BUSINESS EDUCATION PROGRAM – Are you a seasoned business professional with significant experience in managing an orthotics and/or prosthetics patient care or manufacturing business? Share your successes at the AOPA National Assembly on September 9-12 in Boston, MA and compete for the prestigious Sam E. Hamontree Business Education Award. The winner of the Hamontree award will take home $1,000.
We welcome your ideas and suggestions, but here are a few topic areas we are specifically looking for:
Executive Level – Populations Health Management
- ACO Model
- Business, reimbursement, revenue
- Insurance world – Value Based Reimbursement
- Referral sources under reimbursement and cost pressure
- What are payors focus on outcomes?
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- Medicare Aadvantage plans—the good, the bad and the Ugly/What are Advantage Plans? Advantages? Differences
- Delayed Care is denied care
- Higher Biz track
- Financial
- Operational
- Process Improvement
- Strategic planning to tactical strategies
- Building high functioning tribes Burn-out / Stress management (Relationship management/ Executive Leadership Track for COOS
Administrative Track
- Front Desk protocol
- Communications skills for administrative staff
- Reimbursement basics
- Different national insurance
- Co-pays and deductibles
Students and Residents
- How to write your resume
- Prepare for next steps
- Advocate for your patients
- What to look for in a good company
- How to best fit into a new company
- Recent graduate who has been through process
Self-Improvement
- Presentation skills
- Techniques to get what you need from physicians
- Time management–Efficiency for all aspects
Operations
- Partnerships and consolidation the pros and cons
- Vertical integration
- Telehealth
- OTC bidding and its impact on ONP providers
- How to Properly Chart
- Re-examining my role as a provider
- Next Steps – transitioning P&O from device providers to Health Care providers
- Practical Outcomes Measures for P&O
- Promoting mental well-being of P&O patients
- Reimbursement challenges
- Legislative updates
- Policies concerning harassment in work environment
- Daily compliance concerns
- How to work with the VA
- How to work with COVID
When your company is acquired:
- What happens to your staff?
- Top ten for admin
- Top ten for operations / HR
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Pros and cons
Audits
- Internal audit team
- Knowing Policy
- United Healthcare – Audit triggers
- Documentation – using templates
- Clinician documentation
Presentation Skills
- Powerpoint
- Public Speaking
- Personal Presentation Tips
- Interviews and Interviewing on Zoom
Please access the submission form online. The submission deadline is April 2. For further information, contact Ryan Gleeson at (571) 431-0836 or rgleeson@AOPAnet.org. Thank you for your interest and we look forward to receiving your submission.