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

This webinar will discuss HIPAA audit and enforcement regulations and processes for 2022 and how they apply to covered entities and business associates. Attendees will learn how to prepare for HIPAA audit to avoid fines and penalties for HIPAA violations.

This webinar will help you identify factors that cause delays as patients progress through their stay and how to correct these barriers to care. Learn the most streamlined ways in which to integrate avoidable delay management into your day and with all the members of the interdisciplinary care team. Finally, it will review some examples of report cars that can be used to understand the data you have collected.

The 2 midnight rule is designed to identify the appropriate level of care for short term stays or episodes in acute care, critical access and long term hospitals and to reimburse accordingly. The rule designed to save money by payment through Medicare part B instead of A is seen by many consumers and providers as both unclear and a cost shift from CMS to consumers and providers hence the controversy surrounding this rule. The presentation will provide history, explanation of the rule with both medical and financial outcomes and illustrate with case examples.

This 3-hour seminar will provide attendees with the theory and application of time series analysis. The main focus will be on autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) techniques. Variations of the ARIMA and other models which operate under non-linear data, non-stationary data, seasonality, and trends will also be examined.

Attend this webinar to learn how to stream-line your utilization management process and understand the Conditions of Participation for Utilization Review and how they impact on your work as a case manager.

This webinar will focus on regulatory requirements, optimal processes and define the difference in collaboration with both internal and external physician advisor roles. It will also discuss the role of the physician advisor and staffing needs to implement this important role.

Hygienic Design in food processing is a given, however FDA’s #483 violations continue to reflect organizations clearly lack the necessary requirements to maintain safe environments for food production. This course will outline the basics food facilities should have in place and how to ensure program meets FDA’s expectations.

Managing case management outcomes and the creation of tools with which to study those outcomes is an important component of the work that case management professionals must engage. This data helps us better understand where we are doing well and where we might need to improve. Case management report cards are also a useful tool for reporting data to the Utilization Committee, a requirement under the CMS Conditions of Participation for Utilization Review.

This webinar will review not only the Anti-Kickback Statute and its safe harbors, but will provide an in-depth overview of OIG guidance and advisory opinions dealing with marketing activities, as well as a review of case law regarding marketing behavior.

Skilled auditors require a method that aligns what they experienced during the reviewing process with what they compose during the writing process. This report writing workshop will provide foundation resources that participants can continually turn to during intense, complex audit engagements.

This webinar will identify the key stakeholders needed for effective interdisciplinary rounds. It will review the best practice rounding processes including scripting and time management.

This webinar will provide an in-depth understanding of the Federal False Claims Act, Federal Anti-Kickback and Stark laws, and discuss how marketing activities can trigger either or both.

Promoting employees from within is not without its risk and if not handled properly can result in potential legal liability. This webinar will offer attendees an understanding of what should be accomplished when promoting current employees to management or supervisory positions.

This training covers DEA record-keeping and security topics that a DEA registrant must comply with when handling controlled substances. The focus is elements of what occurs during that unannounced inspection and the auditing methods.

This webinar will explain the Civil Monetary Penalties Law (CMP) and its mandatory and permissive exclusions and penalties. It will also cover obligations under EMTALA, violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark including amendments under the PPACA.

In this program we will start by reviewing the current rules for discharge planning. Are you compliant with these rules? The newly enacted rules that are now required under the Medicare program’s conditions of participation will be reviewed as they may have a profound effect on how case management departments organize their work. Family caregivers and physicians are expected to be much more involved than they have in the past. This program will review the current rules and regulations from the Conditions of Participation (CoP) for Discharge Planning.

Be sure you know the old rules and the new rules so that your practice will be current and legal! We will review strategies for integrating these requirements into your daily practice.

There are several steps that must be taken to determine if an incident is a breach, and whether or not that breach is reportable. Determining whether to report or not is not necessarily straightforward, but there are guidelines to follow to help at every step of the way. If the evaluation of necessity to report is not done correctly, you may not make the right decisions about reporting and be subject to penalties for non-compliance upon an investigation of a breach by HHS. Penalties for non-compliance can up to millions of dollars in cases of willful negligence, so it is essential to evaluate incidents to see if they are reportable breaches, and act properly on the evaluation.

In this training program, attendees will discover how to create a record of disruptive behavior and the efforts taken by the organization to combat the problem. The webinar will also illustrate why such disruptive behavior can be a continuing problem; and therefore, why appropriate documentation is imperative.

This webinar will discuss the standards of practice defined for social worker and nurse case managers and how it is applied to the contemporary roles and in turn how it can be applied to the everyday functions and activities social workers and nurses perform to complete their job. It will cover the various roles such as Patient flow, utilization & resource management, denial management, variance tracking, Transitional and discharge planning, Quality Management, Psychosocial assessment and counseling.

This case management webinar will explore how an initial assessment and clinical review can better ensure that patient is placed in the correct setting right from the get-go which is a very unique role played by ED and admitting office, transfer center case managers and social workers. The 2 midnight rule and the part that case management plays in managing it will also be reviewed. It will give idea about reducing the use of Condition Code 44 or self-denials when patients get admitted to the incorrect level.