Catalog Number : cga1948
Title : The Future of Provider-Based Clinics
Speaker : Duane Abbey
Duration : 90 minutes
Webplay Recording Date : 3-25-2015
Webplay Price : $ 125 for two weeks viewing
Webinar Description:
Hospitals are ever increasingly establishing provider-based clinics of all types. The provider-based rule (PBR) is complex and there are definite ambiguities. While hospitals can enjoy increased revenues from provider-based clinics, compliance with all the rules and regulations is challenging. Recent changes in the supervisory requirements for provider-based operations have created confusion and new compliance challenges. Additionally, there is movement to change the rules and regulations relative to reimbursement for provider-based clinics. In this webinar the overall purpose and function of the provider-based rule is addressed as well as critical information concerning physician supervisory changes along with a discussion of the future of provider-based clinics.
Webinar Objectives:
- Briefly review the Provider-Based Rule (PBR)
- Review the criteria that must be achieved for clinics to be recognized as provider-based
- Update critical physician supervisory rule changes
- Discuss documentation requirements relative to physician supervision requirements
- Appreciate the increase in reimbursement for provider-based clinics
- Understand the attestation and request for determination processes
- Understand the need for updating and the documentation of organizational structuring relative to the PBR
- Understand the review process for assessing current and/or potential provider-based situations
- Understand the economic benefits versus the compliance requirements
- Appreciate the relationship of PBR relative to the Conditions for Payment, Conditions of Participation and gaining billing privileges
- Understand the regulatory pressures for reducing reimbursement for provider-based clinics
- Work through several case studies
Target Audience:
All personnel involved with provider-based clinic and/or clinical operations, compliance personnel, coding and billing personnel, nursing staff and interested physicians are encouraged to attend
A Few of the Topics that will
be covered:
- Review of the Provider-Based Rule (PBR)
- Development of the PBR
- 42 CFR §413.65
- Review of Definitions
- Rules and Regulations
- Recognition by Non-Medicare Third-Party Payers
- Brief History of Provider-Based Clinics
- Economic Advantages of Provider-Based Status
- Clinics
- Clinical Services
- Costs for Provider-Based Status
- Provider-Based Requirements
- Owned, Operated and Fully Integrated
- Geographic Proximity
- Signage and Recognition
- Clinical Integration
- EMTALA Interface
- Notice of Two Copayments
- Split-Billing
- Shared Space Concerns
- Movement to Reduce Provider-Based Clinic Reimbursement
- OIG Recommendations
- MedPAC Recommendations
- CMS Data Gathering Efforts
- Special Modifier for Hospitals
- New POS Codes for Physicians
- Physician Supervisory Requirements
- Recent Changes and Clarifications
- In-Hospital
- On-Campus
- Off-Campus
- Possible Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Issues
- Provider-Based Audits
- Process
- Data Gathering and Assessment
- Attestations and Requests for Determination
- Action Steps
- Case Studies - Provider-Based Clinics
Attendance Certificates:
All 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
.