Monday, November 19, 2018

Webinar: Minimizing Out-of-Network Insurance Costs

Speaker: Martine Brousse. 

Healthcare is very complex, leading to frustration and ever-increasing financial burdens for patients. Martine provides the expertise required in all aspects of the medical billing process, using her knowledge of processes and regulations to help patients navigate the system to their best advantage and offer creative solutions for the management and reduction of their costs.



This presentation aims at sharing with advocates creative and effective ways on how to reduce their clients' out-of-network liability before, during and after medical services are rendered.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand whom to call and what to ask, and secure reimbursement at higher rates, while avoiding filing appeals.

2. Be a more effective advocate by taking the fullest advantage of the terms of policies, state laws and federal mandates, plan administrators and insurers' own regulations.

Martine G. Brousse, a healthcare industry expert with over two decades of medical billing management experience, is the founder of AdvimedPro, a patient advocacy company based in Culver City, CA. Using her extensive experience and insider knowledge from coding to appeals, she helps clients audit accounts, lower medical bills, resolve insurance payment issues and defend their rights.

Martine is a certified mediator and has negotiated hundreds of financial agreements on behalf of providers, patients and insurance companies. She gets results through negotiation skills, understanding of legal options and outside-the-box thinking.

Martine has authored a book on managing the cost of cancer and lectures on the topic. She mentors advocates seeking better in-depth understanding of the medical billing game.


Webinar Series: Designing Your Practice - Public Speaking

Speaker: Karen Curtiss

Overview of Session
Public speaking is the #1 way to build your advocacy business, but breaking into the speaker world – and being successful -- is downright daunting.
CampaignZERO founder Karen Curtiss, an experienced speaker, is driven to help professional advocates succeed as speakers too. Why? When patients and families visit CampaignZERO for its hospital checklists, it is usually because something has already gone terribly wrong in hospital care.  We need community education from trusted advocates to make heathcare safer. 
CampaignZERO’s Speaker Network of professional advocates offers patient safety tips and information everyone needs to help prevent terrible “hospital stories.” The Speaker Kit for Advocates fully equips them to book speaking engagements and confidently deliver CampaignZERO’s presentation to local audiences – all of whom are prospective clients.
This session with Karen Curtiss will dive into details about how professional patient advocates can do well by doing good with CampaignZERO. She welcomes your questions.  
Karen Curtiss is a frequent presenter at medical conferences where she speaks up for patients and their advocates. Through public speaking, she has forged an incredible network of allies and friends and earned a national reputation for leadership in patient safety.