Being in compliance with HIPAA involves not only ensuring you provide the appropriate patient rights and controls on your uses and disclosures of protected health information, but you also have the proper policies and procedures in place. If audited or the subject of a compliance review you will be required to show the government you have all the necessary documentation in place for safeguarding patient Protected Health Information and indicat...

OSHA requires that businesses maintain a running account of injuries and illness that occur in the workplace. The logs must be completely and accurately filled in and completed. At the end of the year, these figures must be reported to OSHA or other report collection agencies t0o determine if the rate of injuries and illnesses falls within the norm for that industry sector. Although not a recommended practice, some businesses use these figures...

This webinar focuses on HIPAA Rules for transmitting informational email and text messages to patients over an electronic communications network. You will learn: The information that makes a message subject to HIPAA The "safe harbor" - How Health Care Providers may obtain consent from patients to send PHI in unencrypted email and unencrypted text messages and not be responsible for unauthorized access to the PHI in transmission or when receive...

This lesson will be addressing how practice/business managers (or compliance offers) need to get their HIPAA house in order as HIPAA is now fully enforced and the government is not using kid gloves any more. It will also address major changes under the Omnibus Rule and any other applicable updates for 2017 and beyond. There are an enormous amount of issues and risks for covered entities and business associates these days. I will speak on speci...

New changes modifying the HIPAA Privacy and Security Regulations are going into place to meet the privacy and security mandates within the HITECH Act in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The changes include establishing new rights for individuals as well as changes to the limitations on uses and disclosures. New requirements for patient access to records and requirements to notify individuals in the event of a breach are only...

Overview: This lesson will be going into great detail regarding your 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 IT. I will uncover myths versus reality as it relates to this very enigmatic law based on over 600 risk assessments performed as well as yea...

Overview: Physicians who participate in Medicare face a range of reporting obligations. Although not quite a "pay for performance" system at the present, in recent years Medicare has increased the number of reporting programs which track a variety of data. PQRS, Meaningful Use, and the Value-based Payment Modifier all tie physician compensation under the MPFS to reporting of data. Reporting under these systems, however, is a complex and detail...

Overview: This lesson will be addressing how practice manager 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. Areas covered will be risk assessment, texting, email, encryption, medical messaging, voice data and risk factors as they relate to IT. In addition, we will go into specific everyday (non-technical) risks factor...

Overview: In this session Mr. Wolfe will provide an overview of the Anti-Kickback and Stark Law, including its 2016 changes. He will also discuss best practices for negotiating and drafting medical director arrangements on behalf of health systems, hospitals and medical groups. The webinar will focus on key provisions that should be included and potential pitfalls that should be avoided. Why should you Attend: Given the substantial awards and...

Overview: This workshop titled Medicare Practice Management is for the Administrator, Office Manager, Billing Manager and Physician, looking to tighten up their office policies in regards to patient no shows, ICD-10-CM training, when to enlist an auditor, how to deal with patient records requests, utilizing med-level providers, and general practice management. We will provide not only a presentation with examples and explanations on how to suc...