Change is the law of nature, so as are rules for healthcare these days to make healthcare professionals perform better to benefit people. Stay updated with all the changes, strategies, laws etc with virtual-webinar healthcares conferences
If there is one webinar your hospital should listen to this year it should be this one. If a surveyor showed up at your door tomorrow would your hospital be prepared? You could read the infection control standards and you would be surprised that many things in the worksheet that are not discussed in the standards because CMS requires hospitals to follow all standards of care and standards of practice which include evidence-based practice. This is why it is important for the hospital to be in compliance with what is in the 49-page worksheet and to be aware of the proposed changes to the worksheet.
Infection control issues related to COVID-19 will be discussed. This includes several memos from CMS that included the targeted infection control surveys and self-assessment. The CDC also has many resources and recommendations on COVID-19 that will be covered.
This program will also discuss the many final changes to the infection control standards that went into effect on November 29, 2019. (Critical access hospitals were given a 6-month extension to comply with the antibiotic stewardship requirements which are already in effect. CAHs have 25 new tag numbers in infection control.) This includes a requirement to have an antibiotic stewardship program. The infection preventionist has to be appointed by the board after approval by the nursing leadership and Medical Executive Committee. It sets out the responsibilities of the infection preventionist which should be added to the job description. Hospitals must have a hospital-wide antibiotic stewardship program. The requirements will be discussed if a hospital system elects system-wide infection control. Hospitals must follow nationally recognized infection control standards. There are some new policies required. There are many additional changes that will be discussed. This webinar will provide many infection control resources especially some recent ones from the CDC.
This webinar will discuss important memos on infection control issues from CMS. It will discuss the ISMP IV guidelines and safe injection practices issues. It will cover the CDC vaccine storage and handling toolkit and the CDC procedures for cleaning and disinfecting reusable medical devices. CMS is hitting hard cleaning of endoscopes, glucose meters, disinfection, and sterilization and reusable equipment.
This program will cover in detail the CMS infection control worksheet used to assess compliance with the infection control hospital CoPs. The worksheets are used by State and Federal surveyors when assessing compliance with the infection control standards. Infection control is hit hard during the survey and every hospital should have a working familiarity with this important document. This is the first time CMS has ever had tracers. Hospitals should develop tracer tools to match this worksheet. Accreditation organizations may also ask similar questions since all four must apply for deemed status from CMS.
There is also a business case for stepping up enforcement to prevent healthcare-associated infections. The Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Reduction Program is in effect for 2020. As part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, hospitals that rank in the quartile of hospitals with the highest total HAC scores will have had their CMS payments reduced by 1%.
Citation instructions are provided on the infection control worksheet. Surveyors will follow standard procedures when non-compliance is identified. CMS is now publishing the infection control deficiencies and this will be discussed along with actual information on why hospitals were found to be out of compliance. Although the worksheet is not being used per seat Critical Access Hospitals (CAH), it is highly recommended that all CAH should listen to this webinar since the standards are similar and this is an excellent self-assessment tool.
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Infection Control Final Worksheet for Hospitals
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Budget Spreadsheet and Financial Statement - Excel Training For Financial and Accounting Professional
Session 1: Tuesday, February 16, 2021: 01:00 PM to 02:30 PM: 90 Minutes
Session 2: Tuesday, February 16, 2021: 03:00 PM to 04:30 PM: 90 Minutes
Part 1 Overview - Budget spreadsheet
In this presentation, Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA, demonstrates how to create an effective and resilient budget spreadsheet as well as how to future-proof them once they're built. David shares several design techniques, including separating inputs from calculations, building out separate calculations spreadsheets, and developing both operating and cash flow budgets. Cash flow budgets are beneficial in that they calculate when to borrow against a line of credit, when to pay down the line of credit, and when cash is available to pay dividends.
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Part 2 Overview - Automating an Excel-based Financial Statements
In this session, Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA, shows you step-by-step how to create dynamic accounting reports for any month of the year on just one worksheet. While Excel users often build worksheets for each month of the year, such worksheets can be cumbersome to revise. As an alternative, David explains how to use Excel functions, including VLOOKUP, OFFSET, and SUM, to quickly create accounting reports that allow you to switch to any reporting period with only two mouse clicks. He also outlines how to export data from your accounting package, improve the integrity of your spreadsheets, incorporate Check Figures and Alarms into your work, and more.
David demonstrates every technique at least twice: first, on a PowerPoint slide with numbered steps, and second, in Excel 2016. He draws your attention to any differences in Excel 2013, 2010, or 2007 during the presentation as well as in his detailed handouts. David also provides an Excel workbook that includes most of the examples he uses during the webcast.
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released the second draft of the 2020 form W-4 along with publication 15 T which contains the withholding instructions. Compliance with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has forced the IRS to completely revamp this form for 2020. This webinar will review the latest draft of this form and its corresponding publication 15-T in great detail. The webinar includes several examples of calculating federal income tax withholding beginning January 1, 2020. We will also tackle the question of how to continue using prior year versions of the Form W-4.
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Even if you dot your I’s and cross your t’s, you still could be unintentionally misclassifying employees. The DOL has been cracking down on law-breaking companies and well-intentioned companies alike, even for the smallest mistakes.
Attend this straight-talk 60-minute conference conducted by an expert employment law attorney, Edward Bergmann, and you’ll learn how to avoid the misclassification trap.
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In this webinar, you will learn:
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The DOL actively seeks out employers who misclassify workers. Though they catch some law-breaking companies, they also nab well-intentioned companies that unknowingly violate overtime laws, which can be very tricky.
In this webinar, Edward Bergmann will lay out a detailed overview of the white-collar exemptions, providing specific, practical examples of how they’re applied.
The course will highlight the “hot spots” -- those areas where employers are prone to make classification mistakes and offer advice for conducting internal self-audits (before the DOL does).
In this 90-minute webinar on "HIPAA Texting, Emailing, and Personal Devices - New Guidance" we will be going into great detail regarding your practice or business information technology and how it relates to the HIPAA/HITECH Security Rule and securing PHI in transmission.
Mr. Brian with over 20 years of experience in Health IT and Compliance Consulting 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.
Mr. Tuttle 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.
Mr. Brian will speak on specific experiences from over 18 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.
More importantly, Brian will show you how to limit those risks by simply taking proactive steps and utilizing best practices. Don't always believe what you read online about HIPAA, especially as it relates to encryption and IT, there are a lot of groups selling more than is necessarily required.
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Confused about all of the misinformation relating to HIPAA, what you can and can’t do? Let Mr. Tuttle get those questions FINALLY answered for you once and for all!
There is unfortunately a lot of confusion about transmissions of protected health information and what we as business associates and covered entities need to do and what we SHOULD NOT do!
Join this 90-minute webinar as we discuss the do’s and don’ts regarding texting and emailing along with any other sorts of transmissions of protected health information!.
It is important to understand the new changes going on at Health and Human Services as it relates to enforcement of HIPAA for both covered entities and business associates as it relates to portable devices, texting, emailing, and transmission in general of protected health information (PHI).
You need to know how to avoid being low hanging fruit in terms of audit risk as well as being sued by individuals who have had their PHI wrongfully discloses due to bad IT practices.
Mr. Tuttle has also been an expert witness on multiple court cases where a business or medical practice is being sued for not doing their due diligence to minimize risk. This day’s trial attorney poses a higher risk than the Federal government!
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This session will be of valuable assistance to the below audience.
Case Management Boot Camp (Part 3 of 5) - Emergency Department (ED) Case Management: A Must-Have for any Hospital Case Management Department
Case management models in the acute care setting are constantly evolving and improving. So is true for case management in the emergency department. RN and Social Work case managers working in this fast-paced setting must evaluate patients who will be treated and released, those being placed into observation, and those being admitted to an inpatient bed. Therefore, it is imperative that the ED case management model is consistent with the inpatient model yet applied differently in order to address these categories of patients.
During this program, our speaker will discuss the structure of a best-practice ED case management model and the processes the roles should follow. She will also discuss the outcome measures for ensuring that your ED program is making a difference for your organization.
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At the conclusion of these sessions, participants will be able to:
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Anyone involved with transitions in care including RN case managers, case management personnel, social work staff, post-acute care providers, physician advisors, finance directors, quality management, and other interested personnel.
This session provides an overview of HIPAA enforcement rules and recent HIPAA enforcement activity.
While the worldwide pandemic has prompted some relaxation of HIPAA requirements in specific circumstances to ease the provision of medical services and communication of essential public health information, enforcement of HIPAA has continued, and the enforcement settlement pace has increased significantly.
Recent enforcement actions show a willingness for HHS to work in conjunction with State Attorneys General to bring about settlements for violations of several laws at once, a new emphasis on the importance of prompt action on requests for individual access of Protected Health Information (PHI), and a new crack-down on doctors’ responding to patients’ social media posts and including PHI in the posting. A particular focal point in recent enforcement is the issue of systemic non-compliance leading to a breach.
Too many organizations haven’t done what’s necessary to assess their risks, provide training, establish the correct organizational relationships, and other compliance issues, resulting in a reportable breach, and now they’re paying in multi-million dollar settlements and multi-year corrective action plans.
And new guidance from HHS about the liability of Business Associates for compliance makes it more clear what Business Associates are liable for, and what responsibilities for HIPAA compliance remain in the Covered Entities’ hands. Both Covered Entities and Business Associates need to be prepared for the enforcement distinctions and responsibilities.
In this session, we will discuss the enforcement actions that have been taken, and the lessons that can be learned from those actions. We will explore what kind of issues were most prevalent and what kind of entities had the most problems, and show where entities need to improve their compliance the most based on real enforcement experience.
Fines and penalties for violations of the HIPAA regulations have been increased and include mandatory fines for willful neglect of the rules that begin at over$10,000 minimum and can reach more than $50,000 per day, but showing due diligence can reduce culpability and penalties.
Even though the HIPAA audit program is on hold for at least the time being, that doesn’t mean there will be no enforcement of the HIPAA rules. In fact, preparing for a HIPAA Audit is one of the best ways to be ready to respond to any enforcement action, and going through an internal HIPAA Audit will help you find issues before they become problems that can lead to penalties.
USDHHS has published an updated, July 2018 protocol for the HIPAA audits, so it is possible to know how to prepare for an audit or enforcement review. Nearly any health care covered entity may be subject to an audit or enforcement investigation; all entities need to know what kinds of questions they’ll be asked, what information they'll need to provide, and how to prevent issues that could lead to violations and fines.
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The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights has been pursuing a great deal of enforcement activity recently that involves compliance in two primary areas.
One is violations involving systemic noncompliance with security safeguards resulting in a breach, and the other is non-compliance with requirements for the provision of patent access to health records. And the pace of announcements of settlements has become a torrent of enforcement actions, with several announced in the space of a few days and even five in one announcement.
HHS OCR is definitely not relaxing HIPAA enforcement; it is using enforcement to further its goals of securing information and providing access to individuals.
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has also been busy with enforcement focused in new areas and on new kinds of entities, and compliance responsibilities for HIPAA Business Associates have been clarified. At the same time enforcement has been relaxed during the pandemic emergency for some HIPAA Business Associate requirements pertaining to telemedicine.
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently increased the penalty levels for HIPAA violations and indicated a new emphasis on the culpability of organizations when determining penalties for rule violations. If you have taken steps to comply with HIPAA, you will be treated less severely than if you have ignored compliance.
Taking steps to meet compliance requirements can help minimize potential penalties. Penalties have been increased across the board, now up to more than $1.7 million per violation, and a single incident may spawn several violations. The maximums permitted annually for anyone violation, have been reduced for all but the highest level of violation, but all other fine levels have been increased.
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