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CMS' New Voluntary Physician Pay-for-Performance Program: Identifying the Opportunities, Live Audio Conference on CD-ROM
Healthcare Intelligence Network, Jan 2006
CMS' New Voluntary Physician Pay-for-Performance Program: Identifying the Opportunities, a January 26, 2006 audio conference on CD-ROM, examines the new call for voluntary reporting of quality measures by physician practices to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
The healthcare industry's call for quality healthcare is coming from all sides. Health plans, employers, consumers and even the federal government are leaning on healthcare providers to document the quality of the care they provide.
Starting this month, CMS is asking for even more reporting. With the advent of the new year, physicians can voluntarily self-report adherence to certain evidence-based quality measures to CMS. Under the first phase of the program, physicians will be able to submit data on 36 quality measures for Medicare beneficiaries. Physicians will not receive higher compensation for reporting the measures, and results will not be made public, but physicians will receive feedback from CMS about the level of their performance based on submitted data. CMS will also seek input from participating physicians on ways to improve the ease of reporting and usefulness of the quality measures.
During this 90-minute audio conference, your expert panel of speakers, Julie Baker, director, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Robert Fortini, clinical operations manager, Community Care Physicians, provide inside details on how this voluntary program will impact physician organizations in 2006.
You will get details on:
- Evaluating whether your practice should participate in CMS' voluntary program;
- Examining the opportunities that exist for physician practices under the voluntary PFP program;
- Preparing for participation in the program;
- Putting data collection efforts into place now; and
- Learning from the lessons of CMS' hospital voluntary reporting program.
You can 'attend' this program right in your office and enjoy significant savings – no travel time or hassle; no hotel expenses. It's so convenient! Invite your staff members to listen-in.
Who Will Benefit From This Audio Conference?
CEOs, CFOs, financial managers, chief medical officers, chief nursing officers, medical directors, quality improvement executives, managed care contracting executives, practice management executives, health plan executives, strategic planning directors, consultants and physician organization leaders.
About the Panelists:
Julie J. Baker
Julie J. Baker is the director of the healthcare advisory practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Baker has over 25 years experience in all aspects of the healthcare information technology industry, including hospitals, information system vendors, and consulting firms.
Baker specializes in program and change management strategies for clinical system implementations and pay-for-performance initiatives in the provider arena.
While at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Baker has been the project manager of large-scale clinical and financial system implementations, including Siemens Soarian and Cerner Millennium applications. She led the initiative for PricewaterhouseCoopers' pay-for-performance consortium development. Baker also led an organizational change management project around the physician order entry adoption strategies.
Baker has a Bachelor's of Science in Medical Technology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Robert Fortini
Robert J. Fortini, PNP, is the clinical operations manager for quality improvement and risk management initiatives for Community Care Physicians, P.C. Fortini has over 26 years of experience in healthcare administration. Community Care Physicians, P.C. is a 200+ practitioner multi-specialty group practice with 35 business units at 25 locations and 1,000 employees.
Fortini has also been the coordinator of (EMR) implementation and documentation template development at Community Care Physicians, P.C.
Fortini has a Bachelor's of Science from Fordham University and a Pediatric Nurse Practioner degree from The State University of New York College of Health Professions at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, NY.
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