Healthcare Leadership & Payer Contracting Speaking Presentations
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Prosper Beyond’s team brings valuable insights to healthcare conferences, from local medical management groups to national platforms, both live and via webinars. Our advisory team offers in-demand presentations on timely, relevant topics packed with practical “how-to” guidance for healthcare professionals.
Tailored to fit your event’s needs, our educational presentations share real-world lessons and actionable strategies, making complex concepts easy to understand and implement. Known for engaging presentations and excellent reviews, we focus on delivering advice that healthcare leaders can immediately apply to drive success in their practices.
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About our founder
Doral Davis-Jacobsen, MBA, FACMPE, is a Partner at Prosper Beyond VBC Inc, a specialized healthcare consulting firm nestled in beautiful Asheville, North Carolina. Doral is a seasoned healthcare consultant with over 25 years of experience serving healthcare providers ranging from solo practitioners to large academic medical centers.
She is a popular speaker and author, always looking around the corner to help her clients prepare for “what’s next.” Doral is known for assisting practices with next generation payer contract negotiations, payment reform and revenue cycle. She is a Fellow in the American College of Medical Practice Executives. Doral serves as a Carolinas MGMA Board member and is the Chair for the Payer Contracting Committee 2022 – 2025.
Doral has written numerous articles on medical practice revenue cycle, managed care contracting and payment reform and is a frequent speaker at national, regional and local healthcare forums. Doral is a co-author of MGMA’s book, Transitioning to Alternative Payment Models: A Guide to Next Generation Managed Care Contracting.
2025 Speaking Topics for Healthcare & Entrepreneurship Events
Negotiation Ninja Class: Lessons from the FBI and More
About the presentation
Presented at Medical Practice Excellence Conference, State MGMA conferences, MGMA Summit
This presentation focuses on defining a step-by-step process for building a successful payer contracting strategy. It includes guidance on identifying
specific negotiation targets, evaluating proposals/ methodologies, establishing targets, developing a value proposition and concludes with recommended go-forward strategies to integrate the contracting process into your core financial management strategy.
Learning objectives
- Develop payer comprehensive proposals
- Create a practice value proposition
- Determine how to create and deploy an impactful payer contracting strategy
Feedback
“Great, very helpful information and tools!”
“Comprehensive ‘roadmap’ to value-based contracting….”
“Excellent presenter and good information, current, informative, and useful examples.”
Prepare for 2025 and Beyond: Payer Contracting Key Performance Indicators
About the presentation
Subject matter presented at the MGMA Annual Conference, MGMA webinars and others
This presentation focuses on supporting practices on the payer contracting journey by defining a step-by- step process to build an effective strategy and by sharing the top 10 tools used by successful practices.
Registrants will receive top 10 payer contracting tools.
Learning objectives
- Learn how to develop effective payer proposals.
- Identify data and resources needed to craft a practice value proposition.
- Devise an effective renegotiation strategy.
- Construct a plan to position your practice for future payment models.
Feedback
“Helpful overview of models with detailed guidance.”
“Solid speaker with excellent examples.”
“Gave me lots to think about in terms of our future contracting strategy.”
Get on the ROAD to Success: Avoiding Potholes during Negotiations
About the presentation
Presented at the National MGMA conference, MGMA Virtual Payer Conference and others
This presentation focuses on defining a step-by-step process for building a successful payer contracting strategy. It includes guidance on identifying
specific negotiation targets, evaluating proposals/ methodologies, establishing targets, developing a value proposition and concludes with recommended go-forward strategies to integrate the contracting process into your core financial management strategy.
Learning objectives
- Develop payer comprehensive proposals
- Create a practice value proposition
- Determine how to create and deploy an impactful payer contracting strategy
Feedback
“Great, very helpful information and tools!”
“Comprehensive ‘roadmap’ to value-based contracting….”
“Excellent presenter and good information, current, informative, and useful examples.”
Top 10 Payer Contracting Tools
About the presentation
Subject matter presented at the MGMA Annual Conference, MGMA webinars and others
This presentation focuses on supporting practices on the payer contracting journey by defining a step-by- step process to build an effective strategy and by sharing the top 10 tools used by successful practices.
Registrants will receive top 10 payer contracting tools.
Learning objectives
- Learn how to develop effective payer proposals.
- Identify data and resources needed to craft a practice value proposition.
- Devise an effective renegotiation strategy.
- Construct a plan to position your practice for future payment models.
Feedback
“Helpful overview of models with detailed guidance.”
“Solid speaker with excellent examples.”
“Gave me lots to think about in terms of our future contracting strategy.”
Commercial Value-based Contracting Initiatives
Presentation Focus
Presented at the MGMA Transformative Healthcare Delivery Certificate Program
This presentation provides an understanding of the spec- trum of value-based care initiatives offered by commercial payers, how medical practices can position their operations to participate and excel in these programs, and how prac- tices can demonstrate and advocate their value to payers.
Learning objectives
- Identify value-based contract methodologies offered by commercial payers
- Determine critical practice attributes necessary to succeed in value-based models
- Advocate effectively practice value proposition to payers
Feedback
“So many ideas and takeaways! Doral did an amazing job with both the prepared content and the chat/questions. Please bring her back again!!”
“Presenter was very knowledgeable and answered questions specifically. Most speakers when faced with difficult questions always ask for time to research. Doral did not, she knew the answers. Great presentation.”
