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  • Thrive -- Not JUST Survive III: "Shark Proof Your Practice"

    Practice Management & Asset Protection Workshop

    Date: May 31, 2003 (Saturday)
    Time: 8:00 a.m. -- 4:30 p.m.
    Location: Olympic Room - Seattle Center - Seattle, WA
    Hotel: Hilton Homewood Suites/1-bedroom suite $99
    CME Hours: Physicians 8.0 Category 1
    Nurses: 9.6 CEU
    Registration Fee: Members Early-Bird (by May 15) $95
    Members $149
    Non members $249
    Staff $75 (w/ physician)
    New members: Free! (w/ $285 dues)
    Residents $30 (please pre-register)
    Medical Students: Free! (please pre-register)

    (Includes breakfast, lunch, 5/30 welcome & 5/31 post-conference receptions, meeting shuttles and 100-page "Compliance Resource Workbook")

    Disarm the vultures & jumpstart your practice with the workshop designed by physicians!

    The only workshop that teaches you practical strategies to get out of the insurance claims business and get back to practicing medicine!

    Top legal and medical experts will tell you how to reduce third party interference in your practice, avoid the law's "knock at the door," fight off licensure problems, and protect your business & personal assets - with or without liability coverage. .

    You'll also hear practicing physicians who have cut the cord to managed care and Medicare - keeping their patients & creating a healthy bottom line. You'll get the details on how to keep HIPAA claims problems from drying up your cash flow, and how to respond to expected privacy complaints.

    You'll learn practical strategies that can be implemented immediately without hiring additional staff or incurring large consultant fees.

    In other words, real world experiences and wisdom, and step-by-step strategies. Not just more expensive, useless compliance company advice.

    • Opt out of Medicare
    • Set up a cash practice & "Simple Care"
    • Stop wasting time on billing & compliance
    • Reduce staff, accounting & operating costs
    • How to find real compliance help
    • Surviving sham peer review/licensing hoops
    • Avert HIPAA transactions cash flow problems
    • Prepare for & avoid fraud prosecutions/audits
    • Judgment-proof your assets without insurance
    • Fight Medicare bureaucracy & win
    • Ethical use of the web to build your practice
    • Retain patients & maintain true privacy
    • Respond to a HIPAA OCR privacy complaint
    • Prepare for new compliance hurdles

    WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

    Physicians & staff who want to:

    Register early - our previous workshop sold out!
    (800) 635-1196 or Click here to register online.

    BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND -- NOW IN THE NORTHWEST!

    With an updated program and new speakers Both of our previous "Thrive, Not JUST Survive" practice management workshops sold out. If you missed the first two, you have another chance.

    Here's what your colleagues say about this workshop:

    • "The best ever. I don't know how you do it. I'm joining today."
    • "No other workshop has given me the straight story on HIPAA & fighting back."
    • "Great for solidifying ideas on opting out."

    Learn how to create a "healthy practice" for you and your patients, while minimizing third party intrusion from government, insurance companies and prosecutors. This is the conference physicians tell us they need.

    In a survey conducted by AAPS, physicians ranked these conference topics as the top 9 out of a total of 39 possibilities.

    Even though the April deadline for HIPAA privacy compliance has passed, there are more compliance train wrecks around the corner. A March 28, 2003 Puget Sound Business Journal predicts that claims rejections after the October 2003 transaction standards will be “astronomical.” One of the country’s top healthcare management consultants from PriceWaterhouseCoopers warns that physicians will see cash flow dry up without extreme measures. He’ll tell you how to avoid the blow-up.

    We have the originator of the “SimpleCare” cash-based practice featured in national magazines. He’ll explain how he stopped hemorrhaging his cash flow to come back from bankruptcy, and help you crunch the numbers to do the same. Other doctors will present their own case studies on how they eliminated third-party contracts, got out of the insurance claims business, and started practicing medicine again!

    We have one of the nation’s leading experts on “covering your assets” from Jay Mitton’s National Medical Legal Foundation. He’ll tell you how to protect your professional and personal assets through risk management with or without liability coverage. And a pioneer in practical applications of the Internet will show you how to leverage the web to create revenue, to reduce time spent on repetitive tasks such as patient intake, and to help educate patients before they walk through your door. In other words, real experience and wisdom, & step-by-step strategies. Not just more “lawyering” or expensive, useless compliance advice!

    SPECIAL $99 1-BEDROOM SUITE AT THE HILTON HOMEWOOD SUITES in the shadow of the Space Needle Located in downtown Seattle, you'll be just blocks from the Space Needle, the original Starbuck's and Nordstrom's, and the waterfront of Elliott Bay. Hotel boasts great water, mountain and city views. Airport transportation runs just $8.

    Features include free hot breakfast buffet, room kitchens, VCR, dataports & health club. You'll never find this room rate on your own! Hotel reservation (206) 281-9393

    Reserve by May 15 for the special AAPS rate!

    Download the flyer to register by fax or mail, post at your hospital, and circulate to your colleagues.