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  • Employee Retention and the First 3 Months

    • 21 May 2025
    • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Online Webinar
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    Online Webinar

    Wednesday, May 21, 2025    
    Time: 3:00 - 4:00pm  CST

             Speaker: Kerri Burchill, PhD

    Kerri serves as President of North Star Coaching, her independent consulting company that focuses on helping leaders slow down to go fast. In addition to coaching, Kerri’s work includes designing and implementing leadership development programs, training accredited coaches, facilitating difficult conversations, increasing accountability through team building activities, and consulting on organizational initiatives.

    About 15 years ago Kerri and her partner Keith felt that their life was a bit too comfortable, so they positioned themselves to stretch. They made some decisions that resulted in working in three countries, six cities, and nine different jobs.

    In all of these roles, Kerri saw leaders spinning and fighting fires all day, rarely getting to their leadership work. Kerri built on her observations serving and working with leaders internationally, plus the concepts she captured in her peer-reviewed publications and academic research to develop the ASKhole® Framework.

    Kerri trains leaders on avoiding the ASKhole® framework as a tool to help leaders slow down to go fast. She delivers keynote speeches and provides individual and team coaching.

    Today, Kerri lives in San Antonio with the best decision of her life and a very spoiled dog.

    Employee Retention and the First 3 Months

    The first three months in a new job are a make-it or break-it and that is where leaders need to find out how the employee is doing and feeling (when the employee is often reluctant to share).  Participants will walk away with strategies to help retain employees.

    Objectives:

    1. To analyze the first three months of employment and its correlation to employee retention
    2. To develop strategies to assess employees’ experiences in the first three months
    3. To practice skills to real examples

     

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  • Exploring Possible Next Steps for Your Practice

    • 18 Jun 2025
    • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • North Kansas City Hospital - North Oak Conference Room
    • 59
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    North Kansas City Hospital - North Oak Conference Room

    Date:  June 18, 2025 Time:  3:00pm - 5:00pm     

                               

    Speaker: Ron Booth, Founder & CEO
    Thompson River Advisory

    Exploring Possible Next Steps for Your Practice

    Even if you aren't currently considering a merger or a sale of your medical practice, understanding more about how mergers or sales of medical practices work is critical to the sustainability of your practice. In "Exploring the Next Step for Your Practice" you'll learn:

    * The reasons why practice transitions become necessary

    * Steps practice leaders can take to prepare for transitions

    * The timeline and key stages of a merger or sale

    * Potential buyers for your practice

    * The very strange, but common valuation method used by private equity firms to value medical practices.

    Understanding your practice's role in the evolving healthcare landscape is essential, and this presentation aims to provide valuable insights.


    REGISTRATION LINK:   https://gkcmgma.org/event-6148519


    BIO:   


    Ron is a Kansas City native who began his career with the national audit, assurance, advisory and tax firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. From there, Ron served as the Chief Financial Officer of a national mortgage bank focused on buying mortgage banks on a nationwide basis. In 2015, Ron co-founded a Kansas City-based multi-specialty medical practice where he served as CEO and led the acquisition of medical practices, surgery centers and other ancillary businesses. After growing that practice from seven physicians to more than 30 physicians, Ron sold his interest and founded Thompson River Advisory so that he could focus on helping physicians transition their practices,


    Ron lives in Parkville with his wife and two Chow Chows, volunteers transporting rescue dogs and is convinced that the best barbecue in the country can be found at Gates.



     

           
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  • Optimizing Revenue Cycle Management: Key Insights for Healthcare Leaders

    • 16 Jul 2025
    • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Corporate Woods, 10801 Mastin Boulevard, Building #84, Suite 170, Overland Park, KS
    • 75
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    Corporate Woods, 10801 Mastin Boulevard, Building #84, Suite 170, Overland Park, KS

    Wednesday, July 16, 2025    
    Time:  Registration 3:00 -networking, food/drink, speaker. End by 5:00pm  

             Speaker: Tracy Bird, FACMPE, CPC, CPMA, CPC-I

    President/CEO Medical Practice Advisors, LLC

    Optimizing Revenue Cycle Management:

    Key Insights for Healthcare Leaders


    In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare environment, effective revenue cycle management is critical for enhancing organization profitability and operational efficiency.

    This presentation will provide leaders with actionable insights and strategies to ensure the practice’s RCM processes lead to improved financial performance and patient satisfaction.

    Learning Objectives:

    1. Understand the key components of the RCM process including patient registration including eligibility and verification of benefits, claim submission process, payment processing, denial management, A/R management, and reports.

    2. Identify common revenue cycle challenges including common billing errors, delayed reimbursement, staff training, and compliance issues, and how to analyze the impact on revenue.

    3. Implement metrics, benchmarks and data to identify trends to inform revised processes.

    4. Evaluate existing software and other technology solutions to automate processes and improve efficiency.


    Tracy has many years healthcare management experience in multiple specialties in the areas of practice operations, revenue cycle management, coding, documentation, staff training, communications, policy and procedure development, and workflow redesign. Her experience includes work with private practices, hospital based practices, rural health clinics, and FQHC’s She is an ACMPE Fellow with MGMA, a Certified Professional Coder (CPC), a Certified Professional Medical Auditor (CMPA), a Certified Evaluation and Management Auditor (CEMC) a Certified Professional Medical Coding Curriculum instructor (CPC-I). Tracy is co-founder and past president of the NE Kansas Chapter of AAPC, a past president of MGMA-GKC, is the ACMPE Forum Rep for Kansas, and Kansas City, and previously served on the Certification Commission for National MGMA. Tracy is also an independent practice management consultant with national MGMA. Tracy presents to many healthcare organizations on a variety of practice management and coding topics as well as being a National speaker for MGMA and AAPC.


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  • Process Mapping as a Valuable Tool for Practice Efficiency

    • 20 Aug 2025
    • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • North Kansas City Hospital - Prairie View Conference Room
    • 75
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    North Kansas City Hospital - Prairie View Conference Room

    Wednesday, August 20, 2025    
    Time:  Registration 3:00 -networking, food/drink, speaker. End by 5:00pm  

      

    Speaker: Jim Spratt, MBA, SSBB


    Process Mapping as a Valuable Tool for Practice Efficiency

    This presentation introduces essential Lean tools and techniques used to visualize, analyze, and improve business processes. By combining Process Mapping, Value-Added/Non-Value-Added Analysis, Spaghetti Diagrams, and Visual Management, teams gain powerful insights to identify inefficiencies, reduce waste, and support continuous improvement.

    Key Focus Areas:

    1. Process Mapping

    · Visual breakdown of a workflow from start to finish

    · Highlights roles, steps, decision points, and handoffs

    · Establishes a shared understanding of how work actually flows versus how it should flow

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    2. Value-Added vs. Non-Value-Added (VA/NVA) Mapping

    · Each step is evaluated to determine if it adds value from the customer's perspective

    · Value-Added (VA): Steps that change the product/service in a meaningful way

    · Non-Value-Added (NVA): Wasteful activities like delays, rework, unnecessary motion

    · Aim: Minimize or eliminate NVA steps to streamline processes and reduce cost

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    3. Spaghetti Diagrams

    · Maps the physical flow of people, materials, or information through a workspace

    · Visually illustrates unnecessary travel, backtracking, or inefficient layouts

    · Drives layout redesign or co-location of steps to minimize motion waste

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    4. Visual Management

    · Use of visual cues (signs, boards, color coding, KPIs, dashboards) to manage operations at-a-glance

    · Promotes transparency, real-time decision-making, and accountability

    · Examples: production boards, performance metrics, shadow boards, status indicators

    · Enables teams to “see problems” quickly and respond proactively

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    Bio

    Jim Spratt is the Vice President of Project Management for PFSbrands. Jim has over 25 years of experience in process improvement methodologies, project management, supply chain engineering, distribution operations, and material handling design.

    Prior to joining PFSbrands, Jim worked at St. Mary’s Health Center as the Director of Continuous Quality Improvement for four years where he focused on the implementation of a Six Sigma program at the facility. He was responsible for the identification and execution of projects as driven by the facilities’ strategic and operational plans, as well as the training and development of Green Belts throughout the hospital system. Jim’s Six Sigma project portfolio include successful projects in the Operating Room suite, Revenue Cycle, Outpatient Sleep Center, Inpatient Nursing efficiencies, and Outpatient off-site Clinics, while also leading several Kaizen and Lean teams resulting in operational improvements in the Emergency Room, Laboratory, and Outpatient Therapy centers.

    Jim earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri and his Master in Business Administration from William Woods University. He is a certified healthcare Six Sigma Black Belt (SSBB) and is also a certified SSBB instructor.



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  • 2025 Conference Sponsors/Exhibitors

    • 17 Sep 2025
    • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM
    • Aspiria Conference Center (T-Mobile Campus) 6300 Sprint Parkway, Building 6300, Leawood, KS 66211
    • 93
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    EXHIBITORS

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    September 17, 2025
    Aspiria Conference Center (T-Mobile Campus) Leawood, KS
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    Refunds after September 1st are subject to a $200.00 Cancellation Fee.

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  • ATTENDEES: "2025 Ignite!"

    • 17 Sep 2025
    • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM
    • Aspiria Conference Center (T-Mobile Campus), 6300 Sprint Parkway, Building 6300, Leawood, KS 66211
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    • 9 registrants
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    ATTENDEES 

    Ignite!

    September 17, 2025
    Aspiria Conference Center (T-Mobile Campus), Leawood, KS 

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    NOTE: Early Bird registration through August 1!

    Refunds after September 6th subject to a $50 Cancellation Fee.


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