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.

CME Webcast Explores Heart Failure

CME Webcast Explores Heart Failure. In this MedNet21 CME Webcast, we’re going to update you on the use of several different classes of medications as well as cardiac interventions in heart failure. Here with our moderator, Dr. Jim Allen, for today’s installment of on-line education is Professor and director of the division of cardiovascular medicine at Ohio State, Dr. William Abraham.

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What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to: DESCRIBE several options for the management of Heart Failure; RECOMMEND appropriate medications for the management of Heart Failure; UNDERSTAND the revised staging system for heart failure and APPLY evidence-based guidelines for heart failure management.

You’ll also learn about the following:

• Epidemiology of heart failure
• Initial testing in suspected heart failure
• Reducing 30-day readmissions for heart failure
• Questions you should ask patients with CHF every visit

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.