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SUMMARY:Utilization Review & Changing Payer Dynamics AND Understanding CMS Rules and Regulation
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS CONCLUDED. \n\n\n\nVIRTUAL EVENT \n\n\n\nNot sure if you can attend virtual events live? Your registration guarantees the link to attend live as well as receiving the recording\, slides and materials shared during the event afterwards. \n\n\n\n\n\nDiscuss post-COVID dynamics affecting both payers and providers\n\n\n\nExamine various managed care organization tactics that seek to reduce hospital reimbursement and how to address these tactics to maximize reimbursement.\n\n\n\nIdentify federal regulation effects on consumers\, payers\, and providers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNEW from MHA and The Center for Case Management\n\n\n\nThis series\, brought to you by MHA and the Center for Case Management\, provides case managers\, social workers\, and care transitions team members with the opportunity to hone and adopt best-practice strategies that ensure standardized\, evidence-based\, contemporary practice.  \n\n\n\nThis is part seven of a seven-part series\, with four virtual and three in-person events. Interested enrollees can purchase one course\, or all seven. For additional information\, questions\, and registration\, please contact MHA’s Sara Ramon.  \n\n\n\n$99/pp Virtual Events \n\n\n\n$199/pp In- Person Events \n\n\n\n$694/pp Full Bundle \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmail MHA’s Sara Ramon\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you are experiencing any difficulties with the site or registration\, please email Sara Ramon at sramon@mhalink.org or Laurie Snelson at lsnelson@mhalink.org for assistance. In your correspondence\, please include the registrant’s name\, title\, organization\, and email for confirmation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT CONTACT\n\n\n\n\nREGISTERFAX 781-262-6136 \n\n\n\nMAIL –  Check Payable to MHAMHA Education Department500 District Ave.Burlington\, MA 01803-5096 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCancellation Policy (for in-person events only): Full refunds will be recognized when cancellations occur at least 5 business days prior to an in-person event. Any cancellation notices received after this time will result in $50 administrative fee. To avoid this penalty\, you may send someone in your place by forwarding their full name\, title and email address to the Director of Healthcare Education\, Amy Smalarz at asmalarz@mhalink.org. No shows will be responsible for payment in full.
URL:https://www.mhalink.org/event/financial-utilization-review-and-changing-payer-dynamics/
LOCATION:MHA Conference Center\, 500 District Ave\, Burlington\, Massachusetts\, 01803\, United States
CATEGORIES:MHA Conferences,Continuing Education
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SUMMARY:Key Provisions of the 2025 IPPS Final Rule
DESCRIPTION:This event has concluded. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n$129  Member Rate$229   Non-Member Rate \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT CONTACT\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTERFAX 781-262-6136 \n\n\n\nMAIL –  Check Payable to MHAMHA Education Department500 District Ave.Burlington\, MA 01803-5096 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nVIRTUAL EVENT \n\n\n\nNot sure if you can attend virtual events live? Your registration guarantees the link to attend live as well as receiving the recording\, slides and materials shared during the event afterwards. \n\n\n\n\nOn August 28\, 2024\, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the 2025 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring this virtual program\, we’ll discuss the final rule’s key provisions and their impact on hospitals and other providers. Topics to be covered include: \n\n\n\n• Rate increases and wage index changes  \n\n\n\n• New mandatory episodic payment model (Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM))  \n\n\n\n• Updated quality measure reporting requirements  \n\n\n\n• Changes to value-based purchasing and Promoting Interoperability programs  \n\n\n\n• New payments for buffer stocks of essential medicines  \n\n\n\n• Severity designation of Z-codes for housing inadequacy/instability  \n\n\n\n• Respiratory disease reporting requirements \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you are experiencing any difficulties with the site or registration\, please email Sara Ramon at sramon@mhalink.org or Laurie Snelson at lsnelson@mhalink.org for assistance. In your correspondence\, please include the registrant’s name\, title\, organization\, and email for confirmation. \n\n\n\nCancellation Policy (for in-person events only): Full refunds will be recognized when cancellations occur at least 5 business days prior to an in-person event. Any cancellation notices received after this time will result in $50 administrative fee. To avoid this penalty\, you may send someone in your place by forwarding their full name\, title and email address to the Director of Healthcare Education\, Amy Smalarz at asmalarz@mhalink.org. No shows will be responsible for payment in full.
URL:https://www.mhalink.org/event/key-provisions-of-the-2025-ipps-final-rule/
CATEGORIES:MHA Conferences
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