Audio Conferences

Key Legal and Practical Considerations When Forming an ACO: Seizing the Opportunities and Overcoming Challenges to Achieve Quality and Savings

The long-awaiting Final Rule governing ACOs participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) provides the industry with an improved outlook of the potential success that may be achieved, but also a daunting list of challenges to be met in order to seize the opportunities. This live audio...

Best Practices in Nursing Documentation: Writing Effective and Legal Proof Notes

Long gone are the days that nurses and other health care providers hand-wrote cryptic notes on essay paper-like chart pages that rarely were ever looked at again. Long gone, also, are the days that physicians would only look at labs, reports and other physician’s notes, expecting the nurse to call to...

Powers of Attorney: Medical Records Release Concerns

Busy medical practices understand that each day personal health information is transmitted in various forms between hospitals, doctors, attorneys, insurance companies, patients and their lawyers and families. With increasing reliance on electronic medical records health information can be transmitted...

Fraud Enforcement Trends in the Health Care Industry

New funding, new tools, and a heightened focus on the health care industry by civil and criminal law enforcement authorities means that investigations are not what they used to be. Learn more about what areas enforcement authorities are focusing on, where the big and small cases are being brought, how...

HIPAA Security Compliance Challenges after the HITECH Act

Everyone who handles any electronic patient information should attend this live audio conference on compliance with the HIPAA security regulation. All entities covered under HIPAA must take special care of electronic patient health information, including establishing policies and taking regular actions...

Effective Auditing of Physicians' Documentation

The federal government’s increasing interest in fraud, waste and abuse heightens the awareness of physician practices, both large and small, of the increasing scrutiny of physician documentation to support billings. In the past, audits are performed and physicians were lectured but all too often little...

Business Associate Obligations and Agreements after HITECH

The development of HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA) forms and practices largely preceded the HIPAA compliance implementation date. BAAs and their use have often not been updated to reflect experience or sometimes even new law and regulation. In negotiating BAAs, HIPAA Covered Entities frequently...