Introduction

John Casillas, founder of MBProject, will provide an overview of the 2005 Medical Banking Leadership Forum and define the tasks that the attendees will pursue. He will be joined by a facilitator from the Vanderbilt Center for Better Health.

HSAs@Work | A National Panel Series

This session will answer two questions: 

(1) How do we enable real time financial transaction processing in the HSA model?

(2) What should the MBProject HSA workgroup focus on in 2005/2006? 

Together with industry leaders we will review requirements for enabling HSA providers to implement real time financial transaction processes. We will map the business processes among the relevant stakeholders, identify key actors, isolate business issues and propose banking technology solutions to meet industry challenges.  We will then refine the HSA Workgroup mission, goals and deliverables based on our discussion and create a road map for 2005/2006.

Panel:

David Harris, Partner, National Healthcare Revenue Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers, New York, NY

Kirsten Trusko, Senior Manager of Financial Services, BearingPoint, McClean, VA

1. A members only meeting at the 2005 Medical Banking Leadership Forum
2. An online broadcast hosted by MBProject in Q4 2005
3. An onsite broadcast from the 4th National Medical Banking Institute in February 2006

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Better Practices for Healthcare | An Educational Series Focused on Medical Banking Interoperability

The panel will review the payment and remittance channels in healthcare, starting with payment by a health plan, going through paper and electronic banking systems and finally reaching the provider.  We will look at the key actors in each area, business models, medical and financial transactions sets used (i.e., CTX, 835, CCD+, etc.) and integration points.  We will drill down to key issues that must be resolved to create a seamless process (i.e., Straight Through Processing), and review emerging payment and remittance strategies that apply increasing value for end users.

Panel:

Tom Dean, CEO, Critical Technologies, Inc., Edmond, OK (moderator)

Michael Irvine, VP, Marketing, DP Solutions, Columbia, MD

Nav Ranajee, VP Business Strategy, LaSalle Bank | ABN AMRO, Chicago, IL

Barbara Mayerick, Director, CBO Business Development, Veterans Health Administration, Wash., DC

Nick Rosenstein, President & CEO, Interactive Payer Network, Cleveland, OH

LUNCH / NETWORKING

C.O.M.B.A.T. | Cooperative Open-source Medical Banking Architecture & Technology

The healthcare industry is entering a crisis mode even as efforts accelerate to reduce costs via technology. Over the past 9 months MBProject has worked with a group of open source/open standard advocates to develop a robust, real-time and highly scalable architecture that could revolutionize administrative and clinical messaging in healthcare. This initiative, dubbed C.O.M.B.A.T., is poised to "combat rising healthcare costs using medical banking principles and technology". It has already been embraced by some of the nation's largest employers and will now be formally launched at our Leadership Forum.

John Casillas, Founder & Executive Director, Medical Banking Project, Franklin, TN
John Hardin, Chief Technology Officer, MedAccess PLUS Health Informatics Network, Detroit, MI

Empowering the Community Safety-Net | Aligning Medical Banking Models with Community Healthcare Needs

MBProject has promoted the use of a medical banking platform to organize our national "community safety net". In this formula, called "Charitable Communities Network", banks drive the adoption of technology that supports real time administrative and clinical messaging. An update of our progress will be provided.

John Casillas, Founder & Executive Director, MBProject, Franklin, TN

3:30 -

4:30

Healthcare Interoperability Using Financial Systems | An Update on Case Studies and Pilot Programs

Card-based systems can dramatically simplify "ramping" onto our national "medical internet"for all provider types. Programs that illustrate the potential to do this are beginning to manifest in the marketplace. We will look at two organizations that are implementing card-based technology for addressing the need for point of service electronic healthcare records in America.

Chris Young, Sr. VP & CIO, St. Thomas Health Services, Nashville, TN

Steven Spady, DO, Founder, M.A.P. Family of Companies, Manchester, KY