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Catalog Number : cca1615
Title : Critical Access Hospitals: ED and EMTALA Compliance
Speaker : Duane Abbey

Duration : 90 minutes

Webplay Recording Date : 7-14-2016
Webplay Price : $ 150 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Overview:

How does EMTALA apply to CAHs? What are the CAH obligations of emergency services and thus EMTALA? Come to our Webinar to answer these and other issues around CAH on EMTALA and ED Challenges.

Target Audience:

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

Webinar Objectives:

  • Restate current changes to EMTALA Rules and Regulations
  • Restate the need for developing a special ED compliance plan
  • Discuss the current and evolving requirements for EMTALA compliance
  • Restate the definitions and conditions for EMTALA
  • Compare and contrast EMTALA with the Conditions of Participation (CoPs) for CAHs
  • Recognize how EMTALA affects coding and billing for CAHs
  • Identify transfers and special CAH requirements
  • Restate different approaches to audits and reviews for EMTALA compliance

A few of the Topics that will be covered:

  • Overview of EMTALA
    • Basic Principles
    • Special CAH Considerations
    • EMTALA Compliance
    • Special ED Considerations
  • Recent Changes in EMTALA Rules & Regulations
    • Patient vs. Individual Presenting to ED
    • Transfers
    • Qualified Medical Persons
    • On-Going EMTALA Rule Changes
    • Physician Supervision Concerns
    • Observation Interface for the ED
  • EMTALA Compliance
    • EMTALA Survey Process
    • EMTALA Compliance Problem Areas
    • Non-Physician Practitioners and Providers
    • Coding & Billing Concerns Surrounding EMTALA
    • Non-Emergent Care In The ED
    • Developing a Written EMTALA Compliance Plan
  • Audit and Review Approaches
  • References for Further Information

Contact Hours:

  • Nursing participants: Instruct-online has approved this program for 1.8 contact hours, Iowa Board of Nursing Approved Provider Number 339.
  • All other participants: Must attend the entire Webinar and complete a Webinar critique to receive a 1.5 Hour Attendance Certificate for each program.

Refund Policy:

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.