Wednesday
November 15, 2023

4:00 to 6:00 PM

6:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Cybersecurity Awareness For Healthcare Organizations

Rich O'Keefe
YourTechTeam

This session will cover the following:

• The Current Cybersecurity Threat Landscape and Healthcare
• Antivirus vs Endpoint Detection & Response
• Today’s Target – End Users
• Ransomware Attack Demo Video
• How Being HIPAA Compliant Bolsters Your Cybersecurity Defenses
• Things That Your Organization Can Do
• Q&A

Biomarker Legislation

Donna Greco
Government Relations Director
American Cancer Society

Cori Chandler, MPA

Join the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network to learn what biomarker testing is and why it’s important to patients. We’ll also provide information on our legislative efforts in PA and around the country to improve access to this innovative testing, which can open the door to precision medicine, resulting in improved patient quality of life and survival outcomes.

Practice Benchmarking and Cost Accounting

Ricky Newton
Community Oncology Alliance

This session will review the most dynamic benchmarking and cost accounting software in the industry that is free for everyone. After 7 years of development and listening to practice users, you will learn how to utilize import tools that make it much quicker and easier to put data into software and then to be able to see up to over 2,000 benchmarked reports. You will also be able to automatically have your income statement broken down into cost per CPT code with full costs and breakeven cost which excludes provider salaries and benefits. There is no other real time benchmarking software anywhere and cost accounting software that allows you to know your exact costs for performing all services in your practice.

Fountain Lobby

Keynote Speaker 

Shawn Reilly Simmons
Author

Shawn Reilly Simmons is the author of seven novels in the Red Carpet Catering mystery series featuring Penelope Sutherland, chef-owner of a movie set catering company. She’s also written several short stories which have been published in various anthologies, including “Burnt Orange” in Passport to Murder: the 2017 Bouchercon Anthology; “The Prodigy” in Mystery Tour, the Crime Writers’ Association Anthology; and “Now is the Hour” in Writers Crushing Covid-19.

Shawn will focus on:

Staying Positive During a Health Crisis
How to Manage a Creative Career with a Cancer Diagnosis
Finding Inspiration During the Hardest Times
Writing as Therapy for Everyone
Physical and Mental Health Balance from a Patient's Perspective

Capitol Hill & Beyond: Update on Oncology Policy

Ted Okon
Community Oncology Alliance

This will be a complete update on key issues impacting oncology providers, including pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), Medicare physician payments, cancer drug shortages, the 340B drug discount program, and more late breaking updates.

Starlight Terrace Ballroom

All are invited but registration is required.

The Role of Financial Navigation Services Within Your Practice and the Multifaceted Benefits

Dan Sherman
The NaVectis Group

After a cancer diagnosis, patients and families face many stressors, including the possibility of significant short-term and long-term financial harm. Rising premiums, deductibles, coinsurance, and co-payments for oncology treatments, expose patients and families to significant out-of-pocket (OOP) healthcare spending. These direct medical costs, in combination with the indirect costs such as a reduction in household income, increased household expenses such as travel, nutrition and health insurance premiums, create a perfect storm for financial devastation. However, unlike clinical toxicities, financial toxicity is a potentially devastating consequence of cancer that patients have often been left to manage on their own.

Improving cost communication between patients and the provider is essential to truly address patients’ and families’ financial issues.  To do so practices  must either collaborate with outside organizations that have expertise in financial counseling or invest in internal financial navigation resources to provide consistent and proactive financial support to all patients at the beginning of their diagnosis. However, in practice, the work of financial navigation frequently falls on poorly trained staff who do not have the  knowledge to be able to offer the expertise needed in dealing with the complexities of financial toxicity.

The benefits of a Financial Navigation Program are substantial.  Not only can it reduce patients' financial burden and increase profit margins, but it can also alleviate patient distress, improve access to care, and improve patient satisfaction scores.  As the stressors of Financial Toxicity in the oncology setting continues to grow, cancer programs should explore the current health of their financial advocacy program and evaluate if improvements are needed.

Oncology Reimbursement - Getting Ready for 2024!

Michelle Weiss
Weiss Consulting

Overview of the latest regulations, policies and reimbursement changes specific to oncology services that occur in 2024.  This includes changes in coding, billing, documentation requirements and reimbursement.

Solve the Audit and Recoupment Mystery

Karlene Dittrich
Med Revenue Solutions LLC

Over the past 10+ years recoupments and offsets have become the #1 denial tactic by various insurance companies. We are seeing an increase in medical record or audit requests.  Are they valid???  In a “Rapidly Changing and Unstable Healthcare Reimbursement Environment,” protecting insurance revenue and your organization has never been more vital or challenging!  It is not uncommon for Payors and their 3^rd party vendors to use non-compliant and misleading requests to gain access to medical records and insurance revenue attached to the associated claim payments. Stop leaving money on the table.  When protecting earned revenue, the best defense is a good offense utilizing a compliant and strategic approach to circumvent problems and gain leverage against payer financial challenges.

Vendor Breakdown

Conclusion and Closing Remarks

Cliff Goodman
Lisa Smith

POHMS Member Business Meeting and Raffles

(POHMS members only please)