In the future, health care providers will have to do more with less. Total reimbursement by both public and private sector payors is dropping, and the metrics for success are changing. Instead of thinking about this as a zero-sum game, payors and providers are moving away from fee-for-service payment systems to bundled payment systems. The health reform law spells out one such program in detail -- the ACO, or Medicare shared savings program -- and created the CMS Center for Innovation, and funded it with $25 billion. The Center for Innovation’s mandate is to run experiments on how to do more with less, and to scale up successful experiments quickly.  Many private payors are out in front, leading the way.   

Tune in for this 90-minute interactive webinar with health care consultant David Harlow who will identify the challenges for health care providers to continue successful operations in the present, while keeping an eye on the near term and long term future and developing new approaches to internal operations and collaborative initiatives.   

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the future contours of the health care market, defined by emerging federal and private sector programs in a post-fee-for-service environment
• High-level introduction to ways in which provider organizations should be preparing themselves in order to succeed in this brave new world

Target Audience:

• Health care executives (C-Suite)
• Clinical leaders of health care facilities and physician practices
• Health care compliance officers
• Medical Doctors
• Physician Advisors
• HIM professionals

Level: All levels 

Meet Your Expert:

David Harlow is Principal of The Harlow Group LLC, a health care law and consulting firm based in Boston, MA.  His twenty years’ experience in the public and private sectors affords him a unique perspective on legal, policy and business issues facing the health care community.  David is adept at assisting clients in developing new paradigms for their business organizations, relationships and processes so as to maximize the realization of organizational goals in a highly regulated environment, in realms ranging from physician-hospital relationships to data privacy and security to facilities development to social media strategies to the avoidance of fraud and abuse.  He has helped physician-hospital alliances qualify for CMS gainsharing and bundled payment demonstration projects. His blog, HealthBlawg, is highly regarded in both the legal and health policy blogging worlds.  He is a member of the external Advisory Board of the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, the Public Policy Chair of the Society of Participatory Medicine, and a number of American Health Lawyers Association committees, including the working group producing an ACO white paper.  He speaks regularly before health care and legal industry groups on business, policy and legal matters.  You should follow him on Twitter.

Web: http://harlowgroup.net

Blog: http://healthblawg.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/healthblawg

Sponsor:

The sponsor of this educational activity is AHC Media. 

Refund Policy:

If you are not able to attend for any reason, please notify us as soon as possible. Webinar cancellations received prior to the start time of the webinar are fully refundable. If you prefer, you may substitute an upcoming webinar for the one you originally registered for.

Recorded: Tuesday, January 17, 2012