September 2016 Seasonal Meeting

Saturday, September 24

6:00 p.m.

Board Dinner
Attendance by invitation only.

Sunday, September 25

Board Meeting
Attendance by invitation only.

FPCA Meeting
Attendance by invitation only.

SFPA Meeting
Attendance by invitation only.

Monday, September 26

Service Delivery Improvement Trainings

• Quality Improvements in Coding in a Reproductive Health Care Setting
  This training will examine quality improvements for coding services provided during family planning encounters. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss the role that administrators and clinicians can play in supporting proper coding and documentation habits.  Made possible with the support of Bayer

• Strengthening Your Revenue Cycle
  This training will provide participants with an assessment strategy and tool to identify strengths and weaknesses in their revenue cycle processes and identify key performance indicators to measure their success.  Made possible with the support of Bayer
  
  
• Working with Health Plans
  This training will address key issues when working with health plans, including contracting, negotiating with health plan medical directors, participating in health plan clinical committees, and representing your health center as a co-equal with providers in the local medical community.

Board Nominating Committee Meeting
Attendance by invitation only.

An In-Depth Look at Reimbursement (Lunch Served)
Challenges with reimbursement span both the policy and service delivery arenas and the resolution of these challenges are foundational to agencies’ sustainability efforts. Whether confronting how to advocate for improved reimbursement rates or handling claims denials from public or private payers, NFPRHA experts regularly provide members with technical assistance and support. This session will highlight trends and solutions to some of the common challenges facing the field. 

Proposed Update to Title X Regulations 
The recently issued proposed update to the Title X regulations, if finalized, would be the first major change to Title X regulations since the end of the Clinton administration, and marks a significant move forward in protecting the integrity and diversity of the Title X network. NFPRHA staff will discuss the proposed regulatory update, NFPRHA’s template comments for members, and next steps in the regulatory process and beyond.

Break

Workshops

• LARC Initiatives in the States
  Learn about the breadth and diversity of projects within states to improve access to long acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods. A panel will discuss concerns about the potential for LARC advocacy to turn into contraceptive coercion.
  
  
• Steps to Coordinating Patient Care
  Patient-centered care coordination is a component of multiple quality improvement frameworks, including the QFP, PCMH/PCSP quality designations, and payment reform initiatives. In this session, NFPRHA members will share practical steps and processes their organizations have implemented to streamline internal and external patient care coordination.

• Confidential & Covered:  Promising Practices to Maintain Privacy in Billing
  Several states have amended state policy to address the challenge of maintaining privacy for individuals insured as dependents throughout the insurance process. In 2015 and 2016, NFPRHA’s special project Confidential & Covered interviewed key informants in California, Colorado, Maryland, and Washington to understand how these state laws are working and how they have impacted health center practice. This session will share lessons from these states about how the state policies were crafted and implemented.

Preventing Zika Virus Infection
Access to effective and affordable contraception is a key prevention strategy to reduce the threat of Zika virus infection. This session will highlight several strategies and key considerations family planning providers have used to develop and implement their state plans to reduce transmission. NFPRHA members will share lessons learned from the first season of Zika in the United States.

Reception

Tuesday, September 27

Alternative Delivery Systems for Family Planning (Breakfast Served)
Historically, family planning services have been available only on-site at a health center and hormonal contraceptives have been available only through clinician prescription. In the past few years, alternative service delivery sites have increased and access to hormonal contraceptives through additional pathways have become available (e.g. via pharmacist prescribing, telemedicine, and virtual interaction with a clinician on a web site or application). Advocacy efforts continue in some states to move oral contraceptives to over-the-counter status. What does all of this mean for the future of publicly funded family planning? Are the alternative delivery systems the new "Uber" for providing services? This session will review the details of each of the innovations and examine the likelihood that alternative delivery systems will become a game-changer for the field.

Decision 2016: Election Forecast
The November elections will shape the political environment in which publicly funded family planning must operate. This session, featuring a combination of policy and political insights, will highlight electoral prospects in the House, Senate, and presidential races and discuss what the results will mean for family planning and sexual health.

Break

Medicaid Peer-to-Peer Meeting (Lunch Served)

12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Regulations: from Guidance to Practice 

In the last year of the Obama administration, a number of major regulations and program guidances impacting publicly funded family planning have been issued and finalized for implementation. Translating these new or amended requirements and recommendations to an agency’s operational policies and procedures can be complicated. NFPRHA staff will discuss recent, pertinent regulations and their respective effects on the provision of publicly funded family planning.

1:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. BREAK

2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Breakout Discussions

Attendees will break into three groups to discuss the following topics, facilitated by NFPRHA staff:

• Medicaid Family Planning – Robin Summers, Vice President, Health Care Strategy & Analysis
• 340B – Mindy McGrath, Director, Advocacy & Communications
• Payment Reform - Helen Reid, Chief Program Officer