Available Speeches & Presentations

We are available to do presentations on a wide variety of topics and frequently do so to a range of organizations whose stakeholders are interested in down to earth, practical, expert educational sessions including but not limited to:

• Health systems and hospitals, including medical staff, board, and administration retreats
• Professional societies and organizations
• Medical group practices
• Health plans and MCOs
• Employer and business coalitions

Presentations can take a wide variety of formats from a half hour keynote address, to a full day program of seven hours. All can be customized for specific purposes and contexts. The following are timely, popular topics:

Alignment and Clinical Integration

• Using Patient Safety Organizations to Further Clinical Integration
• Clinical Integration: Self-Assessment, and More
• Clinical Integration: A Continuum and Techniques
• Engaging Physicians in Quality and Value
• How Hospitals Can Pay Physicians for Quality
• Understanding the Physician Mindset - six minutes
• Physicians Leading Change: Toward What End? - one hour
• Non-Employment Hospital-Physician Alignment Strategies: Co-Management, Leasing the Practice, and More
• In Common Cause for Quality: New Strategies for Hospitals and Physicians to Help Each Other's Business Case for Quality
• Performance Measurement and Clinical Integration: How Do These Relate?
• Rethinking the Role of the Medical Staff in The New Quality Era
• The Quality/Compliance Nexus: Avoiding the Leading Edge of Fraud and Abuse While Doing Right
• Report Cards, Performance Measurement and Transparency: Challenges and Implications
• The Board’s Responsibility for Quality: What Does It Really Mean? (PH&S 3 Bd Qual..pdf)

Bundled Payment

• Contracting for Bundled Payment
• Governance Issues in Bundled Payment: Avoiding Food Fights
• Beyond P4P: Bundled Payment Models including PROMETHEUS Payment®

Health Information Technology

• Electronic Health Records: Licenses and Donations
• HIPAA Privacy and Security
• Breach Notification
• Using Social Media Carefully and Effectively
• The Roles and Obligations of The Business Associate

Fraud and Abuse

• Hospital-Physician Financial Relationships: Avoiding Trouble While Producing Value
• Gainsharing, Compliance Training and More: How Hospitals Can Help Physicians and Stay Safe.
• Stark Myths Debunked
• Stark Compliant Compensation
• Antikickback Statute including the safe harbors, how it differs from Stark, structuring useful business relationships
• Avoiding False Claims Liability
• Quality as a Fraud and Abuse Issue
• The Real Deal on Compliance: Lowering the Hysteria and Debunking the Myths

Reimbursement and Payment

• Physician Compensation: State of the Art
• Avoiding Pitfalls In Medicare Enrollment
• Medicare Diagnostic Testing Rules: Metaphysics and Practicalities
• Part B Reimbursement for Physicians (all issues)
• Understanding and Negotiating Managed Care Contracts
• Non-Physician Practitioners and Physicians: ‘Incident to’ and More

Other Issues

• The Board's Role in Quality
• Board and Medical Staff Engagement for Value
• Using Medical Staff Bylaws to Propel Quality
• Physician Employment Contracts
• Pitfalls and Controversies in Medical Staff Bylaws
• Understanding Contracts: The Glue of Business Relationships