Catalog Number : cca1059
Title : EMTALA & ED Compliance
Speaker : Duane Abbey

Webplay Recording Date : 2-23-2012
Webplay Price : $ 200 for two weeks viewing

Target Audience:

• ED Personnel
• ER Physicians
• ER Nurses
• Billing and Claims Transaction Personnel
• Chargemaster Coordinators
• Financial Analysts
• Compliance Personnel
• Other Interested Personnel

Webinar Objectives:

• Review the need for developing a special ED compliance plan
• Discuss the current and evolving requirements for EMTALA compliance
• Review the special coding and billing requirements for the ED relative to EMTALA
• Review different approaches to audits and reviews of the ED relative to coding, billing and EMTALA

Webinar topics:

• Overview of ED Compliance
  • EMTALA Compliance
  • Coding, Billing and Reimbursement Compliance
  • Special ED Considerations
• EMTALA Basics
  • Definitions
  • On-Going EMTALA Rule Changes
• EMTALA Compliance
  • EMTALA Survey Process
  • EMTALA Compliance Problem Areas
• Recent Changes in EMTALA Rules & Regulations
  • Special Services Hospital Transfers
  • Community Call Programs
  • Qualified Medical Persons
  • CY2009 State Operations Manual - Interpretive Guidelines
  • The Moses vs. Providence Hospital Case
• Coding, Billing and Reimbursement for the ED
  • Special Coding and Billing Requirements for the ED
  • Coding and Billing Policy and Procedure Development
  • Non-Physician Providers in the ED
  • EMTALA Interface to Coding/Billing
• Special ED Situations
  • Provider-Based Clinics – EMTALA Requirements
  • Written Compliance Plan Relative to EMTALA
• Audit and Review Approaches
• References for Further Information

Contact Hours:

This course has been approved for 1.8 Iowa Nursing Contact Hours. There is usually a reciprocal agreement between state associations to allow these to count for each state. If you have any questions, please ask your state association.

Full tuition is refunded immediately on request if the participant has not been sent the program materials and instructions. Once the instructions (including access codes) have been sent, a full refund will be issued only after the program runs and it is verified that the participant did not access the program.