Elizabeth Woodcock, MBA, FACMPE, CPC
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1 Elizabeth Woodcock, MBA, FACMPE, CPC Presentation Topics The Patient-Centered Practice: Creating the Practice of the Future Today Optimizing the workflow of your medical practice operations is difficult -- if not impossible -- in many practices. Staffing and space concerns cause unwanted hurdles to practice efficiency. It's time to challenge the current structure; it's time to redesign your practice operations. This presentation provides the groundwork for you to learn about innovations that are propelling practices into levels of productivity and patient satisfaction that were once considered unachievable. Learn how to be the practice of the future -- now. Time: 60 to 120 minutes Audience: Management and physicians. State of the Industry: The Challenges -- and Opportunities -- that Lie Ahead for Physicians in 2007 Learn how the dynamic and turbulent world of health care will affect physicians and their practices in Increasing competition from quick-access clinics and declining reimbursement are only a few challenges that physicians face in the coming year. This presentation covers the major emerging trends that can pose both opportunities and threats to physicians, including: o Increase of consumer-driven health care o Aggressive entrance of entrepreneurs into profitable areas of physician practice market o Impact of Medicare cuts in 2007 by specialty o Adoption of information technologies o Growing influence of Gen X physicians o Rising practice expenses
2 Can physicians rise to these challenges? How can you help them? You ll walk away armed with information and knowledge to be supportive of physicians as they face challenges and look to take advantage of opportunities in Time: 60 to 120 minutes Audience: Management of organizations interested in the medical practice industry Applying Lean Thinking To Improve Your Medical Practice Operations Discover how to design a patient-focused and efficient medical practice operation. By applying the concepts of lean thinking, you ll learn the basics of improving your operation and hear examples of applications that work. Challenge yourself to take your thinking about practice operations to a new level in this course. You ll walk away with a performance improvement framework, ideas and even a project with which to start in this action-packed course. Audience: Management and physicians. Front Desk Training: It All Starts Here! The operations of your front desk are critical to optimize patient service and patient flow. Perfect for all your front desk staff, this training program features collections at the time of service, making the "perfect" appointment reminder call, greeting the patient, and arriving the patient effectively. Also, get hints for managing the patients waiting time in your reception area! (May be combined with the program listed below.) Time: 60 to 120 minutes Audience: Front desk staff and management. Time of Service Collections: How to Get Patients to Pay at the Time of Service In the era of consumer-driven health care, more financial responsibility is in the hands of the patient -- and it s up to you to collect from them. Come to this
3 seminar to learn how to effectively ask for payment at the time of service. You ll walk away with best practice ideas on how to collect from the patient upfront! Time: 60 minutes Audience: Front desk staff and management. Home in Time for Dinner: How to Do Today s Work Today It s easy to get stuck in the vicious spiral of inefficiency. You and your staff spend all day taking messages and organizing work for you to do at night. Inevitably, your evening work session results in a stack of charts that you leave at the nurses station for them to attend to in the morning. Of course, office hours start off late, and the whole cycle begins again in the morning. The result? Poor morale, low productivity, and frustration for everyone involved, including your patients. Learn how to embrace today s work and make you and your patients happier. Audience: Physicians (and managers accompanying them) The Efficient Practice Are you in the fortunate position of being swamped by patients? Although it s fantastic to be busy, you may be overwhelmed you just don t have enough hours in the day to see all of your patients. This presentation features tactics to: o Get a grip on telephone calls; o Train your staff to prepare for every encounter; o Avoid batching work; o Create the ideal workspace for you; and o Handle the oh, by the ways Learn strategies for creating an efficient urology practice while still leaving your patients with a smile. Time: 60 to 180 minutes. Note: A similar program called The Efficient Physician can be conducted for a physician-only audience. Audience: Management and physicians.
4 Behind the Numbers: Revelations from the Nation s Most Profitable Medical Practices Discover the secrets of success of the nation s best performing medical groups. Learn about managing a medical practice to optimize financial performance. Peppered with success stories and a host of benchmarking data, you ll walk away with new ideas to make your practice profitable. From the fundamental business tenets followed to the innovative approaches to revenue generation and cost containment, this presentation will reveal what s behind the numbers from the nation s most successful medical groups. Time: 60 to 180 minutes. Minimum time of 90 minutes is recommended Audience: Management and physicians Open Access Scheduling for the Real World Is your crowded schedule driving patients to your competitors? Is your no-show rate through the roof? If you're concerned about creating timely access in addition to discovering new ways to be efficient in the office, open access scheduling is for you. Open access has been proven to increase productivity and revenue -- and best of all, patient satisfaction. Often discussed in theory, the speaker will take you into the realities of working down a backlog, implementing change, and educating patients. Learn to measure and balance your supply and demand, and come away with a thorough understanding of how to implement open access in your own medical practice.. Can be integrated into Scheduling and No-Show Management program below. Audience: Management staff, physicians and work teams interested in understanding and implementing open access scheduling. Managing your Telephones If you are frustrated by your telephone operations, this is the presentation for you. Learn how to reduce interruptions without compromising patient service, depending on technology, or hiring more staff. You ll understand how to perform an analysis of your phones with sample tracking forms and worksheets you can take back to use in your own practice. Next, discover the root causes of your phone problems and how to fix them. You ll walk away with a practical action plan to turn your telephones into your best friend!
5 Audience: Management, staff, and physicians. Scheduling and No-Show Management Are your patients constantly complaining that they can't get into see you? Is everyday a desperate attempt simply to hold the wait times down to a "reasonable" amount of time? Do you just squeeze in patients with urgent needs? Learn new methods for scheduling appointments and managing your appointment no-shows. From modified wave scheduling to open access, this is the program for you if you need help in scheduling. Audience: Management, staff, and physicians. Managing Practice Overhead Managing overhead isn t just about slashing costs. Sophisticated businesses use costs to drive revenue. Get all the facts on reducing and managing your practice overhead. You ll learn how to calculate overhead, compare yours to the industry norms by specialty, and get an MBA-level understanding of business costs. Also, discover 25 creative and proven methods used by other practices to cut expenses. Time: 60 minutes Audience: Physicians, administrators, managers How to Audit Your Medical Practice As expenses soar and reimbursement declines, this year is an opportune time to conduct an Operations Audit of Your Medical Practice. From management to staffing to finances, the speaker will methodically walk through all areas of your practice operations in order to demonstrate opportunities for improvement. Sprinkled with great benchmarking data, the presentation is summarized in a 10- page take-away audit form, ready to be used by your practice. Time: 90 minutes Audience: Management, including physicians involved in management of the practice Benchmarking Your Revenue Cycle
6 It s not good enough to hope for the best at the end of the year. To maximize your revenue, you need to calculate, benchmark, and analyze key revenue cycle performance indicators. You will learn what to measure, how to measure it, get benchmark data by specialty for all aspects of the revenue cycle, and understand what s influencing performance in In addition to performance indicators, such as days in A/R, the program highlights denial rates and billing office costs. From performance to cost, learn all you need to know about your revenue cycle. Audience: All persons interested in improving the revenue cycle in a physician practice How to Improve Billing and Collections Learn the secrets of success for billing operations. The speaker will start by measuring and benchmarking key indicators to determine baseline performance. You ll really see how much improvement you need and learn how to be able to tell when you make it better. Next, learn the 10, real-world steps you can take to send revenue soaring. The audience will receive several take-away tools, including a denial tracking form. Peppered by case examples of actual success stories from best practice billing offices, this program is a don t-miss. Time: 90 to 120 minutes Audience: All persons interested in improving the revenue cycle in a physician practice From Pennies to Riches: Maximizing Patient Collections Learn everything your practice needs to know to maximize your patient collections performance. By learning from best practice trends and real-world examples, improve your bottom line. Discover how pre-visit processes can improve collections and how to structure them, how to improve time of service collections and eliminate billing altogether, tips for improving patient collections after the service is complete, and advice for holding your collection agency accountable.. 90 minutes recommended. Can be combined with Get What You Deserve below. Audience: All persons interested in improving patient collections in a physician practice, including billing manager, front office manager, office manager, and physicians.
7 Get What You Deserve: How to Improve Insurance Collections Learn everything your practice needs to know to maximize your insurance collections performance. From open claims to pended claims, find out how to get them paid. We ll focus on improving accuracy on the front end, denial management, and effective appeals processes. Discover how organization, prioritization, and a bit of gumption can get your claims paid.. 90 minutes recommended. Can be combined with From Pennies to Riches above. Audience: All persons interested in improving insurance collections in a physician practice, including billing managers, front office managers, office managers, billing staff, and physicians. Appeal Right: How to Effectively Appeal Claim Denials Is your desk swamped with denials from insurance companies? Get on top of it, and get paid. Discover the top reasons for denials, how to avoid them in the future, and how to get them paid if you can t avoid them. This program includes sample appeal letters proven to be successful. Time: 60 minutes. Can be integrated into Get What You Deserve above. Audience: All persons involved in improving insurance collections in a physician practice, including billing managers, office managers, billing staff, and physicians. De-Coding Coding: Coding 101 for Billing Managers Are you intimidated by the nuances of coding? Does your staff know how to handle coding-related denials? If your strengths lie in billing, but you realize that your success depends on understanding coding issues, this is the session for you. Discover the ten rules of ICD-9 and CPT coding for non-coders, and your billing performance will improve. Time: 60 minutes. Audience: Billing managers, office manages, and physicians.
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