Blueprint for the Medical Home
Conference on Practice Improvement
December 4-7, 2008 Hyatt Regency Savannah Savannah, Ga
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The Future of Family Medicine project has changed the way we look at our practices. This applies to residency program High-Impact Plenary Sessions practices, multi-specialty practices, as well as the solo practice. • “From Theory to Practice: Partnerships for Making the Medical Home Work”—Rhonda Medows, MD, 2008 Conference Highlight: FAAFP, Commissioner, Georgia Department of • Collaborative teams and exemplary methods of patient Community Health empowerment • Importance of technology in practice to all • “The Patient Centered Medical Home: An • Blueprint “Basics” for the Medical Home Educational and Practice Challenge” — • Advanced Concepts Greg Pawlson, MD, MPH, Executive Vice President, • Medical Team Focus National Committee for Quality Assurance, Washington, DC 2008 Conference Topics: • “Evidence, Technology, and the Patient-centered • group visits Home”—Mark Ebell, MD, MS, Director, Predoctoral • advanced access Education, Medical College of Georgia • patient education and self assessment • EHR readiness and selection • quality improvement • quality recognition Thought-provoking Seminars, Lectures, Papers, and • the idealized micro practice Posters • team care Participate in a variety of CME/CEU seminars, lectures, paper presentations, and network with research and scholastic poster Target Audience presenters. Gain practical skills to increase patient satisfaction • physicians and assure high quality care. Take away team strategies for your • faculty practice, residency program, or primary care setting. • residents • medical students Hands-on, Skill-building Preconference Workshops • physician assistants • “Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Simplicity” • nurse practitioners • “Conference on Practice Improvement Learning • nurses Collaborative: A Partnership With TransforMED” • medical assistants • pharmacists Educational Poster Displays and Exhibits • social workers View colleagues’posters and learn about new programs, • patient educators products, and research. Visit with industry exhibitors and family • certified health education specialists medicine residency programs to pick up helpful materials and • dieticians resources for practice improvement and patient education. For complete exhibit information and application to exhibit, visit Conference Goals www.stfm.org/pec. (1) Offer practical skills, information, and resources that will enable attendees to create the patient centered medical home Unlimited Networking Opportunities in their offices. Share your ideas and strategies with other primary care educators (2) Enhance interdisciplinary education and team and practice team members who share a common interest in the development that supports practice improvement, and new family medicine medical home. produces optimal self-management support. (3) Encourage the creation of interest groups and networks for the exchange of good ideas and best practices in the transformation of outpatient medical care.
2 Conference on Practice Improvement Conference Schedule At-a-Glance
Thursday, December 4 1–5 pm Preconference Workshops (See page 5 for additional information.) PR1: “Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Simplicity” —Tom Weida, MD, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pa PR2: “Conference on Practice Improvement Learning Collaborative: A Partnership With TransforMED” 5:30–6 pm First-time Attendees’ and Presenters’ Orientation 5:30–7:30 pm Opening Reception with Exhibits and Poster Session
Friday, December 5 7 am–5:30 pm Conference Registration 7–8 am Continental Breakfast With Exhibitors and Poster Presenters 7 am–3:15 pm Exhibits and Posters Open 8:15–9:45 am Plenary Session: “From Theory to Practice: Partnerships for Making the Medical Home Work”— Rhonda Medows, MD, FAAFP, Georgia Department of Community Health 9:45–10:15 am Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall 10:15–11:45 am Concurrent Educational Sessions 11:45 am–12:45 pm “Build a Lunch” With Exhibitors 12:45–5:30 pm Concurrent Educational Sessions 3–3:15 pm Refreshment Break: Last Chance to Visit Exhibits 6:30 pm Dine-out Groups—Make New Friends Over Dinner (sign-up sheets will be posted at the conference.) 6:30–9:30 pm Optional Session: “Improving Children’s Health by Addressing Family Tobacco Use” (See page 5 for additional information. No additional fee.)
Saturday, December 6 7 am–5 pm Conference Registration 7–8 am Continental Breakfast With Special Interest Roundtables 8:15–9:45 am Plenary Session: “The Patient-centered Medical Home: An Educational and Practice Challenge”— Greg Pawlson, MD, MPH, National Committee for Quality Assurance, Washington, DC 9:45 – 10 am Refreshment Break 10 – 11:30 am Concurrent Educational Sessions 11:30 am–12:45 pm Lunch On Your Own 12:45–4:45 pm Concurrent Educational Sessions 3–3:15 pm Refreshment Break 5–6:30 pm National Advisory Committee Meeting (Closed Meeting)
Sunday, December 7 7 – 11 am Conference Registration 7:30 – 8 am Coffee/Muffin Service 8 – 9:30 am Concurrent Educational Sessions 9:30 – 9:45 am Refreshment Break 9:45 – 11 am Plenary Session: “Evidence, Technology, and the Patient Centered Home”—Mark Ebell, MD, MS, Medical College of Georgia 11 am Conference Adjourns
2 Conference on Practice Improvement Questions? Contact Priscilla Noland at (800) 274-2237, Ext. 5410 or [email protected] 3 General Conference Information
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CME/CEU Credit Application for CME credit has been filed with the American Academy of Family Physicians. Determination of credit is pending, and will be available in October. Hyatt Regency Savannah 2 West Bay Street, Savannah, Ga 31401 Registration Reservations: (912) 238-1234 or (800) 233-1234 Register by November 7 and SAVE! (After Nov. 7, registration Online reservations: fees increase an additional $75.) Your registration fee includes: all http://savannah.hyatt.com/groupbooking/savrssotm2008 educational sessions (except preconference workshops), Thursday Conference Rate: $155 single/double (plus taxes) evening reception, breakfast and lunch on Friday, breakfast on Saturday and coffee-service on Sunday morning. To register, visit Make your reservations today! www.stfm.org/pec or www.aafp.org/pec.xml. Be sure to make your reservations before November 13 to receive this special group rate. Rooms at this rate may sell out Cancellation policy quickly, so book early. Rates do not include state and local All written cancellations received by November 10 will receive a sales tax. Reservations must be guaranteed for late arrival with full registration refund. Written cancellations received November a credit card. Cancellations must be made at least 72-hours 11-28 are eligible for a 50% refund. No refunds will be made for prior to arrival date. Check-in time is 4 pm; check-out time is cancellations received after November 28. Noon. The conference rate is available 3 days prior to and 3 days following the conference, based on space availability at the Disclaimer time the reservation is made. If conference attendance exceeds In the unlikely event that this meeting is canceled, AAFP and expectations, rooms in the conference block may be sold out STFM are not responsible for fees registrants may have spent on prior to the cut-off date. Please make your reservations as penalty or non-refundable airline tickets or hotel deposits. soon as possible to ensure your preferred accommodations. As a helpful reminder, request a confirmation number when o Y kf ij 1 OGF L I : F EE : k F E D G8: k making your hotel reservations. And in the unlikely event The Conference on Practice Improvement will attract family that you have to cancel your reservations, please ask for a physicians, residents, nurses, health care professionals, and cancellation confirmation. corporate health care partners who have a keen interest in products and services for practice improvement. Interested Child care in exhibiting? Contact Priscilla Noland, Exhibits Manager at Contact the Hyatt Hotel’s concierge desk at (912) 238-1234 for a (800) 274-2237, Ext. 5410 or [email protected]. Don’t wait — complete list of bonded & licensed services in Savannah. space is limited, and the exhibit hall will sell-out quickly! Call Priscilla today or visit www.stfm.org/pec and click on “View the Air Travel Exhibitor Prospectus.” Need help booking your air travel? Call Passport Travel (STFM Travel Desk) at (800) 417-2902 from 9 am to 5 pm, Monday Conference Host City through Friday. SAVANNAH – one of the great historic cities of the South. In fact, their Web site even boasts, “Est. 1733.” And, they’re also Ground Transportation proud to say they are more friendly than formal in Savannah. Taxi service is available between the airport and hotel for Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, Savannah will approximately $25 one way. (Savannah does not have a public welcome you with true Southern hospitality, just as they’ve been shuttle service, and private shuttle service rates begin at $65 per welcoming guests for 275 years! Hip and historic, robust and person, one-way.) refined, Savannah is where you’ll find amazing architecture, spooky cemeteries and rich history—along with global Car Rental sophistication, funky nightlife and fabulous food. It’s where Book your rental car with this year’s conference official rental history resonates into the present day, and where memories are car agency, Budget Rent A Car System, Inc. Conference rates still being made. Begin planning your memories by exploring the begin at $48 per day or $176 per week. Special weekend rates official Savannah Convention and Visitors’ Web site at begin at $27 per day. Make your reservations at (800) 772-3773 www.savcvb.com. or www.budget.com. Use the conference discount code during
4 Conference on Practice Improvement Preconference Workshops
Thursday, December 4 ongoing implementation and successful transition to the medical 1–5 pm home practice. 3. Communicate a basic understanding of the requirements for PR1: “Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) practice recognition as a patient-centered medical home. Simplicity” 4. Create an understanding of the integrated care management Tom Weida, MD, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pa process. 5. Formulate a plan for assessing the practice’s current stage Increase practice revenue by thousands of dollars a year. CPT of medical home readiness and develop a plan for further coding and proper documentation are critical to running a implementation of the elements of the model. successful practice – unfortunately, many practices under-code. Others put themselves in jeopardy by not documenting properly Additional Fee: $325; See page 15 to register. for how they code visits. Proper coding and documentation of visits does not have to be time consuming or complex to achieve Friday, December 5 accurate results. 6:30-9:30 pm This workshop will focus on proper CPT coding for evaluation and management codes and proper documentation to support Optional Session: Improving Children’s Health by that coding. Additional codes that are helpful in an office setting Addressing Family Tobacco Use will also be presented, such as coding for tobacco cessation Dana Best, MD, MPH, Smoke Free Project/Children’s National counseling. Medical Center, Washington, DC; Jonathan Klein, MD, MPH, Participants in this workshop will participate via an audience AAP, Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence, Rochester, NY; response system, and will be polled on coding examples both Saria Carter Saccocio, MD, Floyd Family Medicine Residency, before and after didactic material. Rome, Ga Learning Objectives: Children exposed to secondhand smoke are at increased risk 1. Participants will learn an easy approach to CPT coding that of serious health effects such as asthma, upper and lower will minimize under-coding and enhance revenue. respiratory infections, and sudden infant death. In this interactive 2. Participants will learn documentation techniques essential to session, national tobacco cessation experts will lead participants proper CPT coding. through evidence from the new 2008 PHS clinical practice 3. Participants will learn about new CPT codes for services that guideline and the 2006 Surgeon General’s Report on secondhand can be performed in the office. smoke and its implementation in practice. Additional Fee: $95; See page 15 to register. Participants will learn: 1–5 pm 1. Effective ways to educate parents and caregivers on the effect their tobacco use has on children. PR2: Conference on Practice Improvement Learning 2. Counseling strategies to promote smoke-free homes and cars. Collaborative: A Partnership With TransforMED 3. The role of medications in tobacco cessation. 4. Creating and implementing practice systems to identify and Terry McGeeney, MD, Elaine Skoch, RN, MN, CNAA, EMBA, treat tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure. Diane Cardwell, ARNP, PA-C,TransforMED, Inc., Leawood, Kan 5. Applying plan-do-study-act quality improvement methods The Conference on Practice Improvement, in cooperation with to implement and evaluate system changes to support tobacco TransforMED, Inc., has developed a program that will provide control interventions. a “face-to-face” networking opportunity for practices who want to learn more about the TransforMED patient-centered AAFP recognizes educational content medical home model. This program will also provide ongoing based on information from evidence- communication with each other and provide the opportunity to based sources as value-added CME. have coaching from TransforMED facilitators. As an additional Increased credit is pending for the benefit, you will also be exposed to the collaborative learning evidence-based CME presentations in style which, when combined with the experience, tools, this activity and will be confirmed to learners at the event.” and expertise of the TransforMED facilitators, provides the No Additional Fee. See page 15 to preregister. Light food and foundation for maintaining the success of the TransforMED refreshments provided. NDP. This new program offers you a “jump-start” on the TransforMED process, and provides resources for making the needed changes within your practice. Learning Objectives: 1. Identify the elements of a patient centered personal medical home. 2. Articulate the importance of the foundational components of leadership, teamwork and communication to the development,
4 Conference on Practice Improvement Questions? Contact Priscilla Noland at (800) 274-2237, Ext. 5410 or [email protected] 5 Plenary Sessions
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