Contracting With Medicare Advantage Managed Care Plans

When the federal government outsources its payment responsibilities to commercial health plans, providers often see the result in "All Payer Agreements" that do little to address the nuances of Medicare Advantage program participation. Learn realistic tips to more effectively evaluate your agreements, like which terms should be limited to Medicare Advantage program participants and not to all other lines of the payers' business. Work with a checklist to ensure every contract meets your needs and can be administrated by your PFS staff.

Who Should Attend

• Contract Managers and Negotiators
  
• Revenue Cycle Staff and Managers
  
• Medical Group Practice Administrators

About the Presenter

Maria K Todd, MHA PhD

Executive Director of the HRI

Maria Todd is the Founder of HRI and serves as its Executive Director. With more than 30 years in health care and combined health plan, clinical, health administration and health law paralegal and mediation professional work experience, Maria Todd is a veritable tour de force when it comes to managed care and contracted reimbursement training. Dr Todd is an Advanced Member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA).  She has been named an HFMA Distinguished Speaker for every year that she has presented, and is a 2006 recipient of HFMA's Muncie Gold Award. She serves on the Editorial Board of HCPro's Managed Care & Contracted Reimbursement Advisor and has hundreds of journal articles, interviews and white papers to her credit. She is the author of The Managed Care Contracting Handbook (1996), IPA, PHO, MSO Development Strategies (1997), the Physician Employment Contract Handbook (1999), and is about to release 2^nd Editions of each of these titles with Taylor and Francis in 2009, as well as new titles on Global Health Care Program Development and The Medical Tourism Facilitator's Handbook, slated for release in 2009.  Dr Todd has trained more than 50,000 students and seminar participants in over 2600 seminars, lectures and audiowebinars since 1989.  She has taught the 2-day Managed Care Contracting classes for the past 14 years for the HFMA and currently teaches contracting, integration and accreditation-related subject matter around the world for domestic and international healthcare providers seeking to establish contracted relationships with US and other Health Plans, Government Ministries and Employers.

Maria is an active member of HFMA, MGMA and the American Society of Training and Development.

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