Hospital and Healthcare Regulatory Compliance Training - Live Webinars, Recordings & CDs

Given the substantial awards and settlements in recent enforcement actions, Stark Law compliance has become more than just a compliance issue: it is an enterprise risk management issue. As medical groups, hospitals, and health systems transition to more innovative compensation structures, this training program will focus on managing compliance and enterprise risk by ensuring their medical director and administrative arrangements are defensible under the Stark Law.

This training program will expound on how treating your Medicare patients with durable medical equipment (DME) can be great for patient clinical outcomes, a great revenue stream, and can be legally compliant. It will also lower healthcare costs. However, one must know how to get the proper licensure and know the federal and state guidelines.

This training program will discuss why traditional manufacturing implementation methods do not result in sustainable gains in a healthcare environment. Attendees will learn how to use and properly apply Lean tools in a healthcare setting.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules and regulations clearly state that an impermissible use or disclosure is presumed to be a breach. Therefore, any such incident triggers the required notifications. However, if an organization performs a risk assessment and shows why the incident is not a breach, the required notifications would no longer apply. This training program will illustrate how learning to perform an effective risk assessment can not only reduce the administrative burden of dealing with presumed breaches, but also help an organization meet other criteria such as those that exist in the Office for Civil Rights HIPAA audit protocol.

This training program will help participants identify grant opportunities and get started with the grant writing process. They will gain insight into public/private grants, the grant application process and grant reporting.

This training program will break down the legal and contractual requirements for medical records retention. It will identify what information is mandated to be in a specific health care practitioner’s medical record and discuss facility rules as applied to the individual health care practitioner. The program will also discuss electronic records confidentiality, retention, and disposition.

Clinical documentation is the cornerstone for all patient medical records: the information ensures optimal patient outcomes and supports research, medical coding and other uses of the medical record. This training program will discuss clinical documentation improvement to ensure its purpose, i.e., to adequately relate the patient’s current and historical conditions and treatments with primary focus placed on situations that affect the current medical encounter. It also supports the provider’s defense should the case become a legal issue.

This training program on durable medical equipment revenue program for medical practitioners will discuss determining business opportunities and determining a financial ROI and a strategic ROI. It will also discuss how to develop policies, processes and business guidelines to make your program successful.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules and regulations clearly state that an impermissible use or disclosure is presumed to be a breach. Therefore, any such incident triggers the required notifications. However, if an organization performs a risk assessment and shows why the incident is not a breach, the required notifications would no longer apply. This training program will focus on how to perform an effective risk assessment that can not only reduce the administrative burden of dealing with presumed breaches, but also help an organization meet other criteria such as those that exist in the Office for Civil Rights HIPAA audit protocol.

This Lean implementation training program will guide attendees in understanding why organizations fail at Lean implementation. It will detail best practices for utilizing the Lean implementation model and recognizing the importance of creating a Lean culture. The program will also help create systems thinking by eliminating departmental silos.

This training program will engage attendees in understanding why it is critical for anyone tasked with managing a HIPAA compliance program to have comprehensive policies and procedures in place. Find out how to create policies and procedures or see if your current ones address all the required topics.

This webinar will explain how to set up and sustain a provider based clinic or location in compliance with the CMS requirements to avoid potential fines and penalties. It will provide an overview of applicable standards for on-campus and off-campus locations.

As payer audits continue to increase in frequency, physician practices are becoming more likely to be cited for significant overpayments and recovery of funds. This training program will highlight why it is vitally important that providers and staff understand how they may be targeted and why they must implement protocols and procedures to diminish the burden of the audit process.

This training program will discuss the attributes of a successful system implementation and detail how to convert the successful implementation expectations into measurable metrics. The program will also detail establishing project plans and help identify the resources needed for the project and scheduling tasks.

This healthcare compliance training will explain how to organize and negotiate physician financial arrangements in order to be ready for internal and external audits. Attendees will learn how to comply with regulatory requirements of Stark Law, the Anti-kickback statute, the False Claims Act (FCA), and IRS tax-exemption code related to physician arrangements.

This training program will review why all HIPAA-covered providers need to review their HIPAA compliance, policies, and procedures to see if they are prepared to be in full compliance and meet the requirements of the changes in the rules. Compliance is required and violations for willful neglect of the rules begin at $10,000.

This training program is tailored for practitioners treating pain. It will provide you with a better understanding of a DEA inspection and the records needed in the event of an inquiry by DEA or any state regulatory agency. Participants will familiarize themselves with the federal laws and regulations enforced by DEA pertaining to Schedules II through V controlled substances that is dispensed, or prescribed by a physician as part of a pain treatment plan.

Harassment and bullying have become common place in America’s workplaces and particularly in healthcare. As an employer/manager you have the responsibility to both prevent and intervene any abusive conduct and as health professionals to provide quality patient care. This webinar will discuss the two forms of misconduct, what to do when subjected to the harassment or a witness of abusive conduct and how to formulate and implement harassment policy to prevent misconduct.

This training session will provide an overview of the Federal Civil False Claims Act (FCA) and how it works. 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. The course will provide an in-depth review of the AKS (Anti-Kickback Statute) and review various cases to show how easy it is to run afoul of the statute, and how the courts view compliance with it.

This webinar will explain the laws that regulate Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (FWA) including the Stark law. Attendees will learn how to detect, prevent and report healthcare fraud and abuse.