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SAVE THE DATE for our Chapter’s 50^th Anniversary Gala.  Please visit our 50th Anniversary Gala Event Page for additional information and to register.

You are invited to join us at our biggest party to date. We will celebrate our chapter’s 50th year anniversary with cocktails and appetizers under the stars followed by dinner, dancing and nostalgic photos at the beautiful and historic El Cortez in downtown San Diego. It will be a night to remember!

Date/ Time: Saturday, March 2nd 6pm – 11pm

Location: El Cortez Hotel – 702 Ash St, San Diego, CA 92101

Cost: $95 per ticket, $850 per table

Hotel block: Holiday Inn Express
1430 Seventh Ave., San Diego, CA 92101
Phone 619-696-0911
Block of Rooms under HFMA

Sponsorship
Interested in participating in our 50^th Anniversary Chapter Celebration as a sponsor. This is an incredible opportunity to show your support for our Chapter and receive well deserved recognition of your organization.  Please click here to review the Sponsorship Levels.

We are going down the memory lane and collecting photos, documents representing our journey in the last 50 years. If you have old photos or documents that we can include in a slide show, please upload your photos, documents by clicking here. You can drag & drop or simply upload the file.

If you have any questions about the upload site, please contact Fred Binczewski at fred@uprosecq.com or regarding the presentation contact hfmasandiego@gmail.com.

We appreciate you sharing your memories with the chapter.

Healthcare Financial Management Association is hosting a fun filled event that will expose students, graduates and early careerists alike to the healthcare field. The speakers will help attendees understand the healthcare industry and the opportunities related to the finance and accounting fields. In addition, we will have a presentation on getting prepared to enter into a career.

The second part of the event will be an interactive roundtable discussion with healthcare executive leadership to learn how they came into their current roles, what are some strategic decisions people can make to help their healthcare careers, and educational information surrounding the healthcare field.

All interested students and those that are early in their careers are invited to join this event!

Lunch and networking opportunities will be provided after the presentations and roundtable portion of the event.

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Agenda:
Registration: 9:30 am – 10:00 am
Event Time: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Networking Lunch: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Cost: Free!

Join colleagues and friends for an evening of cider, laughter, learning and networking. Light snacks will be provided by the chapter. There will be a raffle with prizes.

Date/ Time: Tuesday, Feb 12 5:00pm – 7:30pm

Location: Newtopia Cider – 10045 Carroll Canyon Rd A, San Diego, CA 92131

Parking: Available with limited capacity next to venue and on street

Cost: Free, participants pay for their own food and drinks

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• Examine high-impact reimbursement areas of Uncompensated Care Cost reimbursement in the cost report
• Explore the key drivers of Medicare reimbursement for Uncompensated Care
• Identify the challenges and pitfalls of existing approaches to accessing required

Speaker:  Chad Krcil

Chad Krcil is a Senior Manager in Crowe’s Healthcare Advisory practice. He has over 25 years of experience in healthcare finance.  He has over 18 years of experience in healthcare financial consulting with a focus on regulatory, revenue cycle and financial operations services.

Chad is an active member of HFMA both in his local chapter and on the National level. He currently serves as the President of the Colorado HFMA chapter.  Chad also presents Medicare reimbursement strategy courses for local chapters and on a national level for HFMA.

Featured Finance Session

Reducing Costs with Labor Productivity: A Case Study with Kern Medical Center

This presentation will review the different ways that Kern Medical Center has utilized data to bring administration, clinical, and financial staff together to make better informed staffing decisions to further its goal of managing labor expenses in both clinical and operational departments, while maintaining patient satisfaction and quality of care. Kern Medical Center will review how advanced cost accounting impacts their organization’s strategy in setting productivity targets, tracking these targets, and more importantly, engaging their own stakeholders with this data.

NEW in 2019
If you are employed at a Hospital, Physician Practice or Payor Organization we have provided several registration options to meet the needs of your shrinking education budgets!

Discounted Provider Registrations
Hosted Provider: Complimentary
Scholarship Provider: $300

Click HERE for more details on these discounted provider options.

Provider and Business Partner Registration:
Member Early Bird Rate: $620
Non-Member Early Bird Rate: $720
Member Standard Rate: $730
Non-Member Standard Rate: $830

Spend your lunch with us to learn about how high deductible health plans and patient consumerism has changed the landscape of healthcare payment systems. This webinar will discuss strategies to address bad debt, increase patient satisfaction, and increasing brand loyalty by giving patients an experience typically seen in retail markets.

Speaker: KaLynn Gates, SVP & General Counsel, AccessOne

Speaker Bio: KaLynn Gates is an entrepreneurial lawyer and healthcare evangelist with a mission to make healthcare affordable for all. As SVP & General Counsel of AccessOne, KaLynn brings unique combination of executive.

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Spend your lunch with us to learn about clinical documentation best practices that help to increase reimbursement, decrease denials and improve revenue cycle efficiencies.

Presenters

Alicia Gordon, Manager

Alicia has over 20 years of extensive nursing experience including ICU and Quality, 9 years in Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) program development and implementation.

Alicia earned her CCDS certification in 2009, her CDIP in 2014 and her CCS in 2015. Alicia is an AHIMA ICD10 CM/PCS trainer.

Alicia is known for her integrity, ability to build collaborative relationships, fostering physician engagement and ability to develop/mentor new Clinical Documentation Specialists to success.

Prior to working at MazarsUSA, Alicia worked as a CDI Manager of Operations for HCA Intensive Care Consortium and as a Corporate CDI Director for 2 healthcare systems. Alicia successfully managed and reinvigorated established best-practice CDI programs in academic medical centers and community hospitals. She also implemented new CDI programs and developed CDI/coder and physician educational programs.

Alicia serves on the ACDIS Forms and Tools Committee.

Spend your lunch with us to learn about Debt Recovery Master Servicing, a best practice of private and public sector companies from adjacent industries and how it can help a healthcare system increase its bad debt recoveries, better manage the patient financial experience, and mitigate compliance risk.

Presenters

Eric K. Johnson – Vice President, Business Development, Navient Portfolio Management
Eric Johnson is responsible for growth initiatives, sales, and strategic partnerships for Navient subsidiary companies General Revenue Corporation, Navient Portfolio Management, LLC, and Pioneer Credit Recovery, Inc. He has 23 years of experience in the financial services industry and has served in a variety of leadership, operational, and business development roles, most recently as the president of the Navient affiliate company, Student Outreach Solutions, Inc. (SOSi). Mr. Johnson received a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, in business administration from Marian College.

Terri Meier CHFP, SMC, CSBI is currently the System Director Patient Revenue Cycle at UC San Diego Health, providing leadership for the build and implementation of UCSDH’s Single Billing Office (SBO). Terri has worked exclusively in healthcare for 38 years serving in multiple leadership roles as well as healthcare consulting.
Prior to UCSDH Terri spent 4 years as the Director, PFS and Director Professional Billing Organization for Stanford Health Care and the prior 12 years as the Director, Revenue Cycle Operations for Oregon