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Upcoming Conferences
For more information, please contact Hal Prink, FHFMA, Office Manager at 720-277-7813.
A calendar of upcoming national and local HFMA conferences is shown below. As program information, agendas and registration forms become available, they will be downloadable from this page (in PDF format).
FEB23
Compliance Conference - Marriott Denver South at Park Meadows, Lone Tree, CO
February 23rd - 24th, 2012
MAR9
Joint AAHAM & HFMA Conference - Saint Joseph's Hospital, Denver , CO
March 9th, 2012
APR18
Annual Conference - Marriott Denver South at Park Meadows, Lone Tree, CO
April 18th - 20th, 2012
JUL24
4th Annual Rural Road Show
July 24th, 2012 - Medical Center of the Rockies, Fort Collins, CO
July 26th, 2012 - Parkview Medical Center, Pueblo, CO
July 27th, 2012 - Valley View Hospital, Grand Junction, CO
SEP20
Great Fall Rural Conference - Historic Hotel Colorado, Glenwood Springs, CO
September 20th - 21st, 2012
Past Conferences
JAN12
Uninsured Conference - The Children's Hospital, Aurora, CO
January 12th, 2012
Conference presentations (password required to download):
- Keynote Presentation: Healthcare Public Policy: What's Wrong and What We Can Do About It
by Dick Lamm, Co-Director of the Institute for Public Policy Studies at the University of Denver, and the former three-term Governor of Colorado — Download (PDF file) - Medicaid and CHP+: Recession, reform and results, and what the data tells us about uninsured Coloradans
by Jeff Bontrager, Senior Research Analyst with the Colorado Health Institute, Denver, CO — Download (PPTX file) - Update on the Provider Fee
by Nancy Dolson, Manager, Safety Net Programs Section, Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, State of Colorado — Download (PPTX file) - Charity Care Reporting Changes and Impact on the Medicare Cost Report
by Chad Krcil, Healthcare Consulting Director, RSM McGladrey, Denver CO; and Kim Harrison, Healthcare Directory, RSM McGladrey, New York, NY — Download (PPT file) - The Medically Uninsured in Rural Colorado
by Alan Spidel, CEO, Colorado Rural Health Center — Download (PPTX file) - Medicaid Update
by Sean-Casey King, Manager, Fee-for-Service Rates Section; and Susan Mathieu, Program Development Specialist, Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, State of Colorado — Download (PPTX file)
DEC1
All Payers Day - The Children's Hospital, Aurora, CO
December 1st, 2011
SEP21
Great Fall Rural Conference at the Historic Hotel Colorado, Glenwood Springs, CO
September 21st - 23rd, 2011
Conference presentations (password required to download):
- Health Reform: A National Problem Requiring Local Solutions
by Michael J. Pramenko M.D. — Download (PPTX file) - Health Reform: A National Problem Requiring Local Solutions
by Dr. David West — Download (PPTX file) - HealthSouth: The Wagon to Disaster
by Aaron Beam — Download (PPTX file) - HIPAA / Compliance Panel — Download (PPTX file)
- Home on the Range…and in the Clinic: The Patient Centered Medical Home in a Rural Context
by Marc Ringel, MD / University of Colorado School of Medicine — Download (PPTX file) - Improving Operational and Reimbursement Performance for Financial Success in a Critical Access Setting
by Ralph J. Llewellyn, CPA, CHFP / Partner Eide Bailly, LLP — Download (PPT file) - Leveraging the Revenue Cycle in Uncertain Times
by Mike McDonald, Manager / RSM McGladrey — Download (PDF file) - Overview of Colorado Medicaid, Health Care Reform Policy Implications, Opportunities for Innovation
by Jed C. Ziegenhagen / Director, Rates and Analysis Division, Colorado Dept. of Health Care Policy and Financing — Download (PPTX file) - St. John's Mercy - The First 120 Days After the Tornado
by Anthony Mwangi — Download (PPTX file) - The Colorado Health Care Affordability Act
by Tom Nash, Vice President of Financial Policy / Colorado Hospital Association — Download (PPTX file) - The Final Countdown to ICD‐10
by Kristi Stanton, RHIT, CCS, CPC / Haugen Consulting Group — Download (PDF file) - Washington Update: Reform, the Deficit, and Implications for Rural Providers
by Chad Mulvany, FHFMA / Technical Director, HFMA — Download (PPTX file)
AUG26
Charge Master One Day Workshop - St. Joseph Hospital, Denver, CO
August 26th, 2011
Conference presentations (password required to download):
- 2011 Revenue Code Manual
Excellence In Hospital Billing and Reimbursement LLC / CPT Codes © American Medical Association / Updated August 2011 — Download (PDF file) - Revenue Code Card
Download (Word file)
JUL27
Engaging Healthcare Reform Attitudes at High Altitudes Region 10 Conference, Denver, CO
July 27th - 29th, 2011
JUL20
4th Annual Rural Road Show - Pueblo, Fort Collins, and Glenwood Springs, CO
July 20th, 21st, and 22nd, 2011
Conference presentations (password required to download):
- Implications of ICD-10: Preparing your organization for major change
by Michele Olivier CPC CPMA / Pinnacle Healthcare Consulting — Download (PPT file) - Point of Service Collections
by Leslie Richard / Centura Health — Download (PPT file) - Positive Patient Identification and Patient Access
by Desiree Jamison, CHAA, Patient Access Manager and Juanita Littlepage, CHAM, Patient Access Application Coordinator / Children's Hospital Colorado — Download (PPTX file) - Quality Customer Service
by Terri Boettcher, Vice President of Collections / BC Services, Certified ACA Instructor — Download (PPTX file)
APR21
Annual Conference at the Marriott Denver South at Park Meadows, Lone Tree, CO
April 21st - 22nd, 2011
Conference presentations (password required to download):
- 2011 GAAP Update by Mark Belfance, Partner and Brandon Eggleston, Senior Manager / Ernst & Young — Download (PDF file)
- Bending the Cost Curve: Jane Phillips Medical Center EideBailly — Download (PPTX file)
- Evidence-Based Revenue Cycle Improvement by Suzanne K. Lestina, FHFMA, CPC, Director, Revenue Cycle MAP / Healthcare Financial Management Association — Download (PPT file)
- Health Care Reform Implementation in Colorado by Lorez Meinhold, Deputy Policy Director / Office of Governor John W. Hickenlooper — Download (PDF file)
- Health Care Reform Initiatives From a Physician Practice Perspective / Centura Health — Download (PPT file)
- Improving Healthcare Payment Posting Through the Effective Use of Technology by Jo Pearce Manager, Cash Control, Centura Health and Pete Wheeler, CTP Senior Vice President Wells Fargo Bank, NA / Centura Health — Download (PDF file)
- An Industry in Transition: U.S. Healthcare Economics by Ralph E. Lawson, FHFMA, CPA Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer / Baptist Health South Florida — Download (PDF file)
- Medicare/Medicaid Compliance and Investigation Issues by William H. Fischer / Holland & Hart LLP — Download (PPTX file)
- Medicare Reimbursement Update: What Hospitals Need to Know About Cost Report Changes by Ann King White, CPA Partner and Valeri Boswell Supervising Consultant / BKD LLP — Download (PPT file)
- The Trauma of Getting Paid by Sharon E. Caulfield, Esq. and Sally P. Berg, Esq. / Caplan & Earnest LLC — Download (PPTX file)
MAR25
FEB10
Compliance Conference at the Marriott Denver South at Park Meadows, Lone Tree, CO
February 10th - 11th, 2011
Conference presentations (password required to download):
- A Look at the New Congress: Implications for Hospitals by Tom Nash, Vice President of Financial Policy / Colorado Hospital Association — Download (powerpoint file)
- Accounting For RAC Audit Adjustments and Exposures HFMA, June 2010 — Download (PDF file)
- The Board's Compliance Plan Oversight Briefing: 2011 by Michael W. Peregrine / McDermott Will & Emery LLP — Download (powerpoint file)
- Charge Capture and Coding for Outpatient Services: Reducing Errors / Increasing Compliance and Revenue by Barbara Shurna / SA Healthcare Solutions — Download (PDF file)
- ICD-10: Perspectives on Implementation, Risk and Governance by Brad Benton, National Account Leader - Healthcare and James Proctor, Director - Healthcare Advisory / KPMG — Download (PDF file)
- Ignorance Isn't Bliss by Stig Ravdal, Information Security Specialist / Allegheny Digital — Download (PDF file)
- Negotiations: Collaborate to Win — Download (powerpoint file)
- Panel 1 - Healthcare Information Security Auditing and Control: 2011 Hot Topics by Trent R. Hein / Applied Trust — Download (powerpoint pptx file)
- Panel 2 - Meaningful Use — Download (powerpoint file)
- Panel 3 - Emerging Compliance Concerns HIPAA 5010 ICD-10 — Download (powerpoint pptx file)
- Preparing For and Responding to RAC Audits & Appeals by Chad Krcil, Regulatory Healthcare Consulting Director, Denver, CO and Steve Gradl, Partner, West Region / McGladrey — Download (powerpoint file)
- State Regulatory Update Gail Finley, VP of Rural Health & Hospitals / Colorado Hospital Association — Download (powerpoint file)
- Statement of Position 00-1: Auditing Health Care Third-Party Revenues and Related Receivables RSM McGladrey — Download (PDF file)
- Taking the Guess Work Out of RAC Readiness: The Best Defense is a Good Offense by Catherine Hicks, RN, MHS, CHC, Manager, Compliance / University of Colorado Hospital — Download (powerpoint file)
- The New Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol by Matt Weber / Holland & Hart — Download (powerpoint pptx file)
- Two Side of Physician Practice Acquisitions by David M. Bixby, Senior VP/General Counsel, Banner Health and Wallis S. Stromberg, Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP — Download (powerpoint pptx file)
- Zap the Gap! How to Maneuver, Make Your Way and Make Money in an Multi-generational World by Meagan Johnson — Download (powerpoint file)