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Track: Policy and Finance
- Acute Hospital Care at Home
- Foundations of Essential Hospital Financing
- Medicare Funding of Residency Training: New GME Rules in 2021
- State Perspectives on Current Health Policy
Maryellen Guinan, Esq.
Principal Policy Analyst
America’s Essential Hospitals
Colleen Hole, BSN, MHA, FACHE
Vice President, Atrium Health Hospital at Home Administrator
Chief Nurse Executive, Atrium Health Medical Group
Stephanie Murphy, DO
Medical Director
Atrium Health Hospital at Home
Co-Medical Director
Atrium Health Mobile Integrated Health
Medical Director
Atrium Health Transition Services
Kristen D.W. Morris
Senior Vice President and Chief Government Relations Officer
Atrium Health
Acute Hospital Care at Home is an expansion of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Without Walls initiative launched in March 2020 as part of a comprehensive effort to increase hospital capacity and maximize resources in response to COVID-19. CMS has indicated it might look to expand the program by allowing more hospitals to participate. Essential hospitals interested in future iterations of this program can join this session to learn about the status of federal policy developments related to Hospital at Home programs and to learn from an essential hospital with a successful Hospital at Home program underway.
Sarah Mutinsky, JD, MPH
Deputy Washington Council, America’s Essential Hospitals
Founding Senior Advisor, Eyman Associates PC
Medicaid provides critical funding for essential hospitals. The joint role of the federal government and states in defining how Medicaid pays providers, and the source 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.
Lori Mihalich-Levin, JD
Partner
Dentons US
Jim Anderson, MD
Assistant Dean of Graduate Medical Education
Oregon Health & Science University
Impending physician shortages, particularly in underserved communities, make the growth of medical residency programs critical to the future health of our country. Several significant legal developments in the world of Medicare graduate medical education funding occurred in 2020 that affect existing teaching hospitals, as well as hospitals that wish to become teaching hospitals.
This session will cover everything from regulatory changes related to COVID-19 and funded positions awarded from the closed Hahnemann University Hospital to the yearend legislation that added new funded slots, corrected the so-called “resident rotator” problem, and reduced administrative burden for rural training track programs.
Gabe Roberts
Senior Strategic Advisor
Sellers Dorsey
Mari Cantwell
Director, California Services
Sellers Dorsey
Facilitated by:
Erin O’Malley
Senior Director of Policy
America’s Essential Hospitals
Join former state-level Medicaid leaders and experts from our conference sponsor, Sellers Dorsey, for a facilitated discussion about state health policy trends for 2021 and the potential impact of the Biden administration. The session will explore diverse state perspectives on topics of interest to essential hospitals, including state budgets, telehealth, coverage, and Medicaid.
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, combating structural racism, culture change, reducing employee burnout, and climate resilience.
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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