Practical strategies for
solving the health care puzzle
Track: Policy and Finance
- Foundations of Essential Hospital Financing
- Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Regulatory and Legislative Actions
- Driving Innovation through Supplemental Payment Programs
- Late Breaking: Improving Care Transitions for Justice-Involved Populations
Medicaid provides critical funding for essential hospitals. The joint role of the federal government and states in defining how Medicaid pays providers, and the funding of those payments, creates both opportunities and tremendous complexity. This session will describe the fundamentals of the federal, state, and local roles in Medicaid funding and payments.
Presenter:
Sarah Mutinsky, JD, MPH
Founding Senior Advisor, Eyman Partners
Washington Counsel, America’s Essential Hospitals
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the promise of identifying, collating, and distributing information and enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of care without requiring an increase in manpower. At the same time, AI has the potential to contribute to medical errors, exacerbate bias in clinical decision-making, and infringe on the confidentiality of patients’ medical information, among other risks. In a world increasingly dependent on AI, essential hospitals have special considerations when applying AI tools in their hospitals and health systems. This session will provide an overview of congressional and administrative policy developments to date regarding the use of AI in health care.
Presenters:
Faridat Animashaun
Policy Analyst
America’s Essential Hospitals
Bri Battle
Legislative Affairs Manager
America’s Essential Hospitals
Discover how to make an impact through supplemental payment programs by accelerating targeted quality measurement improvements and developing initiatives to care for Medicaid beneficiaries. Leaders from Sellers Dorsey will profile notable supplemental payment program achievements across key impact areas, including access, quality, and equity, and spotlight association member hospital successes.
Presenters
Scott Allocco
Assistant Vice President
Sellers Dorsey
Danielle Farnan
Associate Director
Sellers Dorsey
More information coming soon.
Presenters
Jackie Bender, MPP
CEO
Bender Health Strategies, LLC
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
About Our Tracks
Sessions will focus on solutions to current public policy and financial issues unique to essential hospitals. Past topics have included Medicaid supplemental payments, waiver initiatives, telehealth policy, graduate medical education, and state-level 340B Drug Pricing Program policies.
Sessions will showcase new and promising programs that demonstrate groundbreaking initiatives in caring for vulnerable populations and ensuring equitable access to high-value care. Sessions may focus on innovative programs that integrate clinical practice into the health system’s overarching mission and goals, quality improvement, managing operations during a pandemic or other public health threat, and patient-centered care.
Sessions will target the hard and soft skills necessary to lead complex and evolving hospitals and health systems dedicated to serving their communities. Sessions may focus on lessons learned from leadership experiences and the importance of strategic partnerships, culture change, and reducing employee burnout.
Sessions will offer expertise on improving the health outcomes for a group of individuals by engaging internal and external stakeholders to serve community needs. Sessions may focus on leveraging policies and procedures at the hospital, local, state, and federal levels to support community well-being; innovative financing models; cross-sector partnerships; and aligning community benefit investment with population health efforts. Programs and practices that address social determinants of health and ultimately aim to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care will be highlighted.
Questions?
Contact us at events@essentialhospitals.org
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