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HBMA Board of Directors Conference Call December 20, 2006

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

1. The Board of Directors minutes from Friday, December 1, 2006 was approved. Motion: Rich Papperman motioned and Barry Reiter seconded. Discussion: Sherri Dumford informed the board of a procedural change. The secretary will review and revise minutes prior to distribution to the board.

2. Finance Report Ken Goodin informed the board that the report provided is not the final. HBMA is awaiting some invoices which will need to be accrued. The budget for 2007 is pending individual committee requests for funding for 2007 and will be presented in early January. Please note that future reports will have a new password. (hbma07fr)

3. SPS The HBMA Strategic Planning Session report was provided to the Board of Directors. It was noted that some members did not receive the report. ACTION: Sherri Dumford will resend the report to directors that did not receive the original email. ACTION: The Board of Directors will be asked to formally adopt the SPS Report with budgetary considerations on the January, 2007, call. ACTION: All Directors will review the entire plan and affirm their agreement or voice their objections about the SPS items by December 26th. Implementation of SPS objectives will be delegated to Committee Chairs.

4. Membership in CORE MOTION: Bing Herald motioned that HBMA will join CORE. Randy Roat seconded. Motion passed.

5. Fall 07 Conference location Brad discussed the two locations for the fall 2007 conference; Bellagio, at the end of the month Sept 26-28, JW Marriott, September 9-11. Brad informed the Board that Holidays and Month end dates are creating scheduling difficulties. The Board instructed the Executive Committee to make the final decision on dates and hotel. The idea of sending a quick survey to the membership was discussed and will be executed.

6. AMA Agreement The American Medical Association requested that HBMA write an article relating to ownership of data once a billing service contract is terminated. HBMA desires to produce and provide more articles and is negotiating a contract with the AMA which will cover ownership and distribution rights of HBMA materials produced for the AMA. Brad Lund provided the most current draft revision for Board review. The Sub-Committee appointed to develop this contract is continuing to work on its structure and will have the final document available for the January Board call.

7. Master Calendar The Master Calendar is on the Development site and ready to populate. The Calendar will go live in January.

8. Call for Speakers A Call for Speakers has also been added to the Development site. MOTION: Julie Demerath motioned to approve the $600 fee to add the ‘Call for Speakers’ to the website. Rich Papperman seconded. Motion passed.

9. Committee Chair Meetings (budget requests for Committees) On January 8th and 9th each Committee Chair will share their budget requirements during 20 minute conference call with Sherri Dumford and Brad Lund ACTION: Sherri and Brad will send an email out to each Committee Chair and schedule these meetings.

10. Government Relations Randy Roat emailed to the Board the new log that the Government Relations Committee is working on and welcomes input from the Board. Sherri announced that she is developing a status log (HBMA Project Management Report) as well.

Andy Kokosa moved for adjournment and Randy Roat seconded.

Meeting adjourned.