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WEBCAST ON CD

In partnership with The Society of Hospital Medicine

presented on March 27, 2008

Do you have more positions than physicians?

A recent SHM Workforce Summit identified the integration of Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners into hospitalist practices as one of the top three solutions for addressing a potential shortage of hospitalists over the next 5 years.

Address the shortage AND optimize practice performance

Listen to HCPro and SHM for Partnering with PAs and NPs in Hospitalist Practices: Strategies for success and learn how integrating PAs and NPs can bring greater cost and personnel efficiencies to hospital medicine while still maintaining the highest quality care for patients.

During this Webcast, industry experts discuss the benefits of, and provide strategies for, effectively forming such partnerships. You'll hear about practice models that illustrate how hospitalist programs across the country have successfully formed this important collaboration.

With the tools, strategies, and integrated approach presented in this Webcast, you'll be able to:

• Increase quality and efficiency and improve outcomes
• Optimize practice performance by leveraging a mix of professional skills
• Increase productivity and expand capacity
• Extend the scope and depth of services offered
• Build a sustainable practice model
• Improve recruitment and retention

AGENDA

1. Facts and figures on the specialty of hospital medicine
2. Why are hospitalists increasingly looking to work with PAs and NPs?
3. Are PAs and NPs right for your program?
4. How can PAs and NPs be integrated into the hospitalist practice?
5. Credentialing challenges for PAs and NPs
6. Billing challenges for PAs and NPs
7. Demonstrating ROI
8. Resources
9. Key points to remember
10. Q&A

Please note: for this intermediate-level program, participants should already be familiar with:

• The role of hospitalists in the healthcare system
• The role of PAs and NPs in the healthcare system

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the conclusion of this Webcast, participants will be able to:

• Describe the current status of PAs and NPs in hospitalist programs based on national survey data
• Evaluate the value-added proposition for integrating PAs and NPs into your practice
• Recognize whether PAs and NPs are right for your practice environment
• Create and execute a successful integration of PAs and NPs into your practice
• Explain how Medicare scope of practice, state regulations (State Boards of Medicine and Nursing) and hospital by-laws affect the use of PAs and NPs
• Appropriately bill for services delivered by PAs and NPs in hospitalist practices
• Demonstrate a ROI for PAs and NPs

BONUS TOOLS

With the purchase of this audioconference, you will also receive forms and tools you can customize for your facility. Bonus tools are included with your materials packet.

MEET THE SPEAKERS

Joseph A. Miller is the senior vice president for SHM. In this role, Miller oversees aspects of membership, marketing, data management, Web services, finance, and business operations. He oversees SHM’s Practice Management course, the bi-annual survey, and staffs the SHM Career Satisfaction Task Force. Miller also does part-time hospitalist consulting for Northeast Hospitalist Consulting. He has over 30 years of management, consulting, and market research experience with healthcare organizations.

Michael L. Powe is the director of Health Systems and Reimbursement Policy for the American Academy of Physician Assistants. In that capacity he deals with health care policy issues, third party payment concerns, the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and various state and federal regulatory agencies. Mr. Powe also serves as AAPA’s staff liaison to the American Medical Association’s CPT Editorial Panel and Relative Value Update Committee which evaluates the Medicare coding and payment process. He is the author of the book, Physician Assistant Third Party Coverage, and an adjunct assistant professor at the George Washington University Division of Health Sciences in Washington, DC.

Mitchell J. Wilson, MD is the founding chairman and current co-chairman of the Non-Physician Provider (NPP) Committee for SHM, and pioneered early efforts to leverage the skills of PAs and NPs in hospitalist practices. He’s regarded as an expert in the field, and has consulted and lectured extensively on this topic. Having practiced hospital medicine full time since 1997, Dr. Wilson is currently an associate professor of medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and serves as section chief of hospital medicine in the division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology. He has actively served on numerous hospital and medical association committees, as well as quality and healthcare effectiveness task forces.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN?

Medical and administrative directors of hospital medicine groups, private and multi-state management companies, chief medical officers, vice presidents of medical/clinical affairs, chief nursing officers and nurse administrators, hospital administrators, allied health professionals, department chairs, division chiefs and hospital medicine section chiefs and program directors, medical staff professionals, hospitalists, PAs and NPs, non-hospitalist physicians, hospital compliance officers, recruiters, consultants

YOUR MATERIALS PACKET

In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this Webcast, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and take-home items. These materials are provided with PDF links.

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