Strive for Five Forum: Preparing for Payment Reform and Value Based Payments4/5/20189am4pm
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Topics of the Day:
- AHCCCS/ALTCS Leadership: Thoughts on Payment Reform, VBP & Partnerships
Hear from Arizona’s three Medicaid managed care plans in an informal conversation about their perspective on current challenges and opportunities in partnerships in care and payment.
- Medicare Advantage National Trends and Opportunities for Providers
Every year CMS provides direction to the MA Plans regarding payment, and policy – AHCA will offer insight on how this may impact plans and providers and their operations.
- Medicare Alternative Payment Methods and Unified PAC
CMS and its Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is aggressively moving ahead with alternative payment methods including bundling and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)- hear more on this front, along with information about the IMPACT Act and a unified post-acute payment system.
- Medicare FFS and Resident Classification System Version 1
CMS has laid out a new skilled nursing facility prospective payment system (PPS) concept which is intended to replace the existing RUGs IV called the Resident Classification System, Version 1 (RCS-1) – understand how this will impact other payers including Medicaid and Medicare Advantage (MA) Plans.
- AHCCCS and the Role of Value Based Payment
The state of Arizona is increasingly focusing on requirements for VBP contracting and outcome- based care. Hear directly from AHCCCS about ideas and projects in the works across the continuum.
Speakers:
David Gifford, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President, Quality & Regulatory Affairs, American Health Care Association
Mike Cheek, Senior Vice President of Reimbursement Policy, American Health Care Association
Narda Ipakchi, Senior Director of Managed Markets, American Health Care Association
George Jacobson, Project Manager, Payment Modernization, AHCCCS
Jesse Eller, Executive Director, Long Term Care and Medicare, United Healthcare Community Plan
Sue Benedetti, RN, BSN, ALTCS Administrator, The University of Arizona Health Plans/ Banner University Family Care
Nancy Wexler, DBH, MPH, Director, Innovation and Collaborative Care University of Arizona Health Plans/
Banner Health Network
Chad Corbett, MPA, HS-BCP, Vice President, Long Term Care, Mercy Care Plan
Up to 5.5 CEUs through the NCIA Board
Lunch provided to all attendees
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