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Accreditation
- Achieving JCAHO Stroke Certification
- Address CMS Top Compliance Issues Now
- Analysis of The Joint Commission's Executive Briefings
- Black Box Labeling
- CMS and Informed Consent
- LIVE ! CMS Interpretive Guidelines 09/18/08
- CMS' New Restraint and Seclusion Changes: Answering Your Questions
- Comply with CMS' New Patient Rights Final Rule
- Comply with Revised Joint Commission Standards to Align with CMS
- Core Measures: Comply with Joint Commission Data Requirements
- IM Standards: What you Need to Know for your Next Joint Commission Survey
- Interim Life Safety Measures
- MM.4.10
- Outpatient Performance Measures
- LIVE ! Prevent Pediatric Medication Errors 09/24/08
- Reduce the Risk of Medication Management Citations
- Survey Readiness
- The Joint Commission 2009 Leadership Standards
- Top RFIs for 2007 & Beyond
Ambulatory Surgery Center
Case Management
- Building Competency in Case Management Professionals
- Case Management Services in the ED
- Clinical Documentation Improvement in Case Management
- Discharge Planning in Acute Care
- Formal Palliative Care in Case Management
- Implementing ED Case Management
- Inpatient vs. Observation Status
- Inpatient vs. Observation Status
- Inpatient vs. Observation Status
- Managing the Uninsured and Underfunded: Cost-effective solutions for safe care
- Nurses and Social Workers in Case Management
- LIVE ! Nurses and Social Workers in Case Management 10/14/08
- Preparing for Severity-Adjusted DRGs
- LIVE ! Present-on-Admission and HACs 09/16/08
- The Role of the Physician Advisor in Case Management
- The Transfer-DRG Expansion
- Transforming Case Management Models
Corporate Compliance
- 2008 Clinical Trials Billing Update
- Analyzing the 2008 OIG Work Plan: Strategies for Hospital Compliance
- Analyzing the 2008 OIG Work Plan: Strategies for Physician Practice Compliance
- LIVE ! Analyzing the 2009 OIG Work Plan: Strategies for Hospital Compliance 11/05/08
- Clinical Research Billing Update
- Clinical Trials Update
- Compliance Effectiveness
- Conflict of Interest Mitigation: Plans of action for top compliance risks
- Criminal and Civil Risk for Compliance Officers
- Criminal Kickback Trial
- Diagnostic Radiology Documentation
- Digital Mammography: Is It the Right Time and Fit for Your Facility?
- Fair Market Value
- Hospital Incident-To Requirements
- Hospital Outpatient Billing
- Incident-To Billing
- Internal Investigations Roundtable
- Internal Investigations
- Laboratory Auditing
- Medicaid Compliance
- Medicaid Enforcement
- Observation Status
- Outpatient Outliers
- Physician Provider Audits
- Radiology ABNs: Ensure compliance and appropriate reimbursement
- Radiology Auditing and Monitoring
- Radiology Orders for Diagnostic Testing
- Risk Assessment Update
- Stark II Phase III Unveiled
- LIVE ! Stark Law Update 09/10/08
- Stark Law Update
- Survive a RAC Audit
- The Deficit Reduction Act
- The Stark Law: Successful strategies to prevent litigation
- Tracking and preventing radiology denials
Credentialing/Privileging
- Assessing Advanced Practice Professionals (PAs and APRNs)
- Assessing AHPs Under Joint Commission Standard HR 1.20
- Assessing New Procedures and Technologies
- Assessing New Services
- Authorizing Vendors in the OR
- Competency and the Aging Physician
- Competency Challenge: Reappointing Low- and No-Volume Providers
- Complying with HR.1.20
- End Verification Requirement Headaches
- Find Your Credentialing Software Solution: Ensure a future-proof investment
- From Misdemeanors to Felonies
- From Physician-employed RNs to Scrub Techs
- General Competencies in the 2007 JCAHO Credentialing Standards
- LIVE ! Measuring Physician Performance 09/16/08
- Moving to Core Privileging
- LIVE ! OPPE by the Numbers: Get the Right Data and Use it Effectively 10/08/08
- Optimize Credentialing and MEC Meetings
- Paperless Meeting Management
- Performance Monitoring, Poliner, and P4P
- Physician Satisfaction
- Privileging Volunteers during a Disaster
- Retool Your Reappointment Process: Strategies for OPPE compliance
- Successful to the Core
- The 64 Slice CT Scanner: The Latest Battleground in Specialty Turf Disputes
- Understanding Changes to JCAHO's Credentialing and Privileging Standards
Executive Leadership
- Consumer-Directed Healthcare
- Design a Compensation Package to Recruit Top Doctors
- LIVE ! Physician Compensation Planning 10/07/08
- Physician Mergers
- Physician Practice Marketing: Strategies to boost your bottom line
- Physician Risk Reduction Strategies That Work
- Profitable Payer Contracts for Physician Practices
- Proven Compensation Strategies for Part-time Physicians
- Reduce Physician Turnover through Effective Recruitment and Retention Strategies
- Retention strategies to keep top physicians
- Streamlining the Referral Process
- The Governance of Quality
Health Information Management
- 2008 Medicare Severity DRG Update
- 2008 OPPS Final Rule
- 2008 OPPS Proposed Rule
- 2008 Orthopedic Coding CPT Update
- LIVE ! 2009 IPPS MS-DRG Update 09/29/08
- 2009 OPPS Proposed Rule
- Anesthesia Coding
- ASC Orthopedic Changes
- Assigning Discharge Dispositions
- CAH Outpatient Billing Guidelines
- Cardiology CPT Coding
- Clinical Documentation Improvement
- Clinical Documentation Improvement
- Coder Productivity under MS-DRGs
- LIVE ! Coding and Billing for Hospital Supplies and Equipment 10/14/08
- Coding and Billing for Hospital Supplies
- Coding Shoulder Surgeries
- Coding Spinal Procedures Made Easy
- Complications and Comorbidities in 2008
- CPT 2008
- CPT Coding for Heart Catheterizations and Coronary Interventions
- LIVE ! CPT Coding for Urology 09/17/08
- Defining the Legal Health Record in a Hybrid Environment
- Diabetes Coding: Understanding the disease and its documentation requirements
- Diagnostic and Interventional Peripheral Vascular Coding
- LIVE ! Diagnostic Radiology Coding 09/10/08
- LIVE ! Discharge Dispositions: Survive Recovery Audit Contractors and OIG Audits 10/23/08
- ED Procedure Coding
- Facility E/M Update
- Heart Failure under MS-DRGs
- HIPAA Security Rule Enforcement: Prepare for an audit at your facility
- HIPAA Security
- Hospital-Based Clinic E/M Coding
- LIVE ! ICD-9-CM Official Guidelines: Prepare for October 1 Changes 09/18/08
- Implantable Devices
- Injection and Infusion Coding and Billing
- Inpatient psych PPS
- Inpatient Psych PPS
- LIVE ! Inpatient Rehab Facility Coding Case Studies 10/30/08
- Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Coding Case Studies
- Integumentary CPT Coding
- Interventional Radiology Coding
- Major Complications/Comorbidities
- Managing Hybrid Records
- Master Modifier - 25 When Reporting Professional Services
- Modifier -59: Establish a step-by-step process for OPPS coding compliance
- Modifiers -52, -73, and -74: Ensure Proper Coding at the Point of Care
- New ESA Transmittals
- One-Day Stays: Ensure Compliance and Prevent RAC Recoupments
- OPPS Observation
- OPPS Packaging
- OPPS Wound Care Coding
- OPPS Wound Care Coding
- Pain Management Coding for Physician Practices
- Physician Queries in the MS-DRG/POA Environment
- POA Reporting for Hospital Acquired Conditions
- POA Reporting: Strategies to ensure compliance and improve quality
- Prepare for the 2008 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative
- Present-on-Admission Indicator
- LIVE ! RACs: How to handle the appeals process 10/28/08
- Recovery Audit Contractors
- Release of Information
- Remote Coding: Assess Your Vision and Design a Program
- Revenue Codes: Proper billing solutions for financial integrity
- Self-Administered Drugs
- Sepsis Coding
- The Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) Process
- The Impact of the New and Revised 2008 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis and Procedure Codes
- The Impact of the New and Revised 2009 ICD-9-CM Codes
- The Legal Health Record
- The New ASC Payment System
- The New ASC Payment System
- Timely H&Ps
- Trauma Coding: Strategies for compliant charge capture in the ED
Home Health Hospice
- Home Health Wound Care: Achieve Financial and Regulatory Success
- Learn the Home Health PPS Changes
- The 2008 Home Health OASIS Changes
Infection Control
- Comply with CMS' 2008 Infection Control Payment Reforms
- Infection Control Protocols for Emergency Management
- LIVE ! Infection Prevention Solutions 09/24/08
- Strategies to Handle The Joint Commission's Infection Control Hotspots for 2008
Life Sciences
- CME Compliance
- CME vs. Promotion
- Compliant Medication Therapy Management Programs
- Medical Liaisons: Best Practices to Audit and Monitor for Compliance
- Monitoring Speaker Program Compliance: Pharma Industry Best Practices
- Post-Launch: Aggressive, Compliant Marketing Strategies
- Practical Concepts to Determine Fair Market Value
- Pre-Approval Product Awareness
- Tracking Aggregate Spend: Compliance Pitfalls and Best Practices
Long-Term Care
- ADL Coding For Long-Term Care
- An HCPro Encore Presentation: RUGs 53
- Avoiding Denials Due to MSPs
- Capturing Extensive Services and ADLs for SNF PPS
- CMS Releases New F-Tags and Surveyor Guidance
- CMS Sets Guidelines for the Home Health Advance Beneficiary Notice
- Complying with CMS' New Psychosocial Guidelines
- Conquer Pain with Draft F-tag #309
- Conquer Your Next Life Safety Code® Survey
- Critical SNF Billing Requirements
- Determining Skilled Coverage Levels in SNFs
- F-Tag #329 Demands Gradual Dose Reduction
- Fire and Evacuation in Long-Term Care
- Get Ready for the Quality Indicator Survey
- Home Health ICD-9 Coding under the 2008 PPS Changes
- Implementing Culture Change in Your Long-Term Care Facility
- Improve your QM/QIs
- Incontinence Management Under Surveyor Scrutiny
- Infection Prevention and Control in Long Term Care
- Keys to Skilled Services
- Managing Fall Risk in Long Term Care Facilities
- Master CMS' New Unnecessary Drugs and Pharmacy Services F-tags
- Master Consolidated Billing
- Master the 2007 SNF ICD-9 Codes and Most Difficult Coding Scenarios
- Master the 2008 SNF ICD-9 Codes and Most Difficult Coding Scenarios
- MDS Audits Under Revised Federal Guidelines and Protocols
- New CMS Nutrition and Sanitation Guidelines in Action
- New CMS Pressure Ulcer Guidelines in Action
- New Tuberculosis Guidelines for Long-Term Care
- Nursing Home Documentation
- Optimize Medicare Part A Coverage in Your SNF
- Part B Billing for DMEPOS
- Part B Billing for Wound Care
- Person-centered Care for the Alzheimer Resident
- Photographic Evidence in SNFs
- Position Your Restorative Nursing Program for Success
- LIVE ! Prepare for MDS 3.0: Implementation Challenges and Action Plans 09/18/08
- Rena Shephard's MDS Self-Audit
- Resident-centered activities under F248 and F249
- RUGs 53: Navigating the New Payment Categories from the SNF PPS Final Rule
- SNF Care Plans Undergo New Scrutiny
- SNF Compliance Under the Deficit Reduction Act
- SNF Revenue Cycle Management Under RUGs 53
- SNF's Face Correct Coding Initiative
- Solve the New-tag #323
- Supplying, Administering, and Billing Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccines
- The New Feeding Assistant F-tag #373
- The No-Pay Bill, UB-04, NPI, and More
- The Part D Appeals Process for Long-Term Care
- The Quality Indicator Survey
- LIVE ! Using Care Processes in Wound Care Management 10/29/08
Managed Care
- Consumer-Directed Healthcare: Definitions, Trends, and the Impact on Healthcare
- Cultural Diversity and Disease Management
- Driving Behavior Change Through Incentive Plan Design
- Effective plan design for consumer-driven health plans
- Enroll, Engage, and Retain
- Health Literacy: Four Ways to Create a Successful Program
- Legal and Tax Implications of Incentive Program Design
- New Directions in Disease Management
- Pay for Performance Efficiency Measurements
- Value-based insurance design: Alternative to high-deductible plans
Marketing
Medical Staff
- Assessing New Procedures and Technologies: Bariatric Surgery
- Assessing New Procedures and Technologies: Carotid Artery Stenting
- Best Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Top Hospitalists
- Build an effective FPPE solution: Collect, Collaborate, and Comply
- Core Measures and Pay-for Performance: Getting Physicians to Use Data to Change
- Creating Sustainable Improvements in Managing Community-acquired Pneumonia
- Designing a Strategy for ED On-Call
- Do Apologies Work?
- Do You Need To Rewrite Your Medical Staff Bylaws?
- From fair hearings to MS.1.20
- Hospitalist Comanagement of Surgical Patients
- Improving Physician Satisfaction
- JCAHO's Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation
- Medical Staff Proctoring
- MSP Succession Planning
- Peer Review Strategies to Reduce Bias and Improve Performance
- Poliner Decision Reversed
- Practical Strategies for Navigating Medical Staff Conflicts of Interest
- Proven Proctoring Strategies to Verify Competence and Ensure FPPE Compliance
- Recruit Physicians without Landing in Jail
- REPLAY - Linking Outcomes and Improvements to the ACGME Core Competencies
- Simulation Training in GME
- Teaching and Assessing Patient Safety in GME
- The Challenge of Kadlec
- The Joint Commission's Focused Professional Practice Evaluation
- Using Physician Performance Data in Your Peer Review Process
Nursing
- An HCPro Encore Presentation: Evidence-Based Nursing Practice
- Applying Evidence-Based Nursing: Successful Approaches to Data-Driven Practice
- Climbing the Clinical Ladder
- LIVE ! Creating a Culture of Nurse Accountability 10/09/08
- Critical Thinking in Nursing
- Designing Effective Orientation Programs
- Developing Critical Thinking Skills in New Graduate Nurses
- Effectively Manage Multi-Generational Workforces
- Elements of Successful Shared Governance
- Evidence-Based Nurse Precepting
- Evidence-Based Nursing Competencies
- Evidence-Based Staff Development
- Excellence in Evidence
- Finance and Budgeting for Nurse Managers
- Formal Nursing Peer Review
- Formal Peer Review
- Managing the Uninsured and Underfunded: Cost-effective solutions for safe care
- Mentor Programs for New Nurse Managers
- Nursing Documentation
- Nursing Models of Care vs. Care Delivery Models
- LIVE ! Nursing's Role in Quality Improvement 09/11/08
- Online Shift Bidding for Nurses
- Pain Management in Nursing
- Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections
- Retention in Nursing
- Shared Governance in Practice
- Shared Governance
- Solutions to End Nurse-to-Nurse Hostility
- Strategies to Cultivate Cultural Competence
- Strategies to Improve Nurse-Physician Relations
- Succession Planning in Nursing
- Technology in Nursing Education
- The Risky Business of Triage
Physician Practice
- Consumer-Directed Healthcare
- Consumer-Directed Healthcare: Definitions, Trends, and the Impact on Healthcare
- Marketing Your Physician Practice: A guide to growth
- Medicare's Shared/Split Visit Policy: Avoid risks and follow documentation rules
- Physician Mergers
- Physician Risk Reduction Strategies That Work
- Proven Compensation Strategies for Part-time Physicians
- Recruiting Today's Physician
- Reduce Physician Turnover through Effective Recruitment and Retention Strategies
Quality/Patient Safety
- 2009 National Patient Safety Goals
- Anticoagulant Therapy and the New NPSG
- Anticoagulant Therapy
- Benchmarking Essentials
- California's New Adverse Event Reporting Law
- Crew Resource Management
- Critical Test Results
- Eliminate MRSA Infections in Your Hospital
- Eliminate MRSA Infections in Your Hospital
- Hand-offs: Meet the Patient Safety Goal and Improve Communication
- HCAHPS Update
- Hospital Acquired Conditions
- Hospital-Acquired Conditions
- How to Navigate and Thrive under the New HCAHPS Reporting Rules
- Make FMEA Work for You: Reduce Risk and Improve Patient Safety
- Making SBAR work for you: Fine-tune the process to fit your needs
- Medication Reconciliation Update
- Medication Reconciliation Update
- Medication Reconciliation
- National Patient Safety Goal 16A
- Near-miss Reporting
- Optimizing the Discharge Process
- P4P Success
- Pain Management: Simplify compliance with Joint Commission standards
- Patient Falls
- Patient Flow Solutions Series
- Patient Flow Solutions Series: Capacity Management
- Patient Flow Solutions
- Patient Safety Requires Staff Safety
- Periodic Performance Review
- Pressure Ulcer Prevention
- Preventing Post-surgery Risk in Sleep Apnea Patients
- Preventing Sepsis with Bundles
- Rapid Response Systems for Small Hospitals
- Restraints and Seclusion
- Root Cause Analysis
- SBAR: Tips to Implement, monitor, and train all staff
- SCIP and Public Reporting
- Six Sigma: Techniques and Tools to Improve Patient Safety
- Strategies for a Successful Physician Handoff
- Strategies to Prevent Pressure Ulcers in Your Hospital
- Suicide Assessment in the ED and Beyond
- Suicide Risk Assessment
- Suicide Risk Assessment: Save Lives and Comply with The Joint Commission
- Surgical Care Improvement Project
- The 2008 National Patient Safety Goals
- Top Service Recovery Best Practices
- Using FMEA to Comply with the National Patient Safety Goals
Rehab
- LIVE ! 2009 ICD-9 Coding Updates for Outpatient Rehab 09/23/08
- An HCPro Encore Presentation: Coding and Billing for Rehab Services
- Coding and Billing for Medicare Part B Therapy Services
- Coding and Billing for Rehab Services under Medicare Part B
- Coding and Billing for Rehab Services: Avoiding the Pitfalls of the 2006 Codes
- Complying with CMS's New Rehab Documentation Requirements
- Document and Bill for Optimal Reimbursement
- Documentation to Support Skilled PT, OT, and Speech Therapy Services
- LIVE ! Documentation to Support Skilled PT, OT, and Speech Therapy Services 10/07/08
- DRA Demands on Outpatient Rehab
- Evidence-based Practice in Physical Therapy
- How to Survive a Medicare Audit
- Impact of the New and Revised 2008 ICD-9 Outpatient Therapy Codes
- Infection Control in the Outpatient Therapy Setting
- Making the Medicare Therapy Caps Work
- Master Outpatient Rehab Documentation
- Master the 2007 Documentation Rules for Outpatient Rehab
- New Outcome Measurement Tools for Rehab
- Outpatient Therapy and The PQRI
- Prove Medical Necessity Through your Outpatient Therapy Documentation
- Proving Medical Necessity in the Outpatient Rehab Setting
- Reap the Benefits of Workers' Comp
- Recruiting and Retention for Rehab Providers
- Risk Management in Physical Therapy
- Using ICD-9 Codes and CCI Edits in the Outpatient Rehab Setting
Residency
- ACGME Institutional Review: Insider Tips, Tools, and Compliance Strategies
- Core Competencies Challenge
- GME Legal Case Studies
- Simulation Training in GME
Revenue Cycle
- 2008 Physician Fee Schedule
- Auditing Your PFS Department
- LIVE ! Centralized Registration Call Centers 09/25/08
- Control Bad Debt
- Cost Reporting: Strategies for Accurate Future Reimbursement
- Cost Reports 101: A Hospital Auditor's Guide
- Demystify Medicare's Three-Day Payment Window
- Denial Management
- Discounting Best Practices
- Final IPPS Rule: Manage the financial and operational changes
- Hospital Chargemasters
- Incentive Programs for Access Staff
- Materials Management Benchmarking
- Medicare's Three-Day Payment Window
- MS-DRGs in 2008
- NPI Implementation
- NPI: Strategies to prepare your contingency plan and get paid
- Observation Status
- Operationalizing the UB-04
- Optimize Your Billing Environment
- Patient Access Technology
- PFS Benchmarking: Strategies to Apply a Proven, Unique Approach
- Registration Accuracy: Three Case Studies of Success
- Registration Quality Assurance
- LIVE ! Self-Pay Patients 09/30/08
- Stop the Turnover Madness! Recruit and Retain a Solid Front-End Team
- The MSP Questionnaire
- The New ABN and HINN
- The New Important Message from Medicare Regulation
- The New Important message from Medicare
- Transparent pricing
- Turn Bad Debt into Charity Dollars Through Financial Counseling and Automation
- Upfront Collections
- Upfront Collections: Strategies and Secrets to Sustain a Winning Program
Safety
- 12/18/2007: MDRO Update
- Applying Microbiology to Infection Control Best Practices
- Avoid Life Safety Code non-compliance
- Avoid OSHA's Most-Cited Hospital Violations
- Avoid the Spread of Infectious Agents in Those Harmless Places
- Comply with CDC and OSHA Respiratory Standards
- EC Compliance in 2009
- Emergency Planning
- Emerging diseases in the ED: Strategies for infection control professionals
- Gear up for Mandatory Reporting Rates of Hospital-acquired Infections
- Healthcare Construction: Complying with IC and Safety Precautions
- Healthcare Safety Risk Assessments
- LIVE ! Life Safety Compliance in 2009 10/21/08
- Locking doors in healthcare facilities
- Managing Hazardous Waste
- OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard
- Pandemic Exercise Drill Down: Implementing JCAHO's Revised EC and IC Standards
- Steer Clear of the Top EC Citations
- Strategies to Incorporate New NIMS Requirements into Hospital Emergency Plans
- Surge Strategies for Flu Outbreaks
- The 96-Hour Rule: Will your facility's emergency plan hold up?
- Understanding New EPA Healthcare Regulations
