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Preventable
hospital readmissions are a threat to patient safety, a burden to
numerous stakeholders, occur far too often, and contribute to rising
health care costs. Nationally, preventable readmissions cost an
estimated $25 billion per year. Private sector stakeholders and
policymakers – at both state and federal levels – have made tackling
these precarious events a major priority. Yet there remains significant
opportunity for further innovation to more fully address the
readmissions challenge.
Please join us on Wednesday, September 19th at 12:00pm EDT for this
timely webinar that will highlight findings from Northeast Business Group
on Health’s Solutions and Innovations Center’s (SIC) recent
investigation into health plans’, hospital systems’, and employers’
perspectives related to preventable readmissions. A number of
observations were made and opportunities highlighted during this
exploration, including:
- Significant opportunity to align public and private purchaser
reimbursement models to maximize incentives and efficiencies
- Beyond the clinical aspect of readmissions: the exploration of
readmission reduction payments as part of an expanded “pay for
value” program
- Providers in particular are caught in a Catch-22 scenario. Despite
identifying and deploying new approaches for reducing readmissions, a
sustainable financial model for doing so remains elusive.
- Understanding how patients’ psycho-social circumstances affect
readmissions patterns is critical to effecting long-term improvements.
- Employers play a major role in engaging and educating their employees
about the importance of avoiding preventable readmissions and the role
they themselves can play.
- Future efforts aimed at reducing readmissions should seek to explore
specific opportunities for multi-stakeholder collaboration between
hospital systems and health plans.
Joining Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH, NEBGH Medical Director and the SIC’s
Executive Director, will be representatives from health plan, hospital
system, and employer stakeholder groups who will share their response to
the report’s findings as well as their outlook on the future direction
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Participants will be able to:
- Consider the insights and findings from a recent investigation
into the perspectives and concerns of health plans, hospital
systems, and employers on preventable readmissions.
- Hear how stakeholders came together to explore and define issues
underlying the readmissions problem as well as lay the groundwork
for future progress.
- Learn about potential areas of collaboration among hospital
systems, health plans, and employers as it relates to readmissions
reduction efforts.
- Be equipped to understand how stakeholders can overcome
traditional challenges and barriers to work more synergistically to
tackle an urgent and pressing systemic health care problem.
- Engage in interactive learning through online question
submission, attendee feedback and opportunity for follow-up
questions, and networking with attendees, faculty and other
professionals through dedicated LinkedIn group.
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Interested attendees would include:
- C-Suite Executives
- Medical Directors
- Hospitalists and Other Clinicians
- Provider Contracting Executives and Staff
- Care Management Executives and Staff
- Case Management Executives and Staff
- Nursing Executives
- Discharge Planning Managers
- Managed Care Executives and Staff
- Network Management Executives and Staff
- Health Benefit Managers
- Planning and Strategic Executives and Staff
- Business Intelligence Staff
- Other Interested Parties
Attendees would represent
organizations including:
- Hospital Systems
- Health Plans
- Medical Groups
- Provider Networks
- Other Providers
- Government
- Third Party Administrators
- Care Management Organizations
- Pharmaceutical Organizations
- Employers
- Solutions Providers
- Associations, Institutes and Research Organizations
- Media
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Individual Registration Fee: $195. Audio Conference CD-ROM: $40
for attendees; $285 for non-attendees after the event.
Register online or
download the event brochure.
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