Preliminary Program registration - Renal Physicians Association

preliminaryagenda continuedFriday, March 18 (continued)• Managing the Uninsured Patient (practice managers)Learn techniques for the business of being able to findappropriate resources for uninsured patients and determinethe most appropriate tools or mechanisms for managing thesepatients within the practice environment.Marc Leib, MDCoding and Billing Basics (for fellows only)Gain a basic understanding of the mechanisms of appropriatecoding and billing standards and the documentation requiredto support these claims.Richard Hamburger, MD3:45 pmRefreshment Break in Exhibit Hall4:30 pmConcurrent Workshops• How Do you Measure Quality in DialysisRepeated8:00 amGeneral Session IIILeadership Skills & Trends for Nephrologists• Opening RemarksFranklin Maddux, MD• Brian Ling Lecture: Patient Care in the Ageof Evolving TelehealthHow will technology influence how patients interact withthe health delivery system and optimize the ability for morecontinuous contact and monitoring of patients with fewerasynchronous health delivery system interactions betweenpatients and their caregivers?John Glaser, PhD• Incorporating Performance Risk intoYour PracticeUnderstand that performance risk is part of the evolutionof value-based purchasing and that developing populationmanagement tools will allow a practice to look at incorporatingperformance risk through pay for performance, shared savings,accountable care organizations and capitated risk.Franklin Maddux, MDmARCH 17-20, 2011 Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC• Interventional NephrologyRepeated• Saving Veins, Saving LivesLearn how to develop a strategy for preparing and preservingnative blood vessels for dialysis vascular access.Marcia Silver, MD• Achieving Meaningful Use in Your Practice(practice managers)Learn how to create a process within the practice to access thefunding under the HITECH Act and achieve meaningful useof health information technology.Speaker to be confirmedAnemia Management in ESRD (for fellows only)Speaker to be confirmed6:00 pm & 7:00 pm• Practice Managers’ Reception – 6:00 pm• PAC Reception – 6:00 pm (invitation only)• AAKP Dinner – 7:00 pm (ticket required)saturday, march 197:00 am• RegistrationContinental Breakfast served in Exhibit Hall• Health Care Payment – Open Committee Meeting• Clinical Practice – Open Committee Meeting• Reducing Catheter Use in HemodialysisPatientsReview techniques and expectations of nephrologists to reducecatheter use in patients on hemodialysis and the efforts thatRPA has implemented to promote a global understandingof the various roles and responsibilities of nephrologists,surgeons, dialysis providers and hospitals.Edward Jones, MD10:00 amRefreshment Break in Exhibit Hall10:45 amGeneral Session IVThe Impact of Implementing Health Reform• Managing Your Kidney Patient Population:How do you measure up?Understand the differences between providing administrativemedical oversight to populations of patients versus managingindividual patients under nephrologists’ care.Paul Paleusky, MD• What is the Impact of ESRD Bundling onNephrology Practice?This panel will discuss issues related to the effectiveimplementation of the bundle and its impact on hownephrologists oversee end stage renal disease care andmedical direction of dialysis facilities.Moderator: Chester Amedia, MDPanel: Jeffrey Hymes, MD; Mahesh Krishnan, MD;Brigitte Schiller, MD• Presentation of Special Recognition andPatient Safety Improvement Awards8