Sunday, October 11

8:00 – 10:00 AM Pre-Conference

P1 Role of HR in Quality and Patient Safety
Mark Brody, JD, MSW, Health Care Consultant

handout, evaluation survey

10:15 AM – 12:15 PM Pre-Conference

P2 Policies and Procedures for Institutions Working with PSOs
Ronni P. Solomon, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, ECRI Institute

handout 1, handout 2, evaluation survey

1:30 – 3:30 PM Pre-Conference

P3 State Quality of Care Enforcement Trends: NY and Beyond
Jim Sheehan, Medicaid Inspector General, New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General

handout, evaluation survey

3:45 – 5:45 PM Pre-Conference

P4 Code Blue: Resuscitating the External Peer Review Process to Improve Quality of Care and Decrease Hospital Risk
Gregory Cohen, MD, MPH, CEO, Physician Compliance Network, LLC

handout,  evaluation survey

• Outline the current state of peer review at hospital
• Discuss how using external peer review can improve hospital/physician relations and physician/physician relations
• Original methods of using external peer review to improve patient care and decrease the liability of the hospitals from various kinds of lawsuits and decrease the risk of having payers try to recover funds from unnecessary procedures