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.

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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

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Program Manager at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual. You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.

Watch CME Webcast on Healthcare Financing

Watch our CME Webcast on Healthcare Financing. Once again, health care financing is undergoing a huge change in how physicians and hospitals are paid and now the group who will be affected is you. Here to give you an overview of health care financing in the United States is the Chief Financial Officer of the Wexner Medical Center and the Associate Vice President for Health Services at the Ohio State University, Michael Rutherford.

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 basic forms of payments for healthcare in the U.S.; Comprehend the “big picture” of U.S. healthcare costs and its implications on health reform.

You’ll also learn about the following:

• The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2011
• Initiatives at the Wexner Medical Center at the Ohio State University
• Accountable Care Organizations
• Healthcare reform and physician employment models
• Hospital winners and losers in healthcare reform
• The Affordable Care Act and primary care physicians
• Physician reimbursement from insurance companies
• U.S. versus Canadian healthcare systems

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Program Manager at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual. You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.