Public Health

Overview This seminar provides Professionals working in this area with: A thorough understanding of the complexities involved Covers all the relevant regulations and guidelines Gives real life examples of how to register and maintain various types of combination products Interfaces: Change Management and LCM Compliant safety reporting for combination products Documentation requirements and interfacing

Overview This 6-hour seminar will be addressing how practice/business managers (or compliance offers) need to get their HIPAA house in order before the imminent audits occur. It will also address major changes under the Omnibus Rule and any other applicable updates for 2018. Areas also covered will be texting, email, encryption, medical messaging, voice data and risk factors as they relate to IT. The primary goal is to ensure everyone is well educated on what is myth and what is reality with this law, there is so much misleading information regarding the do's and don'ts with HIPAA - I want to add clarity for compliance officers and what you guys need to do and how to best implement your HIPAA program based on over 18 years of personal experience working with Federal auditors, state auditors, and corporate auditors.

Overview: Incident-to coding for your non-physician practitioners (NPPs) services in conjunction with a supervising physician continues to generate confusion- and 2019 will be no exception. So, it's no surprise that these claims generate higher than average denials, and lead to hefty penalties for physician practices ranging from $163K to $1.5 million - but they don't have to. Obviously, being paid 100% vs. 85% for your NPPs services is the goal. However, correctly maneuvering through complex incident-to guidelines so you can avoid audits and fines is anything but easy. That's where expert coder, Rhonda Granja, B.S., CMC, CMOM, CMA, CPC, comes in. Rhonda has put together a 60-minute training session to help you cut through the confusion of these difficult coding situations.

Overview: The advent of COVID-19, though tragic, will be the backdrop for this webinar, which will cover the specific points of how cloud is a unique vehicle to use for normal on-prem operations while facilitating a smooth transition to telework or telehealth operations, and how this enables almost seamless business continuity when conditions force migration from “inhouse-to-telework-back-to-inhouse” operations. The major take-away will be how a strategic plan for cloud adoption can be integrated with operations continuity during times like this to keep everything running and address patient needs {almost} without missing a step.”

Overview: This lesson will be going into great detail regarding you practice or business information technology and how it relates to the HIPAA/HITECH Security Rule and securing PHI in transmission. I will go through multiple examples and specific scenarios and also offer simple common-sense solutions. Areas covered will be texting, email, encryption, medical messaging, voice data, personal devices, and risk factors. I will uncover myths versus reality as it relates to this very enigmatic law based on over 1000 risk assessments performed as well as years of experience in dealing directly with the Office of Civil Rights HIPAA auditors. I will speak on specific experiences from over 17 years of experience in working as an outsourced compliance auditor, expert witness on multiple HIPAA cases in state law, and thoroughly explain how patients are now able to get cash remedies for wrongful disclosures of private health information.

Overview: This lesson will be going into great detail regarding the practice or business information technology and how it relates to the HIPAA Security Rule, in particular portable devices. Areas covered will be texting, email, encryption, medical messaging, voice data and risk factors as they relate to personal devices. I will uncover myths versus reality as it relates to this very enigmatic law based on over 1000 risk assessments performed as well as years of experience in dealing directly with the Office of Civil Rights HIPAA auditors. I will speak on specific experiences from over 17 years of experience in working as an outsourced compliance auditor, expert witness on multiple HIPAA cases, and thoroughly explain how patients are now able to get cash remedies for wrongful disclosures of private health information. More importantly I will show you how to limit those risks by simply taking proactive steps and utilizing best practices.

Overview: Healthcare is often driven by factors extraneous to but impacting on care delivery: regulation, revenue cycle, supplychain and many others. Now, enter IT automation as a companion driving force - no longer in the business office but out on the floors. Old news, but still a problem that needs to be addressed: how to best integrate it smoothly. Why you should Attend: There are many examples of successful EMR, HIE, and other automation implementations within American healthcare. There are also many examples of projects not going according to plan, with the attendant cost-overruns and missed schedule dates. Equally important is that even the dates that are met often don't deliver as promised.

Overview: This webinar will review the sections of the HIPAA privacy rule that under the federal emergency for COVID-19 declared in March will be under a waiver issued by the OCR and penalties will be waived. HIPAA, as a whole, is still being monitored however and the webinar will also include those areas that are still being enforced and what you need know, whether you are a covered entity or a business associate. Why you should Attend: There are many portions of the HIPAA Privacy Rule in which enforcement by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) are going to be waived. This Webinar will explain these waivers by the OCR and how they may affect covered entities and business associates. Areas Covered in the Session: Brief review of HIPAA Privacy Rule Parts of the rule affected by waivers Parts of the rule still in full effect

The intersecting of these three laws is complicated and open to problems if not handled correctly. ADA, FMLA and Workers Compensation have different goals and protections for employees, yet all three have provisions that may require an employer to give job-protected time off when the right circumstances are met.

In this program, we will review the physician anti-referral laws (Stark I and II), provide an in-depth discussion of physician employment contracting, review the relevant Stark exceptions and discuss how physician compensation models can be in compliance with the Stark prohibitions. 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. Several recent cases bring home the realization that Stark II (the physician anti-referral law) is alive, still with us and as viable as ever, and it can be used as the basis of a False Claims Act action.

This course covers the fundamentals of medical billing, coding, and reimbursement by explaining how all of these components work together. Emphasis will be placed on the practical application of the latest industry knowledge and standards, with the goal of helping those who work with medical claims and claims data stay ahead of the game. Participants will learn about the following: The claim flow process from registration through adjudication and payment How physicians and hospitals set and manage charges.

Legal compliance can get confusing when some legal regulations seemingly overlap or even seem almost contradictory to implement. This is the case when the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and Workers’ Compensation intersect. The intersecting of these three laws is complicated and open to problems if not handled correctly. ADA, FMLA and Workers Compensation have different goals and protections for employees, yet all three have provisions that may require an employer to give job-protected time off when the right circumstances are met. It's essential for employers to understand Federal and State laws with respect to these three laws in order to be compliant. The majority of unscheduled and scheduled absences are related to the illness of employees or their family members. Under those circumstances, one, both, or all three of these laws may be involved.

Overview A contractor's right to complete work early was acknowledged by U.S. Courts in the 1940's. As a result, delayed early completion claims became much more common in the 1960's. It was then, and remains now, a controversial issue in the construction industry with many project owners refusing to accept early completion baseline schedules. Others crafted contractual mechanisms prevent or defeat such claims.

Overview: This presentation uses the latest FDA thinking and guidance documents to assist the manufacturers in enhancing the predictability, consistency, and transparency of the "when to submit" decision-making process by providing a least burdensome approach, and describing in greater detail the regulatory framework, policies, and practices underlying such a decision. Why should you Attend: Case Study Examples will be provided for each session to further assist the attendees in understanding how to decide when to submit a 510(k) for a change to an existing device.

Training management is often focused only on aligning standard operating procedures with job titles, and tracking whether employees have been "trained" to the latest versions. But, quality standards and regulations actually focus on employee competence and awareness of their impact on quality. This webinar will help attendees to better understand the actual intent of the standards and regulations, how to better establish requirements for each employee, and how to confirm that employees are truly competent.

Organizations should provide evidence that they have the required means and abilities to analyze failures and nonconformities, then set up corrections, corrective actions and corrective actions on duly manner. This webinar shall provide insight of how to establish CAPAs that shall provide the organization the confidence that the organization is mature enough to handle its own failures and avoid future nonconformities.

The two most common questions employers have are: Our company does drug screenings, and an employee has provided a medical marijuana card. How do we handle that? Our state allows recreational marijuana. What does this mean if we have a drug-free workplace policy? The answers to these questions involve numerous factors, including but not limited to the following. The state they are in Why somebody is using it (medicinally or recreationally) How recently they used it The safety aspects of their job The company's policy on marijuana use

Overview: Good documentation practice (commonly abbreviated GDP, recommended to abbreviate as GDocP to distinguish from "good distribution practice" also abbreviated GDP) is a term in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries to describe standards by which documents are created and maintained. In a pharmaceutical or medical device environment documentation needs to meet certain requirements to ensure product quality and product safety.

This webinar will begin with a general discussion of technical writing and its role within the life sciences. Technical writers produce a variety of technical documents that are required to manage and direct regulated operations and to meet regulatory requirements. We will spend some time in this webinar discussing those document types, their importance, and the consequences of the messages are unclear or misunderstood. After setting the stage for this content, we delve into the writing process beginning with the audience and how the audience must be analyzed to determine the level of writing that must be employed to complete the document.

Overview: Attend this 90 minutes presentation to gain a fundamental understanding of FDA's regulation of Dietary Supplements, Dietary supplements are regulated products, also Dietary supplement marketing, manufacturing, labeling, and advertising are all covered by regulations enforced by FDA. Why should you Attend: There is confusion in the industry as just what type of manufacturing controls and record keeping, and labeling content is required by the FDA, and this confusion continues to cause regulatory problems for many new and established companies in this industry.