Healthcare Reform: The Impact on Governance and Healthcare Organizations

Overview: This program covers the evolution of our current healthcare system into an unsustainable cost structure that must be urgently redesigned to successfully compete with the thirty six industrialized nations that produce superior quality outcomes at a fraction of the cost. 

It articulates the impetus for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) and why this law is insufficient for the changes that must take place and goes through ways in which individual patients, large and small employers, third party payers, and CMS are moving forward with or without federal support to find new and innovative ways to achieve high quality at much lower costs through the creation of narrow networks and price based costing.

80% of what physicians do can be performed by non-physicians and 80% of what non-physicians do can be performed on the internet and many of these innovative approaches are covered to demonstrate how many high performing organizations are dominating their markets through innovative change.

Medical tourism is the fastest growing segment of the healthcare industry and visionary organizations already compete for that space through contracts for international services with Joint Commission Accredited International facilities abroad.

This program is not an exercise in 'futurism' but demonstrates what high performing organizations already do to succeed in an increasingly competitive healthcare environment and what your organization can do to be successful and thrive in a transformational environment where all of the rules will change. 

Why should you attend: Healthcare reform is an economic and quality problem in the guise of a political conflict. The mandate for healthcare reform is world class quality at high the cost. This is not compatible with the traditional fee for service (FFS) reimbursement system and thus our entire healthcare system must transform into a capitated system that supports population health and evidence based prevention. This program articulates the economic and quality forces that collide to force rapid whole scales changes in the way that physicians and hospitals must do business in order to meet corporate, third party payer, and international demand and to succeed in an era of transformational change. 

Areas Covered in the Session:

• How did we get here and why do we need to transform our healthcare system?
• The mandate for healthcare transformation
• How are individuals, employers, third party payers, and systems moving forward?
• Success strategies for healthcare transformation

Who Will Benefit:

• Healthcare Executives and Managers
• Physician Executives and Leaders
• Physicians
• Nurses
• Healthcare Personnel
• Insurers
• Employers

Jonathan Burroughs MD, MBA, FACHE, FACPE is President and CEO of The Burroughs Healthcare Consulting Network, Inc. and works with some of the nation's top healthcare consulting organizations to provide 'best practice' solutions and training to healthcare organizations throughout the country in the areas of governance, physician–hospital alignment strategies, credentialing, privileging, peer review and performance improvement/patient safety, medical staff development planning, strategic planning, physician performance and behavior management as well as ways in which physicians and management can work together in new ways to solve quality, safety, operational, and financial challenges. 

Dr. Burroughs serves on the national faculty of the American College of Healthcare Executives and the American College of Physician Executives, where he has been consistently rated as one of their top speakers and educators. He is the author or coauthor of the following books: The Complete Guide to FPPE (2012), Medical Staff Leadership Essentials (2011), Engage and Align the Medical Staff and Hospital Management: Expert Strategies and Field Tested Tools (2010), A Practical Guide to Managing Disruptive and Impaired Physicians (2010), The Top 40 Medical Staff Policies and Procedures, Fourth Edition (2010), Emergency Department On-Call Strategies: Solutions for Physician-Hospital Alignment (2009), and Peer Review Best Practices: Case Studies and Lessons Learned (2008). 

Dr. Burroughs received his bachelor's degree at Johns Hopkins University, his MD from Case Western Reserve University, and a healthcare MBA with honors at the Isenberg School of Management. He is a certified healthcare and physician executive and is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and the American College of Physician Executives.