Webinars

Earn contact hours and stay on top of all the latest in the field of patient access with NAHAM's webinars!

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NAHAM has now launched its Knowledge Development Center, an interactive learning management system full of the latest educational opportunities including on-demand webinars. 

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Closing the Loop - Healthcare's eticket Transforms the Revenue Cycle and Patient Experience
May 1, 2013 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EDT - Recording to be posted soon
Presented by Katherine Murphy, CHAM

Patient Access begins at the physician office. Learn how automated physician orders (eTickets) begin the transformation of the patient encounter. eTickets impact patient safety, regulatory compliance, denial reduction, resource consumption, medical necessity, eligibility, patient throughput and patient satisfaction. With intelligent rules-based applications Healthcare Financial Managers can close the loop! Connect orders, patient tracking, bed reservations, scheduling, pre-service clearance, referrals, results and clinical decision making for continuity of patient care. There are solutions that can transform workflows for registration-centric efficiencies and for patient-centric care.

The Power of Innovative Patient Engagement and Self-Service
June 4, 2013 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. EDT
Sponsored by QuadraMed

 For your patients, self-service is not just a convenience. It's a necessity. It's what we as consumers expect—and is what will drive your patient loyalty and bottom line. On Tuesday, June 4, join QuadraMed client, Jason Petrasich, Senior Director, Operations Planning at Conifer Health Solutions for a special webinar. Mr. Petrasich will discuss how several Tenet Healthcare hospitals rely on innovative patient engagement technology to reduce registration time and costs, boost efficiency, and improve patient satisfaction. With 49 hospitals and 117 outpatient centers, Tenet Healthcare Corporation is one of the largest investor-owned health care delivery systems in the nation.

Hear about the impressive results QuadraMed's intuitive point-of-service and web patient engagement solutions deliver at Tenet hospitals. Learn how Tenet empowers patients to easilycheck themselves in for service, verify demographic and insuranceinformation, complete forms, make payments, schedule appointments,and much more.

Learn more about QuadraMed at www.quadramed.com.

CLICK HERE to register.

Readmissions Management: The Canary in the Reimbursement Coal Mine
Sponsored By: SCI Soluctions
February 21, 2013, 2pm EST
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In October 2012, CMS began reducing Medicare reimbursements to hospitals with excess readmissions relating to congestive heart failure (CHF), acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and pneumonia (PN). Defining and implementing a strategy for your hospital to reduce the number of avoidable readmissions is critical to the financial stability of the hospital and a patient's health.

Learn how McLeod Health, a five hospital system in Florence, SC, leveraged SCI care coordination tools to successfully reduce preventable AMI readmissions at their health system and mitigate their risk of incurring potential penalties.

Co-sponsored by NAHAM, this webinar delivered impactful strategies that you can implement at your facility, including, how to:

• Develop a customized post-discharge workflow strategy by patient condition that improves patient compliance
• Design robust reporting and analytics function that allows hospitals to track and manage full continuum of discharge care
• Improve patient satisfaction and client service
• Increase departmental productivity and overall employee satisfaction

Presented by Lesli Kennedy,Associate Vice President of Case Management,McLeod Health.

Contact Hours: 1.0

Access this webinar on-demand today by clicking here.

Financial Engagement at Patient Access: A Model for Collecting Early and Often 
Sponsored By: RelayHealth
Recorded: January 16, 2013 

While patient engagement is a hot topic, the focus is nearly always clinical. But when Patient Access financially engages with patients, they can reduce staff workload, enhance patient satisfaction and increase collections.

An HFMA report recently acknowledged, "The best chance to improve the revenue cycle is at the beginning of the process– when first capturing data while scheduling and registering patients.ⁱ”

Learn how to leverage process changes and tools that will improve the revenue cycle at pre- and point- of-service – and create a payment system that is optimal for both your team and your patients!

1) Discover a four-part framework for implementing financial patient engagement

2) Learn tips for implementing difficult process and culture changes to help ensure success

3) Review best practices and lessons learned from hospitals that have implemented financial patient engagement

Presented by John Holyoak,Director of Product Management and Teri Bemis, Senior Manager of Product Management at RelayHealth.

Contact relayhealth@relayhealth.com for information on accessing the webinar recording.

Contact Hours: 1.0
 
ⁱ 2009 HFMA Educational Report: Optimizing Patient Access. Accessed online at http://www.hfma.org/Templates/InteriorMaster.aspx?id=2664

Patient Access: The Quest for Greatness

This presentation chronicles the journey we have taken over the past three years to change the culture and path of the Patient Access field. The focus is directed toward changing the perception of Patient Access as a profession. We will highlight specific areas of focus; such as Leadership, Past and Current Roles of Patient Access (and how this affects applicants), New Employee Onboarding, Continuing Education and Development of seasoned employees, and Building Succession and Developing Leaders from within the Patient Access Departments.

Presented by Elizabeth Hand, BS, ML, CHAM, Access Learning Consultant, INTEGRIS Health

Contact Hours: 1.0

Patient Identification in Healthcare
Sponsored by M2SYS
FREE Webinar: Earn 1 Contact Hour

Nancy Farrington, Enterprise Master Patient Index Administrator with Main Line Health, in Broomall, PA, joins NAHAM Business Partner M2SYS to discuss patient identification. Nancy has over 30 years of experience in patient access and is a former National Association of Healthcare Access Management (NAHAM) board member.

Topics covered in the podcast include:

1. What is the #1 challenge right now in patient identification?

2. What is the role that accurate patient identification plays in the healthcare industry's patient safety strategies?

3. What is the real risk of patient misidentification?
a. How big of an issue are duplicate medical records right now? Has NAHAM ever conducted studies on the average duplicate rate or the cost of duplicates?

4. What are some things that can be done to prevent patient misidentification?

5. What are some of the issues regarding patient identification across healthcare information exchanges?

To listen to this podcast now, click here.

Please note that there is an accompanying PowerPoint deck available at this link, as well.

Additionally, to earn one contact hour towards your CHAA or CHAM certification, click here to take our quiz after you listen to the podcast.

Joint Commission Survey Toolkit Webinar

Participating in a Joint Commission survey can be challenging and overwhelming in terms of the information needed by the healthcare access staff to be successful in the tracer methodology, group tracers, or in an audit situation. NAHAM, with the guidance of the Policy Development/Government Relations Committee, recently launched a members-only Joint Commission Survey Toolkit to help you and your facility prepare for your next Joint Commission Survey. The toolkit consists of a preparedness checklist, question set, case studies, "what if” scenarios, and other tools to help access professional navigate these audits.

Creating a Pre-Arrival Unit to Improve Cash Collections and Reduce Denials

This session will demonstrate the impact of a consolidated pre-arrival unit, designed to achieve contact with 100% of scheduled registrations. An important component of the unit is an automated insurance verification tool, which includes processes to provide patient information, answer patient questions, and collect patients' out of pocket financial obligation. The pre-arrival process focuses on preregistration, insurance verification, preauthorization of services and the opportunity to collect pre-service. This process ensures information is up-to-date and the patient is well informed prior to arrival. Outcomes achieved to date: Reduced DNFB to 3.7%, Increased cash as a % of net revenue to greater than 100%, Decreased denials to less than .25% of gross revenue, and Maintained cost to collect at less than 3%.

Learning Objectives:

· Implement a pre-arrival unit to increase POS collections, decrease patient wait times/ increase patient satisfaction and increase data accuracy.

· Create a continuous feedback loop throughout the revenue cycle to reduce errors and rework.

· Include key performance indicator measurements in a monthly dashboard and develop action plans for key strategic performance indicators.

Contact Hours: 1.0

First Impressions: A Successful (and measurable) Admissions Department Customer Service Program

How children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, MO set the expectation for staff to deliver exceptional customer service and implemented programs in a measurable way. Customer service became integrated in the daily culture as it was added as part of the annual staff evaluations, a full day customer service retreat was created as a mandatory component of department training and 50+ objective metrics were identified to put a "score" to someone's customer service delivery.

Customer service delivery is an essential function for Access Personnel to carry out each day. Access Personnel are often the first face patients and families see when they begin their hospital visit and first impressions are invaluable. Often there is much emphasis on the technical and quantifiable of the Access Representative role and the communicative skills are not evaluated. This presentation will demonstrate that it is possible to affect customer service delivery style by setting clear expectations and providing tools for staff to make them successful.

Learning Objectives:

· Define customer service in an objective and meaningful manner and evaluate staff accordingly.

· Educate their front line staff to what specifically is expected of them for customer service delivery.

· Implement programs to promote positive interpersonal communication and enhance the patient experience.

Contact Hours: 1.0

Key Ingredients for Employee Retention in Patient Access

Patient Access Departments across the country struggle to retain staff. This presentation will share the process of the Corporate Patient Access Management Team at Carolinas HealthCare System have developed to reduce turnover, increase employee satisfaction, and retain employees.

Learning Objectives:

· Identify ways and means to improve the recruitment and hiring process utilizing skills testing and peer interviewing.

· Define possible gaps in current training processes and outline core classes that could improve training and retention.

· Recognize and be able to explain how to design an incentive program.

Contact Hours: 1.0

Maximizing Performance in Patient Access

Presented by Jeanne Day

This presentation will cover Greater Baltimore Medical Center's journey to improve up-front collections by implementing tools to monitor and measure insurance verification and eligibility, collections, registration accuracy and productivity. Detailed examples of the improvements that were made including but not limited to increased co-pay collections, implementation of staff incentives, insurance verification on every registration, address verification, quality checks to prevent common registration errors and denials using an integrated patient access tool, will be shared.

Learning Objectives:

• Have ideas for maximizing the performance in their Patient Access departments.
• Understand the process for selecting a quality assurance system.
• Take home ideas for implementing performance-based incentives for registration staff.

Contact Hours: 1.0

Training...Once Is Never Enough

Education of the front line staff has a major impact on the revenue cycle. In the past, many of us used the "once and done" method where staff development ends with orientation. With the constantly changing health care and regulatory arenas, that does not work. Quarterly training and testing on the hot topics like MSP, Red Flag, Fraud, Duplicate MRN's, Customer Service are just a few items that make a major impact on our bottom line. Conducting continuing education improves staff confidence, error ratios and gives them the opportunity to give feedback on what they want to review in order to perform their position to the fullest. There was measurable improvement.

Learning Objectives:

· Identify the areas of education/training

· Develop a training program that will define the areas of education

· Summarize the impact on employee satisfaction

Contact Hours: 1.0

Performing With Excellence in the HCAHPS Environment

Presented by Jerry Wesley, CCDP, Sr. Management Consultant, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation

Sponsored by NAHAM

This topic introduces healthcare professionals to the HCAHPS Era. It highlights the unique role diverse workforce relationships play, in ensuring that patient access to care result in satisfying patient care experiences. The significance of the HCAHPS Era is that for the first time in the history of the healthcare industry the Medicare portion of financial reimbursements are now attached to patient satisfaction. This paradigm shift in reimbursement thinking impacts care givers at all levels of care. HCAHPS is an acronym for Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems and it represents the new healthcare currency for the 21st century.

Join us to learn from their experience how they achieved these benefits and lessons learned.

Do not miss this opportunity to gain valuable insight and earn one contact hour from this timely webinar.

To receive the contact hour, you must register and attend the event.

Contact hours: 1.0