Leveraging the Laboratory:
Mining Your Hidden Revenue Source
Preview the 2013 Leveraging the Laboratory conference
September 26-28, 2012
The Kahler Grand Hotel
Rochester, Minnesota
Agenda
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
| 6:00 am | Depart for optional tour of Mayo Medical Laboratories (Preregistration required) |
| 6:30-8:00 am | Tour of Mayo Medical Laboratories |
| 8:00-8:30 am | Return to the Kahler Grand Hotel |
| 7:30-9:00 am | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:15 am | Welcome |
| 9:15-10:45 am | Keynote Presentation - Breaking Down the Silos |
| 10:45-11:15 am | Break (Exhibits Open) |
| 11:15 am- 12:15 pm |
Center for Individualized Medicine |
| 12:15-1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:30 pm | Health Reform 2.0: What is Next? |
| 2:30-3:00 pm | Break (Exhibits Open) |
| 3:00-4:00 pm | Integrated Reporting |
| 4:00-4:30 pm | Day One Summary / Wrap-Up |
| 5:00-6:30 pm | Meet the Leadership Reception (Exhibits Open) |
Thursday, September 27, 2012
| 6:00 am | Depart for optional tour of Mayo Medical Laboratories (Preregistration required) |
| 6:30-8:00 am | Tour of Mayo Medical Laboratories |
| 8:00-8:30 am | Return to the Kahler Grand Hotel |
| 7:30-9:00 am | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00-10:00 am | Why Now is the Most Opportune Time for Laboratory Outreach |
| 10:00-11:00 am | Laboratory Consolidation - Integrating More Than Just Testing |
| 11:00-11:20 am | Break (Exhibits Open) |
| 11:20 am- 12:20 pm |
Town Hall |
| 12:20-1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30-3:00 pm | Breakout Session I |
| 3:00-3:20 pm | Break (Exhibits Open) |
| 3:20-4:50 pm | Breakout Session II |
Friday, September 28, 2012
| 7:00-8:00 am | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00-9:30 am | Optimal Laboratory Test Utilization: Can We Practice Cost-Efficient Medicine in a High Technology Era? Bobbi S. Pritt, MD Amy K. Saenger, PhD, DABCC |
| 9:30-9:45 am | Break |
| 9:45-11:15 am | Current Compliance Challenges for Laboratories |
| 11:15 am | Adjourn |
| 12:00 pm | Depart for Mall of America Excursion |
Breakout Sessions
Thursday, September 27
Payor Contracting
Michael Snyder
Vice President of Laboratory Management, MedSpend
The health plan contracting environment for labs continues to become more complex and competitive. The session will focus strongly on the trends and events affecting hospital lab participation in health plan contracts. The approach to the subject will follow a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis format that stresses both challenges and probable solutions.
How to Fly a Small Airplane
Father Nicklas Mezacapa
Motivational Speaker and Rector of Calvary Episcopal Church
When any group gets organized, shares goals and establishes a common vision, there are measuring instruments required to “keep it all up in the air.” This presentation describes those instruments and their application in the team-building dynamic.
Outreach Nuggets Worth Sharing
Tammy Fletcher (Outreach Program Coordinator, Mayo Medical Laboratories)
Donald Flott (Director of Learning and Development and Marketing Education, Mayo Collaborative Services, Inc) Jane Hermansen (Outreach Program Coordinator, Mayo Medical Laboratories)
Linda Spiten (Operations Administrator, Mayo Collaborative Services, Inc)
Dia Steinbauer (Supervisor,
Revenue Cycle Financial Services Management)
Charlotte Yuza (Olmsted Medical Center)
A successful laboratory outreach program is comprised of many parts. In this fast-paced, interactive breakout session, a series of expert presenters will provide timely and useful “nuggets” to help you enhance the infrastructure of your laboratory outreach program. Topics covered include Sales, Marketing/Communications, Patient Service Centers/Phlebotomy, Billing, Customer Service and Outreach Financial Profitability.


