AUDIOCONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ARCHIVE
Sponsored by Case Management Monthly
presented on November 14, 2007
Working with case managers, physician advisors (PAs) can positively influence physicians to:
- Discharge patients in a timely fashion
- Contribute to proper resource utilization
- Improve clinical documentation of patient care to reflect appropriate severity of illness, risk of mortality, and reimbursement
But if your organization is like most, you may not know how to leverage the role of the physician advisor to achieve these results.
Whether you need to develop, expand, or refine the role of PAs at your facility, listen to HCPro's The Role of the Physician Advisor in Case Management: How to improve medical staff performance and minimize risk. During this audioconference, expert speakers Robert J. Marder, MD, and Wendy DeVreugd, RN, BSN, PHN, FNP,identify the role and required competencies of PAs, offer strategies to foster interdepartmental collaboration, and discuss ways to use data to positively influence physician performance. Plus, this program features take-home tips and tools to measure the effectiveness of PAs in your case management department.
At the end of the program, participants will be able to:
- Describe the role of a PA
- Identify how PAs can build relationships between case managers, admitting physicians, and the medical staff
- Recognize the job-specific expectations of a PA, including required competencies
- Demonstrate how to work with the utilization management or quality committees to facilitate positive results in physician performance improvement
- Explain how PA data influences physicians to make better use of resources
BONUS TOOLS
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and these valuable tools:
- Sample physician advisor job description
- Competencies
- Referral tracking tool with section for measurement of UM peer review response and action plans
- PA effectiveness tool
These materials are provided with PDF links.
AGENDA
- What is the role of a physician advisor?
- Why do physicians need one?
- Why do case managers need one?
- Job expectations
- What does the hospital need?
- What kind of physician should we get?
- How does a physician advisor build relationships between case managers, admitting physicians, and the medical staff?
- Techniques for collaboration
- Case scenarios
- Is there still a role for the utilization management (UM) committee?
- Pros
- Cons
- How do you use resource utilization data?
- Case-based work
- Patterns and trends
- Where the information goes to influence physician performance
A question & answer session follows the presentation.
FACULTY
Robert J. Marder, MD, Vice President of The Greeley Company. He brings over 25 years of healthcare leadership and management experience to his work with physicians, hospitals, and healthcare organizations nationwide. Dr. Marder's wide-ranging experience in senior hospital medical administration and operations management in academic and community hospital settings makes him uniquely qualified to assist physicians and hospitals in developing solutions for complex medical staff and hospital performance issues. He has consulted, authored, and presented on a wide array of healthcare leadership issues, such as physician performance measurement and improvement, hospital quality measurement systems, peer review management and improvement, hospital performance improvement, patient safety/error reduction, case management, and utilization management. Dr. Marder is also a member of the faculty of the American College of Physician Executives.
Wendy DeVreugd, RN, BSN, PHN, FNP, has been a registered nurse for over 37 years and a Family Nurse Practitioner for 27 years, and is currently the Senior Director of Case Management programs for the West and Mid-West States for Kindred Healthcare LTAC system. In this role, she is responsible for 12 states and 41 facilities. She has 25 years expertise in UM, Quality, and Case Management services. She has implemented product line case management programs in 4 different medical centers in Orange County and Los Angeles, three of which are regional trauma centers. Currently, she is an Editorial Advisory Board member and author for Case Management Monthly and a Board member of the new Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS).
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Case management directors, case managers, medical staff, chief of staff, VPMAs, CMAs, physicians, quality directors, medical directors, utilization management directors, administrators
AUDIO ARCHIVE
In addition to the regular purchase option for HCPro audioconferences, we now offer an audio archive option. An audio archive allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience on your computer or MP3 player. Purchase a CD or audio archive of the program and listen when you can. It's a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.
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