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Here Come the RACs:
Install Steps Now to Improve Compliance (and Avoid Costly Audits)
As of January 1, 2010, the Recovery Audit Contractor Program, which seeks to correct errors in Medicare payments due to flawed billing, coding mistakes and medical necessity, is underway in all 50 states. Recently, RACs have begun to issue complex reviews, which require a hospital’s unveiling of medical records, in addition to the now-standard automated reviews that deal primarily with claims data.
Join the publisher of Case In Point, Case In Point Weekly and the Case Management Resource Guide for an online training session and learn what you and your organization can do to safeguard against RACs, including:
- Understand how RACs operate;
- Learn the steps hospitals and facilities can take to ensure a competent workflow;
- Explore the methods of prevention, from personnel strategies to software solutions; and
- Understand process improvement techniques to improve operations and patient outcomes.
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Patient Activation:
Optimize Outcomes Through Patient Engagement
More than any procedure, pharmaceutical or supplement, patients themselves harness the most power to create change in their own health and wellness. The secret is how to unlock that power — and in turn create the dynamic change that can increase adherence, boost well-being, and cut health care costs as a result of a healthier, more prevention-oriented patients.
A faculty of leading experts to share their insight on the growing and exciting practice of patient activation. This 90-minute training session will focus on the tenets of patient activation, the best way to turn the theory into practice, and the important role that case managers, health coaches and other professionals play in activating the best, most mindful and healthiest portion that each and every one of our patients has to offer.
Bending the Health Care Spending Curve:
Strategies to Lower Employer Health Care Costs Today
How health care reform will affect employers, employees, providers and health plans is something that will play out closer to 2014 than 2009. With practical reform measures some five years off, the question most employers are asking today is — “What am I going to do next quarter to lower my escalating health care costs and improve the health of my employees to ensure they are productive and fit for duty?”
This 90-minute training session brings together leading experts who have produced impressive outcomes in lowering health care costs while improving the health and wellness of their workforce.
Conflict and Intimidation in Health Care Settings:
How To Protect Patient Care and Defuse Hostile Behaviors
This online training seminar will assist professionals in understanding the impact that disruptive behavior has on an organization’s ability to provide safe and quality patient care. In addition to undermining safety and quality, poor conduct among health care professionals destroys trust that case managers and other health care professionals work hard to create. Collaboration, productivity, patient satisfaction and retention all suffer.
Increase your knowledge about this problem and take home tools and strategies that will help ensure that the productivity, safety, quality and job satisfaction within your workplace are not jeopardized.
Maximize Case Manager Effectiveness:
Setting Appropriate Caseloads
How To Incorporate the Emerging Science
The million-dollar question that has plagued directors, supervisors and grassroots case managers alike — What is the appropriate caseload for a case manager? — has been at the center of a recent flurry of thought analyses, organizational initiatives and software applications. Thanks to experts studying this dilemma, we now have evidence that can start to answer this essential question.
HITECH: How It Impacts Case Management
Achieving An Action Plan For Compliance
Just when you thought you had a safe understanding of HIPAA, recent changes to the law now put YOU, the frontline case manager, and your organization at risk. Attend this online training seminar to make sure you and your organization are compliant with this new Federal Regulation.
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