HBMA Board of Directors Meeting

HBMA Board of Directors Meeting Spring Conference Scottsdale, AZ March 8th, 2007

Present: Sherri Dumford, President Andy Kokosa Bing Herald, Past President Rich Papperman Randy Roat, Secretary Barry Reiter Ken Goodin, Vice President/President Elect Scott Everson, Treasurer Holly Louie Jackie Willett Patrick Lukacs Julie Demerath

Sherri Dumford, President called the meeting to order.

1. The Board of Directors The Board was asked to ‘talk outside the box’ with dialogue and participation during this Board Meeting. The book, 7 Measures of Success was distributed and the ASAE 2007 Association Now Volunteer Leadership Magazine was shown to the Board. ACTION: The ASAE magazine will be distributed to each Board member.

2. HASC-Levels of Membership Brad Lund reiterated the approval of $5,000 toward the HASC Association membership. ACTION: HBMA will review the HASC minutes and post pertinent information on the HBMA website ACTION: HBMA will also join the CORE Association.

3. HBMA Government Day Audio-Cast with Bill Finerfrock With the NPI file being released next week, has HBMA prepared our members enough in terms of what they need to be prepared for testing, resolution to your issues, the aftermath of not getting payments? HBMA will have to figure out the scope and content and how to navigate thru this MPI issue: a. What philosophically HBMA supports through legislation? b. What are the implications of the deadlines? c. What is going on at each state at a granular level? ACTION: Agenda item at the Government Relations meeting to have someone from the GR Committee be a speaker with Bill Finerfrock at the March 22, 2007 Audio-Cast.

4. Ingenix and other Affinity Relationships Andy Kokosa has talked with DHL and there are legal issues to deal with regarding association insurance still. ACTION: Andy Kokosa and Brad Lund will continue with the products and come back to the Board with recommendations for HBMA. ACTION: Survey Committee will create a Member survey asking are you part of Affinity Programs for example, registered with Moneris?

5. Expanding Related Association Relationships: Brad Lund lead a philosophical discussion on how are we serving our members, do we find value by reaching out to other associations? ACTION: ISAM will report to the BOD every month and add the agenda item “Strategic Opportunities” ACTION: Sherri Dumford will be meeting with other associations on Friday and will report back to the Board after the meeting.

6. Certification-CHBME-Where do we go from here? Cindy Rounds discussed the CHBME/CMBA Report in the Board books. The renewal process is taking place at this time and there is increased participation in Certification in CHBME and CMBA. ACTION: Cindy Rounds was asked to give an updated renewal report on the next Board call.

7. Speaker Book Sales and Speaker Responsibility Clause Rich Papperman shared the Education Committee’s new policies regarding selling books and speaker’s agreements regarding deadlines. Financial deductions have been added to encourage timeliness. MOTION: Bing Herald moved that we accept the revised speaker materials and Jackie Willett seconded with corrections.(If materials are not submitted by the deadline, HBMA will offer one warning and the speaker will be provided with a 5-7 days deadline to complete his/her submission of materials.) Passed.

8. Committee Goals & Workplans Each Committee Chair was asked prior to the Board meeting to present their key objectives for 2007 and to include how the Board and management can support these objectives. a) Ethic and Compliance - Holly Louie Working with Brad Lund to provide ‘hot links’ for the membership

b) Public Relations/ Branding Committee Andy Kokosa went over his report ACTION: Andy Kokosa to find out how do we review individual articles for marketing of educational materials and approve them.

c) Publications – Julie Demerath Currently building the committee and recruiting additional writers. d) Survey Company – Jackie Willett There are copies of the Medicare Contractor Provider Satisfaction Survey available on site at the Scottsdale conference. ACTION: Brad Lund will provide the number of respondents who have taken this survey.

e) HBMA SPS Bing Herald gave this report and reiterated that each committee should submit a “Progress according to plan” to the Executive Committee by June30. MOTION: Bing Herald moved that the Board accept this HBMA Stategic Planning Program and timeline as stated. Rich Papperman seconded. Motion Passed

f) Regional Report - Patrick Lukacs Regional chairs want to reduce the annual Regional Meetings from presenting 3 instead 5-6. State web-pages need standardization and to be populated which may require staff assistance.

g) Education - Rich Papperman Replace New Member Breakfast with New Member Packet for future meetings ACTION: Sherri Dumford and Patrick Lukacs will meet and discuss the HBMA PowerPoint presentation prior to the New Member’s Breakfast at the Scottsdale Conference.

h) Government Relations – Randy Roat “This is a great committee keeping productive and planning to expand the work and output they create.” MOTION: Bing moved to approve the minutes of February 21, 2007 as corrected. Holly Louie seconded. Motion Passed

9. The ISAM management contract The ISAM staff left the Board meeting for the Board to review the ISAM management contract.

Adjournment took place after this time.