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Preparing to Live on Medicare Rates: A Margin Improvement Planning Program - New!

Implement plans to successfully manage reimbursement declines.

Accountable Health Organizations, reimbursement decreases, physician practice integration and transparency have all elevated the need for aggressive margin improvement. Benchmarking and silo-oriented, department productivity systems will need to make way for fresh approaches in order to achieve greater cost improvements. During this eye-opening seminar, you will benefit from the research on over $400 million in bottom-line savings among more than 65 healthcare organizations.

  • Discuss current application and future limitations of contemporary methods to respond to Medicare reimbursement decreases.
  • Examine nine high-leverage margin improvement focus areas and 33 specific projects found among top-performing healthcare organizations.
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You'll also learn:

  • Identify the characteristics of accountability change models gathered in interviews and site visits to top performing organizations.
  • Review physician engagement "What's In It For Me?" tactics with your colleagues.
  • Design a proactive, take-home readiness assessment and action plan to replicate the approaches, new skills and structures of top performers.

Presented by: Chip Caldwell Jr., FACHE and Kurt M. Stuenkel, FACHE

Seminar leaders Chip Caldwell, FACHE, chairman, Caldwell Butler & Associates LLC, and Kurt Stuenkel, FACHE, president and CEO of Floyd Medical Center, will reveal findings from site visits, structured interviews and the comprehensive analysis of over 50,000 cost-reduction projects.

Registration

  • Click on the Register Now link for the location of your choice
  • Call ACHE's Customer Service Center at (312) 424-9400
  • Download a registration form.
 
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Philadelphia
Oct. 14–17, 2013
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Key West
Jan. 27–30, 2014
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Tuition
2013
ACHE members $1,325
Non-members $1,530

2014
ACHE members $1,325
Non-members $1,530


Who Should Attend
CEOs, COOs, CFOs and other senior-level executives in hospital medical centers, multi-hospital systems and managed care/HMO/PPO providers.

Continuing Education Credit
In addition to the 12 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits assigned to this seminar, ACHE is accredited by other organizations to provide continuing education credit. View complete information about these organizations.


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