Chief Financial Officers (CFO2)

The Members formally convene two times per year, spring and fall, for a two-day interactive session. Participants identify the issues they want to explore and the experts they want to hear from. A typical two-day Roundtable seminar will feature 3-5 speakers (outside speakers and/or Members themselves) making presentations on recent trends and innovative projects.

Issues may include topics such as: 

• What are the successful integration strategies, joint ventures, and physician employment models being implemented across the country?
• Successful capital and operational planning--Making the hard decisions on capital planning.
• Managed care strategies, policing the payors, renegotiating contracts with major payors who contribute large percentages of one’s net revenue.
• Minimizing Physician Practice Losses especially when these losses are in terms of millions of dollars.
• Physician call coverage and payments
• Price Transparency & Defensible Pricing Methodologies – What if your organization is the high-priced facility in a two-hospital town?
• Charity care and bad debt issues, pricing policies for the uninsured and underinsured
• Continuous improvement on the revenue cycle at all points in the system
• Shortage of skilled professionals, including physicians, nurses, and many other kinds of essential technical staff. Managing the accompanying salary & wage increases.
• In light of the release by the IRS of information about its study of Executive Compensation, what action should hospitals be taking? What is the impact on the financial statements of hospitals around the country, and should we be seriously considering changes to our defined benefit pension plans?
• Financing the high cost of Information Technology, including EMR, and the continuing effort to optimize benefit against cost
• Increased construction cost causing major budget overruns on renovation and new construction projects

The participants also enjoy the cross-pollination of ideas during Open Discussion sessions. Members are encouraged to present the issues/problems they are currently facing so that fellow Members can advise one another as peer consultants. During these interactive discussions, Members share new innovations and projects-in-process using a "grand rounds" format.

All Roundtable Meetings are skillfully facilitated to avoid wandering discussions and to promote productive dialogue and the efficient use of time spent "around the table." The "think tank" approach of the Roundtable provides a very high quality educational experience one cannot easily find elsewhere.

The Roundtable Dues, Attendance and Guest Policy

Tuitions at these meetings are covered by yearly membership dues. Meeting attendance must be a high priority. A Member is strongly encouraged to send an appropriate substitute in the event he or she is unable to attend a scheduled Roundtable Meeting.

A Member may bring one guest to any Meeting, particularly an individual who is considering membership. Guest registrations are made in advance (at no additional charge)--limited to four total per Roundtable Meeting.

In order to cover the costs of the semi-annual meetings, including speaker fees, appropriate research, and operating expenses, Members pay $2,995 for two consecutive meetings.