Practice Management Seminars/CEUs

Upcoming Seminars/Webinars

Electronic Health Records - New Introductory Webinar - FREE

90 Minute Webinar: 2009 Health Insurer program - FREE

90 Minute Webinar: Revenue Cycle Management - Turning Services into Dollars

Electronic Health Records - New Free Introductory Webinar

The WSMA is committed to helping physicians' practices successfully adopt EHRs. The EHR Best Practice Series^TM is a nationally recognized education program, endorsed by many state medical associations, to help smaller practices learn best practices for Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems. To register for the free webinar training session, log on to http://www.ehrbestpractice.com/register/regWebinar_WSMA.php, then click on the Training Programs menu, and register for either of the standard programs: How to Best Select an EHR or E-Prescribing Best Practices.

Be sure to use the following promotion code when registering: 4HWYUZ. This free offer is valid through July 31, 2009. Each registered attendee for the How to Best Select an EHR standard training program will receive a copy of the EHR Selection Handbook.

If you choose to register for the additional course topics, WSMA members receive a 10% discount on the training session fee. Please use this promotion code when registering: 4KJQG3. This offer is valid through July 31, 2009. The WSMA hopes this series of educational programs will assist your practice.

2009 Health Insurer Webinars

The WSMA is kicking off its series of Health Insurer Webinars in June. Through these new webinars, the WSMA will help facilitate communications between Washington's health insurers and WSMA member physicians and their administrative staff. The scheduled time is 12:00 - 1:30 pm, the time slot most often identified by physicians and staff as being the least disruptive to the practice's patient schedule.

The goal is to provide an electronic forum for the exchange of information and issues. The format allows each health insurer's representatives to provide the participants with a brief update on new developments and key issues, and in turn allow the participants to electronically pose questions and concerns via the moderator to the health insurers.

Moderator
Bob Perna, FACMPE is the Director of Health Care Economics and the Practice Resource Center for the WSMA. He has 40 years' experience in the health care industry, having held positions in professional relations with a major health insurer and in managerial positions in private medical practices and community health organizations.

This webinar is scheduled from 12:00 to 1:30 pm (PT)

Tuesday, July 14—Premera Blue Cross (last one)

Tuition
This webinar is FREE to WSMA and WSMGMA members.

Non-members: Call for pricing.

Questions? Contact Jenelle Dalit by phone at 1(800) 552-0612 or jcd@wsma.org

Revenue Cycle Management - Turning Services into Dollars

The old adage has never been truer: "Small holes sink big boats". The expenses carried by physicians' practices can easily overwhelm any practice, and quicker than might be expected. Simply "rearranging the deck chairs" on the Titanic won't save the practice.

THE SOLUTION: Revenue Cycle Management - a coordinated practice-wide effort to ensure that charges are captured and expenses are adequately controlled. The real threat to your practice's stability and viability is fragmentation. So many moving parts can lead to poor data management, lost charges, too much labor expended with too small a return. But you can reverse that trend.

Presenter
Bob Perna, FACMPE is the Director of Health Care Economics for the Washington State Medical Association (WSMA). He has 40 years' experience in the health care industry, is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Practice Managers (ACMPE), and is board certified as a Certified Medical Practice Executive (CMPE) through the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA).

You will learn:

Practice "machinery": Balancing physical systems and electronic systems
Operations monitoring: Know where you're expending your effort, and time, and money.
Charge setting: Know what you should charge for your services.
Revenues from payers and patients: Projecting what you should be paid, and actions to take.
Tracking expenses: Knowing where your revenue comes from, and where it should come from.
Managing data: Avoid surprises - Missing and incorrect data.
Auditing your practice, before someone else does.
Building a cohesive strategy of managing revenues and expenses.

This webinar is scheduled for Thursday, July 30, 2009, 12:00 to 1:30 pm (PT)

Tuition
Now offering a special discounted price! WSMA and WSMGMA members can attend for a price of $89. One registration fee per phone line lets your entire staff listen in.

Non-members: Call for pricing.

Questions? Contact Jenelle Dalit by phone at 1(800) 552-0612 or jcd@wsma.org