Revenue Cycle Conference
- Post-Covid Talent Strategy
- Building the Right Denials Management Strategy for a Changing Payment Environment
- Revolutionizing Medical Coding with AI: Overcoming Challenges and Achieving Accuracy
- Next Generation Systems & Techniques
- Thoughtful Change Management
- Time is Money: How Credentialing Impacts the Bottom Line
- Accelerating the Transition to a Patient-Centric Revenue Cycle
- How to Make CDI Your Organization’s MVP
- Leadership is Worthless…But Leading is Priceless Battling Burnout and Restoring Resiliency
- Three Fulcrum Points of Provider-Payer Collaboration Impacting Healthcare Outcomes
- Hospital at Home
- Surprises in No Surprises Regulation: MGB’s Patient-Centric Approach to Compliance
- It’s A-Bot Time!
- Optimizing Your Workforce
- Interoperable Data in Healthcare
- MGB is United Against Racism: Building a Culture of DE&I in Finance
- Optimizing patient collections using analytics & IVR
- Innovating Revenue Integrity Through Advanced Analytics
- Mental Health Integration
- Behavioral Health Integrated Care
- Competitive Advantages of Price Transparency
- SimplyVirtualSM HMO
- Disruptive Influences: Telehealth and the Future
- Emergency Preparedness: Lessons for the Future from COVID-19
- Bolder. Brighter. Better.
- Managing Change When Implementing RPA
- The Psychology of Choice: How It Can Impact Patient Engagement
- Boston Medical Center-PwC
- Race, Medicare and Post Pandemic America
- Hospital Title VI Enforcement During the implementation of Medicare
- The Pandemic Challenge: End Separate and Unequal Healthcare
- Automating the noise to increase revenue yield in a COVID-19 world
- Digitally Upscaling Your Workforce
- Rev Cycling Through Adversity
- The Best Defense is a Good Offense
- A Patient Experience Agility Test
- Best Practices to Combat Denials: Keep Calm and Appeal Like a Lawyer
- Best Practices to Combat Denials: Keep Calm and Appeal Like A Lawyer Handout
- Revenue cycle compliance Leading practices
- The Emerging RevCycle: Lessons Learned from COVID-19
- Telehealth Maturity Model
This Committee is focused on issues relating to all aspects of hospital and physician revenue cycle management. The Committee’s primary responsibility is organizing the annual Revenue Cycle Conference (RCC) which typically takes place at Gillette Stadium in mid-January of each year. The RCC attracts 450+ attendees including 50+ exhibitors to this one or two-day eagerly anticipated event. The Revenue Cycle Conference includes educational offerings geared towards different focus areas of revenue cycle and financial optimization. We also continue to attract prominent keynote speakers who help frame the healthcare financial landscape along with a celebrity guest speaker.
The Committee has members who contribute via Sub-Committees (educational programming, vendor/sponsor recruitment, marketing/social media, and day-of operations). The Committee convenes via conference call approximately every two weeks starting in the late summer months and continuing to the two-day event in January. Conference calls are scheduled for 60 minutes (but are often shorter). In addition to the bi-weekly conference calls, Committee members are also expected to research aspects of their particular Sub-Committee and contribute at the Conference. As a bonus, active committee members who also volunteer at the Conference, attend the event for free.
Board Liaison: Julie Hall
Chairs: Emily Anne Jacobstein, FHFMA and Tom Jabro
Healthcare Transformation
- Mental Health Integration
- Behavioral Health Integrated Care
- Competitive Advantages of Price Transparency
- SimplyVirtualSM HMO
- Disruptive Influences: Telehealth and the Future
- Emergency Preparedness: Lessons for the Future from COVID-19
- Bolder. Brighter. Better.
- Managing Change When Implementing RPA
- The Psychology of Choice: How It Can Impact Patient Engagement
- Boston Medical Center-PwC
- The Five Why’s of the Primary Care Crisis
- The Health of Primary Care in Massachusetts
- Payment for Primary Care
- Building Toward Racial Justice and Equity in Health: A Call to Action
- Welcome to Massachusetts-Rhode Island
- Aligning the needs of patients, providers, payers
- HFMA MA‐RI Aligning the Needs of Patients
- Best Place to Give Care – Best Place to Get Care
- Telehealth, Digital Therapeutics and Artificial Intelligence: What’s Coming, When, and How Will it Affect You?
- Healthcare Delivery Transformation Webinar Conference Speaker Biographies
- Disruptive Influences in Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities
This Committee combines the interests and expertise of the former managed care, enterprise performance management and physician practice management committees. As the delivery of and payment for healthcare services continues to evolve, there are far more similarities than differences among the operational and financial concerns of managed care, performance management and physician practice management. Mergers, acquisitions, alternative payment methodologies, and state and federal health reform efforts continue to transform how care is delivered and requires payers and providers to continually innovate and adapt to new technologies and systems. The goals for this Committee include:
- Identifying and presenting innovative and practical methodologies and tools to improve healthcare operational, clinical and financial performance to thrive in today’s changing industry.
- Promoting adoption of the most effective use of technology and current industry thinking
- Addressing trends concerning both operational and financial issues across the healthcare continuum including those trends affecting the delivery of ambulatory care, physician and hospital services, and alternative delivery models such as homecare and telemedicine
- Reviewing new ideas and approaches to both financial management and care delivery in physician practices as well as hospitals and healthcare systems.
- Providing timely, applicable, solutions-oriented information and tools related to developments in managed care and insurance,
- Focusing on changes in state and federal healthcare reform, as well as challenges and opportunities resulting from new payment methodologies and delivery system transformation
- Exploring and learning from successful examples of effective collaboration in the marketplace and new issues/products emerging in the managed care environment.
Board Liaison: Susan Graves
Chairs: Karen Granoff
Women’s Leadership Conference
- Advancing Health Care Cost Containment, Affordability, and Equity in Massachusetts
- Building Your Brand: Know Your Style for Effective Communication
- List of Values
- Getting to Know Yourself Handout
- Confidence, Courage and Commitment: Boundaries Aligned with Your Values
- Communicating with Impact
- The Cost of INCIVILITY | Promoting Peace and Leading with Purpose
New to Healthcare
Accounting and Regulatory Technical Update
This Committee is responsible for organizing a fall educational program focused on updating the membership on current year updates in the following areas: accounting standards and guidelines; reimbursement and compliance regulations; IRS and other tax matters for tax exempt health care organizations; and other industry hot topics. The Committee generally has video conference calls every two to three weeks between the first kickoff meeting and the fall program. Each conference call lasts about one hour. In addition to the fall educational program, the Committee also coordinates periodic webcasts covering regulatory topics of interest. The Committee will also prepare blog posts throughout the year focused on the educational program and other relevant topics for the chapter’s blog.
Board Liaison: Craig Nesta
Chairs: Sheila Harrington
Capital Finance
The purpose of the Capital Finance Committee is to engage with both traditional financing vehicles as well as with the developing forms of equity and debt financing sources available in the capital markets. The Committee will focus on the overall financing trends within the health care sector and engage with a broad spectrum of enterprises to develop educational programs that address changes in health care delivery that will require new forms of capital formation to support the needs of established enterprises as well as new companies representing alternative approaches and disruptive technologies.
Educational programs will include webinars, hosted roundtable discussions, and at least one half-day educational session. These programs will be designed for senior-level healthcare finance, strategic, and operating professionals, focusing on emerging trends and opportunities. The educational sessions will feature healthcare leaders; investment bankers, private equity, banking, venture capital, and other investing professionals; and policy makers. The programs will address the investment activities of major health systems, providers and other health care delivery participants including insurers and others and how these activities support institutional goals as well as new forms of healthcare delivery.
Board Liaison: Charles Zanazzi
Chairs: Robert Guadagno
Compliance Update
- Regulatory Compliance Hot Topics
- Office for Civil Rights (OCR) U.S. Department of Health and Human Service
- Construction contract auditing: Lessons from the field
- Controlled Substance Diversion Auditing
- Strategies for Handling the Difficult to Discharge Patient
- How to enhance your Professional Presence and Communication Style
- Better Together
- Post-Pandemic Compliance and Enforcement Trends
- Phishing Awareness
- Navigating HRSA 340B Audits: Best Practice for Healthcare Compliance
- Risk Management
- Post-Acquisition Integration: The Real Focus and Challenge for Compliance
- 60 Minutes that Never Happened | A Psychotherapy Fraud Case Study
- Healthcare Internal Audit Data Analytics
- 2024 Coding Updates and Audit Risk Areas
- Healthcare Privacy Awareness
- Follow the Money: Physician Contracting and Compensation – Key Trends and Risk Areas
- How to Stand Up an ACO Compliance Program with Auditing Metrics
- Conference flyer and agenda
- Recent Cybersecurity Trends In Healthcare
- National Government Services
- Redesigning Required Compliance Training: Challenges, Opportunities and the Power of Collaboration
- Survive or Thrive? Navigating the ESG Regulatory Landscape in Health Care
- 2023 Coding Updates: Making Sense of the Madness
- From “Remote by Necessity” to “Remote by Design”… Is a Remote Workforce Effective in Healthcare?
- Provider Relief Fund – From no strings attached to notification of an audit
- Optimizing Data Governance to Mitigate Enterprise Risk
- Building your compliance brand
- Deloitte Presentation
- Clinical Research Billing Basics and Auditing for Compliance
- Corporate Integrity Agreement Trends and Considerations for Compliance
- No Surprises! Overview of New Surprise Billing Protections and What Hospitals Need to Know
- Cybersecurity Risks – An Ever-Changing Concern For All!
- Office for Civil Rights (OCR) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Privacy Officer Panel Discussion ‐ Safeguarding Protected Health Information
- COVID-19 Safety Acknowledgment
- Conference flyer and agenda
- 2021 E/M Changes: Strategies for Tackling and Mitigating Risks
- Auditing an ACO
- Compliance outside of healthcare
- Cyberattacks, ransomware and the current state of cyber risks
- Internal Audit’s (IA’s) Role in Driving Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI)
- Mergers & Acquisitions: Due Diligence in Corporate Compliance & Privacy Programs
- Office for Civil Rights (OCR) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Hot Topics in Compliance
- Information Blocking (+Tackling) | Final Rule >> Starting Whistle
- Investing in Yourself: Strategies for Individual Development for Compliance Professionals
- One goal, two teams: How to align to help manage risk and perform audits
- The Power of a Positive Team
- Real World of Conflict of Interest (COI)
- Strategic Transformation in Internal Audit
- Telehealth Compliance Amidst COVID-19
- What to do if your vendor has a security incident
- What to Do When the Government Comes Calling
This Committee focuses on all aspects of corporate compliance & privacy activities required of healthcare organizations. The Committee is charged with exploring compliance program best practices and coordinating at least one regional, annual educational session offered to those in the healthcare compliance industry. Additional sessions may be held jointly with another professional association. The Committee meets approximately 10-12 times a year, either in-person or by telephone. During these meetings, the Committee discusses current events and hot topics and prepares for the educational session, all while benefitting from shared knowledge and learning from across the industry. The Committee is also responsible for organizing promotional content for the annual education session, including blog posts prior to and following the session, recruiting writers to prepare 2-3 additional blog posts for the chapter’s blog and general advancement activities aimed at enhancing and growing the chapter’s membership.
Board Liaisons: Dhara Satija and Donna Schneider
Chairs: Dhara Satija and Donna Schneider