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Wednesday, September 26, 2018
3:00-6:00pm – Exhibitor Registration, Check in and Set Up
4:00-7:00pm – Attendee Registration
6:00-7:00 pm – Welcome Networking Reception
7:00-10:00pm- Networking - Casino Night

Thursday, September 27, 2018
7:00-8:00 Attendee Registration
7:00-8:00 Breakfast
8:00- 8:15 Welcome
8:15 -9:30 Opening Keynote - Rudy Ruettiger
9:30-9:45 Break
9:45-10:45 Breakouts Group 1

1A: (Revenue Cycle) Panel: Attacking Managed Care Details - The New Battleground, Part 1, presented by Day Egusquiza, A/R Systems
1B: (Finance): CFO Panel, moderated by Michael Haines
1C: (General): Cyber Risk: What Health Care Management & Boards Need to Know, presented by Jan Hertzberg, BKD CPAs & Advisors
1D: (CAH/Rural): Sustainability of the Critical Access Hospital, presented by Duane Fitch, Plante Moran and Victoria Woodrow, Hamilton Memorial

10:45-11:00 Transition to Breakouts
11:00-12:00 Breakouts Group 2

2A: (Revenue Cycle): Attacking Managed Care Details - The New Battleground, Part 2, presented by Day Egusquiza, A/R Systems
2B: (CAH/Rural): Cost Reporting 101 for Critical Access Hospitals: Your Medicare Cost Report from A-M, presented by Paul Traczek, CAH Cost Reports, Wipfli
2C: (Leadership): Lean, presented by Joe Swartz, Franciscan Alliance
2D: (Finance and Accounting): CFO Think, presented by Michael Allen, OSF

12:00-1:30 Lunch – Exhibit Hall
1:30-2:30 Breakouts Group 3

3A: (Leadership): Three Strategies to Achieving a Consumer-Centric Financial Experience, presented by Matt Moore, Change Healthcare
3B: (CAH/Rural): Lori Zindl, Efficient C/OS-Inc and Shannon Williams, Kirby Medical Center
3C: (Leadership): Lean Transformation, presented by Stacey McCreery from ROI Search Group
3D: (H20 Talk):
- - Crack the Communication Code: Words That Work Session Description, presented by Mary Shores, MidState Collections Solutions, Inc
- - Stephen Benz, Experian
- - Natural Language Processing Solutions, Trends, and Potential Impact, presented by Tim Minnich from Optum

2:30-2:45 Transition to General Session
2:45-4:00 General Session: #Notarule: The Art of Winning at Life by Breaking Rules That Don't Exist, presented by Jason Kotecki
4:00-5:00 Free Time
5:00-7:00 Exhibitor Faire
7:00-10:00 Dinner and Entertainment -South Club, Notre Dame University with entertainment provided by the Whistle Pigs

Friday, September 28, 2018
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-9:30 General Session: Joe Fifer & Carol Friesen, HFMA
9:30-9:45 Transition to Breakouts
9:45-10:45 Breakouts Group 4

4A: (Revenue Cycle): NAHAM Access Keys, presented by Paul Shorrosh, Accureg
4B: (General): Federal Update: Health Care Transformation Continues, presented by Kim Byas, AHA
4C: (CAH/Rural): Are Critical Access Hospitals Ready for 2020?, presented by Pat Schou, ICAHN
4D: (Finance): The Labor Management Journey: From Data Quest to Labor Expense Conquest, presented by Dan Carcioppolo, Premier, Inc

10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Closing Keynote presented by Mike Song
12:00-12:15 Wrap Up and Prize Drawings