Patient Access of PHI and Communications - Managing Requests, Texting, and E-mail

The new regulations will be reviewed and their effects on usual practices will be discussed, as will what policies need to be changed and how.  We will show what policies and evidence you may need to produce if your compliance is r...

HIPAA and Substance Use Disorders - New Rules, Conflicting Rules, and Patient Privacy

This session focuses on the issues of managing disclosures of health information when it may involve substance use disorder treatment information.  HIPAA allows a number of disclosures without consent that SAMHSA prohibits without ...

HIPAA Audit and Enforcement Update - Using Lessons Learned to Prepare for Reviews

We will review the HIPAA enforcement actions taken to date and the issues that led to penalties and corrective action plans, and discuss the recent direction in HIPAA enforcement actions.  Enforcement of HIPAA rules for Business As...

How is Your Hospital Paid? A Reimbursement Primer for the RN Case Manager and the Case Management Leader

Rules and regulations for hospital  case management departments have been growing and changing, especially over the past decade. Compliance regulations for Medicare patients are increasing and are impacting the way the case managem...

Medicare Compliance and the Hospital RN Case Manager and Social Worker

Rules and regulations for hospital case management departments have been expanding and changing, especially over the past decade.  Compliance regulations for Medicare patients are more complex and impact the way the case management...