2015 Advanced Health Care Conference

DAY ONE:  July 20^th

7:30 A.M. Do You Have the Right Portfolio? Maximizing Margins by Focusing on Your Core Business

Discover how in the face of declining reimbursement and transitioning from a volume-based to a value-based model, health systems will have to evaluate non-core assets and services and optimize core assets and services. Focus on the key strategies needed to maximize your portfolio by looking at the whole story. The “What” and “How” will be illustrated utilizing real case study examples. Get information about where to invest, who is the most valuable physician and what you’re losing in the market.

Liz Alhand, RN, CPA/Managing Director/Berkeley Research Group, LLC/Houston

David Wildebrandt/Managing Director/Berkeley Research Group, LLC/Emeryville

9:00 A.M. Transparency: The Key to Effective Governance and Business Predictability

Examine how as organizations in every sector work to keep up with the changing health care and their associated costs. Decision makers must have accurate information to make sensible choices in benefit selections and underlying budgets.

Jamie Dudensing, BSN/CEO/Texas Association of Health Plans/Austin

10:00 A.M. Break

10:15 A.M. Lessons Learned From Over 30 Years of Practical Experience

Health care has historically been highly fragmented. Emphasis is now on coordinated care with new payment mechanisms within integrated delivery systems. Gain an understanding of how bundled payments can be successfully implemented among independent physicians and employed physicians participating in a physician-driven network.

Tobin Lassen/Vice President, Business Development/Global Healthcare Alliance, Inc/Houston

11:15 A.M. The Perilous World of Health Care Fraud and Abuse

The government continues to invest billions of dollars in federal and state monies into combatting health care fraud and abuse. These investments have paid significant dividends for federal and state governments, alike. However, they have also increased the level of scrutiny under which health care providers and suppliers operating in the health care space find themselves. It is, therefore, important for health care providers and those that perform work on behalf of health care providers to be aware of the areas on which the government is focused and to take preventative measures to avoid being subject to scrutiny. Gain a general overview of the health care laws on which the government is enforcing, the government’s most recent enforcement efforts and initiatives, and useful tips on avoiding scrutiny by the government.

Adam Robison, Esq./Partner/King & Spalding LLP/Houston

12:15 - Lunch Break

1:30 P.M. Lessons Learned Transitioning from a CFO to a CEO of a Health Care Concern

Discuss the skills that drive your professional growth as a financial professional and the challenges of leveraging those skills into a promotion to COO or CEO.

Joe Freudenberger/CEO/Oakbend Medical Center/Houston

2:45 P.M. Break

3:00 P.M. Emerging Issues in Health Care: Accounting and Auditing Update

Discuss recent or pending accounting updates that are expected to have the most significant impact to the health care industry, including the impact of audit considerations.

Matt Mount, CPA/Partner/KPMG LLP/Dallas

David Harwood, CPA/Managing Director/KPMG LLP/Dallas

4:15 P.M. Health Care Fraud: Kickbacks/Self-Referrals and Dealing with the Government

Focus on areas the government is focusing on in civil, criminal and administrative health care fraud investigations. Delve into the false claims act, kickback, Stark and obstruction of justice statutes. Discuss steps that should be taken when initially responding to a government inquiry to prevent an investigation from escalating and proactive measures that your clients should take before they find themselves a subject of a governmental investigation.

Sarah Wirskye, JD, CPA, MBA/Partner/Meadows, Collier, et al/Dallas

5:15 P.M. Adjourn

DAY TWO:  July 21^st

7:30 A.M. What Do Physicians Say?

Everyone has opinions about what physicians can be doing or should be doing, but what about the physicians’ opinions? Every two years TMA surveys Texas physicians on a broad array of socioeconomic subjects. Learn what the newest survey findings reveal about the average physician practice.

Donna B. Kinney, CPA/Director, Research and Data Analysis/Texas Medical Association/ Austin

9:00 A.M. 2015 Economic Outlook

Examine the beginning of the second half of 2015 by taking a look at the global economic outlook. Discuss the effects on both the U.S. and international markets. Review some leading economic indicators and market data to help make sense of investing in the marketplace.

Nick W. Thomas/Senior Vice President/Southwestern Investment Group/Frisco

10:00 A.M. Break

10:15 A.M. Health Care Moving to a Home Centered Environment

Explore the movement from the current traditional patterns of care delivery moving from hospitals and clinics to the home environment, including the reasons and potential impact. Examine the variety of reasons, including cost, convenience, technology and now recognized benefit. Understand all aspects of this changing health care paradigm in order to embrace this wave of change. Tele-monitoring, tele-health, communication technology and diagnostic advances are all contributing to the management of chronic diseases in the home. Health care at home will significantly contribute to improving quality, enhancing access and reducing the cost of care.

Peter Maddox/Partner/Royer-Maddox-Herron Advisors/Colleyville

11:15 A.M. Physician Practice Trends: Integrate, Sell Out or Drop Out

Learn more about Texas’ rapidly evolving and consolidated health care market, how physicians are positioning their practices in this challenging environment, as well as strategies physicians are employing to remain independent.

Tom Banning/CEO/EVP/Texas Academy of Family Physicians/Austin

12:15 P.M. Lunch Break

1:30 P.M. Expect the Unexpected: How Being the First U.S. Hospital to Diagnose a Patient with Ebola Impacted Texas Health Dallas

Learn as leaders from Texas Health Resources recap how a single patient’s decision to use its ER thrust the hospital into the national spotlight as it became the epicenter for the nation’s fear of Ebola. Walk through the timeline of events, correlating them to the financial implications associated with each as well as covering lessons learned. Focus on the role of the financial leaders in an organization involved in an unanticipated large scale event that negatively affects key metrics such as volume, revenue and cash flows.

Brian Craft, MHA, FACHE, PMP/Vice President & Group Finance Officer/Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas/Dallas

Rick McWhorter, FHFMA, CPA/Senior Vice President & Chief Accounting Officer/Texas Health Resources/Arlington

2:30 P.M. The Health Care Exchange Event Horizon: Why Most Everything

Health-Wise Died in the Legislature and a Survey of the Scenarios Post King v. Burwell

Examine the seemingly intractable, inherently political nature of Texas’ health care policies, and its probable consequences to the economics, and perhaps politics, of providers, health systems and local communities. Should the Supreme Court rule by July on permissibility of federal subsidies for Texas’ health insurance exchange enrollees, gain speculation on whether a negative outcome, combined with a probable rejection of Medicaid expansion, produces a sort of “event horizon.”

Kimble Ross/President/Kimble Public Affairs/Austin

3:40 P.M.  Adjourn

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