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Learn how to reduce MRSA Infections

In this practice, expert Sue Barnes may even review the probability of MRSA Colonization to patients also also clarify the present practice of sinus isolation and screening to MRSA colonized patients.  These merchandise employed for decolonization is likewise discussed. Colonization of their nasal passage together with MRSA raises the chance of disease to the individual along with transmitting to other patients in the hands along with equipment of both healthcare workers.  The demo will detail the challenges and costs of this present approach of sinus screening patients and placing them into contact or isolation guidelines.  Additionally, an alternate approach called worldwide decolonization is going to be clarified at length. MRSA (methicillin resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) illnesses are associated with significant morbidity, family and patient discomfort as well as costs.  1 Neo Natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) MRSA disease was estimated to cost up to $27,540.   Research has reported that skin and nasal decolonization has paid down MRSA illnesses and associated health.

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Managerial Primer for Ensuring Information Security and Privacy of EHRs - Skillacquire.us - Professional Continuing Education Online Programs

Ensuring Information Security and Privacy of EHRs: As health organizations become more critically dependent on information systems to support care delivery, it has become increasingly evident that events in which losses of confidentiality, integrity, and availability may have a significant clinical effect

Managerial Primer for Ensuring Information Security and Privacy of EHRsFormat :LIVE WEBINAR Presenter :Dr. Robert E. Davis Event Date : 03/19/2019 Time: 1 pm ET | 12 pm CT | 11 am MT | 10 am PT Duration :60 minutes

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HIPAA Requirements for Professional and Patient Communications - Skillacquire.us - Professional Continuing Education Online Programs

There have long been HIPAA requirements for covered entities to secure PHI and do their best to meet the requests of their patients for particular modes of communication, and using mobile devices is no exception.

HIPAA Requirements for Professional and Patient CommunicationsFormat : LIVE WEBINAR Presenter : Jim Sheldon Dean Event Date : 04/09/2019 Time: 1 pm ET | 12 pm CT | 11 am MT | 10 am PT Duration : 90 Minutes

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Stark, Anti-Kickback and The False Claim Act: Basis for an Action under the Federal False Claims Act

Format :LIVE WEBINAR Presenter :William Mack Copeland, MS, JD, PhD, LFACHE Event Date : 03/05/2019 Time: 1 pm ET | 12 pm CT | 11 am MT | 10 am PT Duration :60 minutes

This webinar will provide an in-depth understanding of the Federal False Claims Act, Federal Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark II, and discuss how a violation of the Anti-Kickback and/or Stark can be the basis for a whistle-blower action under the False Claims Act. It will also provide an assessment of enforcement activities, showing how participants may be at risk. In addition, the session will review recent cases and show how they potentially impact participants.

Why You Should Attend:

This session is designed for health care executives, physicians and other health care providers who participate in and receive remuneration from Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health care programs such as TriCare. As a health care executive, physician or other health care provider, you should be very concerned about the potential for enforcement actions under the Federal False Claims Act. This is important because under recently enacted health care laws, enforcement and health care fraud task forces have been greatly enhanced. Recovery under the Federal False Claims Act last year resulted in over $4.9 billion being recovered for the federal government, $24.2 billion since the law was revised to make it more relator friendly in 1986.

Areas Covered in the Session:

The Federal Anti-Referral Act (Stark I and Stark II) (what it is and how it works),

Federal False Claims Act (what it is and how it works),

How the FCA is being used as an enforcement tool by the federal enforcement authorities,

Federal Civil Anti-Kickback Statute,

Safe Harbors providing protection under the AKS,

Enforcement activities involving the AKS, and

Recommendations to mitigate violations of the AKS.

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Dealing with Compassion Fatigue & Burnout in the Medical Field

Dealing with Compassion Fatigue & Burnout in the Medical Field

Format :LIVE WEBINAR Presenter :Howard Baumgarten Event Date : 04/04/2019 Time: 1 pm ET | 12 pm CT | 11 am MT | 10 am PT Duration :60 minutes

Healthcare professionals are under more stress than ever evidenced by increases in demand for better services that are more efficient and thorough, higher costs, reduced staffing, and diminishing resources. Many healthcare workers are putting in longer hours and for less pay. From working twenty-four shifts to simply burning the midnight oil catching up on paperwork, the healthcare industry puts a great deal of stress and fatigue on the average worker and their relationships, including family. Doctors, specialists, nurses, clinical aides and other helping professionals bear witness to human suffering on a routine basis and are constantly reminded that tragedy, pain, and challenge often loom large in the midst of helping their patients heal. As a result, compassion fatigue and burnout are major hazards of the profession that are far too common.

Learning Objectives:

Increasing demands placed on qualitative healthcare output create more likelihood for burnout and stress

Diminishing resources putting greater stress on healthcare workers

Increasing patient demands put workers at risk for compassion fatigue

Stress, compassion fatigue and burnout can impact one’s ability to perform their job on a number of levels

Understand the definitions, differences and similarities of compassion fatigue and burnout

Explore signs, symptoms, and major causes

Improve awareness training for stressors that lead to fatigue, and burnout

Identify and develop micro and macro strategies for managing and prevention compassion fatigue and burnout

Areas Covered in the Session:

Introduction & Objectives

Definition of Burnout

Causes of Burnout

Signs & Symptoms of Burnout

What is Compassion Fatigue?

Causes of Compassion Fatigue

General Strategies/Tools

Relational Conflict and Fatigue/Burnout

Specific Strategies/Tools

Activating Change

Summary & Conclusion

Live Q&A Session

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The preparation for 2019 coding and documentation rules changes is very time consuming and even a simple mistakes can lead to hours spent correcting claims and filling appeals.

Format :LIVE WEBINAR Presenter :Stephanie Thomas, CPC, CANPC Event Date : 02/12/2019 Time: 1 pm ET | 12 pm CT | 11 am MT | 10 am PT Duration :60 minutes

The preparation for 2019 coding and documentation rules changes is very time consuming and even a simple mistakes can lead to hours spent correcting claims and filing appeals. Instead, interact with our Billing and coding expert Stephanie Thomas, CPC, CANPC to get a rundown of all the information you need to make 2019 a maximum-timely-reimbursement kind of year.

Ensure you can prove medical necessity, choose the most specific code possible (hint: it could be a new or revised one), follow payers’ pre-authorization rules, and protect your clinic from audits. Moreover, find out what to expect from the 2019 OIG Work Plan and CMS’s proposed changes to Evaluation and Management (E/M) rules.

Participant will be able to learn:

What are the coding changes for 2019?

How can you prepare for potential changes in E&M?

What are the changes for MIPS for 2019?

How can I protect my clinic from audits?

How to deal with ever changing payers rule (Pre-authorization and requirements for medical necessity etc.)

Adapt to medical coding changes ICD 10, CPT, HCPCS, E&M

Feel confident in the upcoming changes.

Be more aware of payer changes and how to find these in the future to ensure success.

Prepare yourself for the OIG workplan for 2019

Forecast reimbursement for 2019

Appropriate use of Modifiers

Session Agenda:

Payer changes for 2019

OIG workplan

Modifiers use

Evaluation and Management CMS proposed changes

MIPS

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Disruptive Practitioner - Disruptive activity by practitioners in the hospital takes many forms. When it happens, it is important that the hospital and/or the medical staff take appropriate steps to see that it does not affect patient care or disrupt operations.

Format :LIVE WEBINAR Presenter :William Mack Copeland, MS, JD, PhD, LFACHE Event Date : 02/06/2019 Time: 1 pm ET | 12 pm CT | 11 am MT | 10 am PT Duration :60 minutes

Disruptive activity by practitioners in the hospital takes many forms. When it happens, it is important that the hospital and/or the medical staff take appropriate steps to see that it does not affect patient care or disrupt operations.

Most disciplinary policies are progressive. A progressive policy applies increasingly more severe sanctions to additional incidents of bad behavior. It is very important that the organized medical staff have a disruptive practitioner policy. This webinar will discuss the development of such a policy, including what it should include, and how it should be implemented.

Why You Should Attend:

Hospital executives, medical staff officers and peer review committee members and support staff should attend to learn how to deal effectively with the disruptive practitioner. You will also learn how to prepare for the day when it becomes necessary to terminate such a practitioner’s privileges and medical staff membership.

You will also gain an understanding of how to develop provisions in the medical staff bylaws to deal with the disruptive practitioner and how to develop a clear and concise policy regarding disruptive behavior. We will discuss the elements of an effective policy and the actions that should be taken to develop progressive discipline and/or sanctions that should be taken before taking action under the corrective action procedures.

It is very important to demonstrate that this disruptive behavior is a continuing problem; therefore, appropriate documentation is imperative. You will discover how to create a record of this continuing problem and the efforts taken by the organization to combat the problem.

Areas Covered in the Session:

Disruptive practitioner policies.

Corrective action procedures.

What constitutes disruptive behavior.

Steps the hospital and/or the medical staff should take to see that the disruptive activity does not affect patient care or disrupt operations.

Recent case scenario and it’s study

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Hospitals are ever increasingly establishing provider-based clinics of all types. The Provider-Based Rule (PBR) is complex and there are definite ambiguities. While hospitals can enjoy increased revenues from provider-based clinics, compliance with all the rules and regulations is challenging.

Format : LIVE WEBINAR Presenter : Duane C. Abbey, PhD Event Date : 02/28/2019 Time:  1 pm ET | 12 pm CT | 11 am MT | 10 am PT

Hospitals are ever increasingly establishing provider-based clinics of all types. The Provider-Based Rule (PBR) is complex and there are definite ambiguities. While hospitals can enjoy increased revenues from provider-based clinics, compliance with all the rules and regulations is challenging. Recent changes in the supervisory requirements for provider-based operations have created confusion and new compliance challenges.

Session Objectives:

To briefly review the Provider-Based Rule (PBR).

To review the criteria that must be achieved for clinics to be recognized as provider-based.

To update the current status of changes in payment to off-campus provider-based clinics as provided through Section 603 of the BBA 2015.

To review the further changes made by the 21st Century Cures Act.

To briefly update critical physician supervisory rule changes.

To discuss documentation requirements relative to physician supervision requirements.

To appreciate the increase in reimbursement for provider-based clinics.

To understand the attestation and request for determination processes.

To understand the need for updating and the documentation of organizational structuring relative to the PBR.

To understand the review/audit process for assessing current and/or potential provider-based situations.

To understand the economic benefits versus the compliance requirements.

To appreciate the relationship of PBR relative to the Conditions for Payment, Conditions of Participation and gaining billing privileges.

To understand the regulatory pressures for reducing reimbursement for provider-based clinics.

To appreciate the evolving guidance that is being provided by CMS and/or the Regional Offices.

To work through several case studies.

Session Agenda:

Review of the Provider-Based Rule (PBR)

Economic Advantages of Provider-Based Status

Current Activity Surrounding Medicare Payment for Provider-Based Clinics

Provider-Based Requirements – Special Issues

Physician Supervisory Requirements

Provider-Based Audits

Provider-Based Clinics – The Future

Case Studies – Provider Based Clinics

Development of the PBR

42 CFR 413.65

Review of Definitions

Rules and Regulations

Recognition by Non-Medicare Third-Party Payers

Very Brief History of Provider-Based Clinics

Clinics

Clinical Services

Costs for Provider-Based Status

OIG Recommendations

MedPAC Recommendations

CMS Data Gathering of Cost for Off-Campus Provider-Based Clinics/Operations

Section 603, BBA 2015 Changes Starting January 1, 2017

Section 16001, 21st Century Cures Act

CY2018 & CY2019 OPPS Federal Register – Policy Changes

CY2018 & CY2019 MPFS Federal Register – Payment Processes

PO Modifier – UB-04

POS 19/22 Indicators – 1500CY2018 & CY2019 OPPS Federal Register – Policy Change

Final Rules for 2017

Payment Process or Non-Excepted Clinics

Definition of ‘New’ Relative to BBA 2015

Mid-Build Exception for Grandfathering

Signage and Recognition

EMTALA Interface

Notice of Two Copayments

Split-Billing

Shared Space Concerns

Co-Location Issues

Under Arrangements

Other Regional Office Issues

Recent Changes and Clarifications

Relationship to Physician Incident-To Billing

Process

Data Gathering and Assessment

Attestations and Requests for Determination

Action Steps

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One of the changes finalized in the CY 2019 IPPS / LTCH rule was the updated guidelines to the requirement for hospitals to post their standard changes in a machine readable format, on the internet, by January 1st of 2019.

Format :LIVE WEBINAR Presenter :Jugna Shah, MPH Event Date : 02/27/2019 Time: 1 pm ET | 12 pm CT | 11 am MT | 10 am PT Duration :60 minutes

CMS released the CY 2019 IPPS(Inpatient Prospective Payment System) and LTCH(Long Term Care Hospital) with the purpose to reduce regulatory burden for inpatient hospitals and increase price transparency and better data sharing between hospitals and other providers and suppliers. One of the changes finalized in the CY 2019 IPPS/LTCH rule was the updated guidelines to the requirement for hospitals to post their standard changes in a machine readable format, on the internet, by January 1st of 2019. This requirement has generated numerous questions.

Participants will be able to:

Understand the price transparency requirement, and the minimum needed for compliance

Learn how the guidelines were updated in the CY 2019 IPPS Final Rule, and the additional information CMS has released since the rule was published

Learn how other providers are approaching complying with the requirement differently

Learn what trade-offs between risk and patient-friendly materials on prices

Learn what questions and decisions need to be discussed with leadership

See examples of how disclaimer language can be crafted, and the importance of informing patients that what is displayed is not necessarily what they will pay

In this webinar, we will address these questions and subjects:

What is meant by “standard charges”?

Do hospitals have to post the entire chargemaster? What parts of the chargemaster can be included or excluded?

Given that CPT codes are the intellectual property of the AMA, can hospitals post CPT codes as part of their CDM?

Are hospitals allowed to summarize portions of the chargemaster?

What can be done to make the chargemaster information more meaningful to patients?

What is meant by “machinereadable format” in the requirement?

Should hospitals post a disclaimer about their chargemaster information? If so, what kind of language should be included?

How should hospitals prepare their public relations and communications teams about potential impacts as a result of posting the chargemaster and other information?

Background of the requirement and the updated guidelines

What additional information CMS has released

How other providers are approaching the issue of price transparency

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In certain circumstances, modifier are also used to share information with the insurance carrier when certain situations are involved.

Format :LIVE WEBINAR Presenter :Lynn M. Anderanin, CPC, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, COSC Event Date : 03/07/2019 Time: 1 pm ET | 12 pm CT | 11 am MT | 10 am PT Duration :60 minutes 

When you are creating claims to report charges to insurance carriers, CPT codes, HCPCS codes, and ICD-10-CM codes are used to identify the services and procedures performed. In certain circumstances, modifier are also used to share information with the insurance carrier when certain situations are involved. In this webinar we will look at the most common modifiers available, both CPT and HCPCS, and talk about when to use them, and how they affect reimbursement.

Learning Objectives:

To know what a modifier means

Apply the correct modifier in certain situations

Look at circumstances when a modifier is required

How do modifiers change reimbursement

When is the use of a modifier inappropriate

The abuse of modifiers and the possible consequences

Areas Covered in the Session:

Evaluation and Management(E/M) Modifiers

Laterality Modifiers- Are they required?

Required Medicare Modifiers

Modifier 22- Does it really get paid?

Modifier 52- Should it really be used?

The differences between modifiers 58 and 78.

Reductions in reimbursement due to modifiers

How post-operative periods are affected by modifiers

Modifiers applied for anesthesia services

Live Q&A Session

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According to the Joint Commission, best practice for walking rounds includes the full interdisciplinary care team with rounds conducted at the patient bedside. Case managers play a key role in these rounds as either leaders or participants in the process.

Format : LIVE WEBINAR Presenter : Toni G. Cesta, PhD., RN, FAAN Event Date : 02/20/2019 Time:  1 pm ET | 12 pm CT | 11 am MT | 10 am PT Duration : 60 minutes

Interdisciplinary care rounds are moving front and center as a key strategy for coordinating care, managing length of stay and improving patient and family satisfaction. It is also a component of the Joint Commission’s Safety Standard #2. According to the Joint Commission, best practice for these rounds includes the full interdisciplinary care team with rounds conducted at the patient bedside. Case managers play a key role in these rounds as either leaders or participants in the process.

Learning Objectives:

Outline the Joint Commission’s Patient Safety Goals.

Differentiate between rounds and other modalities such as huddles, change of shift and teaching rounds.

Discuss walking rounds versus other rounds formats.

Choose key members for the walking rounds team.

Understand the structural components of walking rounds.

Identify the roles of each member of the interdisciplinary care team.

Review a walking rounds check-list.

Areas Covered in the Session:

Joint Commission Safety Standard #2

Vertical versus horizontal communication

Crucial conversations

Patient care conferences

Huddles

Internal patient transfers

Walking rounds

Walking versus bedside rounds

Key members of the rounding team

Key structural points

Scripting

Daily goals

Engaging patients and families

Provider rounds

Resident rounds

Staff nurse rounds

Case manager rounds

Clinical pharmacist rounds

Clinical documentation improvement rounds

Talking points

Walking rounds check list

Q&A Session

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HIPAA and Business Associates — What They Are and What Are the Responsibilities - Skillacquire.us - Professional Continuing Education Online Programs

HIPAA Business Associates provide key services to HIPAA Covered Entities and other Business Associates, and may work in complex arrangements such as with Hybrid Entities, Affiliated Covered Entities, and Organized Health Care Arrangements.

HIPAA and Business Associates — What They Are and What Are the ResponsibilitiesFormat : LIVE WEBINAR Presenter : Jim Sheldon Dean Event Date : 02/07/2019 Time:  1 pm ET | 12 pm CT | 11 am MT | 10 am PT Duration : 90 Minutes 

HIPAA Business Associates provide key services to HIPAA Covered Entities and other Business Associates, and may work in complex arrangements such as with Hybrid Entities, Affiliated Covered Entities, and Organized Health Care Arrangements. They are now covered directly under the Privacy Rule’s use and disclosure limitations, the Security Rule’s safeguard provisions, and the Breach Notification Rule’s notification requirements, will be responsible for their own compliance with the regulations, and may be held directly liable for any violations of the regulations. Whether your organization was a Business Associate before the new rules or not, you have significant obligations in compliance that you overlook at your peril.

Key Topic Areas:

Because the regulations have expanded the obligations of HIPAA Business Associates, it is now more important than ever to carefully consider whether a BA designation is appropriate or not – Business Associate Agreements are not to be entered into lightly. The requirements have a direct impact on what needs to be put into the business associate agreements you establish.

In addition, Business Associates may need to provide for their covered entity clients rights of individuals to receive electronic copies of information held electronically, ask for certain restrictions on disclosures, and other capabilities that covered entities must have in place, depending on their role.

All kinds of covered entities, and now, business associates of covered entities as well, need to review their HIPAA compliance, policies, and procedures to see if they are prepared to meet the challenges of compliance today. In addition, Business Associates have emerged as a leading source of health information breaches, and we will discuss what covered entities should do to ensure good practices by their Business Associates in order to avoid the considerable expense of breaches.

Areas Covered In The Session:

The regulations will be reviewed and their effects on usual practices for Business Associates and their relationships with covered entities, hybrid entities, affiliated covered entities (ACEs) and organized health care arrangements (OHCAs) will be discussed.

We will describe the kinds of entities that qualify as Business Associates and why it is important to carefully consider the designation before using it.

We will explain what a Business Associate needs to do under the regulations, provide a policy framework for information security, and show what policies need to be changed and how.

We will describe the required and recommended elements of a Business Associate Agreement, including identifying the template language provided by the US Department of Health and Human Services and its role in the process.

We will explore the questions that should be posed to HIPAA Business Associates to ensure they have considered good privacy and security compliance practices in their businesses.

The new enforcement penalty structure and the latest plans for audits by HHS OCR will be described and a plan for being prepared for audits will be discussed.

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Toll-Free No: 1-302-444-0162 Email: [email protected]