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Team Learning Audio Resources For Pay-for-Performance How to Get Funding and Support for Your Healthcare IT Projects Health information technology (HIT) has the potential to revolutionize the delivery of health care and solve many of today’s U.S. healthcare problems. As healthcare reform becomes a major focus in the early months of the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama, HIT is back in the spotlight. It’s not a question of “if,” but “when” the adoption of HIT, such as e-prescribing and electronic medical records, will be required to meet new federal mandates. Join Health Resources Publishing and three leading experts in HIT implementation to find out more about how to get funding and support for your HIT projects in this special 90-minute audio webcast. “Six Sigma” and “Lean” are both buzzwords in healthcare today. These highly effective improvement approaches have been successfully implemented across many industries. Today, the application of Lean and Six Sigma techniques at healthcare organizations are achieving astonishing results. Join The Managed Care Information Center to hear how healthcare organizations participating in Lean / Six Sigma programs can experience significantly higher incomes through increased revenues and the lowering of operating costs in this 90-minute audio conference and webinar. Pay-for-Performance:
Lessons Learned and Future Predictions Are physician incentives the panacea to a struggling healthcare system leading to strengthening quality measures, improved outcomes, and increased patient and health plan member satisfaction? Join Pay-for-Performance Reporter and the Managed Care Information Center along with the pioneers of physician pay-for-performance for a discussion of past successes and the challenges ahead in this 90-minute audio conference. Can We Get To Yes? Key Issues in Managed Care Payor-Provider Contracting Increasingly hospitals are walking away from payor contracts. Physicians are not only dropping out of health plan networks, but also some are not accepting health insurance. And the headlines carry more and more news about physicians-payor lawsuits. How do you get to "yes" in this environment? Can payors and providers find room to reach agreement? Are providers willing to leave money on the table? The goal of this conference call is to provide a 360-degree assessment of health plan - provider contracting issues for the coming round of negotiations. MCO consolidation in many key markets may tip the scales. Can hospitals negotiate adequate physician reimbursement when up against the proverbial "900 pound gorilla?" What's Working in P4P 'Box Set' Looking for an easy way to acquaint your team with “pay-for-performance” (P4P)? Introducing the P4P Audio Conference CD Box Set. These highly rated, executive-level telebriefings on CD are ideal for low cost, affordable team training. The programs feature four early adopter insiders providing details, metrics, payment structure, characteristics of successful programs, design principles and what's working are key points covered in three hours of high-level management discussion on details on physician pay for performance. Pay for Performance: "How Millions of Dollars in Physician Bonus Incentives Linked to Improving Quality of Care May Be The Answer for Managed Care"
Getting It Right: Designing Outcomes-Based Physician Incentive Compensation Over the past 3 years, millions of dollars have been awarded to physicians as quality improvement physician incentives. Health plans are "rushing" to develop performance-related physician incentive programs. |
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