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EDPMA Membership Newsletter
December 2019
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December 2019 Articles:
- EDPMA Webinar is TODAY, 1pm EASTERN, on the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rule
- Three EDPMA Committees Expanded Their Jurisdiction - Please Join Us!
- Nominations Now Accepted for EDPMA Board of Directors
- EDPMA's RCM Workshop: New Models, New Revenue, New Tools
- Sponsor the 2020 EDPMA Solutions Summit!
- The Deadline for 2020 EDPMA Membership Dues is Fast Approaching
- We've Moved, Please Update Your Records
- Remember All of the Fun at EDPMA's 2019 Solutions Summit?
- Would You Help Us Grow Our Membership?
- New Member Spotlight: d2i
- Urgent Matters Blog and More
- CMS Announcements
- Save the Date: 2020 Solutions Summit
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EDPMA Webinar is TODAY, 1pm EASTERN, on the
Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rule
Don't delay; register now! The webinar is today! The Emergency Department Practice Management Association (EDPMA) is offering a webinar today, from
1-2pm Eastern, on the final rule issued in November on the 2020 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. This webinar is free to members.
The webinar will be led by EDPMA's consultant, Bob Jasak. Mr. Jasak is the VP for Coverage and Payment Policy with Hart Health Strategies.
How To Register for the Webinar:
- For step-by-step directions, please click here. In order get the member discount code, you must enter your email address where it asks for the discount code). You must create an account with CommPartners before you can register for the event.
- You must create an account with CommPartners before you can register for the event. To begin the registration process click here.
- If you have registration issues or questions, please contact Paul Gerard at (703) 506-7675) or [email protected].
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Three EDPMA Committees Expanded Their Jurisdiction - Please Join Us!
The Provider Enrollment Committee is expanding into a wide variety of new areas and becoming the new
Practice Management Committee. The
Practice Management Committee will:
- gather examples and compile data on claims that illustrate problematic payer behavior; and
- address a wide variety of issues including provider enrollment, contracting, APM's, legal matters, finances, rural health, and parameters for operational excellence. The committee may work on developing data-driven best practices for EDPMA members to implement.
If you are interested in these issues or, if you are the best individual to collect examples of problematic payer behavior, please contact Michael Dole at
[email protected] to join the committee!
EDPMA's
Education Committee will now oversee workshops, webinars, and the EDPMA/EMRA sponsorship program, and will develop EDPMA's fellowship program.If you would like to join this committee, please contact Michael Dole at
[email protected].
EDPMA's Membership Committee is expanding to become the
Membership and Marketing Committee. If you are interested in helping EDPMA's membership grow and develop its marketing initiatives, please contact Elizabeth Mundinger at
[email protected].
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Nominations Now Accepted for EDPMA
Board of Directors
In
February 2020, the Designated Company Contact for each member organization will have the opportunity to vote for the EDPMA Board Members who will serve on the Board from
2020-2022. The EDPMA Board has a staggered membership with two-year terms. In 2020,
13 of the
19 Board Seats will be open. The organizations that currently hold these seats may run for reelection.
EDPMA Board Responsibilities. We encourage you to think about nominating your organization, big or small.
Please note, the member organization - not the individual - holds the seat on the Board. However, nominating materials also ask for information on the individual who will represent the organization on the Board.
When you fill out your Candidate Statement and Questionnaire, please type your answers to the questions into the form (only typed responses will be accepted, please no hand writing). The required forms needs to be received by EDPMA as typed Microsoft Word documents and not as a PDF.
Deadlines are strictly enforced. All nomination materials plus your 2020 dues must be submitted to
[email protected] no later than
Friday, January 31, 2020.
Election's Process:
- Your organization's 2020 EDPMA dues must be paid before January 31, 2020, in order to be placed on the ballot.
- Nominations will be accepted through January 31, 2020.
- In February, the election will take place. Only the Designated Company Contact will be able to vote.
- Voting results will be announced prior to the 2020 Solutions Summit.
The current Board is listed below. Board seats that will be open in the 2020 election are marked with an
asterisk.
Executive Committee:
Vituity: Bing Pao, MD, FACEP, Chair
*BSA Healthcare: Jeffrey Bettinger, MD, FACEP, Vice Chair
*Brault: Andrea Brault, MD, MMM, FACEP, Immediate Past-Chair
Emergency Care Specialists: Don Powell, DO, FACEP, Chair-Elect
*R1: Jackie Willett, CHBME, Treasurer
*TeamHealth: Aron Goldfeld, JD, MBA, At Large
EPOWERdoc, Inc.: David Ernst, MD, FACEP, At Large
St. Vincent Emergency Physicians: William Freudenthal, MD, FACEP, At Large
Zotec Partners: Ed Gaines, JD, At Large
Other Board Members:
*Acute Care, Inc.: Paul Hudson, MBA, MHA, FACHE
*CIPROMS Medical Billing, Inc.: Andrea Halpern Bryan
*Edelberg & Associates: Caral Edelberg, CPC, CPMA, CCS-P, CHC, CAC
*Envision Healthcare: Bob Kneeley
*Gottlieb: Shanna Howe
*Medical Coding Solutions: Mark E. Owen
*Reimbursement Technologies, Inc.: Gary Gelbart, MBA
Rev4ward, LLC.: Juli Forde
*SCP Health: Randy Pilgrim, MD, FACEP
*US Acute Care Solutions: L. Anthony Cirillo, MD, FACEP
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EDPMA's RCM Workshop: New Models, New
Revenue, New Tools
EDPMA's Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Workshop in
Las Vegas
,
Nevada
, in
early December
was a big success.
6
0 attendees heard from presenters who shared the latest developments in revenue cycle management during the
two-day
workshop.
Additionally, at least 200 more people joined EDPMA's live Twitter feed where we shared the session on Surprise Billing with the public.
On the first day,
Bob
Jasak
presented new changes for the 2020 Medicare Final Rule
and strategies on how
emergency provider g
roups
and revenue
cycle managers can
i
mplement the Advanced APM Acute Unscheduled Care Model (AUCM)
. Dr. Alder and Ed Gaines
presented an overview of activity around surprise billing and out-of-network (OON) reimbursement. Dr. Amy Mecozzi presented
economic
data
helpful for
advocacy and Dr. Caraballo
recapped
advocacy at the state level and the impact of
OON laws that have already been implemented.
On the second day,
Shanna Howe
presented
effective strategies on
negotiating
and contracting with payers.
Dr
. E
d Gaines, Mark Owen
and Dr. Adler
ended the workshop in lightening rounds on
the latest
RCM
issues related to telehealth.
Thank you to all speakers, sponsors, and attendees for making this EDPMA workshop so successful. Join us in July 2020 for the next EDPMA workshop!
Thank you to our sponsors!
Evening Reception
:
Breakfast:
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Sponsor the 2020 EDPMA Solutions Summit!
Raise your corporate profile with a powerful audience of emergency medicine physician group executives and their business partners at the
Emergency Department Practice Management Association's Solutions Summit,
May 3-6,
2020, at the
Renaissance Nashville, Nashville, TN. The EDPMA's Solutions Summit is the premier conference for those in the business of emergency medicine. It offers in-depth educational sessions on the issues facing those managing an Emergency Department, billing company, or other business supporting emergency medicine. Learn solutions to the issues you face every day and network with both new and familiar business partners. For exhibiting and sponsorship opportunities, please review our
2020 Sponsorship Prospectus to see what is available.
Act Now -- sponsorships are selling fast!
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The Deadline for 2020 EDPMA Membership Dues
is Fast Approaching
It's that time of year again when EDPMA members are asked to renew their EDPMA membership. Membership dues payments are due on
December 31, 2019. The invoices were sent via regular mail to the designated EDPMA representative for your group or company. Follow-up invoices will be sent via email. If you are not the designated EDPMA representative, please let them know that you appreciate your membership and would like them to renew.
As a reminder, your group or organization can not be placed on the upcoming Board of Directors ballot unless your dues are up-to-date. Additionally, up-to-date members qualify for registration discounts for the 2020 Solutions Summit. EDPMA looks forward to working with all of you in 2020!
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We've Moved, Please Update Your Records
EDPMA is excited to announce that we have moved to new offices that will allow staff to serve you better. EDPMA's new address is
7918 Jones Branch Drive, Suite 300, McLean, VA 22102.
EDPMA's New Contact Information:
Phone Number: (
703) 506-7675
Email: all
staff emails will remain the same
EDPMA encourages you to update your records with our new address.
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Remember All of the Fun at
EDPMA's 2019 Solutions Summit?
Enjoy the video below! Don't forget to join us next year with the leaders in the business of emeegency medicine. About 80% of EDPMA attendees are C-Suite or managers. This is THE event for high-level networking:
Registration for EDPMA's 2020 Solutions Summit opens in January. |
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Would You Help Us Grow Our Membership?
We appreciate your membership in EDPMA. We have a request --> would you help us grow our membership? More members would mean more financial resources for more federal and state advocacy, help with problematic commercial payers, networking events, and education. We represent the business of emergency medicine, so please send the names of your business partners, clients, and friends, including emergency physician groups, RCM/billing and coding companies, scribes, lawyers, management companies, companies providing data analytics or financial software, and more.
Please send your referrals to Joanne Tanner, Membership Coordinator, at
([email protected]), and include the company/group name, contact name (including email and telephone, if possible), city and state information. And, if it's a personal connection, let us know if we can use your name. Of course, let us know if you have any questions!
PLUS, if one of your referrals ultimately joins, you may qualify for a discount on your 2020 dues!
Thank you very much for your help!
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New Member Spotlight: d2i
d2i's leadership has been delivering performance analytics and dashboard solutions in Emergency Medicine for 20 years. They pull data from more than 250 hospital EHRs and integrate it with billing, hours, and patient satisfaction data to deliver a 360
degree view of the Emergency Department (ED). Their data warehouse has over 25 million unique ED visits and today it is growing at a rate of 20,000 ED visits a day. d2i's services include performance analytics and dashboards for Emergency Medicine, Hospital Medicine, MIPs, and Revenue Cycle Management. If you are interested in learning more about d2i, please click
here.
Excerpts from a conversation with Scott Richards, Co-Founder, CEO
By 2010, when d2i was founded, founders Scott Richards and Jonathan Rothman already had over 20 years of combined experience working with Emergency Medicine physician leaders to develop and deliver performance analytics for EDs. They are quick to point out that their key differentiator is that their experience and their solution are "products of the space" and that they work hard to be sure their solutions and services are continually evolving by incorporating best practices. Scott also likes to point out that "our passion and commitment to serving Emergency Medicine emulates the passion we witness every day in our client's commitment to their patients, practice, hospital, and community."
Scott was introduced to EDPMA in the early 2000's when he was working as CIO for a large ED physician group. Since launching d2i in 2010, d2i has exhibited at every EDPMA Solutions Summit. d2i decided to become an EDPMA member in 2019 to strengthen its support and commitment to EDPMA, its mission, and to serve its members.
Scott explained that one of the many benefits of EDPMA he appreciates is the coverage and information on critical issues and actions taking place in the legislative arena for Emergency Medicine at the State and Federal levels. d2i needs to stay current on the issues and concerns its clients face. Scott said that EDPMA's forward thinking approach, extensive information resources (such as the newsletters and action alerts) provide excellent summaries and talking points that are very useful. Scott pointed out that d2i's VP of Business Development, Alan Eisman, was able to use EDPMA's talking points to get an appointment with his Congressman and deliver EDPMA's message about how to approach surprise billing.
Scott sees another key benefit of EDPMA membership is the opportunity to become more involved with a focused and passionate group of professionals working together. Scott said, "EDPMA's Solutions Summit is a small, intimate gathering compared to other events...people are approachable and interested in having a real discussion." He also likes that "you can usually find folks later on at the bar if you want to continue your conversation or just have a friendly beer."
d2i will be exhibiting at the 2020 Solutions Summit in Nashville, TN (May 3-6).
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Urgent Matters Blog and More
EDPMA is a member of the Urgent Matters Editorial Board and contributes webinars and other educational material to this important collaborative group. As a member of EDPMA, you can access these resources for free. You can access the blog, podcasts and more through the links below:
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Here are some CMS links of interest:
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Save the Date: 2020 Solutions Summit
Don't miss Solutions Summit next year! EDPMA looks forward to seeing all of you in Nashville, TN, May 3-6, 2020.
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