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There are numerous questions to address for health plans intent on improving patient safety by reducing the preventable errors made by hospitals, such as death or disability resulting from medical errors. Health plans must determine which errors to focus on, develop and introduce appropriate contract language, and determine how they will audit hospital claims. Join us on May 13 for a provocative discussion of rapidly evolving never-event payment policies, which are now in place at Aetna, Inc., Anthem of Virginia, WellPoint, HealthPartners, Inc., Pennsylvania Medicaid and other payers, in addition to CMS. You’ll get 90 minutes (including 30 minutes of answers to your toughest questions) jam-packed with information and strategies on:
Team-Wide Training at Its Best (and most cost- and time-efficient). Gather your management team around the table on May 13 for one low single-participant price. And photocopy for each of them as many copies of our printed materials as you need. Managers throughout your organization will get reliable intelligence about how to implement and enforce never-event payment methods.
CHARLES CUTLER, M.D. is Aetna’s chief medical director for national accounts. Prior to assuming this role, Dr. Cutler was Aetna’s national medical director for quality and clinical integration, where he was responsible for national quality strategy, accreditation, patient safety activities, quality measurement and improvement, and integrating clinical activities across the company’s portfolio of products. He was previously the chief medical officer at the American Association of Health Plans, Washington, D.C., and was responsible for clinical aspects of health care policy, chronic disease initiatives, and development of collaborations of health plans and other stakeholders to improve quality of care. JAY SCHUKMAN, M.D., medical director of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Virginia, has been with the insurer since 1999. Previously, he was the medical director of a physician-owned health plan associated with the Kansas Medical Society. Between 1978 and 1994, Dr. Schukman was a family practitioner in Kansas. He received his medical degree from the University of Kansas in 1975 and completed a residency in family medicine in 1978 at the Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. He completed a Master’s degree in administrative and preventive medicine at the University of Wisconsin. LEAH BINDER is CEO of The Leapfrog Group, a voluntary program aimed at helping the health care industry better understand that “big leaps” in health care safety, quality and customer value will be recognized and rewarded. Among other initiatives, Leapfrog works with its members to encourage transparency and easy access to health care information as well as rewards for hospitals that have a proven record of high quality care. Ms. Binder previously was vice president of Franklin Community Health Network based in Farmington, Maine and also served as executive director of the Healthy Community Coalition (HCC) and Franklin Health Access. Moderator: Steve Davis is managing editor of AIS's industry-leading newsletters, Health Plan Week and Inside Consumer-Directed Care.
1. Register above (or call 1-800-521-4323 to register). 2. When you register, you will receive a confirmation by e-mail from AISconferences@aispub.com, with a toll-free number and password that will connect you to the Audioconference on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 (1 p.m Eastern time). There is no limit on the number of participants from your office, but the registration fee covers only one phone dial-in. Additional dial-ins require additional registration fees. For discount pricing on additional phone lines, please contact customer service at 1-800-521-4323. 3. You will also receive copies of the Printed Materials (in PDF format by e-mail). 4. Listen in to the Audioconference as you follow along with your Printed Materials. 5. The final segment of the Audioconference will let you ask questions and get answers about whether and how to institute “never-event” payment policies. 6. Cancellation Policy: To cancel your registration for this event and receive a full refund, you must contact customer service at 1-800-521-4323 no later than 48 hours prior to the scheduled start of the audioconference. Any cancellations received after dial in information and supplemental materials have been sent (48 hours prior to the start of the audioconference) will receive a CD of the audioconference or a credit valid for one year. Your credit (the cost of the audioconference) will be applied toward the purchase of any AIS product or audioconference. Can't make it on May 13? Order the CD and Printed Materials. Remember: A copyright release in the Printed Materials will permit you to make photocopies for each person listening to the Audioconference and/or CD.
Listeners will also receive practical written information to supplement information covered by the audioconference speakers.
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