Fall 2020

CV Transforum F'20 Virtual: CMS Guidance: ASCs and the Journey Ahead

Since January 1, 2020, CMS reimburses for PCI in an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) setting, expanding on the ability to receive CMS reimbursement for diagnostic catheterizations, which was approved as of January 1, 2019. Being able to provide diagnosis and treatment in the ASC setting coupled with a lower cost of care for a payer has resulted in ASC development being a key strategy in the drive to deliver value-based care. We will hear from programs who have experience with an ASC as an owner/provider, and will explore the start-up of the ASC from a clinical, financial and operational perspective.

Fall 2020

CV Transforum F'20 Virtual: E/M Changes Are Coming! How to Prepare and Prosper

CMS E/M guidelines for office and outpatient services are revised and proposed to take effect in January 2021. How will these changes impact your program? Experts will delve into key takeaways to help you plan for 2021 and potential revenue impacts.

Fall 2020

CV Transforum F'20 Virtual: Heart Team Approach for Shared Decision Making

The Heart Team multidisciplinary shared decision-making strategy is a class IA recommendation for ischemic patients. In addition, shared decision making is a requirement for TAVR and PMVR procedures. As programs have developed high performing strategies around this, challenges have been managed, processes have been created and relationships have been built. Learn from a group that has developed their processes as a formal strategy to advance their programs.

Fall 2020

CV Transforum F'20 Virtual: Future Trends in Service Lines

See one program's journey into systematically linking service lines together, beginning with CV and oncology, sleep medicine and beyond.

Fall 2020

CV Transforum F'20 Virtual: Virtual Cardiac Rehab - A Powerful Solution During COVID and Beyond (Sponsored by Pritikin ICR)

Learn more about Pritikin ICR’s dynamic, home-based patient engagement tools. The platform allows your staff to engage, direct, and monitor your patients at home, as well as extend the combined resources of your facility and Pritikin to them in a convenient, easy-to-use manner. While absolutely essential during this COVID crisis, we are confident that this virtual model will remain a powerful solution at your practice indefinitely.

Fall 2020

CV Transforum F'20 Virtual: Case Study: The Key to Access Management is Team-Based Care

Care team utilization has become even more important for programs to maintain effective access strategies, create nimble delivery models and manage high-risk patient populations in a multi-disciplinary fashion. Hear from a program as they provide insight into their journey to high performing care team models.

Fall 2020

CV Transforum F'20 Virtual: Continuous Improvement - Achieving Cardiac Device Clinic Excellence (Sponsored by Murj)

The opportunity and need to modernize a cardiac device clinic has never been greater. Several innovative technologies can enable more care with efficiency that is unrivaled. Making the decision to upgrade your clinic is a multi-step process, but if done properly, can lead to clinical operations that are faster, more profitable and more insightful than ever before. This presentation will explore best practices in managing the change to modern device workflow and benchmark approaches to monitoring the success of this modernization.

Fall 2020

CV Transforum F'20 Virtual: Alignment 2.0: A New Physician/Hospital Alignment Model

Hospitals frequently report large financial losses on their employed physician workforce. Cardiovascular physicians often bristle under the perceived yolk of employment, but also recognize there are synergies in integration. Is there a better approach? In this session, experts will explore some re-imagined models that consider integration from both important perspectives.

Fall 2020

CV Transforum F'20 Virtual: Best Practices for Pandemic Recovery

As programs adapt to the new normal, best practices for pandemic recovery may not be obvious. In this session, hear detailed and specific plans from a few programs who have engineered safe, effective and comprehensive recovery strategies within their respective institutions.

Fall 2020

CV Transforum F'20 Virtual: Patient Throughput Strategies – Bypass the Waiting Room

Social distancing measures have resulted in the need for a patient throughput strategy that either minimizes or eliminates the use of a waiting room. These changes in flow will require front office and clinic workflows. Learn from a program that has successfully developed and implemented these strategies.

Fall 2020

CV Transforum F'20 Virtual: Analytics in the CV Environment

Join us for an exploration of how CV organizations are using analytics to drive performance outcomes. We will hear from two programs who are successfully using analytics to improve cost and quality, while leveraging platforms to accelerate their path towards operational and financial improvement.

Fall 2020

CV Transforum F'20 Virtual: Breakthrough Innovations in Telehealth & Disease Management

The ACC’s Innovation Team and MedAxiom have teamed up to bring you two incredibly powerful tools that have recently been launched into the market. Heartbeat Health is a telemedicine platform designed for cardiologists, by cardiologists. This platform is under expansion to become the home of connected care for cardiovascular care teams. Cleerly is designed to assist with diagnosis and treatment of CAD. The platform’s ability to identify plaque location and plaque type are unparalleled. Tools for the cardiologist, the PCP, and the patient are embedded in this complete solution. The presentation will focus on the science and utilization of these two breakthroughs.

Fall 2020

CV Transforum F'20 Virtual: Financial Organization Health – Surviving the Pandemic and What to Expect in 2021

COVID-19 continues to take a heavy toll on America’s healthcare infrastructure. How will this continue to impact our financial outlook for 2021? In this session, hear from two MedAxiom programs about impacts of volume, potential decreased revenue, increased costs and how to plan for 2021.

Fall 2020

CV Transforum F'20 Virtual: Welcome Remarks & Strategic Planning in a Post-COVID World

Kick off the CV Transforum Fall’20 Virtual Conference with opening remarks from MedAxiom and the ACC leaders, who will provide an industry outlook, membership updates, conference information and more.

The COVID-19 global pandemic has permanently changed healthcare and challenged traditional thinking around strategy. Hear from experts representing different program models as they share their unique perspectives on how to prioritize and think strategically in a post-COVID world.

Fall 2020

CV Transforum F'20 Virtual: Virtual Care Strategy – Create a Holistic Delivery Model with Telehealth

Many of us have utilized telehealth services as a part of our pandemic care strategy, but have you developed a virtual care strategy that incorporates non-traditional face-to-face care delivery into your care models? This session will review the multiple options for virtual care delivery and how to develop a strategy that will focus on your high-risk patient populations.

Fall 2019

CV Transforum Fall’19 – Legal Update

JIM DANIEL, DIRECTOR, HANCOCK, DANIEL, JOHNSON & NAGEL, PC; RICHMOND, VA

As hospitals and physicians continue to consolidate and realign in the modern healthcare market, some are questioning what the impact will be on total health spending. While hospitals defend their contracting and referral processes as a way to provide specialized care to their patients, others feel it allows them to dominate the market. Efforts to attract particular specialists are facing scrutiny under federal anti-kickback laws. The rise in mergers and acquisitions raises some concerns about the absence of clear federal guidelines. In this session, we hear a legal perspective on this and what we can expect as the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department review and rewrite outdated vertical merger guidelines.

Fall 2019

CV Transforum Fall’19 – Recognition of Group Value in Fair Market Value Testing

JOEL SAUER, MBA, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, MEDAXIOM CONSULTING; FORT WAYNE, IN 

MICHAEL STOVER, CPA, ABV, CFF, PRINCIPAL, SOMERSET CPAS AND ADVISORS; INDIANAPOLIS, IN

Cardiology is a team sport and as it becomes even more deeply sub-specialized, compensation models are recognizing team over the individual with significant sharing components and other strategies. However, often compliance testing can focus on individual physicians, either at the total compensation level or looking at compensation per wRVU, which can cause problems for groups that want a largely shared plan. This session explores the data around cardiology compensation and provide insights from a fair market value perspective.

Fall 2019

CV Transforum Fall’19 – Shifting the Paradigm for Cardiovascular Disease Population Health Management

KHURRAM NASIR, MD, MPH, MSc, CHIEF CARDIOVASCULAR PREVENTION AND WELLNESS, CO-DIRECTOR CENTER FOR OUTCOMES RESEARCH, HOUSTON METHODIST; HOUSTON, TX

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) continues to be a severe and costly program for healthcare organizations that affects quality, outcomes and costs. One of the major causes is the nonexistence of a data supported infrastructure or tools for stakeholders to guide and implement best practices across the continuum of ASCVD care. As we focus on strengthening big data architecture for value-based healthcare delivery under the framework of population health management (PHM), we must leverage digital solutions and learnings from artificial intelligence to help inform and guide decisions. In this presentation, we discuss how to maximize data and digital capacities to accelerate paradigm shift in current siloed management approaches to one that optimally moves the needle on CVD population health goals.

Fall 2019

CV Transforum Fall’19 – Cardiovascular Advocacy Alliance (CAA) Update

PAT HOLLOWAY, CPA, CHIEF OPERATION OFFICER, OKLAHOMA HEART HOSPITAL PHYSICIANS AND PRESIDENT, CAA; OKLAHOMA CITY, OK

NICK MORSE, DIVISION VICE PRESIDENT, ADVOCACY & GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY; WASHINGTON, D.C.

Cardiology Advocacy Alliance (CAA) represents cardiologists in Washington to ensure our voices are heard as the Value Agenda is updated. This session reviews the latest developments in Washington, both regulatory and legal, that impact the CV health care community.

Topics include:

• Latest details on CMS Rules
• Legislative Outlook
• CAA Priorities

Fall 2019

CV Transforum Fall’19 – The Challenge of Digital Transformation in CV Care

JOHN RUMSFELD, MD, PH.D., FACC, AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY; WASHINGTON D.C.

Most sectors of the economy have undergone some form of digital transformation, yielding efficiency and value. Healthcare, while in dire need of more efficiency and value, has been slow to embrace – much less achieve – digital transformation. There have been massive investments in digital health technologies over the last 5-10 years, but little of this has translated into changes in the way CV care is delivered.

This talk delves into:

• The current landscape of digital health in relation to CV care
• The need for digital transformation and reasons why this has not (yet) happened
• A roadmap for digital transformation – emphasizing virtual care, remote monitoring, and AI-driven care
• Current efforts by the American College of Cardiology to lead the digital transformation of CV care

Fall 2019

CV Transforum Fall’19 – HEART TRACKS Transitional Care Pathway for Low-Risk ED Patients with Cardiac Complaints

ELIZABETH HUENEFELDT, ARNP, FNP-C, CARDIOVASCULAR CONSULTANTS OF CAPE GIRARDEAU, INC.; CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO

GABE SOTO, MD, PHD, MHCDS, FACC, FHRS, MEDICAL DIRECTOR, CARDIOVASCULAR AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY SERVICES, INTERIM CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER, SOUTHEAST HEALTH; CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO

In this session, we hear from SoutheastHEALTH, a regional healthcare system serving southeast Missouri as well as parts of southern Illinois, western Kentucky, and northern Arkansas. SoutheastHEALTH’s flagship hospital, Southeast Missouri Hospital, provides care to over 10,000 inpatients and nearly 120,000 outpatients annually.

In 2016, Southeast Missouri Hospital implemented a transitional care pathway for patients who presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with a cardiac-related complaint, utilizing standardized risk measures to identify low-risk patients suitable for early discharge. They discuss the design and implementation of the program, as well as the impact it had on 12-month ED discharges, cardiac-related and all-cause 30-day revisits and admissions, safety outcomes, and institutional revenues.

Fall 2019

CV Transforum Fall’19 – Successful CV Hospitalist Programs

ALLEN BAUM, MD, PRESIDENT, CARDIOLOGY CLINIC OF SAN ANTONIO; SAN ANTONIO, TX

EDMUND COYNE, MD, CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE, PC; DAVENPORT, IA

KRIS ZELLER, CMPE, MSHSA, PRACTICE ADMINISTRATOR, CARDIOVASCULAR, MEDICINE, PC; DAVENPORT, IA

MODERATOR: JERRY BLACKWELL, MD, MBA, FACC, PRESIDENT, MEDAXIOM; KINGSPORT, TN

In this session, two programs share learnings from their experiences developing a hospitalist program and lessons learned. Hear what effects each program made on mortality, morbidity, LOS and cost per case. They also provide before and after statistics to show the impact within their CV divisions.

Fall 2019

CV Transforum Fall’19 – Direct to Employer Relationships

LEE LEWIS, AREA VICE PRESIDENT, ARTHUR J. GALLAGHER & CO.; DALLAS, TX

DUTCH ROJAS, CEO, SANO SURGERY; SCOTTSDALE, AZ

In this session, we hear different perspectives on the direct to employer contracting process. We learn from Lee Lewis, one of the nation’s top benefits consultants who works with the many of our country’s best known employers as to why employers prefer direct contracting and the needs and goals of each stakeholder involved in the process.

We also hear from Dutch Rojas, the CEO of Sano Surgery, as to how the process works for employers, patients, and providers. Mr. Rojas provides an overview of how the processes work and put an operational framework to the concepts discussed.

We conclude the session with Joe Sasson providing a summation of how CV programs can get involved with employers for direct contracting, without having to negotiate with these employers individually, and how these programs can create more equity in the healthcare arena.

Fall 2019

CV Transforum Fall'19 – Medically Home

Hear how the Medically Home care model allows patients with select medical diagnoses that would traditionally require hospitalization to be cared for at home. Using uniquely-composed technology, patients have full access to their care team with the push of a button. Their platform is designed to track vital signs, medications and procedures to create up-to-date, actionable data the whole team shares, while providing online access for families to securely view their loved one's health status.

Fall 2019

CV Transforum Fall'19 – State of Cardiology

Hear from MedAxiom’s CEO and President as they discuss how changes in healthcare have impacted cardiovascular services in regards to the strategic movement from inpatient to outpatient, program consolidation, and balancing the management of cost and quality while providing value to our patients. The discussion includes transformative opportunities and offers ideas for navigating the current landscape as we continue to advance cardiovascular care.