Learn On-line about Healthcare Financing 101

Learn On-line about Healthcare Financing 101.  On this CME Webcast, we’re going to take a close-up look at how American healthcare financing works.  How Medicare sets its fees and how you are an integral part of the process that determines the Medicare fee schedule.  To do it, we’re going to take you to business school for Healthcare Financing 101. We’re absolutely delighted to welcome today’s guests to the studio with Dr. Jim Allen. First, we have Associate Professor and the Vice Chairman for Clinical Affairs for the OSU Department of Internal Medicine, Dr. Stephen Hoffmann.  Also joining us is the Chief Financial Officer for OSU Physicians, incorporated, the physician practice group at Ohio State, Richard Sobieray.

View a video introduction of this webcast

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to: UNDERSTAND the RUC, Relative Value Unit (RVUs), and Current Procedural Terminology (CPT); RECOGNIZE the components of a total RVU ; and DESCRIBE Patient Service Revenue and Gross Patient Service Revenue (GPSR).

You’ll also learn about the following:

• The RVU system
• Effect of Medicare reimbursement policy on commercial insurance
• The RVU system and physician specialty choice
• SGR: the Medicare sustainable growth rate controversy

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