2010 Conference Agenda/Information
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►HFMA Core Certification Coaching Course - Parts I and II
►Revenue Cycle: Living With RAC - Audit Results and Better Practice Ideas
►Accounting/Finance: Medicare Cost Reporting
►Leadership: Leadership in a Time of Uncertainty: Developing Your Staff to Achieve
►Accounting/Finance: Accounting and Audit Update
►Leadership: Effective Written Business Communication
►Financial and Clinical Collaboration
►Revenue Cycle: Splitting the Reimbursement Pie / ACE Case Study and Incentive
►Leadership: Persuasion Skills - Getting the Results You Want
►Accounting/Finance: Reducing Clinical Costs and Creating Real Savings
►Certification: HFMA Specialty Course - Managed Care
►Accounting/Finance: Managing the Supply Chain and Cutting Costs
►Certification: HMFA Specialty Course - Accounting and Finance
►Executive Perspective on EHR Challenges
►Fraud and Embezzlement: Lessons From the Trenches
Alan Levine - Secretary, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals - Baton Rouge, Louisiana | Alan Levine recently served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Broward Health, one of the largest not-for-profit public healthcare systems in the nation. During his tenure as CEO, he initiated two of the largest tax cuts in nearly three decades, leading to the best financial performance in Broward Health's history. He also worked to receive two bond rating upgrades from the largest national rating agencies, and improved patient satisfaction by as much as twenty eight percent in some service areas. Levine also led the effort to acquire the world’s leading cancer technology center, also recruiting a highly touted team of physicians from Harvard University to implement the program. Broward Health's turnaround was recently highlighted as a cover story for Smart Business Magazine. Previously, Levine served as Secretary of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration from 2004 to 2006, overseeing more than 30,000 health care facilities, including hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities and health care clinics. He also managed Florida’s Medicaid program, with a budget of more than $16 billion.
John Montaine, MBA, FHFMA - NHPN - San Antonio, TX | John is a results-oriented healthcare professional who uses his 30 years of experience in clinical orthopedics, insurance, and hospital systems to create operational and financial solutions for hospital systems. As a consultant he advises providers on strategies to increase their revenues by leading strategic to service line engagements in operational and financial initiatives. Prior to consulting, Mr. Montaine served as a senior executive for two large, integrated hospital systems, and he built and developed health plans in Texas and Florida. Mr. Montaine has been a member of HFMA since 1999, where he served the Gulf Coast chapter as an officer, Board member, and committee chair. He has served the South TX chapter since 2003 in multiple roles and is the 2009-10 STX Chapter President, earning the Follmer Bronze, Reeves Silver, and Muncie Gold merit awards. He earned distinction as the nation’s highest scorer on HFMA’s certification exam for Managed Care in 2008.
Dinetia Newman - Partner, Health Law Practice Group, Balch & Binham, LLP - Jackson, Mississippi | Dinetia Newman's practice involves representation of providers and suppliers including hospitals and health systems, physicians, ambulatory surgical centers and other Medicare Part B suppliers on a variety of operational and transactional matters involving Medicare and Medicaid payment, Anti-kickback Act, Stark Law, EMTALA, HIPAA privacy and security compliance, state law licensure and certificate of need issues, contractual negotiations between and among providers and suppliers, establishing and representing managed care organizations and counseling clients through investigations by federal and state agencies.
Day Egusquiza - President, AR Systems - Twin Falls, Idaho | Day Egusquiza brings over 28 years experience in health care reimbursement, business office operations, contracting and compliance implementation. Additionally, her experience includes eight years as a Director of a Physician Medical Management billing service and most recently completed an integrated business office between a hospital and a large physician clinic. She has been an entrepreneur in hospital and physician practice accounts receivable management and a leader in redesigning numerous organizations. Her work includes providing insight and guidance as a compliance, HIPAA and APC educator to department heads as well as Business operation’s staff. Charge Master, Charge Capture and Lost Revenue are part of her fun project list and yes, RAC!
William (Bill) Galinsky, CPA - Sr. Finance Director, Governmental and Regulatory Affairs - Scott & White Hospital - Temple, Texas | Bill has over 22 years experience in healthcare finance and reimbursement. He began his career with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas conducting cost report audits in the waning years of the transition to PPS. Since then Bill spent some time as part of the national healthcare consulting practice of Ernst & Young and has spent the last 14 years on the staffs of healthcare systems in the Carolinas and Texas. His positions have included Reimbursement Manager/Director, Director of Financial Planning, and Controller. Bill is an Advanced Member of HFMA and a member of the Lone Star Chapter board. Bill has been in the HFMA since 1990 with most of those years as part of the Lone Star Chapter. He is also a member of the AICPA and AHLA.
Steven W.Hand, CPA, MPA, FHFMA - System Executive for Government Reporting, MemorialHermann - Houston, Texas | Steve Hand has over 20 years in healthcare including experience with a big four accounting firm, fiscal intermediary and several healthcare systems. He has been a member of HFMA since 1991 and has served as president of the Texas Gulf Coast Chapter and the Regional Executive for Region 9. He also served a three-year term with HFMA’s Board of Examiners Accounting and Finance group. Steve has received the Follmer Bronze, Reeves Silver and Muncie Gold Merit Awards. He is currently serving National HFMA as a member of the Chapter Advancement Team.
Ann Paul - Solaris Management, LLC - Tulsa, Oklahoma | Ann Paul has over 25 years in management and administration in the healthcare industry spanning from provider to payor. Her experience with national health insurers has provided knowledge about market environments, best practices for managed care contract negotiation and analysis, managing relationships among providers, payors, employers, and brokers, as well as organizational and human resources management. Over the years, Ann’s responsibilities have included physician, hospital, and other provider contract negotiations, marketing/sales and service, business office management, access management, utilization management, quality management, and several other functional areas within healthcare organizations.
Richard D. Wagner, CPA, FHFMA - Partner, EIDE Bailly - Golden, Colorado | Rick Wagner has more than 25 years experience in the health care industry and erved as controller and interim CFO for two major Health Systems in Oklahoma. He conducts financial feasibility studies related to hospitals and special projects and is a Medicare and Medicaid cost report specialist. In addition, Rick provides assistance with chargemaster and cost report assessments, hospital mergers and turnarounds, is a recognized expert for health care related reimbursement trials and has conducted revenue enhancement studies for rural hospitals. Rick is a Gold medal member of the Oklahoma HFMA Chapter, Past Chapter Advancement Team member for HFMA National, and a Past Regional Executive for Region 9.
Mark Albrecht, CPA - Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP - Minneapolis, Minnesota | Mark Albrecht has more than 18 years of professional experience. In 2002, Mark began serving UnitedHealth Group, Inc. where he led a team of more than 100 people and was responsible for all Deloitte services provided to the company. In 2008, he was asked to lead Deloitte’s Office of the Industry Professional Practice Director (IPPD) health care team. In this role, Mark functions as a National Office resource and works closely with Deloitte’s health care and insurance practitioners and clients in providing technical accounting and financial reporting consultation and leadership. Mark is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s Principles and Practices Board, was appointed to the Planning Committee for the 2010 AICPA Health Care Conference, functions as an assistant to the AICPA Health Care Expert Panel, and is a frequent speaker at AICPA and HFMA conferences and events.
Karen Van Compernolle, CPA - Senior Manager, Deloitte & Touche LLP - Dallas, Texas | Karen has been with Deloitte & Touche LLP for over twelve years and currently works in the Dallas practice office as the senior manager on Tenet Healthcare Corporation, Parkland Health & Hospital System, and SSM Health Care. In her role as senior manager, Karen oversees the day-to-day audit and quarterly review activities for these engagements, including maintaining frequent communication with management to address critical accounting issues, technical GAAP, GAS, and SEC reporting requirements, and appropriate disclosures from an GAAP, GAS, and SEC perspective, and researches and assists in the resolution of technical accounting and reporting issues focused on the health care industry. In addition to her role as senior manager on client service engagements, Karen is the Health Sciences & Government healthcare provider fellow and works directly with industry leaders on technical matters and a variety of educational and training programs.
Jim Grigsby - President and CEO, Grigsby Consulting - Sebastian, Florida | Jim, president of Jim Grigsby Consulting, a revenue cycle and management consulting firm, has a passion for writing. Jim won a nation editing award and a Yerger as editor of the Florida chapter newsletter, Sunspots. He has authored dozens of articles on business process management, staff development, revenue cycle improvement, HIPAA, healthcare technology, and disaster recovery. His first book Don’t Tick Off The Gators! Managing Problems Before Problems Manage You was published by Rainbow Books Inc in 2006. His second book, Jerks Of Our Lives is under contract and will be released in 2011.
Richard L. Clarke, DHA, FHFMA - President and CEO, Healthcare Financial Management Association - Westbrook, ILlinois | Dr. Clarke holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial Distribution from Bradley University, a master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) in management/finance from the University of Miami, and a Doctor of Health Administration (DHA) degree from the Medical University of South Carolina. He also was president of the Colorado Chapter of HFMA, served on the HFMA National Matrix, and was a member of HFMA's Principles and Practices Board. Dr. Clarke currently is the Immediate Past Chair of the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education, having served in various capacities for that organization since 1997. He is also a former chair of AHA Financial Solutions, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Hospital Association). Additionally, he has served on the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s Advisory Council. Dr. Clarke currently holds an adjunct faculty position in the Department of Health Systems Management at Rush University in Chicago and also serves on the CHRISTUS Health Board of Directors. Dr. Clarke writes a monthly column in HFMA’s magazine, Healthcare Financial Management, and has written numerous articles on healthcare finance in HFM and other magazines and journals. He co-authored the books, Capitalizing Medical Groups: Positioning Physicians for the Future, published jointly by HFMA, MGMA, and McGraw-Hill in 1998, The Crisis in Health Care: Costs, Choices and Strategies, published by Jossey-Bass in 1990, and Beyond Managed Care: How Consumers and Technology are Changing the Future of Health Care published by Jossey-Bass Inc. in the summer of 2000.
John J. Finan, Jr. - President and Chief Executive Officer, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System - Baton Rouge, Louisiana | John J. Finan, Jr. has over 30 years of experience in healthcare leadership and operations. He has held senior positions in the Midwest and in Louisiana, and is active in many professional organizations. Mr. Finan is a former Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Catholic Health Association, member of the Board of Directors of the Council for a Better Louisiana, former Board Chair of the VHA Health Foundation and former member of the VHA Board of Directors. He served as Chair of the Board of Governors at the Clinical Center at the NIH, and is a member of the Board of Marian Health System. He is also a member of the Board of the Public Affairs Research Council. Mr. Finan is a former member of AHA Regional Policy Board 7, and chaired the Medicaid Reform Task Force of the Louisiana Hospital Association. He has held academic appointments at Southern Illinois University, Washington University School of Medicine, University of Alabama School of Health Related Professions, and The George Washington University.
Joe Reppert, FHFMA, ACHE - Chief Financial Officer, North Mississippi Health System | Before joining NMHS in 2009, Joe Reppert was the chief financial officer for Good Shepherd Health System in Longview, Texas. He graduated from Southern Adventist University in Chattanooga with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and the University of Connecticut in Storrs with a master’s degree in business administration. Reppert is a fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association and the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Fred Savelsbergh - Chief Financial Officer, Baylor Health Care System - Dallas, Texas | Fred Savelsbergh joined Baylor Health Care System in 1982 as staff accountant. Since then he has served Baylor in various financial and leadership capacities including financial officer for Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine, interim hospital president for two years, also at Grapevine, and hospital financial officer for Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. Within the Baylor system, Savelsbergh provides oversight for financial functions including strategy, policy, structure, talent, processes, tools and outcomes. He has oversight responsibility for all aspects of finance, revenue cycle, and supply chain.
Kevin F. Brennan, CPA, FHFMA - Executive Vice President for Finance and CFO, Geisinger Health System, and Treasurer of the Foundation. | As Chief Financial Officer, he is responsible for System financial operations, mergers and acquisitions, strategy, reporting, and policy. Mr. Brennan directs key financial functions including: treasury management, revenue cycle, financial reporting, budgeting, third party contracting, compliance, payroll, accounts payable, tax, and decision support. From 1997 through 2000, he also served as the Chief Financial Officer of the Penn State Geisinger Health System with similar functions and responsibilities.
Debbie L. Welle-Powell, Vice President, Payer Strategies, Exempla Healthcare | In her current role, Debbie Welle-Powell is responsible for one billion dollars in contract negotiations and public affairs for three hospitals, behavioral health center and a large multi-specialty group practice. She works on developing strategic partnerships and relationships with state and congressional legislators, national and local leaders, policy makers, chambers and employer groups. In 2006, she led the effort that created the Colorado Hospital Report Card requiring providers to report clinical quality outcomes. Debbie has more than 20 years experience in managing physician practices, payer contract negotiations, risk contracting, managing IPA and PPO networks and working with physician to create a variety of network models. She teaches courses on health policy and financing at both Regis University and Denver University. She is often asked to speak at the national and local level on health policy, managed care and provider related topics, and has authored many articles for national journals on similar topics.
Jamie L. Haeuser - Senior Vice President of Operations, Woman's Hospital - Baton Rouge, Louisiana | Jamie Haeuser has more than 20 years of experience in hospital operations, marketing, strategic planning, public relations and development. She is a writer and a speaker on healthcare topics and is a member of the adjunct faculty of the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
Melinda S. Hancock, CPA, FHFMA - Vice President of Strategic Finance, Bon Secours Richmond Health System - Richmond, Virginia | Under Melinda Hancock’s leadership, Bon Secours Richmond has been able to maximize reimbursement and cost saving opportunities, resulting in a system-wide savings of $1.2 million. Her efforts to improve compensation at one particular hospital yielded an increase of $1.7 million in patient payments. She also created a knowledge-sharing network, used by all local systems within the Bon Secours Health System national network, to deal with reimbursement regulations. Ms. Hancock began her career at two of the Big Four accounting firms: Deloitte & Touche and Ernst & Young. Prior to joining Bon Secours Richmond in 2004, she spent four years at Culpeper Regional Hospital, in Culpeper, Virginia, as Controller of the hospital and Executive Director of the Foundation.
Andrew Devoe - Founder/Consultant, Exceptional Healthcare Resources - Ardmore, Pennsylvania | Andrew DeVoe brings more than 20 years of healthcare financial and operational experience in rural and urban, investor-owned and not-for-profit hospital providers across the country. Taking on roles at major health systems across the country with operating budgets totaling billions of revenue, DeVoe is an industry-recognized specialist who helps hospitals and healthcare organizations maximize key areas of their financial processes. Focusing on the fiscal side, DeVoe is an expert in the full range of the revenue cycle - and certainly in recovering the last, toughest percentage of dollars owed to a healthcare organization. Operationally, he has guided healthcare organizations through critical initiatives - from maximizing productivity to acquisitions and divestitures to developing and recruiting top-rated physicians to create service lines. Most recently, DeVoe served as president and chief executive officer of Apollo Health Street, a national leader in healthcare revenue cycle management outsourcing. Prior to joining Apollo, he served as SVP and chief financial officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia, Penn. DeVoe also spent time as CEO, COO and CFO at Health Management Associates, Hospital Corporation of America and Tenet Healthcare.
Nelson Mann - Senior Vice President, Tyler & Company - Austin, Texas | Nelson Mann, Senior Vice President and Managing Partner of the Tyler & Company office in Austin, Texas has over 20 years of executive healthcare recruiting experience. He’s conducted dozens of hospital CEO searches across the country and has worked with several CFO’s who have successfully made the transition from CFO to CEO. His clients include for profit, not for profit, and faith based organizations and he helped Tyler & Company earn the exclusive endorsed search firm designation for the hospital associations in Texas and Oklahoma. He also heads up the firm’s diversity initiative and is a regular panelist for the Texas Hospital Association.
Errol Mitchell - Vice President and CFO, INTEGRIS Baptist Health System - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |Errol Mitchell has responsibilities for the Oklahoma City operations, which included four hospitals totaling 1,094 beds and a cancer institute. Mr. Mitchell has been with INTEGRIS Health for 15 years. He has served in a CFO role for thirty years and has had supply chain reporting to him for most of his career. His experience in overseeing the supply chain process started with a single hospital and currently is in a state wide multi-hospital system, so he has an understanding of the challenges the supply chain encounters in the different environments.
Georg Lunday - System Director of Supply Chain and Pharmacy Services, INTEGRIS Baptist Health System - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |Georg Lunday has responsibilities for a state wide multi-hospital system, which includes eleven hospitals, home infusion, two mental health facilities, and a cancer institute. Mr. Lunday has been with INTEGRIS Health for 10 years. He has served in a Pharmacy Administration role for twenty five years and has had Supply Chain reporting to him for three years. His experience in overseeing & directing Pharmacy processes has enabled him to use similar tactics and tools to facilitate change and build partnerships with the system Supply Chain Team.. . .
David Muntz - Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Baylor Health Care System - Dallas, Texas |As CIO, David Muntz works with hospitals, leadership, boards, physicians, nurses and clinicians system-wide towards improving information technology at Baylor. He has more than 30 years of health care information technology experience, including serving as the senior vice president and CIO at Texas Health Resources (THR). Prior to joining THR, he had a distinguished career with the Wadley Research Institute and Blood Bank, starting as a biostatistician and eventually becoming CEO of the Institute. 
Edwina S. Mallery, RHIA - Assistant Vice President for Information Systems, Lafayette General Hospital - Lafayette, Louisiana | Edwina Mallery’s 30 years of healthcare experience includes her role as manager for 15 years in the Health Information Management department at LGMC, prior to joining the Information System department. She is the Assistant Vice President of the Information Systems department. IS oversees all information management planning, basic technology and product research, vendor relations and contracting, internal software development, system implementation, staff education, and host network operations at LGMC. Edwina has been instrumental in the implementation of their EMR, Financial ERP solution, radiology and cardiology PACS, medication storage units, and supply station barcode project.
Stephanie Mills, M.D. - Vice President of Quality and Healthcare Innovation Center, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System - Baton Rouge, Louisiana | Recently appointed as the Vice President, Quality and Healthcare Innovation Center, Dr. Mills previously performed the duties of Chief Information Officer. She serves as a physician leader, liaison, and collaborator to engage care providers in the development, implementation, adoption and use of information systems as a means to foster quality improvement initiatives. Her role involves facilitation of clinician, IT, administrative leaders and advisory groups in the design, implementation and enhancement of clinical and business systems to support excellence in patient care and operational performance for the five hospitals of FMOLHS.
Angela Morelock, CPA, CFE, ABV - Partner, BKD, LLP - Springfield, Ohio | Angela has 14 years of experience and is the assistant director of BKD’s firmwide Forensics and Dispute Consulting division. She provides fraud investigation and prevention, complex litigation support and forensic accounting services for a variety of business clients. Angela regularly provides consulting and expert witness assistance to attorneys in a variety of litigation matters. As a certified fraud examiner (CFE), Angela is responsible for resolving a wide range of allegations of fraud and white-collar crime. She has the expertise to obtain evidence, take statements and write reports, testify to findings and assist in all aspects of helping to detect and prevent white-collar crime. Angela also helps clients determine the amount of fraud losses, file fidelity bond claims and provide expert witness testimony in criminal and civil proceeding involving allegations of fraud. She then develops methods to help protect victim businesses from future fraudulent activity. She is accredited as a certified forensic accountant by the American College of Forensic Examiners. This designation is awarded only to professionals who demonstrate sufficient multi-disciplinary knowledge and experience related to litigation services, fraud examination and business valuation.2010 Conference Agenda/Information
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