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Immersion Sessions ($)
Proof of vaccination is required to attend AMGA’s 2022 Annual Conference. You must be fully vaccinated according to CDC guidelines and upload your information to our third-party vendor before picking up your badge in Las Vegas.
This year’s pre-conference immersion sessions on Thursday, March 10 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m., feature hot-button issues in health care, including compensation, value-based contracting, exploring new care models, and workforce issues.
*($) indicates additional registration fee required
Heavy Lifting: Managing Medical Group Compensation and Financial Performance
The past two years were a whirlwind of unprecedented events for medical groups and health systems. COVID-related challenges varied from severely limiting access to elective services to nearly unmanageable surges in patient volumes. At the same time, extensive changes were made to evaluation and management coding (E/M) guidelines and work relative value unit (wRVU) weights, which make benchmarking to historical data and future planning especially difficult. This interactive pre-conference session will feature case studies and best practices from AMGA members and insights from AMGA experts.
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Identify paths to achieve resiliency
- Delineate adaptations for effectively using market data
- Discuss approaches in physician and advanced practice provider compensation plans
- Describe strategies for aligning compensation to support the move to value-based care
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Welcome and Overview
Fred Horton, President, AMGA Consulting
Effective Use of Compensation and Production Survey Data in an Evolving Market
To kick off the day attendees will dig into the latest compensation and production market data, with the goal of understanding how organizations are adapting to wRVU and E/M coding changes. Fred Horton, MHA, President, AMGA Consulting
William Holets, MHA, MBA, Director, AMGA Consulting
Successful Implementation of Compensation Redesign and the 2021 Medicare Fee Schedule Changes Impact on Physician Compensation
Last year, the Stanford Medicine: University Medical Partners - a large multi-specialty medical group in the Bay Area - took the bold step of adopting the 2021 Medicare Fee Schedule changes into their compensation structure while most of the medical groups in the nation, kept the 2020 Medicare values and rates. The presentation will demonstrate how the medical group navigated through the market uncertainty while ensuring that the clinicians received the benefit of the intended outcome of the Medicare fee schedule changes.
Angela Deftos, RN, MBA, DBA, Chief Administrative Officer/Chief Operating Officer, Stanford Medicine: University Medical Partners
The Compensation Design Matrix
In this interactive session, attendees will break into small groups to collaboratively build “theoretical” comp models that will be stress-tested in real-time using the AMGA Consulting output matrix. By using actual data, our presenters will visually demonstrate the financial impact each of the test models will have on your organization, with guidance on how to synchronize strategy with reality.
Fred Horton, MHA, President, AMGA Consulting
William Holets, MHA, MBA, Director, AMGA Consulting
The High-Performing Physician Enterprise: The Seven Domains That Lead to Operational and Financial Success
This final presentation will introduce attendees to AMGA’s newest program, The High-Performing Physician Enterprise. Using key details from the 2021 Medical Group Operations and Finance Survey our team will outline a new and exciting methodology that will better assess medical group performance and allow organizations to course-correct where needed to achieve high performance.
Fred Horton, MHA, President, AMGA Consulting
Rose Wagner, RN, MHS, FACMPE, Chief Operating Officer, AMGA Consulting
Kevin McCune, M.D., Chief Physician Executive, AMGA Consulting
Value-Based Contracting
In AMGA’s 2021 Summer Pulse Survey, respondents predicted that revenues coming from a value-based payment model will increase by an average of 15% in the next three years, including an increase of 23% from Medicare Advantage (MA) and 12% from the federal accountable care organization (ACO) program. With the move to value ramping up so quickly, medical groups and health systems need to become experts in value-based contracting so they can obtain appropriate reimbursement rates and meaningful incentives, both financial and administrative, to support the investments they have made to move to value.
This immersion session will address contracting challenges in transitioning to value-based care, including integration, physician engagement and access to data, as well as take attendees through key aspects of smart provider contracting.
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Describe practical approaches to maximizing margins
- Delineate where medical groups have leverage and payers have flexibility
- Discuss tips on how to avoid costly contracting mistakes
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Welcome and Overview of Value-Based Contracting
Aric Sharp, M.H.A., Chief Transformation Officer, INTEGRIS Medical Group
Value-Based Contracting Dos and Don’ts from a Legal Perspective
Amy Mackin, J.D., Attorney, Hall, Render, Killian, Heath and Lyman, PC
Payer Perspective on Value-Based Contracting
Peter W. McCauley Sr., M.D., CPE, Medical Officer for Clinical Performance and Quality, Cigna HealthCare
Networking Break
Panel Discussion: How to Ensure Success in Value-Based Contracting
Moderator: Aric Sharp, M.H.A., Chief Transformation Officer, INTEGRIS Medical Group Panelists: Robert E. Matthews, VP, Quality and Care Redesign, PriMED Physicians
Mark Briesacher, M.D., Senior Vice President, Chief Physician Executive, Intermountain Medical Group
Anil N. Keswani, M.D., Corporate Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Ambulatory and Accountable Care, Scripps Health
Exploring New Care Models: Health at Home
The combination of patient demand for consumer-centered models, advanced care-at-home offerings, innovations in technology, regulatory flexibility, and the need for flexible capacity within the healthcare system has led many organizations to explore a new care model that will deliver comprehensive care to complex patients from the comfort of their homes. In this half-day immersion session, AMGA members will share how their systems are innovating and integrating care at home into their delivery model.
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Describe a new care model that will deliver innovative, comprehensive, and complex care to patients from home via a new technology platform
- Identify the patient demand for consumer-centered models, advanced care-at-home offerings, innovations in technology, regulatory flexibility, and the need for flexible capacity within the healthcare system
- Explain the benefits of collaborative partnerships to enhance the patient experience
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Welcome and Overview of Health at Home Model
Elizabeth Ciemins, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.A., Vice President, Research and Analytics, AMGA
Reinventing the House Call: Leveraging Innovation for Person-Centered, Acute Care at Home
Stephen Parodi, M.D., Associate Executive Director, The Permanente Medical Group,
Margaret Paulson, D.O., FACP, Medical Director, Advanced Care at Home and Home Health, Mayo Clinic Health System, NW Wisconsin
Hospital at Home: Expanding Hospital Capacity Through Use of Technology
Joel Womack, M.D., Chief, Hospital Medicine, Northwest Permanente
Mary Giswold, M.D., FACS, Chief Operating Officer, Northwest Permanente
Networking Break
Health at Home: Challenges to Providing Best Practices for Colorectal Cancer Screening
James T. Rogers, M.D., Internal Medicine, Mercy
Elizabeth Ciemins, Ph.D., M.H.A., M.A., Vice President, Research and Analytics, AMGA
Jeff Mohl, Ph.D., Director, Research and Analytics, AMGA
Roundtable Discussion and Wrap-Up
Elizabeth Ciemins, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.A., Vice President, Research and Analytics, AMGA
Addressing Workforce Challenges
The growth trends of 2019, combined with the impact of the pandemic, indicate that healthcare employers will need all the help they can get to attract, support, and retain quality talent as we move forward in the “new normal.” In this pre-conference immersion session, speakers will share insights to help you better position your organization as one that is attractive and supportive of the needs of incoming staff and leaders, as well as a place that fosters a strong culture to retain leaders and team members for a more stable organization.
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Describe how to address operational and workforce issues post-pandemic
- Explain strategies to attract, support, and retain quality talent for a more stable organization
Welcome & Overview
Addressing the Great Resignation
Marc R. Hallee, MBA, Senior Client Partner, Korn Ferry
Refreshment Break
Best Practices in Retention and Recruitment: An Interactive Discussion
Moderator: Panelists: Donna Dieman, MBA, PHR, CMPE, SHRM-CP, Manager of Human Resources, St. Elizabeth Physicians, Corporate HR Office;
Teresa Manley Frei, RN, MBA, Chief Executive Officer for Sutter Medical Foundation
Francis R. (Bobby) Rodwig, Jr., M.D., M.P.H., Medical Director, Professional Staff Services, Ochsner Health System