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We speak at many of the leading national and regional conferences on a variety of topics.  Hear us speak and meet us in person at the following events this year:

The National Dual Eligibles Summit

Pre:Conference1: Dual Eligible Market Opportunities, Challenges, and Solutions
Date: 10/31/13
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Speakers: Jeff Flick, National Vice President, Government Programs, HealthCare Partners, Torrance, CA, Marge Mercury, RN, MS, CMCE and James Smith, FACHE 
This session will provide leaders of hospitals, health systems, and physician groups a comprehensive understanding of the dual eligible population and the financial imperatives, resource use, and care coordination requirements this population creates for their organizations. Industry leaders will gain insight on how to restructure their care management processes, build appropriate infrastructure, and align incentives in order to effectively manage dual eligible patients across the continuum of care.

AHA Meeting

Structural, Clinical, Operational, and Cultural Changes Necessary in a Hospital Sponsor for Success with Bundled Payments
Date: 07/31/13
Location: San Diego, CA
Speakers: Deirdre Baggot, RN, MBA
Learn how structure can either be a enabling factor or a barrier, the clinical implications of performance risk under bundled payment and more.

21st Annual Health Forum and the American Hospital Association Leadership Summit

One Size Does Not Fit All: Achieving Clinical Integration in Settings from A to Z
Date: 07/26/13
Location: San Diego, CA
Speakers: T. Clifford Deveny, MD, SVP, Physician Practice Management, Catholic Health Initiatives, and Laura Jacobs, MPH 
This session will describe the transformational journey of one of the largest national health systems to establish population health management capabilities across the country through the establishment of clinically integrated networks as a fundamental cornerstone. With health care facilities ranging from critical access hospitals to tertiary facilities in highly competitive urban markets, the structure and  “face” of clinical integration takes many forms. This session will review the various forms and essential requirements for achieving successful clinical integration – even in markets where there is minimal market movement to population or value-based payment structures.

Indiana Hospital Association Trustee Conference

“New Models of Care” and “Sustaining Financial Stability Amid Dwindling Reimbursement”
Date: 06/23/13 - 06/25/13
Location: French Lick, IN
Speakers: Steven Valentine, MPA
Come listen to The Camden Group President, Steven Valentine, speak at the Indiana Hospital Association's annual two day conference for chief executive officers and trustees in historic French Lick Springs Resort in French Lick, Indiana.

10th Annual CAPG Healthcare Conference

Is Global Capitation an Inevitable Part of Your Future?
Date: 06/06/13 - 06/09/13
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Speakers: Laura Jacobs, MPH and James Smith, MBA, FACHE
As the payer marketplace gears up for 2014, and both public and private exchanges prepare to launch, have your group’s contracting strategies kept up?  In some cases, physician groups should be thinking about either enabling global capitation (e.g. health plan license) and/or pursuing their own private-label health plan products. This session will look at the rationale and risks associated with these strategies, as well as some critical success factors to consider

2013 Medical Liability Conference

Analyzing Today’s Medical Group Practice: How to Succeed in Turbulent Times
Date: 05/16/13
Location: Palm Desert, CA
Speakers: Laura Jacobs, MPH

Join the PIAA and your colleagues from around the world at the premiere event for MPL professionals.

4th Annual Becker's Hospital Review Meeting

Physician Compensation in a Value Based World
Date: 05/09/13 - 05/11/13
Location: Chicago, IL
Speakers: James Slaggert, Vice President of Operations, Physician Practice Management, Catholic Health Initiatives, William Gil, Chief Executive Officer, Facey Medical Foundation, moderated by Mary Witt
The best minds in the hospital field will discuss opportunities for hospitals plus provide practical and immediately useful guidance on ACOs, physician-hospital integration, improving profitability and key specialties.  In this session, panelists focus on value-based physician compensation.

4th Annual Becker's Hospital Review Meeting

Key Considerations in a Co-Management Arrangement
Date: 05/09/13 - 05/11/13
Location: Chicago, IL
Speakers: Dean Thomas, Vice President of Clinical Service Lines, Scottsdale Healthcare, and Robert Minkin, MBA, FACHE, moderated by Virginia Tyler
This exclusive conference brings together hospital business and strategy leaders to discuss how to improve your hospital and its bottom line in these challenging but opportunity-filled times.  In this session, panelists will focus on how to successfully design and implement co-management arrangements.

Healthcare Executives of Southern California: Inland Empire Education Program

“Role of Population Health and Group Practice Management”
Date: 05/09/13
Location: Victor Valley Community Hospital
Speakers: Oyinlola Osawa, MHA
Physicians will need to conduct both an internal and external assessment of their resources in order to administer a new care delivery model that enable them to focus on care models centered on population health management. This assessment should include physician compensation, new relationships and alliances (IPAs, ACOs, MSOs, Hospitals, Payers, etc.), medical group technology IQ (Electronic medical record, Health Information Exchange), care coordination and redesign, and patient education.  This presentation will identify ways in which physicians can incorporate these changes in concert with new payment models and local market dynamics to assure on-going financial viability and optimal patient care.

ACHE Webinar

Hospital of the Future: Strategies in an Era of Healthcare Reform
Date: 05/06/13 - 05/07/13
Location: Coral Gables, FL
Speakers: Mark Dubow, MBA, MSPH
Gain new strategies and business models to navigate the changes in healthcare due to the economic climate, the new health reform legislation and other evolving healthcare trends.

Illinois State Medical Society

Charting Your Professional Path: Effective Strategies for Independent Practices
Date: 05/03/13
Location: Oak Brook, IL
Speakers: Gregory Shufelt, MBA and Eric Nielsen, M.D.
Physicians are experiencing the stresses of healthcare reform on their practices and are confronted with many  new challenges, such as declining reimbursements, new payment models, and consolidation. Many physicians  are turning to hospital employment as a strategy to confront these challenges, but there are other alternatives.  This session will help guide you through the after effects of reform, explain new and emerging patient care and reimbursement models, and provide a better understanding of how you can prepare your practice to be successful in the new healthcare environment.

Patient Flow Summit

Achieving Perioperative Efficiency to Smooth the Hospital's Patient Throughput
Date: 04/29/13 - 05/02/13
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Speakers: Patricia Hines, RN and Bonnie Barndt-Maglio, RN
Come hear Patricia Hines and Bonnie Barndt-Maglio and they present on Perioperative Services at this year's annual Patient Flow Summit in Las Vegas, NV.

The Governance Institute’s Webinar Series

Preparing Today for Healthcare Marketplaces (Exchanges) Tomorrow
Date: 04/24/13
Location: n/a
Speakers: James Smith, MBA, FACHE and Guy Masters, M.P.A.,
As healthcare leaders deal with the many transitions related to healthcare reform, one of the open-ended questions that remains is how health insurance exchanges will work, how many patients will participate in the exchanges, and strategic and financial implications for hospitals and health systems related to public and private exchanges. This webinar will provide a strategic overview and tactical framework to prepare your organization for healthcare marketplaces (exchanges).

HFMA Spring Meeting

Urge to Merge-Who are the candidates?
Date: 03/20/13
Location: Caledonia, MI
Speakers: Mark McIntire, MBA
Come to the Stonewater Country Club in Caledonia, Michigan for the HFMA's spring meeting! At this event, Mark McIntire, Senior Vice President at the Camden Group will discuss the pros and cons of healthcare mergers.  

The Healthcare Crystal Ball: California in 2013

Discover major trends on the horizon for the next 18 months and those currently in play.
Date: 12/19/12
Location: N/A
Speakers: Steven Valentine, MPA 
The Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act. The building of the California Health Benefits Exchange. President Obama's reelection. These were some of the events that defined California's healthcare industry during 2012. What will 2013 bring? Join us on Wednesday, December 19 at 10 a.m. Pacific when Payers & Providers presents its final but most significant Web event of this year: The 2013 Healthcare Crystal Ball For California. This webinar features three of California's most dynamic leaders: Steven T. Valentine, President of The Camden Group; Henry Loubet, Chief Strategy Officer for Keenan and Peter Boland, President at Boland Healthcare.

HFMA Regional Education Sessions

Physician Integration, Bundled Payments, and Co-Management
Date: 11/14/12 - 11/15/12
Location: Orange County & San Bernardino CA
Speakers: Robert Minkin, MBA, FACHE
Come hear Robert Minkin, Senior Vice President with The Camden Group, as he presents on "Strategies for Success for Hospitals and Providers."  Mr. Minkin will share pertinent lessons for success with specific reference to healthcare reform and the election results.

ACHE Webinar

Hospital of the Future: Strategies in an Era of Healthcare Reform
Date: 11/06/12 - 11/07/12
Location: San Antonio Cluster
Speakers: Mark Dubow, MBA, MSPH
Gain new strategies and business models to navigate the changes in healthcare due to the economic climate, the new health reform legislation and other evolving healthcare trends.

The HealthCare Roundtable

The HealthCare Roundtable for Human Resources Executives
Date: 10/11/12
Location: San Diego, CA
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Participants identify the issues they want to explore and the experts they want to hear from. A typical two-day Roundtable seminar will feature 3-5 speakers (outside speakers and/or Members themselves) making presentations on recent trends and innovative projects.

Idaho Hospital Association 79th Annual Convention

Ahead of the Curve: What You Must Know (and Do) to Thrive in Changing Times
Date: 10/07/12
Location: Sun Valley, ID
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This presentation will discuss the key trends, their implications to your organization, and what is critical to do now to ensure your organizations viability in the new era.

American College of Healthcare Executives Webinar

Repositioning Your Service Lines in an Accountable Care World
Date: 09/19/12
Location: N/A
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This webinar will delve into how you can modify your service line tactics to help your organization thrive in the dynamic post-reform environment of value-based purchasing. The presenters will share how other organizations have successfully built new arrangements for their service lines.

IDN Summit and Reverse Expo

Financial Operations Track: Episodes of Care
Date: 09/11/12 - 09/13/12
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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In this session, you will hear from an expert on episodes of care, followed by discussion of how an episodes of care program can impact an organization.  Learning objectives from this session include: 1.  Compare an episode of care approach to a traditional fee for service approach. 2.  Describe how an episode of care approach can enable better clinical correlation. 3.  Explain how an episode of care approach can improve the overall quality of healthcare.

Texas Hospital Association's Rural Hospital Constituency Council Meeting

"Finding Silver Linings and Opportunities among the Storm Clouds"
Date: 08/22/12 - 08/23/12
Location: Fortworth, Texas
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The challenges faced by rural hospitals are significant and yet the rapid and fundamental changes inherent in your organization's environment present opportunities. This is an ideal time to be proactive, take calculated risks, and pursue those opportunities.  The session will highlight silver linings in the storm clouds and stimulate your thinking on actions you will want to take when you return to your community.

CMSA's 22nd Annual Conference and Expo

Developing A Clinically Integrated Care Management Model for ACOS
Date: 06/19/12 - 06/22/12
Location: San Francisco, CA
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This conference will focus on important topics and issues to consider when entering into an accountable care organization, and how imperative it is to define the current standards of practice that exist within the clinical care management models embedded within the hospital(s), physician practices, medical homes, and health plans.

National Bundled Payment Summit

Medicare Bundling, Commercial Bundling, Care Math: Understanding the Risk and Reward
Date: 06/12/12 - 06/13/12
Location: George Washington University, Washington DC
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This will explore key issues -- clinical, analytic, measurement, payment, and patient engagement -- implicated in implementing a bundled payment program. Conference elements will include keynote addresses from national policy makers and senior executive leaders from around the country, who will highlight challenges and opportunities presented by bundled payments. The track sessions will offer several case studies from experienced executives and healthcare experts. Throughout the event, there will be ample opportunity for audience participation and interaction with presenters.

CAPG 2012 Healthcare Conference

Transition to ACO: After the Gap Analysis
Date: 05/17/12 - 05/20/12
Location: Palm Desert, California
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This session examines ways that health systems and physician groups can successfully adapt to new requirements, reimbursements and delivery systems.

AMGA National Conference 2012

Medical Group as Catalyst: Transforming a Hospital System into a Healthcare Delivery System
Date: 03/07/12 - 03/10/12
Location: San Diego, California
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This presentation will examine the requirements for success, using new management, governance, and incentive structures to facilitate change, and mechanisms to remove barriers to change.

Physician Strategies Summit

Successful Growth of an Employed Medical Group
Date: 02/19/12 - 02/21/12
Location: Orlando, Florida
Speakers: Todd Hammer, MD, President, Froedtert Health Medical Group and Marc Mertz, FACMPE, MHA
Healthcare reform and the economic pressures of private practice are driving hospitals and physicians to establish and grow hospital-employed medical groups at a rate not seen since the 1990s. Examine strategies for successfully developing and operating an employed group, including: active physician engagement, new governance models, effective physician compensation models, care teams, IT optimization, business office functions, pricing structures, and quality measurement and management.

The Governance Institute Leadership Conference

Strategic Positioning & Board Priorities: Charting a Course in Turbulent Times / Strategic Operations Business Planning: Bridging the Gap between Brilliant Strategy & Effective Implementation
Date: 02/12/12 - 02/15/12
Location: Palm Beach, Florida
Speakers: Guy Masters, MPA
Both sessions will help participants build critical strategic planning skills to strengthen the organization and fulfill its mission.

Home Care 100 Conference

Ahead of the Curve: Competitive Positioning Choices in Uncertain Times
Date: 02/05/12 - 02/07/12
Location: Grande Lakes, Florida
Speakers: Guy Masters, MPA
In this rapidly evolving environment, choices you make today will have a far-reaching impact on the future of your organization. This session will help you assess your current business model and how it fits in an era of healthcare reform and economic uncertainty. How do you identify viable opportunities and partners for optimal returns? What are the emerging payment, regulatory and economic pressures that will impact your strategy and bottom line?