2019 Reducing Hospital Readmissions Forum

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Overview:

2019 Reducing Hospital Readmissions Forum

Reduce Hospital Readmissions through Enhanced Discharge Planning, Improved Payer-Provider Collaboration, and an Efficient Care Transitions Program – Develop an Effective Population Management Model and Enhance the Patient Experience!

November 14 – 15, 2019 • The Ritz-Carlton, Grande Lakes • Chicago, FL

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Overview

Preventable hospital readmissions are costing the healthcare system approximately $25 billion on an annual basis, and it is estimated that one out of every five Medicare patients is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge. In an attempt to control excessive spending on avoidable healthcare costs as well to as improve quality care, performance and patient health, CMS has instituted new regulations and higher penalties. Hospitals and health systems are especially affected by the new mandates, and are exposed to increasing financial risk.

We have created a high-level forum featuring providers and payers who will share their insights and expertise on how to lower readmission rates through recognized and proven discharge programs and follow-up plans, simultaneously reducing costs and improving quality of care. This impressive program will include distinguished members from highly regarded institutions comprised of hospitals, health systems, health plans and industry experts; featuring best practices to utilize in today's rapidly evolving world.

This is the only conference on Reducing Hospital Readmissions that will equip you with innovative strategies and tools to be better prepared for 2019. By attending the 2019 Reducing Hospital Readmissions Forum, you will learn what others in clinical integration, utilization management, patient care and reimbursement are doing to be prepared for the challenges that lie ahead in 2020. Register today to reserve your seat at the conference and take advantage of early bird discounts!

We look forward to greeting you in Orlando!

Audience:

From Hospitals, Health Systems, Health Plans, Employer Plans, TPAs & Managed Care Organizations:

Chief Executive Officers, Chief Medical Officers, Chief Clinical Officers, Chief Operating Officers, Chief Financial Officers

Also, Vice Presidents, Directors, Managers & Executives of:

Medical Management
Utilization Management
Quality
Appeals Management
Patient Financial Services
Patient Care
Emergency Medicine
Hospitalists
Billing
Medical Records
Operations
Strategy
Nursing

Case Management
Care Management
Denial Management
Compliance
Admissions
Patient Flow
Emergency Department
Managed Care
Coding
Risk
Finance
Clinical Documentation
Physician Assistants

Also of interest to Healthcare Consultants, Solution Providers, Vendors, Purchasers, Physician Groups, Behavioral Health Centers, Healthcare Technology Innovators, Data Analytics Providers, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, Disease Management Organizations, Home Health Care Companies, Third Party Administrators, Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Companies, IT & Business Process Outsourcing Companies, Enrollment Brokers and More!

Agenda:

Day One – Thursday, November 14, 2019

7:15	Conference Registration & Networking Breakfast
8:15	Chairperson's Opening Remarks Lisa Bragg Director, Healthcare Delivery Innovation Navigant Consulting
8:30	Strategies to Reduce Patient Length of Stay through Efficient Care Coordination and Discharge Procedures John Vazquez, MD Associate Director, Operations, Division of Hospital Medicine Medical Director, System Transfer Service & Patient Flow Emory Healthcare
9:15	COPD Readmissions: Identifying Patients at Risk and Prescribing Clinical Pharmacy Interventions Richard Balaban, MD, MPH Medical Director, Department of Care Integration Cambridge Health Alliance Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School
10:00	Networking & Refreshments Break
10:30	Readmissions and Advanced Illness: The Role of Hospice and Palliative Care Joseph Shega, MD Senior Vice President & Chief Medical Officer VITAS Healthcare
11:15	Examining CMS’ Value Based Purchasing Initiatives and Healthcare Transformation Program JoAnn Brooks, PhD Vice President, System Quality & Safety Indiana University Health
12:00	Luncheon for All Attendees & Speakers
1:15	Best Practices in Building an Effective Team and Infrastructure to Reduce Hospital Readmissions Carol O'Hara, BSN, RN, BC, MEd Clinical Performance Improvement Coordinator Geisinger Health System
2:00	Panel Discussion: Essential Strategies to Reduce Preventable Hospital Readmission Rates Across the Continuum of Care Patricia Babcock Director, Care Management Yale New Haven Health System Michelle Nelson Senior Director, Health Improvement United Regional Pat Zawko, EdD, MS, RN NE-C, CHC Director, Quality Resources, Risk Management & Corporate Compliance Little Falls Hospital
3:00	Networking & Refreshments Break
3:30	Engaging Care Partners to Enhance Effective Discharge Planning Pat Zawko, EdD, MS, RN NE-C, CHC Director, Quality Resources, Risk Management & Corporate Compliance Little Falls Hospital
4:15	Strategies to Reduce Hospital Readmissions for a Patient Population with Varying Socioeconomic Conditions Michelle Nelson Senior Director, Health Improvement United Regional
5:00	End of Day One

Day Two – Friday, November 15, 2019

7:15	Networking Breakfast
8:00	Chairperson’s Recap of Day One Lisa Bragg Director, Healthcare Delivery Innovation Navigant Consulting
8:15	Implications of Alternative Payment Models (APMs) and Strategies such as Post-Acute Care (PAC) Networks on Hospital Readmissions Joshua Liao, MD, MSc, FACP Associate Medical Director, Contracting Director, Value-Based Care University of Washington Medicine
9:00	Reducing Hospital Readmissions by Implementing an Effective Data-Driven Approach that Identifies Clinical Variances Amber Casteel, BSN, CCM Director, Clinical Effectiveness BlueCare Tennessee
9:45	Networking & Refreshments Break
10:15	Strategies within the Emergency Department to Impact Hospital Readmissions and Patient Flow Sam Shen, MD, MBA, FACEP Vice Chair, Clinical Operations & Quality Stanford Health Care Patrice Callagy, RN, MPA, MSN, CEN Executive Director, Emergency Services Stanford Health Care
11:00	Nurse Navigator Preoperative Optimization: A Unique Approach to Reduce Inpatient Length of Stay and Postoperative ED Visits in Elective Arthroplasty Surgery Jensa Morris, MD Medical Director, Center for Musculoskeletal Care Yale New Haven Hospital
11:45	Progression of Care Rounding – Collaborating at the Bedside Improves Transitions of Care Lisa Bragg Director, Healthcare Delivery Innovation Navigant Consulting
12:30	Conference Concludes

Workshop Session:

Thursday, November 14, 2019 • 5:15 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.

Utilizing Metrics to Identify High Risk Patients and Other Analytic Tools to Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Using historical data and trends, hospitals can leverage predictive analytics to determine which patients are most likely to need readmission. Patient risk scores also provide another data point to add as a tool to target patients at risk for readmission. Data is a useful tool, but only when implemented properly. The key is to develop strategies that work to take what the data is telling us and turning it into actionable items. In this workshop, we will:

Discuss several analytic tools to help manage readmissions
Discuss how to take these results and turn them into actionable items
Discuss how to determine which areas/conditions first since we all have limited resources

About the Workshop Leaders:
David Mirkin, MD is Principal & Chief Medical Officer at Milliman MedInsight. David is a family practitioner with 30 years of experience in medical management. He currently serves as a senior consultant with the New York office of Milliman assisting clients in a variety of areas, including utilization management, provider profiling, disease management, length-of-stay management for hospitals, return-on-investment evaluations for disease management and wellness programs, and clinical data analysis. He is also the Medical Director for Milliman's MedInsight data-warehousing and decision-support analytic tool system. David has significant international experience consulting to clients in the U.K., Europe, South America, Middle East and Asia. In addition to consulting, he supervises Milliman clinical and IT staff in India, developing products and tools for international healthcare organizations.

Casey Hammer, FSA, MAAA is Consulting Actuary at Milliman. Casey is an actuarial consultant in the San Francisco office of Milliman with over a decade of experience. Casey consults with a variety of health care clients including providers, insurance companies, and government agencies. She assists clients with provider reimbursement analytics, risk sharing arrangements, Knox Keene licensing, product development and benefit design, pricing, valuation, financial impact analyses for recently approved or proposed legislation, and value proposition analytics for new-to-market products and services. Prior to joining Milliman, she worked at regional Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans.

Speakers:

Richard Balaban, MD, MPH Medical Director, Department of Care Integration Cambridge Health Alliance Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School			JoAnn Brooks, PhD Vice President, System Quality & Safety Indiana University Health
Patricia Babcock Director, Care Management Yale New Haven Health System			Joseph Shega, MD Senior Vice President & Chief Medical Officer VITAS Healthcare
Joshua Liao, MD, MSc, FACP Associate Medical Director, Contracting Director, Value-Based Care University of Washington Medicine			John Vazquez, MD Associate Director, Operations, Division of Hospital Medicine Medical Director, System Transfer Service & Patient Flow Emory Healthcare
Carol O'Hara, BSN, RN, BC, MEd Clinical Performance Improvement Coordinator Geisinger Health System			Michelle Nelson Senior Director, Health Improvement United Regional
Amber Casteel, BSN, CCM Director, Clinical Effectiveness BlueCare Tennessee			Pat Zawko, EdD, MS, RN NE-C, CHC Director, Quality Resources, Risk Management & Corporate Compliance Little Falls Hospital
Sam Shen, MD, MBA, FACEP Vice Chair, Clinical Operations & Quality Stanford Health Care			Patrice Callagy, RN, MPA, MSN, CEN Executive Director, Emergency Services Stanford Health Care
Jensa Morris, MD Medical Director, Center for Musculoskeletal Care Yale New Haven Hospital			Lisa Bragg Director, Healthcare Delivery Innovation Navigant Consulting
David Mirkin, MD Principal & Chief Medical Officer Milliman MedInsight			Casey Hammer, FSA, MAAA Consulting Actuary Milliman

Sponsors/Exhibitors:

Exhibitors

Established in 1978, VITAS® Healthcare is the nation's leading provider of end-of-life care. VITAS ensures that terminally ill patients and their families have immediate access to compassionate and high quality end-of-life care. VITAS operates 47 hospice programs in 14 states caring for more than 18,000 patients each day. Visit VITAS.com

Peoplechart’s latest technology solution, MedsIncontext™, is a medication assurance and risk management platform. As a solution for comprehensive medication assurance, MedsIncontext starts with medication adherence. Unlike other adherence solutions, MedsIncontext captures both prescription orders and fills in near real-time to identify all of the new orders, renewals and refills that have not been filled. The solution then integrates this real-time adherence information with population-based insights drawn from its proprietary database to assess the relative importance, benefits, and risks of each prescribed drug given the context of the patient’s mix of comorbidities and prescribed medications. This enables MedsIncontext to quickly and accurately identify the patients with greatest risk based on important adherence issues and drugs that make a difference in improving health outcomes and reducing readmissions.

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Registration Pricing:

Hospitals, Health Systems, Providers, Health Plans	Register by November 1, 2019	Register by November 14, 2019
Conference Only	$995	$1195
Conference & Workshop	$1195	$1395

Standard Rate, Vendors, Solution Providers	Register by November 1, 2019	Register by November 14, 2019
Conference Only	$1295	$1495
Conference & Workshop	$1495	$1695

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