Your Expert Presenters:
Eric Zimmerman, partner, McDermott Will & Emory, Washington, D.C., specializes in Medicare law and policy and helps clients navigate federal legislative and regulatory processes, improve reimbursement and maintain compliance. His clients include hospitals and health systems, physician practices and ASCs, among others.
Mary Cronin, director, BESLER Consulting, Princeton, N.J., is responsible for the firm’s Reimbursement product line. With more than 16 years of progressive experience, she leads her team in the preparation and review of Medicare Cost Reports, state cost reports, third party payer regulatory analyses and appeals, product line feasibility studies and managed care contract analysis for various types of healthcare facilities.
Tina Ford, senior manager, BESLER Consulting, Princeton, N.J., has more than 16 years of experience in the healthcare industry. While at BESLER, she has been primarily responsible for a number of issues/projects related to Medicare/ Medicaid regulatory/ reimbursement review for numerous types of healthcare facilities, such as acute care hospitals, psychiatric and rehabilitation facilities. These projects have included wage index, IME/GME and many other areas affecting Medicare cost reporting issues.
Who Should Attend
For one low fee, hospital CFOs, VPs of Finance, patient accounts managers, billers, coders, HIM professionals, Quality Managers, medical records directors, coding managers, compliance officers, chargemaster coordinators, business office managers and consultants, reimbursement specialists, regulatory specialists and attorneys would all benefit from this audio seminar. Invite them to join you. There is no limit to the number of staff from your office who can tune in to the seminar via speakerphone. A single registration and a speakerphone let your whole staff listen in! (One dial-in per registration fee.)
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Medicare has announced plans for the most substantial changes in the 22 years of its inpatient prospective payment system (PPS). It proposes, among other things, changes to the diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) in a way that would profoundly affect hospital reimbursements.
Get expert analysis of the new Medicare rule by tuning into our timely audio conference, Inside Medicare’s Proposed Inpatient PPS Update: How Major DRG Changes Would Affect Hospital Reimbursements, and More, Wednesday, June 7, 2006 from 1–2:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
Hear from our expert speakers: Eric Zimmerman, partner, McDermott Will & Emery, Washington, D.C.; Mary Cronin, director, and Tina Ford, senior manager, both of BESLER Consulting, Princeton, N.J.
Invite your team to join you and tune in June 7th to discover…
- A plain-English explanation of Medicare’s proposed DRG reclassification system
- Examples of how the reclassifying of DRGs would affect the top inpatient services
- A look at potential financial winners and losers under the proposed system
- Key diagnosis coding changes
- Implications for wage-index and occupational mix changes
- What the proposal means for graduate medical education
- Medicare’s plans for quality reporting – and their financial ramifications
- And much more.
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Approved for 3 CEUs.