Business Continuity of the Medical Practice

Presented by: James Cunnar, MD, Family Health Center of Plainfield and Lucy Zielinksi, Managing Partner, Lumina Health Partners

Recorded on April 16, 2020

NOT FOR CME CREDIT

Learning Objectives
o how the practice set up telehealth;
o what processes are in place and what new ones are envisioned to do most patient interaction via telehealth;
o what challenges were faced and what best practices were implemented;
o coding and payment for telehealth.
o business continuity (including revenues, expenses, cash flow, and projections)

The COVID-19 education series is sponsored by the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians
and supported by independent medical education grants from Novartis and Pfizer, Inc.

–James Cunnar M.D., Medical director of DuPage Family Medicine, did his undergraduate training at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of Illinois in 1990. He completed his medical education at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in 1994. His residency training was performed at Memorial Hospital, South Bend, Indiana, after which he became board certified in Family Practice in 1997. Dr. Cunnar’s clinical interests include adolescent care, adult wellness, and diabetes.  Dr. Cunnar is actively involved within the greater community of family physicians on both the national and state level.

Lucy Zielinski, Lumina Health Partners. Prior to co-founding LHP, Lucy was VP GE Healthcare Partners and founder/president of a practice management consultancy.

She specializes in helping health systems and medical groups achieve top financial and operational performance. She achieves this through physician-hospital alignment, including clinically integrated networks, strategic planning, practice transformation, coding and revenue cycle improvement, and physician compensation plan design.