Reimbursement: Trends and Strategies in Emergency Medicine
Schedule subject to change. Check back closer to the event for the final schedule.
Tuesday - January 12, 2021 - All times CST
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8:00 am - 9:00 am |
Coffee House Chats |
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9:00 am - 11:00 am |
Exhibit Showcase Open |
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10:00 am - 11:00 am |
Deep Dive into MACRA Optimization for ED Providers |
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11:00 am - 12:30 pm |
2021 Reimbursement Update and National Trends The latest hot off the presses information pertaining to RVUs, the Conversion Factor, CPT coding changes, and updates to the CMS quality programs. Objectives:
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12:30 pm - 1:15 pm |
ED Workforce; The Future of The Department’s Most Valuable and Expensive Resource The ED workforce is evolving. Providers remain our most precious resource. Learn best practices to understand the workforce and its future to set your group up for financial success. Objectives:
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1:15 pm - 1:30 pm |
Break |
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1:30 pm - 2:30 pm |
Health Plan Threats to Fair Coverage for EM & Strategies to Address: Out of Network (OON) Federal & State & Other Health Plans Tactics OON issues & efforts by health plans at the federal and state levels continued despite COVID-19 while other health plans tinkered with a prudent layperson (PLP) and payor practices that threaten EM reimbursement—what has emerged and how should EM address these threats? Objectives:
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2:30 pm - 3:30 pm |
Telehealth: Oh What A Year It's Been! 2021 Reimbursement and Regulatory Update Telehealth grew exponentially with COVID. The speaker will review the rapidly growing telemedicine companies along with the latest reimbursement opportunities and regulatory requirements. Objectives:
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3:30 pm - 4:30 pm |
Trends, Innovations, and Challenges: Getting Paid in 2021 and Beyond |
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3:30 pm - 5:30 pm |
Exhibit Showcase Open |
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5:30 pm - 6:15 pm |
Mix & Mingle with faculty pair (capped at 30 attendees) Speakers: Michael A. Granovsky, MD, CPC, FACEP and Edward R. Gaines, III, JD, CCP |
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Wednesday - January 13, 2021 |
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8:00 am - 9:00 am |
Coffee House Chats |
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9:00 am - 11:00 am |
Exhibit Showcase Open |
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10:00 am - 11:00 am |
Virtual Case Study: A Unique Collaboration of Solutions to Enhance Emergency Medicine Patient Yield |
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11:00 am -12:00 pm |
The State of the States: Medicaid Expansion and The Future of State-Sponsored ED Reimbursement Each year the payment landscape grows more complex. Federal and state payment regulations are redefining the ED payer mix. Medicaid challenges include evolving state mandates for co-pays, work requirements, and denial of the prudent layperson standard. Can you navigate the maze? Objectives:
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm |
How Is Your Billing Company Doing? Monitoring Revenue Cycle Performance: Metrics You Need to Measure How do you know if your billing company is doing a good job for you? The speaker will review relevant industry benchmarks related to revenue cycle management and how to use them to evaluate billing performance. Objectives:
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1:00 pm - 1:30 pm |
Break |
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1:30 pm - 2:30 pm |
The View from the C-Suite: What Are We Looking For? The speaker, an ED physician turned hospital CEO, will discuss how hospital administrators view emergency department success and explain ways to have your ED viewed as a valuable partner to the C-Suite. Objectives:
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2:30 pm - 3:30 pm |
MACRA and MIPs Reporting Complexities for 2021: Strategies for Success MIPS reporting For 2021- Can You Solve The Puzzle? Objectives:
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3:30 pm - 5:30 pm |
Exhibit Showcase Open |
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5:30 pm - 6:30 pm |
80’s Trivia Night |
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On-Demand Learning On-demand courses are flexible, convenient, and faculty-taught. Each course is approximately one hour in length. |
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Regulatory Victories and COVID Lessons Learned COVID launched a myriad of waivers and reimbursement programs. What are the lessons learned, current and ongoing requirements, and what does the future hold? Objectives:
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The New Normal: How to Succeed & Thrive in the COVID-19 & Regulatory Environment for EM—Changes, Challenges, Updates & Case Studies The COVID pandemic cause an unprecedented Congressional & Agency response & created huge potential impacts for clinicians—meanwhile, regulators continued pursuing “non-compliant” activities by physicians & hospitals—how does EM thrive in this post CARES Act environment? Objectives:
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ACEP's Alternative Payment Model Applications for MIPS Reporting and Future Reimbursement ACEP's proposed Alternative Payment methodology, The Acute Unscheduled Care Model (AUCM), allows sophisticated groups to accept upside and downside risk attributable to their discharge disposition decisions. The AUCM model provides incentives to safely discharge Medicare beneficiaries from the emergency department (ED) by facilitating and rewarding post-discharge care coordination. Objectives:
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How CEDR Allows You to Meet MIPS Reporting Requirements 2021 What are the advantages of a (Quality Clinical Data Registry) QCDR? How to leverage (Clinical Emergency Department Registry) CEDR to successfully meet MIPS reporting requirements. Objectives:
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Integrated Service Lines in the Age of Bundled Payments: Where Does the ED Add Value? The ED is the hub of the health care delivery system. Increasingly ED groups are being asked to provide integrated solutions involving outpatient care, Observation care, and Inpatient Hospital Medicine. The successful ED group of the future will be able to add value broadly across the spectrum of care. Objectives:
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