Catalog Number : cca1084
Title : Hospital Compliance Update for CY2012
Speaker : Duane Abbey

Webplay Recording Date : 12-6-2011
Webplay Price : $ 200 for two weeks viewing

Target Audience:

• Healthcare Compliance Personnel
• Hospital Chargemaster Coordinators
• Billing and Claims Generation Personnel
• Compliance Personnel
• Patient Financial Management Personnel
• Cost Accounting Personnel
• Cost Report Personnel
• Financial Analysts
• Managed Care Contract Personnel
• Revenue Enhancement Personnel
• Chief Financial Officers
• Chief Compliance Officers
• Financial Planners
• All Other Hospital Personnel Interested in Compliance Issues

Webinar Objectives:

• To Understand and Review the Overall Compliance Issues for Hospitals
• To Understand The OIG Work Plan Process
• To Review Issues for FY 2012
• To Understand the RAC Development and Approval of Issues
• To Identify OIG Trends For Issues and Their Relationship to RAC Issue Development
• To Identify Compliance Issues That Need To Be Addressed By Hospitals, Physicians, Clinics and Other Health Care Providers
• To Identify And Review Various Special Compliance Issues that are Current
• To Discuss the Need for Comprehensive Hospital Compliance Plans and Associated Annual Reports
• To Assess Which Issues Will Develop and Eventually Be Investigated by the RACs

Webinar Outline/Agenda:

• Review of Hospital Compliance Issues
  • Currently Identified Issues
  • Anticipated Future Issues
• Review The OIG Work Plan Process and Issues
  • Issuance of Work Plans
  • Issuant of Reports Relative to the Work Plans
  • FY2012 OIG Work Plan Issues
• Review The RAC Process
  • Development and Identification of Issues
  • Gaining Approval for Issues
  • RAC Audit Issues
  • Anticipated RAC Issues for the Future
• Current Hospital Issues
  • Observation Services
  • Provider-Based Rule and Supervision Requirements
  • Medicare Enrollment Challenges
  • DRG 3-Day Payment Window
  • APC and DRG Compliance Issues
  • Physician Coding and Billing
• Identification of Action Steps For Hospitals
  • Hospital Concerns
  • Clinic and Physician Concerns
  • Annual Compliance Plan Reports
• Sources for Further Information

Prerequisites for Participating:

A general understanding of health care compliance, the RACs and the OIG Work Plans.

Attendance Certificate:

Upon attending this course you will receive a 1.5 Contact Hour Attendance Certificate. 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.