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CME Primary Care

  

Meeting the Challenges of The "New" Primary Care:
Are You Ready?

Saturday, November 14, 2009
Evans Hall - Room 334 A/B
4170 City Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

Eugene Mochan, PhD, DO, FACOFP
Linda Kanzleiter, MPsSc, DEd.
Program Co-Chairmen

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Schedule

7:30 a.m. Registration & Continental Breakfast
7:45 a.m. Welcome and Introduction

Eugene Mochan, Ph.D., D.O., FACOFP, Associate Dean for Primary Care and Continuing Education, Professor of Family Medicine, Director of PCOM Center for Evidence-Based Practice, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

Linda Kanzleiter, MPsSc, DEd, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Education and Outreach, Director of the Center for Primary Care, Family and Community Medicine, Penn State University, College of Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
7:50 a.m. Patient Centered Medical Home in Primary Care Training: One Consensus Perspective
Eugene Mochan, Ph.D., D.O., FACOFP
8:30 a.m. The Medical Home: The Practice of Medicine within the 21st Century Health Care Environment
Thomas Weida, M.D., FACP, Professor, Family and Community Medicine, Medical Director, PSHMG Fishburn, Penn State University, College of Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
9:30 a.m. The Medical Home: How do you transform your practice?
William Bird, D.O., Professor and Vice Chair for Patient Care, Family and Community Medicine, Medical Director, PSHMG Nyes Road l, Penn State University, College of Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Coding: A Record of Patient-Physician Interaction
Thomas Weida, M.D., FACP
11:45 a.m. Medical Home: How to Implement a Multi-Site Recognition
Carol L. Henwood, D.O., FACOFP, Chair of POMA Practice Management Committee, Governor of ACOFP, Private Practice in Stowe, PA
12:30-1:00 p.m. Panel Discussion
Eugene Mochan, Ph.D., D.O. & Linda Kanzleiter, MPsSc, DEd

DESCRIPTION
The goal of this program is to prepare physicians and other providers to practice patient-centered health care within the context of the medical home as well as ensure coding practices are designed to represent all medical interventions provided in a single patient encounter and reimbursed appropriately.

OBJECTIVE

Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to

  • Provide an overview of the emerging concept of the medical home.
  • Discuss the forces driving this evolving practice standard.
  • Describe how the medical home is structured.
  • Explain the types of interventions and how reimbursement differs.
  • Describe the required changes in a community-based practice as to operate as a medical home.
  • Discuss costs associated with changes required to function as a medical home.
  • Present examples of practices in the process of incorporating the medical home concept.
  • Define the coding process used for reimbursement of health care services.
  • Explain the purpose of coding and how it reflects the patient-physician interaction.
  • Discuss how appropriate coding impacts the practice.

    CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT
    Physicians: "The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine has requested that the AOA Council on Continuing Medical Education approve this program for five hours of AOA Category 1-A CME credits. Approval is currently pending." Sign-in and full day attendance of program is required for credit. All faculty participating in continuing medical education programs sponsored by PCOM are expected to disclose to the program audience whether they do or do not have any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest or other relationships related to the content of their presentation(s).

    PARKING
    On-campus parking is available in our garage, please enter on Stout Road. All-day parking is $5.00. Please note: the automated gate takes quarters or one, five and ten dollar bills. Enter Evans Hall through the front entrance across from the parking garage.

    FEE POLICIES
    Physicians $125.00, Physician Assistants and other Health Care Professionals, $75.00. Registration fees for Saturday and Sunday programs are not refundable, nor can they be credited to future programs.

    EMERGENCY MESSAGES
    Call PCOM Rowland Hall Security Desk at (215) 871-6351 ask the guard to transfer your call to ext. 5350 which is the phone in Evans Hall.