TAKEAWAYS INCLUDE:
In this agenda you will find sessions on topics including:
- Strengthening payer-provider relationships and outlining strategies for reducing provider abrasion
- Optimizing workflows and encouraging cross functional collaboration between claims, audit, FWA, SIU, and PI teams
- Leveraging advanced tech, such as GenerativeAI, to increase efficiencies across the healthcare value chain
- Preventing revenue leakage by deploying intelligent automation and building proactive denial management systems
- Discussing best practices for building payment integrity programs from the ground up at smaller health plans
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Wednesday, 11 Sep, 2024
08:00am
9:30am
Dave Cardelle
Chief Strategy Officer
AMS
Helen Liu, Pharm.D.
Health Plan Leader
Independent
Helen Liu, PharmD, brings 29 years of diverse pharmacy experience, blending clinical expertise, operational efficiency, technological innovation, and management across various healthcare settings.
Over the past four years, Helen has successfully led pharmacy operations at ATRIO Health Plans (Medicare), achieving significant milestones in PA/ST, FWA, MTM programs, resulting in over $4.5M in savings. She’s conducted formulary analyses to support actuary Medicare annual bid submissions, including IRA and M3P programs, collaborated with partners and the Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) to identify cost-saving opportunities through formulary alternatives, biosimilars, and rebate strategies, and partnered in the RFP PBM selection process and resolved complex pharmacy-related issues through cross-departmental collaboration.
Before ATRIO, Helen spent seven years at Kaiser Permanente, where she served as Regional Assistant Director to implement hospitals Drug Use Management Program. Her efforts led to over $20 million in savings through inventory management, drug cost-saving initiatives, and the standardization of clinical content/practice guidelines.
AMS Intelligent Analytics
Website: http://www.amspredict.com/
Advanced Medical Strategies (AMS) is the premier provider of payment integrity, risk management, and business intelligence solutions to identify and address excessive claims, prevent and recoup overpayments, and effectively manage the risks associated with high-cost claimants and group health underwriting.
10:00am
Session Overview
- With rising medical utilization, diminished prior auth, and greater inflationary pressures, health plans now more than ever must adopt innovation to prevent spend on fraud, waste and abuse (FWA). FWA reduction offers a huge opportunity to improve spend and member outcomes – by reducing unnecessary spend and aligning providers with best practices to avoid waste and harm. With new advances in FWA detection, plans can now improve their ability to reduce payment on FWA claims with tools that analyze patient data and provider patterns to precisely identify the services that might be wasteful or abusive.
During this case study, ATRIO Health Plans and Health at Scale will discuss the impact seen from implementing smart, context-aware FWA flagging into pre-adjudication along with a targeted provider education campaign and how the team was able to successfully drive down medical spend by 1.8% in the first year.
Learning Objectives/Key Takeaways of the Session
- Learn how ATRIO Health Plans crafted an innovative new FWA detection program and the factors that led to their substantial spend improvement
- See how new advances in FWA detection improve upon traditional systems by considering real-time context about individual patient history, provider patterns, and medical guidelines to determine if a service is appropriate
- Learn how FWA flagging in pre-adjudication can be supplemented with a targeted provider education program to align provider practices with best standards of care
Jennifer Callahan
COO
ATRIO Health Plans
Jen Callahan is the President and Chief Operating Officer of ATRIO Health Plans. For over 20 years, Jen has established herself as a trusted thought leader who helped shape the managed care industry with her innovative ideas and expertise. Jen has dedicated her career almost exclusively to Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplement programs.
Prior to joining ATRIO, she co-founded a field management organization, Keen Insurance Services, Inc. to create a provider-centric Medicare focused sales and distribution organization from the ground up. Prior to that, she held the position of Vice President, Medicare Product at Aetna, a CVS Health company where she oversaw the product development and implementation of Aetna’s entire Medicare portfolio supporting record breaking growth for the Medicare organization. Throughout her career, Jen has also held various leadership positions at Healthfirst and Elevance.
Jen received her Bachelor of Science degree from Fordham University and MBA from North Carolina State University. Jen currently resides in Waxhaw, a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina with her husband, their three kids, tuxedo cat, Vivi and golden retriever puppy, Steve.
Zeeshan Syed
Chief Executive Officer
Health at Scale
Zeeshan serves as Health at Scale’s CEO and was a Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford Medicine and an Associate Professor with Tenure in Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He was previously part of the early stage team that launched Google[X] Life Sciences (now Verily). Zeeshan is a recipient of multiple awards including an NSF CAREER award and holds a PhD from MIT EECS and Harvard Medical School in Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, and MEng and SB degrees in EECS from MIT.
Health at Scale, Corp.
Website: https://www.healthatscale.com/
Health at Scale is advancing the next-generation of fraud, waste and abuse detection through real-time context-aware intelligence that allows health plans and third-party administrators to detect and act on inappropriate payments across pre-adjudication and post-pay. Founded by artificial intelligence and clinical faculty from MIT, Harvard, Stanford and U-Michigan, the company offers software solutions and fully-managed technology-enabled services to contain medical costs and reduce administrative burden. Health at Scale’s customers include some of the largest payers and TPAs in the U.S.; with the company’s breakthrough Precision FWA Detection™ technology consistently demonstrating 1-2% incremental reduction in total medical spend in large prospective deployments for Medicare Advantage and Commercially-Insured populations.
For more information please visit healthatscale.com.
10:30am
AI is rapidly gaining traction across the healthcare space, driven by growing interest in generative AI, which can create content like text, images, and code. AI adoption, which hovered around 50 percent over the past six years, has surged to 72 percent this year. Within payment integrity, AI can help health plans escape from decades of legacy applications and outsourced high contingency fee vendors that have no incentive to automate/innovate.
Listen to industry experts discuss how to start implementing AI today and to create a balanced approach to AI adoption, one that embraces innovation while carefully managing risks.
Learning Objectives:
- Initiating AI Implementation in Healthcare: Understand the practical steps and strategies for beginning AI implementation within payment integrity, moving away from outdated systems and reliance on vendors with limited incentives for innovation.
- Leveraging AI for Payment Integrity: Learn what payment integrity use cases are ready for AI deployment helping reduce dependency on legacy applications, ultimately improving efficiency and reducing costs for health plans.
- Balancing AI Innovation with Risk Management: Explore how to adopt AI in a way that maximizes innovation while carefully managing potential risks.
Prasanna Ganesan
CEO
Machinify
Brandon Shelton
Senior Director, Advanced Analytics Lab
L.A. Care
Brandon Shelton is the Senior Director of the Advanced Analytics Lab at L.A. Care, the country's largest public-option health plan, where he leads teams of Data Scientists and Data Analysts to support the health plan's various enterprise domains with machine learning solutions, program impact assessments, and business intelligence deliverables. The team's contributions towards Payment Integrity savings consistently exceeds $20M per year.
Machinify
Website: https://www.machinify.com/
Machinify is the trusted AI partner for healthcare admin, providing software and services that enable health plans to accurately and efficiently pay claims, leading to a reduction in provider abrasion. With safe, transparent AI and deep clinical expertise, Machinify brings a unique blend of speed, accuracy, and intelligence health plans need to make healthcare admin more efficient.
The company serves partners of all sizes with its two products:
● Machinify Audit - Medical AI system identifying erroneous claims and performing record review.
● Machinify Pay - AI models and SME expertise to process claims at wire speed, ensuring accurate coding and pricing.
12:15pm
CEU Eligibility: COC, CPC, CPC-P, CPB, CPCO, CPMA, CPPM
To address the increasingly high costs and large product variation of implant devices it is important to develop an implant payment integrity program and policy. This promotes transparency between payer and provider, in addition to a more predictable implant and device spend, potentially lowering medical spend and healthcare costs. This can be achieved by utilizing evidence-based clinical guidelines, industry standard reimbursement methodologies and contracting. In addition, develop reporting and a claims review process to detect safety and quality gaps in implant usage to recoup or stop potential overpayments.
Learning Objectives:
- Outpatient Outlier Payments for Claims
- Credits for Replaced Medical Devices
- Best practices for payer implant policy creation
- Trends in inappropriate implant usage and billing
Stephanie Sjogren
Director, Coding and Provider Reimbursement
EmblemHealth/Connecticare
Stephanie Sjogren is a director of coding and provider reimbursement, working with payment integrity to ensure proper claims adjudication and to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse. Prior to joining ConnectiCare/EmblemHealth, she performed provider audits and education at a women’s healthcare group. Sjogren has also worked with physicians and staff to integrate and use electronic health record systems effectively and to stay in compliance with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ rules and regulations. Her areas of specialty are payment integrity, auditing, and clinical documentation improvement.
12:45pm
Discussion around where artificial intelligence has beneficial uses and where human expertise is necessary to achieve results- with a specific focus on complex claim review
Ceris Health
Website: https://www.ceris.com/
CERIS has 30 years of prepay and post pay claim review and repricing experience with a 97% client retention rate. Our solutions are deep, consistent, and defensible reviews, which make CERIS the partner of choice for health plans, Medicare and Medicaid plans, and third-party administrators. CERIS’ longstanding review services and clinical expertise offer incremental value and are grounded in a sincere dedication to our valued partners. CERIS' mission is to continue to grow and deliver long term Payment Integrity services for our partners and to help them save.
Description: Achieving a robust and balanced healthcare ecosystem entails embracing moderation, even in the realm of “provider abrasion”. This discourse delves into the nuanced understanding that certain elements perceived as abrasive by healthcare providers may, in fact, be essential. The exploration extends to strategies aimed at rendering these interactions more palatable. Additionally, an examination of measures payors can employ to mitigate provider abrasion, without undermining their payment integrity processes, will be explored.
Dr. Michael Menen
Chief Medical Officer
MedReview
•Former Chief Medical Officer at Optum
•Bachelor of Science degree in theoretical mathematics from the University of California, Riverside
•Doctor of Medicine degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin
•Board-certified invasive cardiologist and a fellow of the American College of Cardiology
MedReview
Website: https://www.medreview.us/
Headquartered in the financial district of New York City and serving all U.S. states and territories, MedReview has been a leading provider of payment integrity, utilization management and quality surveillance services for more than 40 years. A physician-led organization with a passion for ensuring that health care claims fairly represent the care provided, MedReview provides timely independent hospital billing audits and clinical validation reviews on behalf of health plans, government agencies and Taft-Hartley organizations, saving millions of dollars for its clients each year.
2:45pm
Description: CEU Eligibility: COC, CPC, CPC-P, CPB, CPPM
Over the last few years, there have been many cases of hospitals receiving inappropriate reimbursement for medical procedures. This session will focus on the procedures associated with these cases, including diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for access sites of dialysis patients, peripheral vascular patients and a variety of surgical procedures. We will explore these cases and discuss the characteristics and scenarios that lead to inappropriate reimbursement.
Learning Objectives:
Through the case study approach, examine specific types of hospital procedures that have been associated with inappropriate reimbursement
Explore methods for preventing, detecting and correcting errors leading to inappropriate reimbursement for these procedures.
CJ Wolf
Professor and Asst. Program Director
Brigham Young University-Idaho
3:15pm
Kyle Pankey
Sales & Growth Leader
Carelon Subrogation
Kyle Pankey has over two decades of experience working within the healthcare and payer operations, with over 10 years specifically tied in to the payment integrity space. Kyle lives in Chattanooga, TN and has served as Carelon Subrogation’s growth leader since mid-2022.
Aaron Browder
President
Carelon Subrogation
Aaron Browder is Staff Vice President, Elevance Health and President, Carelon Subrogation, formerly Meridian Resource Company (Meridian), where he and his team are responsible for overseeing the successful implementation and execution of our clients’ end-to-end subrogation programs. With a nearly 20-year career in subrogation, Aaron possesses a deep knowledge of healthcare subrogation. He has held a wide range of management positions throughout his tenure at Meridian, most recently serving as Staff Vice President. Prior to joining Meridian, Aaron gained experience in the financial services and insurance industries with Arthur Andersen, LLP/KPMG, LLP, and Travelers Property Casualty.
Aaron holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University and a Master of Business Administration from Butler University. He served on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Subrogation Professionals and has been a national presenter and author on issues related to subrogation.
Matt Monyhan
Executive Director, Operations and Strategy
Carelon Subrogation
Creighton Long
Staff VP, Commercial Aligned Incentives Solutions
Anthem
Carelon
Website: https://www.carelon.com/
The health of the healthcare system improves when spending is responsible and accurate. Today, platform technology and advanced analytics are paving the way to make that more efficient and more proactive than ever before. Backed by decades of experience, Carelon’s Payment Integrity solutions bring together breakthrough technology and human expertise to help speed your ability to drive cost savings and value for your stakeholders.
Be the first line of defense and implement proactive strategies to identify and prevent pharmacy fraud in-house. Learn how to work with medical and pharmacy data together to further strengthen fraud detection and prevention efforts
Karen Weintraub
Executive Vice President
HEALTHCARE FRAUD SHIELD
With 25 years of data and 20 years of healthcare experience, Ms. Weintraub is currently responsible for the design and development of the company’s healthcare fraud detection software products and services. She provides subject matter expertise on system design and workflow, business rule development, data mining and fraud outlier algorithms as well as SIU policies and procedures. Prior to joining Healthcare Fraud Shield, managed SIUs on various healthcare investigations for all commercial, Medicaid and Medicare business and claims of fraudulent activity. Ms. Weintraub received a BA in Criminal Justice from the University of Delaware and an MA in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University. Ms. Weintraub is a Certified Professional Coder for Payers (CPC-P), a Certified Professional Medical Auditor (CPMA) from the American Academy of Professional Coders, a Certified Dental Coder (CDC) from the American Dental Association, and the founder of the Hamilton, NJ AAPC chapter. She is also an Accredited Healthcare Fraud Investigator (AHFI) from the National Healthcare Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA). Ms. Weintraub Taught CPT Coding, Fraud & Audits, and Medical Billing, Laws and Ethics and the local community college.
Healthcare Fraud Shield
Website: https://www.hcfraudshield.com/
Healthcare Fraud Shield specializes in fraud, waste, abuse, & error detection and payment integrity for healthcare payers nationally by efficiently stopping claims prior to payment using utilizing post-payment advanced analytics and artificial intelligence insights. We save health plans millions annually incremental to existing pre-payment processes using our unique and proven approach. HCFSPlatform™ offers the combination of targeted rules, artificial intelligence, and shared analytics across multiple payers resulting in higher ROI (up to 20:1) compared to other vendors. HCFSPlatform™ software platform was developed by industry leading healthcare subject matter experts and is a component of over 60+ clients including 7 of the 10 largest commercial insurers in the US. Our client satisfaction rating is exceptional with a net promoter score of 94 and
client retention rate over 95%.
HCFSPlatform™ is a fully integrated platform consisting of PreShield (prepayment analytics & claim review logic), PostShield (post-payment analytics), AIShield (AI-driven analytic insights), RxShield (pharmacy and pharmaceutical specific analytics), Shared Analytics, CaseShield (SIU/PI case management), QueryShield (ad hoc query and reporting tool), HCFSServices (data mining, investigative, and record reviews), and HCFSAudit (Medical Record Review & SVRS).
3:45pm
John-Michael Loke
SVP, Health Plan Strategy & Partnerships
AMS
AMS Intelligent Analytics
Website: http://www.amspredict.com/
Advanced Medical Strategies (AMS) is the premier provider of payment integrity, risk management, and business intelligence solutions to identify and address excessive claims, prevent and recoup overpayments, and effectively manage the risks associated with high-cost claimants and group health underwriting.
4:30pm
Helen Liu, Pharm.D.
Health Plan Leader
Independent
Helen Liu, PharmD, brings 29 years of diverse pharmacy experience, blending clinical expertise, operational efficiency, technological innovation, and management across various healthcare settings.
Over the past four years, Helen has successfully led pharmacy operations at ATRIO Health Plans (Medicare), achieving significant milestones in PA/ST, FWA, MTM programs, resulting in over $4.5M in savings. She’s conducted formulary analyses to support actuary Medicare annual bid submissions, including IRA and M3P programs, collaborated with partners and the Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) to identify cost-saving opportunities through formulary alternatives, biosimilars, and rebate strategies, and partnered in the RFP PBM selection process and resolved complex pharmacy-related issues through cross-departmental collaboration.
Before ATRIO, Helen spent seven years at Kaiser Permanente, where she served as Regional Assistant Director to implement hospitals Drug Use Management Program. Her efforts led to over $20 million in savings through inventory management, drug cost-saving initiatives, and the standardization of clinical content/practice guidelines.
5:15pm
Clay Wilemon
Chief Executive Officer
4L Data Intelligence, Inc.
Clay serves as CEO at 4L Data Intelligence™. He has launched over 500 new healthcare brands and holds patents in artificial intelligence and medical technologies. Clay is on the Board of Directors at Octane, a Southern California non-profit economic development organization that has helped hundreds of technology and med-tech companies get started. He a graduate of Vanderbilt University.
Greg Lyon
Senior Fraud Advisor
4L Data Intelligence, Inc.
Greg is a recognized anti-fraud expert with experience in Financial Services and Healthcare Payments that includes serving as Director of Fraud Prevention at United Healthcare. His guiding principle is, “The best way to fight fraud is to prevent it.” Greg is a graduate of Colgate University and is a Certified Financial Planner.
4L Data Intelligence
Website: https://4ldata.com/
4L Data Intelligence™ is leading the way in a new era of healthcare program and payment integrity using the patented power of Integr8 AI Risk Detection™ technology to find, fight and prevent FWA in near real-time. Integr8 AI™, coupled with our continuously credentialed provider database, creates a revolutionary provider-centric capability to dynamically detect FWA you cannot see with stacks of traditional claims data-centric editing and analytics solutions.
The 4L FWA Prevention™ solution rapidly detects and prevents FWA at five points across the claims management workflow including pre pre-payment, pre-payment and post-payment positions. At each point, patented Integr8 AI technology dynamically and continuously detects provider behaviors, relationships and outliers without the limitations of rules-based and claim data-centric solutions. In short, it enables you to see what providers are doing individually, in relationship with all other providers, and in relationship to all other claims on each-and-every claim submitted.
4L FWA Prevention pre-payment and post-payment detection and prevention results are continuously delivered in four complementary modules. These are:
- Provider Integrity Edits
- Adaptive Claims Edits
- Billing Behaviors Analysis
- Provider Schemes Analysis.
For SIU teams, the new 4L SIU Hub™ packages the expanded range of Integr8 AI powered FWA detection behaviors and schemes into easy to use views with comprehensive investigation and lead management tools. This new capability increases FWA detection, reduces complexity and increases speed-to-decision on lead triage and investigation. All so you can Find, Fight and Prevent FWA Fast™.
5:45pm
- Speed up reimbursement and streamline day-to-day operations through efficient data exchange to enable prior authorization, claim status monitoring and identification of care gaps.
Darren Wethers
Chief Medical Officer
ATRIO Health Plans
Darren Wethers is a board-certified internal medicine physician and certified physician executive.
He graduated from Morehouse College, Northwestern University Medical School and completed internal medicine training at Emory University School of Medicine before establishing an internal medicine practice in the St. Louis, Missouri area, becoming a “Top Doctor” Honorée several years running. Dr. Wethers was the medical staff president at SSM St. Mary’s Health Center in 2006-07 and chaired the facility’s Credentials committee 2007-11.
In 2011, Dr. Wethers began a career in administrative medicine, servings as a medical director with Coventry Health Care and Aetna, vice president of clinical operations at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona and is now at Atrio Health Plans, where he serves as chief medical officer.
Dr. Wethers is a member of the American Association for Physician Leadership, Fellow of the American College of Physicians, member of Alpha Phi Alpha and Sigma Pi Phi fraternities; he is a board member and immediate past chairman for Gamma Mu Educational Services (GMES) and is a board member of Northwestern University Medical School Alumni Association, for which he serves as president-elect and co-chair of the Inclusion and Allyship committee.
CJ Wolf
Professor and Asst. Program Director
Brigham Young University-Idaho
Jonique Dietzen
Payment Integrity Director
CareOregon
With over 18 years of experience in healthcare billing and finance, I am a certified professional coder dedicated to ensuring accurate claims and proper reimbursement for providers. Having worked extensively on the provider side in finance and revenue cycle, I bring wealth of knowledge to the table, particularly in processing and payment integrity.
Throughout my career, I have gained a comprehensive understanding of billing challenges from both perspectives. This unique insight drives my commitment to improving billing practices and advocating for provider education. I continue to leverage my expertise to enhance billing processes and support providers in navigating the complexities of healthcare finance.
7:30pm
Thursday, 12 Sep, 2024
09:00am
AI for PI (Christopher Draven, Crystal Son)
Session in Partnership with Alivia Analytics
AI for Governance (Crystal Son, Simi Binning)
Payment Integrity
Christopher Draven
Senior Director of Payment Integrity Analytics & AI
HCSC
Christopher Draven is Senior Director of Payment Integrity Analytics & AI at HCSC where he leads a cross-functional team focused on delivering actionable insights and savings. He has over 25 years experience in healthcare, starting in direct patient care.
Crystal Son
Executive Director of Enterprise Data Analytics Solutions
HCSC
Crystal Son is an Executive Director of Enterprise Data Analytics Solutions at Healthcare Service Corporation (HCSC). She has 19 years of experience in deriving intelligence from data.
At HCSC, she leads the Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships team, a department that focuses on cross-functional, collaborative analytics delivery on key programs such as Payment Integrity and Stakeholder Engagement, enterprise data and analytics strategy and planning, as well as design and execution of HCSC’s Responsible AI program. She is passionate about real-world applications of data-driven insights, storytelling through data, and building high-performance teams.
Simi Binning
Responsible AI Lead
HCSC
Simi Binning is an accomplished healthcare professional with over a decade of experience in developing and executing successful strategies that drive business growth. Currently serving as a Responsible AI lead at HCSC, her focus is on AI governance and innovative problem solving.
Alivia Analytics
Website: https://www.aliviaanalytics.com/
Your most expansive Payment Integrity and FWA partner for medical, pharmacy, vision, and dental claims. This features our powerful, configurable Alivia 360™ Platform that provides pre- and post-payment flexibility and considerable cost savings across the healthcare claims management process. It seamlessly transitions between FWA detection and Payment Integrity solutions including clinical and non-clinical audit scenarios, first- and second-pass claims editing, and COB/TPL. Alivia 360™ not only ensures comprehensive financial oversight but full adaptability to operational needs. Alivia integrates AI as an assistant, not a replacement, prioritizing ethical use, human oversight, and compliance with industry standards. Our solutions are offered as SaaS or tech-enabled services that build strong cases against inappropriate billing practices, identify new recoveries missed by legacy vendors, deliver actionable analytics, and offer automated corrections. Alivia enables healthcare payers to streamline vendor management, improving control and strategic decision-making. Schedule a discovery meeting and demo.
10:30am
Mantha Subrahmanyam
VP of Payment Integrity
Sagility
Bob Starman
SVP of Payment Integrity Solutions
Sagility
Sagility
Website: https://sagilityhealth.com/
Sagility is a U.S.-based, tech-enabled healthcare business process management company that supports payers, providers, and their partners to deliver best-in-class operations, enhance the member and provider experience, improve the quality of care and promote health equity all while delivering cost-effective healthcare financial and clinical outcomes.
Sagility Technologies uses a holistic consulting approach to identify the root causes of healthcare payer and provider pain points, analyze the issues, and provide a complete solution that encompasses people, process, and technology platform improvements. Equipped with a strategic solutions mindset, our core focus is on what most benefits the client. Combining healthcare operations and technology experience with advanced UI, UX, and analytics expertise, we develop and deploy customized solutions for our client’s business. Additionally, with our extensive global resources and facilities, we provide the best service/price ratio for any service outsourcing needs.
11:45am
2:30pm
CEU Eligibility: COC, CPC, CPC-P, CPB, CPPM
In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, balancing cost containment with maintaining strong provider relationships is a critical challenge. This session will explore effective strategies to control costs while fostering positive, collaborative relationships with providers. Attendees will gain insights into practical approaches and best practices that align financial objectives with the goal of delivering high-quality patient care.
Learning Objectives:
- Collaborative Approaches to Payment Integrity
- Efficient Billing and Coding Practices
- Provider Education and Training
- Monitoring and Continuous Improvement
Jonique Dietzen
Payment Integrity Director
CareOregon
With over 18 years of experience in healthcare billing and finance, I am a certified professional coder dedicated to ensuring accurate claims and proper reimbursement for providers. Having worked extensively on the provider side in finance and revenue cycle, I bring wealth of knowledge to the table, particularly in processing and payment integrity.
Throughout my career, I have gained a comprehensive understanding of billing challenges from both perspectives. This unique insight drives my commitment to improving billing practices and advocating for provider education. I continue to leverage my expertise to enhance billing processes and support providers in navigating the complexities of healthcare finance.
Erik Carter-Nadeau
Operations Manager, Provider Network
CareOregon
With over a decade in healthcare leadership, I am passionate about fostering provider engagement and delivering strategic support to improve the health of Oregonians, particularly in rural and underserved areas. As a native Oregonian, growing up in these communities across my state has provided me with unique insights into the cultural and geographic factors that influence healthcare delivery. I am committed to leveraging this understanding to enhance quality, access, and equity in healthcare for all Oregonians.
3:00pm
The session will cover two drug categories and medications commonly used and current trends of fraud, waste and abuse. The four medications include GLP-1 (Ozempic/Mounjaro) and Antivirals combinations (Descovy & Biktarvy). Each drug will cover its directed use by manufacturers and common side effects, this will segue into issues of patient harm being inappropriately prescribed and its financial impact on health plans. Data analytic tactics using patient historical clinical indications to identify potential FWA providers/members and approaches to address outliers. The aftermath of inappropriately prescribing causing pharmacy inventory shortages, diversion, misbranding and counterfeit production by fraudsters for profit.
Learning Objectives:
1) Identifying counterfeit medications mentioned in presentation.
2) Implementation of provider education, recoveries and cost-saving best practices
Eric Renteria
Senior Fraud Investigator
L.A. Care Health Plan
Angela Zigler
Special Agent
Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigation