4th NATIONAL MEDICAL BANKING INSTITUTE

February 22-23, 2006

Nashville, TN

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The Working Process at the National Medical Banking Institute

Background

The Medical Banking Project organized a series of educational forums over four years to research the latent convergence between financial institutions and the healthcare industry (see Roundtables, Telebriefings, Institutes), and isolate potential issues and opportunities in the following areas:

  Improving operational efficiencies in healthcare administration

  Compliance and public trust

  Improving liquidity in healthcare

  Improving healthcare access

  Identifying potential threats to our national healthcare system

Our platform of ideas were documented in White Papers and widely disseminated via trade journals and other venues. The White Papers were used to define five workgroups. Leaders from industry joined these workgroups and began the process of analyzing the White Papers in conjunction with attendees at our 3rd National Medical Banking Institute during facilitate breakout sessions. This resulted in a series of Industry Findings/Recommendations. The consolidated White Papers and findings/recommendations were then placed into a landmark publication: A Medical Banking Road Map for America, Version 1.

Working Process

During 2005, workgroups have broadened their respective work areas. We added a new workgroup focused on Health Savings Accounts. Finally, the workgroups have been organized around the C.O.M.B.A.T. Initiative. Specific deliverables relating to common industry goals have been integrated into our workflow process.

Workgroup Leaders will facilitate workgroup sessions at our 4th National Medical Banking Institute using the current year's work as a baseline. We will review subject matter, score industry progress related to last year's findings and seek consensus for a new series of recommendations/findings for 2006. The sessions are open to all attendees to provide a "sounding board" to our workgroup efforts. They are a rich source of information and represent a unique, facilitated learning environment for executives in government, commerce and academia. An outline of our sessions is as follows:

Facilitation

The Vanderbilt Center for Better Health will facilitate our working sessions. Coupled with workgroup leaders and subject matter experts, workgroups will complete assignments that result in a series of final observations and/or industry recommendations.

Workgroup Reports

Each Workgroup Leader will provide a 20 minute report on findings/recommendations during a plenary session on Thursday, February 23. Final recommendations will be placed into Version 2 of A Medical Banking Road Map for America and sent to appropriate government officials. We look forward to working with you to impact the medical banking industry at our Institute.