Each morning
of the main conference, all attendees are invited to these
power-packed general sessions before heading to their breakout
tracks.
DAY ONE– Thursday,
Sept. 30, 2004
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Registration
and Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
 Keynote: Medicare
Reform, History and Politics:
Why Almost Everything You’ve
Heard, Read or Seen Probably Isn’t
True
Theodore R. Marmor, Professor of Public
Policy & Management,
Yale University School of Management, New Haven, Conn.
Confused about the final Medicare reform legislation? You’re
not alone. The problem it set out to fix – extending
prescription drug benefits to seniors – explains very
little of what finally became law. Most of the reforms
the Medicare Modernization Act contains seem to rest more on
ideological faith than on empirical evidence. Marmor,
the author of the most widely read book on the political origins
and development of Medicare from the 1960s to the present,
dynamically – and with humor – puts the law’s
passage in the context of Medicare’s history and politics – and
also tells you what it means for physician practices.
9:30 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.
See Coding, Billing & Compliance Tracks
for Day 1’s
agenda.
Day 2 – Friday,
Oct. 1, 2004
7:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast 8:00
a.m. – 9:15
a.m.
 General
Session: The Coding,
Billing and Compliance Nexus:
How to Make All Three Work
Together
Jack Hartwig, Director, Healthcare
Investigative Services, Deloitte & Touche, Philadelphia,
Pa.
Coders, billers and compliance officers may think they have
the same agenda but, often unintentionally operate on different
pieces of the same puzzle. Coders and billers tend to focus
on revenue and output, such as submission of claims for payment.
Compliance officers tend to focus on process, such as file
documentation, regulations and review. As Hartwig, the former
HHS Office of the Inspector General’s Deputy Inspector
General for Investigations, tells you in a dynamic session
for all attendees, this dichotomy can lead to weaknesses in
your practice’s efficiency. The secret to effective
billing and compliance is coordination,
which can lead to your getting all the revenue to which you
are entitled, while at the same time reducing billing risk.
9:30 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.
See Coding, Billing & Compliance Tracks
for Day 2 ’s agenda.
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