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Please join us for the 2016 Minnesota Legislative Session Outlook to be held on February 29, 2016.
This webinar is aimed at physician recruiters, practice group managers, and other professionals involved in physician recruitment. The goal of this program is to enhance the ability of healthcare employers to consider, recruit, and retain IMGs, and to make immigration into a competitive edge for your organization.
While the healthcare industry is continuing to see increased integration between hospitals and physicians, the professional services agreement can be an attractive option for providers who want to align their interests while maintaining some level of independence.
This webinar will offer practical thoughts and identify legal pitfalls with imaging, PT, lab and other ancillaries whether they are offered by a hospital, clinic or joint venture.
This webinar will be a “grab bag” format with brief coverage of a variety of EHR-related topics.
This session will discuss the basics of starting a peer review process and describe some of the benefits and potential problems of a peer review program. While there will be some information that will be helpful for hospitals and well-established peer review organizations, there will be considerable time spent on how clinics can use peer review as a tool to improve quality and manage risk.
It’s the time of year when new rules come out and the OIG releases its work plan. This webinar will focus on the regulatory and policy issues most likely to affect hospitals and clinics. Please note that while we will discuss possible economic implications of regulatory changes, including possible ramifications of the increasing scrutiny of provider-based clinics, we will not attempt to analyze any specific codes or describe RVU changes.
During the hour, John Kapacinskas and Erin Secord will discuss key issues in preparing a medical malpractice case for a favorable resolution which include: working with outside counsel to protect privileges, evaluating and synthesizing medical records, and preparing witnesses for deposition and trial. The webinar will emphasize helpful practice pointers to maximize outcomes and use the litigation process to drive favorable case resolutions.
August Special Webinar: CMS just released a final rule on how hospitals must determine whether to bill for an inpatient admission (versus an observation stay paid under Part B). Specifically, the new rule requires the physician order to document his/her determination that the patient will remain an inpatient for a time period crossing “two midnights.” We will discuss the final rule’s requirements, what hospitals can do to comply and how to challenge inpatient denials following the implementation of the new rule, which becomes effective October 1, 2013.
In this webinar, Ryan Johnson and Catherine London will discuss the key legal and regulatory issues associated with telemedicine and telehealth, including privacy and security of health information, reimbursement, patient consent, credentialing, licensure, corporate practice of medicine, prescriptive authority, and fraud and abuse.
In this webinar, we will discuss how Sunshine Act reporting will affect physicians and hospitals, including what information will be reported and publicly available, what steps physicians and hospitals should take to ensure accurate reporting, and we will describe how physicians and hospitals can challenge false or misleading information reported by manufacturers.
This webinar will include a brief refresher on what ICD-10 is and the impact it will have on health care organizations when implemented this October. We strongly recommend this webinar for those who may not be very far along in their preparations yet.
We will discuss “direct pay” practice arrangements (also referred to as “direct primary care”) – a care delivery model in which patients pay the practice a flat monthly fee in exchange for providing a predetermined set of health care services. We will summarize the approaches taken by those states that currently regulate this delivery model and highlight some of the key regulatory and legal issues associated with direct pay arrangements. We will also discuss how employers can pay for direct pay programs as a part of their benefit plans.
The Affordable Care Act will significantly change the way employers design and administer their group health plans. While several requirements have already become effective, many others become effective in 2014. In this webinar, hear a detailed review of the "shared responsibility" rules for employers. If time permits, we will also review the current status of other requirements that will be imposed on employers' group health plans under the Affordable Care Act.
Dealing with the various Medicare audits can be overwhelming for practitioners and institutions. Having a fine-tuned process for reviewing and responding to such audits will greatly increase your chances of success in appealing an overpayment allegation. We will provide you with practical tips for both large institutions and small clinics to effectively respond to Medicare audits and explore creative legal arguments you can use in your appeal to reduce alleged overpayment amounts.
Members of Fredrikson's Health Law Group will discuss the recently published, sweeping changes to the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules that will have a major effect on the privacy practices of covered entities and their business associates. We will also provide advice on how to bring your organization into compliance by the compliance date of September 23, 2013.
The "American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012," the "fiscal cliff" bill, has a number of provisions that will affect health care organizations. While some provisions have received significant coverage (the so called "doc fix" to the sustainable growth rate, for example), some important changes were even omitted from CMS's summary of the law. In one of the most significant provisions, the law expands the time limit on recovering overpayments, and presumably the time limit for making refunds, by two years. This webinar will summarize the key changes to health care laws.