7 – 8 AM:

Breakfast

7 – 7:45 AM:

Optional Session

Controversies in Board Certification: Maintenance of Certification, Alternative Certifying Boards, and the Link Between Board Certification and Quality

8 AM – 12:30 PM:

Education Session

Essentials of Credentialing and Privileging for Physician Leaders (Part II) – How to match privileges granted to demonstrated current competence – Making sense of laundry lists, core privileges, and competency clusters – Managing privileging challenges

Make Peer Review Effective, Efficient, and Fair – How to drive bias out of peer review – General competencies – OPPE & FPPE

How to Manage Poor and Marginal Performance, Disruptive Behavior, and Impairment – Manage the marginally performing physician – Manage common performance challenges – Identify and manage the impaired physician – A step-by-step approach to intervene with a disruptive physician

How to Manage a Fair Hearing and Investigation – Strategies to prevent fair hearings – Effective investigations – Dos and don’ts of corrective action – Keys to an effective fair hearing.

12:30 PM

Adjourn

7 – 8 AM:

Breakfast

8 AM – 12:00 PM:

Education Session

Regulatory Compliance Made Simple – What do the CMS, Joint Commission, DNV, HFAP, and CIHQ really require? – Stop making compliance a burden for physicians and staff and see it as an opportunity – Process simplification as a strategy for better compliance and improved physician-hospital alignment.

Legal Issues: The top 10 you need to know to stay out of trouble – 1. Corporate negligence – 2. The legal status of bylaws – 3. Exclusive contracting – 4. EMTALA – 5. HCQIA – 6. NPDB reporting – 7. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – 8. Ethics in Physician Self-Referrals Law (Stark Law) – 9. Anti-Kickback Statute – 10. False Claims Act

Follow the Money : A crash course in healthcare finance for medical staff leaders

I Want to Be Part of the Solution…Now What? Is the organized medical staff up to today’s challenges? – What new models are helping improve quality and reduce costs? – A review of patient-centered medical homes, service-line management and co-management, bundled payments, and ACOs/clinically integrated networks – What must physicians and physician leaders do to make these models work? – How does physician employment affect the organized medical staff and the new medical staff models? – When multiple models coexist, who’s accountable to whom for what?

Putting It All Together to Leave a Legacy You Can Be Proud Of

12 PM

Adjourn