The conference for
essential hospital leaders.
Track: Policy and Finance
- Building the Value Case for Complex Care: The One Health Initiative
- Foundations of Essential Hospital Financing
- Leveraging Medicaid Financing to Address Health Care Workforce Shortages
- Medical Respite: Serving Medically Complex Patients Experiencing Homelessness
- State Trend: 340B
One Health is a program designed to serve medically and socially complex uninsured patients who are frequent utilizers of the emergency department at Regional One Health, in Memphis, Tenn. Evaluation of five years of data shows improvements in health, self-sufficiency, and utilization, as well as a significant financial return to the organization.
Speaker(s):
Susan Cooper, MSN, RN
Chief Integration Officer, Senior Vice President
Regional One Health
Medicaid provides critical funding for essential hospitals. The joint role of the federal government and states in defining how Medicaid pays providers, and the funding of those payments, creates both opportunities and tremendous complexity. This session will describe the fundamentals of the federal, state, and local roles in Medicaid funding and payments.
Speaker(s):
Sarah Mutinsky, JD, MPH
Founding Senior Advisor, Eyman Associates
Washington Counsel, America’s Essential Hospitals
Long-standing health care workforce shortages, worsened by the recent COVID-19 pandemic and rising labor costs, threaten Medicaid beneficiaries’ access to vital health care services. This session will highlight opportunities for essential hospitals to design and implement Medicaid financing initiatives to fund workforce investments. As a case study for the group, representatives will speak to lessons from GA-STRONG. This recently approved directed payment program supports increased Medicaid funding for select teaching hospital participants to support the stabilization, development, and diversification of the state’s health care workforce.
Speaker(s):
Tanya Boone
Managing Director
Sellers Dorsey
Brian Church
Chief Financial Officer/Chief Administrative Officer
Phoebe Putney Health System, Inc.
Matt Hicks
Senior Vice President
Sellers Dorsey
Serving a large share of medically complex patients who face homelessness, essential hospitals often leverage medical respite programs to ensure comprehensive care while simultaneously tackling capacity challenges. Through essential hospital case studies, gain an overview of medical respite programs and the policy and financing elements necessary to establish and maintain a program.
Speakers:
Dr. Yvonne Collins
Chief Medical Officer
Cook County Health
Julie Kozminski, MPH
Senior Policy Analyst
America’s Essential Hospitals
State policymakers have given the 340B Drug Pricing Program increased attention in recent years. This session will outline several emerging state policy trends within the program, including connections to the Medicaid program and laws banning recent discriminatory actions taken by pharmacy benefit managers against 340B pharmacies and covered entities. Join us to learn more about these trends and discover what’s next for the program.
Speaker:
Shahid Zaman, Esq.
Policy Manager
America’s Essential Hospitals
About Our Tracks
Sessions will focus on solutions to current public policy and financial issues unique to essential hospitals. Past topics have included Medicaid supplemental payments, waiver initiatives, telehealth policy, graduate medical education, and state-level 340B Drug Pricing Program policies.
Sessions will showcase new and promising programs that demonstrate groundbreaking initiatives in caring for vulnerable populations and ensuring equitable access to high-value care. Sessions may focus on innovative programs that integrate clinical practice into the health system’s overarching mission and goals, quality improvement, managing operations during a pandemic or other public health threat, and patient-centered care.
Sessions will target the hard and soft skills necessary to lead complex and evolving hospitals and health systems dedicated to serving their communities. Sessions may focus on lessons learned from leadership experiences and the importance of strategic partnerships, culture change, and reducing employee burnout.
Sessions will offer expertise on improving the health outcomes for a group of individuals by engaging internal and external stakeholders to serve community needs. Sessions may focus on leveraging policies and procedures at the hospital, local, state, and federal levels to support community well-being; innovative financing models; cross-sector partnerships; and aligning community benefit investment with population health efforts. Programs and practices that address social determinants of health and ultimately aim to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care will be highlighted.
Questions?
Contact us at events@essentialhospitals.org
America’s Essential Hospitals
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