leapfrog Group, Bridges to Excellence and the National Business Coalition on Health – to design, implement and evaluate pay-for-performance and value-based purchasing strategies. Mr. D’Andrea specializes in assessing the return on investment from these programs and has built ROI models for several clients. Projects undertaken by Discern include the design and development of hospital and physician pay-for-performance programs, value analysis for HIT adoption, an interactive P4P decision tool for health care purchasers, and quality standards for wellness programs. Before starting Discern, Mr. D’Andrea spent seven years as Vice President at URAC, where he was responsible for the development of URAC’s accreditation programs, including quality standards for PPOs, utilization management organizations, case management organizations and consumer-directed health care. Prior to URAC, he spent five years working on managed care regulatory and policy issues with the American Association of Health Plans (now AHIP) and the Maryland Association of HMOs. Mr. D’Andrea has co-authored several papers on health care reform, including: “Should Health Care Come with a Warranty?” featured in Health Affairs, “Physicians Respond to Pay-for-Performance Incentives: Larger Incentives Yield Greater Participation” in The American Journal of Managed Care, and “Sustaining The Medical Home: How Prometheus Payment Can Revitalize Primary Care” for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Jason Lee, Senior Manager, ECG Management Consultants		Mr. Lee is a member of the Healthcare practice at ECG and is based in San Francisco. He has over nine years of consulting experience in strategic planning, hospital/physician alignment, and commercial contracting. His current practice focuses on managed care contract analysis and negotiation, development of hospital/physician financial relationships, and assessment of physician productivity. His projects have resulted in financial and operational success for a myriad of clients. He has a master's of public health degree from San Diego State University and bachelor of arts' degrees in both human biodynamics and molecular and cell biology from the University of California at Berkeley.

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