Compliance Training Webinars for Regulated Industries

This webinar will cover background information and history of clinical research and drug development, followed by review of the federal regulations, International Council for Harmonisation (ICH), and Good Clinical Practices (GCP) that apply to clinical research.

This webinar will offer a fundamental understanding of CMS Quality Indicator Process in healthcare specific to food service. Participants will be offered advice, materials and tools to implementation and quality measure that promote the delivery of quality services, and to prevent negative outcomes in dining, nutrition services.

The training program will allow directors and clinicians to establish best practices for thriving medical documentation patterns and practices. It will provide an overview of how the interdisciplinary team can successfully establish protocols and strategies for clear, concise and supportive documentation.

This training program will review the changes to the Medicare advantage program enacted in the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA). It will provide a step by step approach to ensure accurate appropriate reimbursement.

This webinar will address coding along with billing and payments for the evaluation and management (E/M) services for the cardiology specialty. It will also cover reimbursement issues and best practices to maximize reimbursement opportunities.

This CMS compliance training will address the key changes in the new Conditions of Participations (CoPs) that will be effective July 13, 2017. It will focus on the change processes and policies for patient rights, aide services, evolving plan of care, infection control, emergency preparedness program, QAPI and more.

The course will instruct attendees on the revised self-disclosure protocol (SDP), the process and procedures for self-reporting and the risks of not self-reporting.

This webinar will discuss conditions under which certain compounded human drug products are exempted from compliance with cGMPs, labeling, market approval and reporting requirements. It will cover conditions that require an outsourcing facility to comply and the latest developments in drug pharmacy compounding.

This training program will be address how practice/business managers (or compliance officers) 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 2016.

This training program will provide an overview of how the interdisciplinary team can successfully navigate through Medicare claim reviews and request for additional developmental requests (ADRs). This course will offer a step by step approach to ensure accurate appropriate reimbursement.

This OASIS-C2 webinar will review the new proposed measures, how they work and how to correctly document the data to ensure better outcomes and better rating for your organization.

Cardiology Coding 2017, mid-year update. We will cover in office diagnostics, to include any updated rules on EKGs, Holters, Stress Tests. Look at the new coding for 2017 Moderate Sedation Codes, and how they have impacted the first half of 2017. This webinar will also discuss on the new E/M symbols, rules, and new codes and deleted symbols that will impact provider reimbursement, for Cardiology services.

This webinar will review the various elements of the physician employment agreement, focusing on the pitfalls and the problems that can develop when the agreement does not clearly define the relationship, and/or when the parties do not fully understand what is being agreed to. Such items as term and termination, termination for cause, duties of the physician, call, non-compete, and compensation are all items that should be clearly set out in the agreement and fully understood by the parties.

This webinar will explain how to design and administer HIPAA monitoring and auditing programs to meet HIPAA requirements. This session will cover some of the most common exceptions under the Privacy Rule and include practical tips for demonstrating good faith compliance efforts. In addition, there will be discussion of next-generation technologies that can help covered entities and business associates detect and report inappropriate accesses and disclosures of electronic protected health information.

Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) forbids discrimination based on sex, race, color, national origin, age and disability. It builds on longstanding and familiar federal civil rights laws but is the first law to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex (which includes gender, gender identity and sex stereotyping) in covered health programs and activities. Sex discrimination also includes discriminatory treatment on the basis of pregnancy, false pregnancy, termination of pregnancy, recovering from pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, sex stereotyping, and gender identity.

Any time a health care organization structures a contract involving physicians, it must be aware of the federal laws that are unique to the healthcare industry (e.g., the Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, Civil Monetary Penalties Law, False Claims Act, etc.). These laws affect any contract with physicians who are in a position to refer, including employment or service contracts, group compensation structures, joint ventures, leases for space or equipment, free or discounted items or services and virtually any other exchange of remuneration.

This training program will analyze how proactive monitoring of workforce access to e-PHI can reduce false positives and support the HIPAA Security Rule administrative safeguards. It will also discuss how software platforms can help covered entities increase confidence in adherence to minimally necessary standard.

In this training session, the instructor will provide an overview of Stark Law, including its 2016 changes. He will also discuss best practices for negotiating and drafting physician employment agreements on behalf of health systems, hospitals and medical groups. He will explain key provisions and potential pitfalls in both types of agreements.

This training program will provide a general Stark Law overview and examine critical components of Stark and Anti-Kickback compliant recruitment arrangements such as income and cost allocations, reasonable practice restrictions, repayment requirements, etc. The program will also discuss best practices for drafting physician employment agreements, related compensation plans and facilitating effective onboarding.