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EDPMA Membership Newsletter
January 2020
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January 2020 Articles:
- EDPMA Solutions Summit 2020 Registration is OPEN!
- EDPMA Board of Directors Nomination Materials Due Friday (January 31st)
- Three EDPMA Committees Expand Their Jurisdiction - Please Join Us!
- Sponsor the 2020 EDPMA Solutions Summit!
- Remember All of the Fun at EDPMA's 2019 Solutions Summit?
- We've Moved, Please Update Your Records
- Would You Help Us Grow Our Membership?
- New Member Spotlight: Sycamore Independent Physicians
- Welcome New Members!
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EDPMA Solutions Summit 2020 Registration is OPEN!
T
he Emergency Department Practice Management Association (EDPMA) is Pleased to Invite You to the
2020 Solutions Summit!
Join us at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel, Nashville, TN,
May 3-6
, 2020,
for the premier conference for those in the business of emergency medicine!
 The 2020 EDPMA Solutions Summit offers in-depth educational sessions on the issues facing those managing an emergency department, emergency physician group, billing company, or other business that supports the emergency department. Learn solutions to the issues you face every day and network with both new and familiar business partners.
This Year:
- EDPMA committee workshops will be held on Sunday, May 3rd, and are open to all registrants (including nonmembers and exhibitors). Learn more about EDPMA's advocacy on surprise billing, Medicare reimbursement, prudent layperson, improving quality, improving practice management and more.
- Regular educational sessions are Monday and Tuesday, May 4-5, 2020. Sessions will center around the theme of fine tuning emergency medicine. Session topics will include leadership topics, trends in healthcare spending, surprise billing, opiod crisis, coding, APMs, and more.
- Wednesday morning, May 6th, is chock full of 30-minute presentations in quick succession on a wide variety of emergency medicine topics. These accelerated sessions will provide a taste of current issues in areas such as leadership, audits, rural healthcare, and much more.
Learn more and register here!
We Look Forward to Seeing All of You in Nashville in May!
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EDPMA Board of Directors Nomination Materials
Due Friday
(January 31st)
You still have time to run for the EDPMA Board of Directors! All nomination materials and dues payments must be received by FRIDAY, January 31st! Soon, 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 need 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 (This Friday)
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The current Board is listed below. Board seats that will be open in the 2020 election are marked with an
asterisk
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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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Three EDPMA Committees Expand Their Jurisdiction - Please Join Us!
We highly recommend you join an EDPMA Committee. Committee membership is one of the unique benefits of the association. You will have direct access to experts, have the opportunity to shine as a leader, and network with important people in the business of emergency medicine. All you need to do is tell EDPMA staff you would like to join. Join one today!
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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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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Remember All of the Fun at
EDPMA's 2019 Solutions Summit?
Enjoy the video below! Don't forget to join us this year with the leaders in the business of emergency 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 is now open! |
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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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: Sycamore Independent
Physicians
Sycamore Independent Physicians allows facilities to contract directly with elite, independent and dedicated locums doctors. Sycamore will match you with the highest quality, board-certified ER doctor as possible. About 90% of Sycamore doctors are invited back after their first assignment! For more information on Sycamore Independent Physicians, please visit www.sycamoredocs.com.
Excerpts from a conversation with Larson Hicks, CEO
Larson Hicks joined the company in May 2018 as CEO after eight years in an economic data software company with increasing responsibilities in sales, product management and marketing. Later, in a bio-tech company, he was responsible for strategic hospital partnerships. Sycamore founder and CMO, Dr. Hamad Husainy, hired Larson to increase Sycamore's impact on physicians and groups and grow Sycamore into a national brand.
In the old locums model, the incentives are misaligned - success for a locums company (high fees to groups and low pay rates to doctors) works against the success of both groups and doctors. Sycamore is focused on bringing the financial incentives for all parties into alignment by being transparent and charging a low, flat fee.
Sycamore Physician Contracting has exhibited at EDPMA's Solutions Summit for the past three years and plans to exhibit again at the 2020 Summit Larson explained that his very first day on the job at Sycamore, (actually a few weeks before his official first day), he attended a Solutions Summit conference. He said, "it couldn't have been a better way to get started. I connected with several people that I still work with today." Larson explained that the networking at EDPMA events, especially at the Solutions Summit, is an important opportunity to meet face-to-face with many leaders in the emergency medicine community. It's an opportunity to talk to people directly, hear their concerns, listen to the conference sessions and the issues under discussion. And, the ongoing information provided by being an EDPMA member, such as the weekly ED newsletter and monthly Advocacy and Membership newsletters, are chock full of information and keeps them up-to-date on their client's and prospect's concerns. And, Sycamore believes that a physician becomes more valuable to their groups/facilities when they are educated about the challenges in the specialty and the concerns facing the EM community.
Larson commented that he is especially concerned with the challenges facing emergency medicine at rural hospitals and facilities.
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Welcome New Members!
EDPMA would like to welcome three new members this month:
ConsensioHealth, Wauwatosa, WI
Professional Emergency Physicians P.C., Fort Wayne, IN
Tower Health, West Reading, PA
We look forward to working with you!
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