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2022 Hospital Observation Patient Management Conference
Innovations in Observation Patient Management – Prevent Unnecessary Admissions, Maximize Reimbursements and Leverage Evidence-Based Triage Protocols to Improve Short-Term Care Quality
September 29 – 30, 2022 • Caesars Palace Hotel • Las Vegas, NV
Sponsors/Exhibitors & Partners
Overview
Faced with increasing patient volumes, declining reimbursements and overworked ED staffs, hospitals must be prepared to leverage Observation Patient Management. Well-structured Observation Units have resulted in financial gains, improved clinical outcomes and superior patient satisfaction ratings.
The 2022 Hospital Observation Patient Management Conference will highlight the pertinent challenges facing Observation Unit staffs – ED physicians, Hospitalists, Case Managers and Billing and Coding professionals. Additionally, the conference will highlight how and why hospitals that are not utilizing Observation Patient Management, are leaving money on the table.
The 2022 Hospital Observation Patient Management Conference will enable you to walk away with an understanding of current trends and market practices, and innovative strategies to prepare yourself for the challenges that lie ahead. In addition to providing the latest, evidence-based intelligence on Observation Patient Management, the Conference will provide you with unprecedented networking and professional development opportunities. All sessions are designed to facilitate a high degree of interaction between speaker faculty members and fellow attendees.
By attending the 2022 Hospital Observation Patient Management Conference, you will learn what others in the Observation Patient Management and Emergency Medicine arenas are doing to be prepared for the challenges that lie ahead in 2023. Register today to reserve your seat at the conference and take advantage of early bird discounts!
We look forward to greeting you in Las Vegas!
From Hospitals & Health Systems:
Chief Executive Officers, Chief Medical Officers, Chief Clinical Officers, Chief Operating Officers, Chief Financial Officers
Also, Vice Presidents, Directors, Managers & Executives of:
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Also of interest to Health Plans, Payers, Employer Plans, TPAs, Managed Care Organizations 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!
Day One – Thursday, September 29, 2022
| 7:15 |
Conference Registration & Networking Breakfast |
| 8:15 |
Chairperson's Opening Remarks Amar Munsiff, MD, FACP |
| 8:30 |
Achieving Success in Clinical Decision Making and Management of the Observation Unit Sharon Mace, MD, FACEP, FAAP |
| 9:15 |
The Value of Improving Patient Status Assignment and Observation Service Delivery Amar Munsiff, MD, FACP |
| 10:00 |
Networking & Refreshments Break |
| 10:30 |
A Proven and Effective Blueprint for Implementing a Short Stay/Observation Unit at Your Hospital David Paje, MD, MPH |
| 11:15 |
Optimizing Observation Patient Management: Enhancing Patient Care with a Multi-Dimensional Approach Kasey Schnebly, DNP |
| 12:00 |
Luncheon for All Attendees & Speakers |
| 1:15 |
Optimizing Documentation within Observation Patient Management: Improving Quality, Revenue and Reputation Justin Krawitt, MD |
| 2:00 |
Panel Discussion: The Use of Effective Strategies to Develop, Implement and Sustain an Observation Unit Christopher Caspers, MD Ron Martinson, MD, MSM, CPE Justin Krawitt, MD |
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Networking & Refreshments Break |
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High Value Processes for Expediting Observation Throughput and Patient Status Accuracy: Implications for Clinical, Operational, Information Technology, Insurance and Financial Systems David Merrill Amar Munsiff, MD, FACP Jason Gaston, RN, BSN, MBA, ACM, CCM Kevin Riley, CPA, MBA, FHFMA |
| 5:00 |
End of Day One |
Day Two – Friday, September 30, 2022
| 7:15 |
Networking Breakfast |
| 8:15 |
Chairperson’s Recap of Day One Amar Munsiff, MD, FACP |
| 8:30 |
What Now – Achieving Peak Performance in Your Observation Unit Christopher Caspers, MD |
| 9:15 |
Transitional Care Management in Observation Medicine Ron Martinson, MD, MSM, CPE |
| 10:00 |
Networking & Refreshments Break |
| 10:30 |
Reimaging Observation Services, How to Organize, Implement and Manage a Sustainable Observation Unit Dragana Gough, MSCpE |
| 11:30 |
Conference Concludes |
Thursday, September 29, 2022 ∙ 5:15 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.
Patient Status Review and Case Discussions Workshop – Getting it Right Upfront
About the Workshop Leader:
Justin Krawitt, MD
Medical Director, Utilization & Clinical Documentation
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
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Mark Green, MBA, PMP, LSSBB |
Harpreet Gulati, MBA, PMP |
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Christine Ahn |
William Munley |
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Gregory Shufelt |
Charles Bollinger |
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Steven Peskin, MD, MBA, MACP |
Robert London, MD |
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Amar Munsiff, MD, FACP |
Justin Krawitt, MD |
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David Long |
Julia Mancini |
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Arshiya Seth, MD |
Chris Dykstra |
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Michael Montgomery, FACHE |
Drew Brown, MBA |
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Patrice Callagy, RN, MPA, MSN, CEN |
Sam Shen, MD, MBA, FACEP |
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Sandi Wagner, BSN, MBA, MHL |
Cindy Welsh, RN, MBA, FACHE |
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Jawahar Jagarapu, MD |
David Berman |
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| Shashank Ravi, MD, MBA Director, Quality, Adult Emergency Department Value Based Care Champion Stanford Health Care |
Virginia Burchett |
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Sharon Mace, MD, FACEP, FAAP |
David Paje, MD, MPH |
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Kasey Schnebly, DNP |
Ronald Walters, MD, MBA, MHA, MS |
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David Merrill |
Jason Gaston, RN, BSN, MBA, ACM, CCM |
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Kevin Riley, CPA, MBA, FHFMA |
Ron Martinson, MD, MSM, CPE |
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Christopher Caspers, MD |
Cynthia West, RN, SCRN |
Gold Sponsors
Since 2008, Care Logistics has worked with hospital partners to solve patient progression, flow and throughput challenges. With solutions ranging from our full Hospital Operating System with an operational command center to our smaller unit-based patient progression solutions, we have a right-sized solution to match your readiness and solve your operational challenges with a fast time-to-value.
Care Logistics uniquely combines hospital operations and performance improvement experts, masters and PhD-level registered nurses, and masters-level industrial engineers with purpose-built logistics software and analytics. The result: efficient, reliable, predictable operations that dramatically improve LOS, quality, and experience, while creating capacity for growth. We operate with a single, purposeful goal: Customer First, Dramatic Results.
AVM Medical PLLC is a physician-owned and operated company comprised only of seasoned, experienced, and actively practicing staff providing consulting services. All staff members in each discipline--Utilization Manager, Care Manager, Nurse, Social Worker, Coder, C-suite staff, Physician—have active, multifaceted experience in those professions as well as leadership in those programs, facilitating reality-based, programmatic assessments and feasible recommendations. Though the company President, Dr. Amar V. Munsiff, MD, FACP has been spearheading such work since the nineties, beginning 2010, AVM Medical has focused mainly on hospital-based internal medicine practices, optimization of patient status assignment, observation service delivery, and patient throughput in US hospitals. The company’s success is due to the credibility brought by clinically active consulting staff with unblemished careers, its ability to remain right-sized for efficiency, low overhead and personalized service, and commitment to balancing patient and healthcare staff’s needs with corporate obligations.
Exhibitors
Boston Heart leads the market in advanced cardiometabolic diagnostic testing in the United States where almost half of the adult population is diabetic or prediabetic and cardiovascular disease kills approximately 2,300 Americans every day. Traditional diagnostic tools are failing to address the rapid increase in cardiometabolic disorders and Boston Heart provides advanced testing and lifestyle modification advice for patients.
VeruStat is a full-service RPM company that allows Providers to receive consistent, trending data related to vitals such as blood pressure, weight, pulse ox, and blood glucose. We generate data from the patient's home, between office visits, without needing to increase practice resources. Live Care Coordinators regularly communicate with patients and perform the non-clinical work necessary practices to bill Medicare & Medicare Advantage. Verustat has data that suggests if your hypertensive patients are compliant with our program, they may have reductions of 15% in SBP, 10% in DBP, and 13% in MAP after just 6 months of monitoring.
Zelis. As the leading payments company in healthcare, we price, pay and explain healthcare for payers, providers, and consumers. We believe there's a better way to determine the cost of healthcare claims, manage payment-related data, and make the payment because more affordable and transparent care is good for all of us.
Athelas Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) allows healthcare providers to monitor patient vitals like blood pressure, weight, and blood glucose without the patient ever having to enter a clinic, increasing patient engagement and bringing new revenue into your practice. Three Reasons why you should choose Athelas: (1) Our dedicated Success Team makes onboarding effortless, so you get the benefits of RPM with adding additional work for your staff; (2) Monitoring of patient vitals is managed by the Athelas Nursing Team, who will escalate to your own staff only when out-of-range measurements are detected; (3) Athelas handles 100% of billing and reconciliation, making it a breeze to get paid.
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Caesars Palace Hotel
3570 Las Vegas Blvd South
Las Vegas, NV 89109
Phone #: 866-227-5944
The conference will be taking place within the Pompeian Ballroom at the Caesars Palace Hotel.
*The room block at the Caesars Palace Hotel is sold out. The closest hotel with a convenient walk to the meeting space is The LINQ Hotel (located directly across the street from Caesars), please book at:
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