Health Industry Collaboration Effort

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COME CELEBRATE 20 YEARS OF COLLABORATION WITH ICE!

The ICE 2018 Annual Conference will be held on December 3 & 4, 2018, where ICE will be celebrating 20 years of collaboration in developing educational and "best practice" materials designed to streamline, simplify, and standardize regulatory policies and procedures that govern the provision of health care services that particularly require the collaboration between health plans and their provider partners.

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CONFERENCE SYNOPSIS:

Each year, Industry Collaboration Effort, Inc. (ICE) hosts a conference that focuses on health care industry developments and operational improvements that offer opportunities to health plans, physician organizations and industry administrators for efficiencies and standardization.  The ICE Annual Conference offers the opportunity to hear directly from healthcare regulators on up-to the-minute topics and is one of the best values in the industry!

ICE has once again invited the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for this two-day event in San Francisco, California. CMS speakers are all expected to present in person and they include senior-level managers from CMS Central Office as well as CMS Regional offices.

There will also be presentations from healthcare associations and industry leaders, along with the following topic-specific breakout sessions that you won't want to miss:

- ICE Credentialing Shared Audit Policy Team sessions on Delegated Credentialing

- ICE Appeals & Grievances Improvement Team sessions with CMS Region IX on Quality of Care Grievances

- ICE Contracting & Compliance Team sessions on Are You Creating Effective Compliance Training or Just Checking the Box?

- ICE QI and UM Required Reports Team sessions on Health Plan Utilization Management (UM) Reporting

- ICE DMHC Timely Access Regulations Team sessions on Timely Access Reporting - Countdown to 2020

- Prescription Drug Events: Deciphering the Role of PDE in Medicare Part D Plan Reconciliations - Is Your Plan Leaving Money on the Table?

- How Healthy Would Your Compliance Program Look Under a Microscope?

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

This conference is a must for healthcare industry leadership, frontline managers and staff alike. Whether your role is general administration, medical and pharmacy, network management, product development and sales, government, regulatory, legal or public relations, you will find this conference rich in content and contacts.

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CONTINUING EDUCATION:

Please see the "Other Information" tab for information on the types of continuing education ICE intends to offer for this conference. (As a reminder, contact hours for the California Board of Registered Nursing are no longer offered for this conference due to changes in requirements.)

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