Welcome to the California Health Care Leadership Academy!
With federal health reform fast becoming not just fodder for debate, but a concrete reality, a transformation of the health care marketplace already is under way. The closer collaboration and increased quality and cost accountability demanded by the Affordable Care Act are accelerating a trend of decline in under-resourced independent medical practices, many of which are being acquired by hospital-dominated integrated systems. Health plans also have been on the move to gain control of physician practices, and thereby a larger piece of a shrinking pie. Who will survive, who will control and who will succeed in the realignment of the health care delivery system?
Consonant with the California Health Care Leadership Academy’s mission of helping physicians and practice managers better understand and manage leading-edge developments in the evolving health care marketplace, this year’s conference has been designed to provide both information and tools to help meet the challenges of this brave new world. Continuing the Academy’s standard of programming excellence, the presentations and workshops will be an invaluable resource in guiding practices as they navigate the new environment.
Who Should Attend
- Physicians and nurses in private, group or academic practice and in administrative and management positions
- Medical practice managers
- Hospital chiefs of staff, MEC members, senior administrators and board members
- Medical group and health plan administrators and board members
- Medical and specialty society officers, executives and committee members
- Private- and public-sector health policy analysts, program administrators and consultants
- Health law attorneys
- Medical students and residents
- Consumer/patient advocates
Why You Should Attend
- Prepare for changes affecting your practice, your profession and your economic future
- Learn techniques to minimize financial risks and boost the bottom line
- Acquire skills needed to excel as a medical practice or medical staff leader
- Network with your colleagues
- Earn 18.25 hours of Category 1 CME credit
What You Will Learn
At the conclusion of this program, you should be able to:
- Assess how new and pending changes in health care that are driven or accelerated by federal reforms may affect your practice.
- Describe new or redefined relationships between physician practices, hospital systems and health plans that are necessitated by current changes in health care.
- Prepare for health care delivery and financing innovations developed under the auspices of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Center for Innovation.
- Employ new or enhanced leadership skills to better manage a medical practice, medical staff or other organizational entity, and other members of the health care team during times of flux created by these external changes.
- Prepare your practice/organization for implementation of the California Health Benefit Exchange and the potential influx of newly insured patients into the health care system.
- Understand the impact of health reform implementation on California health care workforce needs.
- Interpret claims data to identify areas to improve quality of care and efficiency of practice.
- Demonstrate how to use portable mobile devices vis-à-vis requirements of the Health Insurance and Portability and Accountability Act.