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Education/Networking
Health Care Finance
See also sessions under practice management.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
8:30 am – 10:00 am
S2035 Creating Leverage in Contract
Negotiations With Payers
Most pediatricians do not have the training or
experience necessary to successfully negotiate a
fair contract with private payers. This session will
demonstrate some of the resources available and
provide pediatricians with the knowledge they need
to be prepared and obtain the best possible contract
with payers.
Faculty: Richard Oken, MD, FAAP; Kathleen Cain, MD, FAAP
Sponsored by the Committee on Child Health Financing and Section
on Administration & Practice Management
PLENARY SESSION
10:50 am – 11:10 am
P2058 The Primary Care Physician—An
Endangered Species
Change or Die The world of primary pediatrics
has changed over the past few decades from a
focus on treatment to focus on prevention, to the
separation of inpatient from outpatient medicine,
and to the emergence of competing health care
disciplines. Changing generational values, the
evolving pediatrics workforce, the explosion of
medical information and technology, the vagaries
of economic reimbursement, the concern for
patient safety and the push for evidence based
medicine and systems-based practice also contribute
to change. As we examine the forces and
factors that have produced this change, we can
determine what it will take to promote ensuring
the primary care physician as the central person
of first and consistent point of patient contact
versus enabling other “survival of the fittest” disciplines
to take over pediatric primary care.
Faculty: Richard Oken, MD, FAAP
Sponsored by the Committee on Child Health Financing
Hematology/
Oncology
Saturday, October 2, 2010
7:00 am – 8:00 am
X1006 Placental Cord Blood Harvest and
Storage for Future Transplantation—What
the Pediatrician Needs to Know
In 2007 the AAP issued a policy statement
titled, “Cord Blood Banking for Potential Future
Transplantation” (Pediatrics 2007 119:165-170), but
a recent survey documented that few pediatricians
were aware of its content. This session will review
the potential uses for umbilical cord blood and discuss
the recommendations made in the 2007 policy
statement (available online http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;119/1/165)
Faculty: Bertram Lubin, MD, FAAP
Sponsored by the Section on Hematology/Oncology
Monday, October 4, 2010
8:30 am – 9:15 am
F3058 Evaluation of the Child With a
Possible Bleeding Disorder
Minor bleeding such as epistaxis and easy bruising
are common complaints during childhood. While a
complete blood count, prothrombin time (PT), and
partial thromboplastin time (PTT) are often used to
screen such children for a bleeding disorder, they are
relatively insensitive to hematologic conditions such
as von Willebrand disease and platelet dysfunction.
The PT and PTT are also commonly performed prior
to surgical procedures, and if abnormal the child is
often referred for further evaluation. This session will
review the role of these and other hemostatic tests
in the evaluation of the child with bleeding manifestations
or who is scheduled for a surgical procedure.
Faculty: George Buchanan, MD, FAAP
Sponsored by the Section on Hematology/Oncology
Home Health
Sunday, October 3, 2010
SECTION/COUNCIL PROGRAM
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
H2067 Section on Home Care Program
The AAP Section on Home Care hosted the organization’s
sole Parent Advisory Group, led by nationally
influential parents and family members of children
with special health care needs. Faculty members
from the Parent Advisory Group and experts
in family-centered pediatric practice across the
spectrum of care will present successful models
of family-pediatrician partnerships that innovate,
enhance, and promote improved care through the
medical home model. Attendees to this session
will learn how these partnerships are central to the
care of all children beyond the traditional domains
in which they have been applied in the care of
children with special health care needs and those
who are medically fragile. Such partnerships operate
successfully at the level of a single practice,
a system or practices, or a large medical center
and are applicable across the range of health care
financing systems. Session participants will learn
how to create, strengthen, and advocate for these
partnerships in their own places of work and soon
enjoy the benefits of providing improved care that
is more satisfying and more profitable.
Faculty: Julie Beckett; Christine Sajous, MD, FAAP;
Xavier Sevilla, MD, FAAP
Sponsored by the Section on Home Care
Monday, October 4, 2010
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
S3082 Financing the Medical Home
Explore measures that can be implemented into the
medical home in a financial viable model. This session
will offer a real-life how-to experience while viewing
the pros and cons.
Faculty: Xavier Sevilla, MD, FAAP; David Tayloe Jr, MD, FAAP
Sponsored by the Committee on Child Health Financing and Medical
Home Implementation Project Advisory Committee
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