Speakers Express Topics - Financial Issues

  • Drivers of Change: Implications of Current Market Forces for North Carolina Providers
  • New Rules, New Roles: Health System Leadership in the 20th Century
  • Scan of the Healthcare Environment
  • Who is the Customer?
  • Competing & Collaborating with Niche Players
  • Health Care 2000 Crisis: Danger or Opportunity
  • Moving Beyond the Historical Approach to Physician Partnerships
  • Drivers of Change: Implications of Current Market Forces for South Carolina Providers
  • Integration - Lessons Learned
  • Leadership in the New Millenium
  • The Effect of Single Specialty Carveouts on Nonprofit Health Care
  • Maximizing Product Lines in a Consumer-Driven Market

Lawton R. Burns, PhD, MBA

  • Physician-Hospital Relationships
  • Integrated Health Care
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Vertical Integration
  • Hospital Mergers
  • Competitive Strategy
  • Payer-Provider Contracting
  • Managing Physicians
  • Hospital Bankruptcy
  • Group Purchasing Organizations
  • Hospital of the Future
  • Future of Healthcare
  • Quality Improvement
  • Financial Issues
  • Leadership and Strategy
  • Patient Safety
  • Workforce Issues

Howard D. Ellis, MD

  • Using healthcare real estate, such as medical office building to create hospital/physician collaboration
  • Investing in healthcare real estate
  • Benefits and Disadvantages of hospital’s ownership of medical office building and properties
  • Designing, developing and building a new facility

Allan Fine

  • Establishing a Process for Hospitals to Evaluate the Potential Offering of New Devices, Drugs, Modalities, etc.
  • Developing Profitable Growth Strategies
  • Solidifying Physician Relations; Building Support for Strategic Initiatives
  • Competitive Strategies for Dealing with Specialty Hospitals, Conditions of Excellence, etc.
  • Establishing Conditions of Excellence/ Institutes
  • Effectively Integrating Strategic and Financial Planning
  • Determining If, How and When to Develop a Diversification Strategy
  • Designing an International Health Care Strategy
  • Accessing Capital for Investment, and Establishing Priorities
  • Next Generation of Health Plans
  • Clinical Technology Trends (e.g. cardiac, oncology, orthopedics, etc.) and Their Implications for Hospitals, Payers and Consumers in the Future

Emily Friedman

  • Community and health care
  • Current Issues in health care ethics
  • Demographic (population) change and its impact on health care
  • End-of-conference summary and perspective (written on site)
  • Ethics of health care leadership and organizations
  • Health care costs: causes, impact and prospects
  • Health care history (various topics)
  • Health insurance, the uninsured and the future
  • Health policy: How and why it is (and is not) made
  • Power shifts in health care and society
  • Rationing and resource allocation in health care
  • Trends that are reshaping the health care system

Alice G. Gosfield

  • Rethinking the Role of the Medical Staff in the New Quality Era.
  • The Board, the Administration and the Medical Staff; New Collaborations for Quality.
  • Fraud and Abuse Under Federal Law (All issues including but not limited to the following): The Stark Statute, including compensation formulas and diagnostic services supervision; reassignment of benefits; Anti-kickback statute implications; False claims liabilities; Exclusions and civil money penalties for quality and otherwise.
  • All Medicare Part-B reimbursement issues for physicians, non-physician practitioners and groups.
  • The Quality Compliance Nexus
  • Quality in Clinical Culture: The Critical Role of Physicians in Accountable Health Care Organizations.
  • The Doctor/Patient Relationship as the Business Case for Quality.
  • Report Cards, Performance Measures and their Implications.
  • Compliance Issues in Physician Employment Contracts.
  • Understanding Managed Care Contracts.
  • Clinical Practice Guidelines: Applications and Implications.
  • Non-physician Practitioners and Physicians Working and Billing Together.
  • Clinical Integration Under the Antitrust Laws: Hospitals, Physicians and Systems Coming Together for Quality and Payment.
  • Pay for Performance Programs.

Paul R. Hofmann, DrPH

  • Clinical Ethics
  • Institutional, Organizational, Business and Management Ethics
  • Value Conflicts
  • Moral Dilemmas and Economic Realities
  • Use and Abuse of Power
  • Rationing of Health Care
  • Provision of Unlimited Care
  • Ethics of Managed Care
  • Decisions Near the End of Life
  • Ethics and the Technological Imperative in Health Care
  • Accelerating Performance Improvement in Hospitals
  • Defining, Identifying and Addressing Management Mistakes in Health Care

Nathan Kaufman

  • Peak Performing Hospitals
  • Hospital-Physician Collaboration
  • Contracting and Pricing
  • Strategies for the New Millennium

John W. Kenagy, MD, MPA

  • Healthcare Strategies
  • Healthcare Operations Mgmt
  • Patient-Centered Care
  • RN Retention & Recruitment
  • Physician Leadership
  • Innovation in Healthcare
  • Building Financial Secure Healthcare Organizations
  • Financial Turn Arounds that do not cut Staff
  • Patient Satisfaction
  • Staff Satifsfaction

John L. Miller

  • Effectively Leading Groups
  • Building Competence
  • Coaching for Success
  • Changing Behavior: A Self-Coaching Approach

Robert H. Rosenfield, LLB, LLM

  • Legal Issues
  • Equity Joint Ventures
  • Tax Exempt Participating Bond Transactions

Don Wegmiller

  • Compensation Planning for Health Care Executives
  • Performance Appraisal Systems for CEOs and Senior Executives
  • Incentive Compensation Planning For Health Care Executives
  • Environmental Assessment of the Health Care Industry 2002-2006
  • Design of Today's CEO Employment Agreements
  • Current Trends and Issues in Health Care
  • Executive Compensation
  • Succession Planning for CEOs-Development of a Leadership Transition Plan
  • Board Compensation in Not-For-Profit Health Care Organizations