Upcoming Event
Description: Rural hospitals are critical to the overall health of the communities they serve. However, many hospitals can't staff out all clinical lines, especially non-procedure based services like infectious disease, neurology, pulmonology, psychiatry, non-invasive cardiology, oncology, nephrology, etc. This can be for lack of volume, lack of funds, lack of needed specialists locally, or all of the above. This hurts both patients and the hospitals themselves, for a wide variety of financial and medical reasons. With the recent changes in Medicare and Medicaid telemedicine coverage, however, hospitals have a new solution to this medical access problem: multi-specialty teleconsults. This webinar will cover the importance and benefits of offering more specialty care locally via remote specialist support, explore how recent coverage changes for multi-specialty teleconsults allow hospitals to bridge the medical access gap in a financially attractive manner, and answer questions around the logistics and implementation of such a service. This unique event will look beyond the standard telestroke programs to other critical remote specialty coverage (such as cardiology, pulmonology, neurology, psychiatry, infectious disease, heme/onc, nephrology, etc) and will provide rural hospitals the opportunity to hear directly about the experiences of other hospitals similar to themselves, and the impact providing expanded specialty care locally is having on their quality, patient care and financial metrics.
Objectives:
- Understand the various negative medical and financial impacts of not offering key non-procedure based specialties locally
2. Understand the recent reimbursement changes in Medicare and other Payors' telemedicine coverage and what that means for hospitals’ physician coverage options
3. Understand the options available for specialty teleconsults, beyond the standard telestroke model, and the benefits unique to each
4. Understand what medical and financial benefits hospitals that have implemented remote specialty coverage have seen, and the related best practice takeaways
Speakers:
- Meena Mallipeddi, CEO, T SQRD: Meena co-founded T SQRD after many years of working on the business side of the healthcare industry and seeing the need (both medically and financially) for more specialty access in small and rural hospitals. Before that, she managed a multi-billion dollar portfolio of healthcare businesses for many years, including hospitals and healthtech companies, at both Royce & Associates and Wyper Capital. Meena started her career as a consultant at Bain & Company, working in both the San Francisco and New York offices. She earned her BA in International Relations/Computer Science with Honors at Stanford University, and her M.Phil in Technology Policy at the Judge Business School at Cambridge University, where she was a Gates Scholar.
- Anand Nathan, COO, T SQRD: Anand co-founded T SQRD with the mission to connect medical facilities, no matter where they are, to the specialists they need to deliver the best patient care. Driven by the opportunity to use technology to solve medical access problems for places like his rural hometown, he is building the first multi-specialty, turnkey platform for inpatient specialty teleconsults that is simple and cost-effective to set-up, and fits in seamlessly to existing clinical workflows. Before T SQRD, he had 15+ years of experience in executive roles in strategy, operations, and finance. Most recently, Anand was a Senior Director at LinkedIn/Microsoft where he led a number of key strategic initiatives including determining LinkedIn's approach to healthcare. Prior to LinkedIn/Microsoft, Anand was COO/CFO of another tech business that he led to a successful sale, and also led key teams at KKR and Bain & Company. Anand has a B.S.E. degree in Biomedical Engineering and a B.S. in Economics from Duke University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.