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April 27 - June 8: Finding Your Way through Healthcare Reform, an Educational WEBINAR SERIES
Time: All webinars will be held from 9-10:30 am (MST/PDT)
Purpose: The enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in March brings long anticipated healthcare reform to center stage. As is now increasingly clear, the Act includes provisions that will impart virtually every stakeholder in the healthcare system. AzHHA and Coppersmith Schermer & Brockelman, PLC, have designed this four part "Finding Your Way" webinar series, designed to provide an overview of the key elements of healthcare reform, as well as detailed discussions and analysis in targeted areas of particular concern to hospitals and health centers.
April 27: Finding Your Way Through Healthcare Reform: The New Framework for Health Insurance and Health Delivery. This webinar will provide a structural overview of the key elements of healthcare reform for healthcare providers, including in their role as employer obligations, payment changes and delivery system pilots, and enforcement initiatives. This program will also provide a timeline for the effective dates and implementation of provisions under the Act.
May 11: Finding Your Way through New Fraud and Abuse, Stark, and False Claims Initiatives. The Act includes new enforcement provisions that provide federal and state governments additional tools to identify and take action against potential fraud and abuse. This webinar will cover changes to the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Law, the False Claims Act, and other criminal and civil enforcement provisions. The webinar will identify enforcement hot spots for hospitals and health systems, and provide suggestions for reducing the risk of liability under these laws.
May 25: Finding Your Way through New Payment Arrangements and Delivery System Reform Initiatives. The Act includes new provisions that continue to shift reimbursement from fee-for-service to value based and bundled payments. In addition, many pilot programs have been created, with incentives for providers to develop new systems for coordinating care that integrating hospitals, physicians, and other providers. This session will review the new payment arrangements and delivery system initiatives and identify the timeframes for their implementation. The session will also provide pointers for hospitals and health systems as they implement the new payment arrangements and plan for increasingly integrated delivery models.
June 8: Finding Your Way through Quality, Tax Exemption, and Other Reform Issues Providers Need to Know. In additional to the subjects discussed in earlier sessions, the Act introduces a variety of important provisions designed to address quality of care, tax exemption, and many other issues in the delivery of health care. This session will serve as reform "grab bag," providing discussion of several topics with one thing in common: providers need to be aware of them.
Registration: The webinars may be purchased individually or as a series. Each webinar is $200 per connection. Attendees that register for all four sessions will receive a discounted registration fee of $150 per webinar.
For additional information and to register visit www.azhha.org/educational_services and click on Education Events
Questions: Please call 602-445-4356 or email edservices@azhha.org
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April 27: Case Studies in Beneficiary Inducements: The Nuts and Bolts of Regulatory Compliance WEBINAR
Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Purpose: The OIG continues to review gifts, discounts and other free services offered to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. After numerous advisory options, statutes and special advisory bulletins, where do we stand? Providers and suppliers often design programs to offer free transportation, free health screenings and organize public events such as health fairs. How should these programs be structured to ensure full regulatory compliance? What about private or self-pay patients? Are these new areas that could be viewed as inducements, such as providing athletic trainers at a high school sporting event? This program will examine the current state of the law and suggest guidance on how to structure these programs.
Objectives: At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
1. Learn what constitutes an inducement and the laws and regulations surrounding this issue.
2. Gain a better understanding of how to structure a program that provides benefits to beneficiaries.
3. Be alerted to several examples of benefits that complied with the laws and benefits that did not receive OIG approval and the reasons behind such decisions.
Target Audience: CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, and compliance officers
Registration:
AzHHA member rate: $200.00 per connection
Non-member rate: $400.00 per connection
For additional information and to register visit www.azhha.org/educational_services and click on Education Events
Questions: Please call 602-445-4356 or email edservices@azhha.org
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April 27: Biospecimens in Clinical Research Workshop
This workshop is designed and coordinated by the Arizona Translational Resource Network (AzTransNet) {a project of the Arizona Biomedical Research Commission}, Phoenix Children's Hospital and the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association
Time: 1:00 - 4:00 pm
Location: Phoenix Children's Hospital, Marvin L. Cohen Conference Center
An increasing number of clinical trials and other research protocols seek contribution of participant biospecimens to store in research repositories. At the conclusion of this session, participants will have an understanding of a variety of topics relating to biospecimen banking, including appropriate informed consent, HIPAA compliance, and ownership/custody of samples.
This half day workshop will come with written materials, including template forms, and will be taught by attorneys from Coppersmith Schermer & Brockelman PLC and clinical research specialists from Arizona hospitals.
Target Audience: This workshop is geared towards clinical research directors, clinical researchers, clinical research coordinators, IBR chairs, IRB coordinators, compliance officers, privacy and security officers, chief financial officers, billing personnel, and attorneys.
Registration: $125 per attendee and includes workshop materials.
For additional information and to register visit www.azhha.org/educational_services and click on Education Events
Questions: Please call 602-445-4356 or email edservices@azhha.org
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May 11: Que FERA, FERA: The Need for Upgraded Compliance Programs WEBINAR
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 am
Purpose: With the budget crisis and health reform, the government will be increasingly focused on recouping overpayments from providers and enforcing the fraud and abuse laws. The Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 (FERA) makes their jobs easier. It also expands the targets for whistleblowers. This law turns mere overpayments, including under the Stark regulations, into false claims. In addition, the government has made it clear that there are new forms of fraud and abuse hidden in Medicare and Medicaid claims. All compliance programs should be revisited to take these changes into account. Anyone without a compliance program had best wake up and create one! This teleconference is intended to provide a practical understanding of these changes.
Program Topics:
- How the current context is difference
- What FERA did and how it affects providers
- Reverse false claims
- Quality fraud
- Quality reporting fraud
- The new pitfalls under Stark
- Critical compliance program questions
Target Audience: CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CMOs, CNOs, compliance personnel, legal counsel, risk managers, performance improvement directors, and financial services
Registration:
AzHHA member rate: $200.00 per connection
Non-member rate: $400.00 per connection
For additional information and to register visit www.azhha.org/educational_services and click on Education Events
Questions: Please call 602-445-4356 or email edservices@azhha.org
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May 19: Employment Law Update 2010 WEBINAR
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 am
Purpose: This webinar will provide a unique opportunity to understand the latest court cases, legislative and regulatory activity and crucial developments that will affect your workplace and your responsibilities in the coming year and beyond. The presenters will guide you through the maze of new developments in a fast-paced and fun-filled session that will prepare you for the challenges that lie ahead.
Program Topics:
- Recent statutory changes, including the Ledbetter Fair Act, Genetic Information and Nondiscrimination Act, and amendments to the Family and Medical Leave Act;
- Latest case developments;
- Wage and hour issues; and
- Social networking
Target Audience: CNOs, Human Resource vice presidents/directors, department managers, legal counsel, and frontline supervisors
Registration:
AzHHA member rate: $200.00 per connection
Non-member rate: $400.00 per connection
For additional information and to register visit www.azhha.org/educational_services and click on Education Events
Questions: Please call 602-445-4356 or email edservices@azhha.org
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May 20: Prevention of Multi-drug Resistant Organisms (MDROs) The Interface of Practice and the Environment WEBINAR
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 am
Purpose: Provide an overview of the threat of MDROs transmission in the hospital and address the specific prevention strategies to reduce the transmission of these organisms, including MRSA, and related healthcare associated infections (HAI). CDC and APIC recommendations, the Joint Commission National Safety Goals requirements and successful prevention strategies will be reviewed.
Program Topics:
- Multi-drug Resistant Organisms - The Patient Safety Threat
- National Attention to MDROs
- Planning and Implementing Effective Strategies
- Hierarchy of controls
- Elimination of potential exposures
- Engineering controls
- Administrative controls
- Protective Equipment
- Assessing New Technologies
- Lessons Learned from the GMCF MRSA Scope of Work
Target Audience: CEOs, COOs, CNOs, the Joint Commission Coordinators, performance improvement directors, risk managers, patient safety officers, infection control staff, leadership in nursing and other clinical departments, professional staff nurses and other clinical staff.
Registration:
AzHHA member rate: $200.00 per connection
Non-member rate: $400.00 per connection
For additional information and to register visit www.azhha.org/educational_services and click on Education Events
Questions: Please call 602-445-4356 or email edservices@azhha.org
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June 9-11: 14th Annual Western Regional Trustee Symposium - Elevating the Standards of Hospital Governance
Date: June 9-11, 2010
Location: Hyatt Regency Denver at the Convention Center Downtown, Denver, CO
Purpose: Attendees at this symposium will gain increased knowledge about many issues through educational sessions, networking, and information exchange with other trustees.
Target Audience: Trustees and executive staff from hospitals and health systems.
For more information and to register, please go to www.trusteesymposium.org
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June 22: Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act: Implications for Hospitals WEBINAR
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 am
Purpose: The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) is a federal law that provides participants who already have benefits under mental health and substance use disorder (MH/SUD) coverage parity with benefits limitations under their medical/surgical coverage. On February 2, 2010, regulations implementing MHPAEA were published.
Program Topics:
- Introduction
- Loopholes existed in old Mental Health Parity Act
- MHPAEA
- Designed to achieve total parity
- No aggregate annual or lifetime dollar limitations allowed
- New disclosure requirements
- Quantitative treatment limitations
- Non-quantitative treatment limitations
- Financial requirements
- New Definitions
- Party Rules
- Six classifications of benefits
- Parity rules on aggregated and annual dollar limits
- No limits, combined level or equivalent limit, or weighted average equivalent
- Application of rule - Parity rules on aggregate and annual dollar limits
- Within and outside coverage levels
- Special rule for multi-tiered drug benefits - Parity rules on financial and quantitative treatment limits
- MHPAEA Disclosure Requirements
- Best Practices
Target Audience: CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CMOs, CNOs, mental health directors, HR directors, social workers, and legal counsel.
Registration:
AzHHA member rate: $200.00 per connection
Non-member rate: $400.00 per connection
For additional information and to register visit www.azhha.org/educational_services and click on Education Events
Questions: Please call 602-445-4356 or email edservices@azhha.org
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October 14-15: AzHHA's 2010 Annual Membership Conference: "Bringing the Future into Focus"
Date: October 14 & 15
Location: The Buttes Resort, Tempe, AZ
"Bringing the Future into Focus"
Featured Speakers:
Lowell B. Catlett, Ph.D is an exciting futurist...Regent's Professor/Dean and Chief Administrative Officer at New Mexico State University's College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences.
Ron Galloway, Director of the noted documentary film "Why Wal-Mart works and why that makes some people crazy", and the soon to be released documentary film "Rebooting Healthcare."
John Nance, author of Why Hospitals Should Fly, named the 2009 "Book of the Year" by the American College of Healthcare Executives.
AzHHA's 2010 Annual Membership Conference brings hospital leadership from throughout the state for two days of education, networking and knowledge exchange. Please mark your calendars for October 14-15, as you will not want to miss this year's conference.
More detailed information will be available soon.
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By the Book - AzHHA's On-Line Bookstore
Welcome to By the Book
AzHHA's online bookstore delivers you the most up-to-date healthcare publications, books and other resources. By the book features a large selection of readings pertaining to areas that impact hospitals, including patient safety, workforce, compliance, finance and leadership. Whether you are looking for a book or resource to help you in your job, or to assist your entire staff, this online bookstore is to help. To access the online bookstore, click here.
While we feature the latest and more popular readings, we are open to our suggestions on other books to offer. Please feel free to e-mail edservices@azhha.org with your recommendations.
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careLearning
careLearning, your education management solution. careLearning is a comprehensive, Internet-based learning and learner management system for healthcare providers. Keeping employees trained appropriately and their skills and competencies up-to-date is a constant challenge for hospitals and healthcare providers. Add on the expenses associated with developing curriculum and difficulty of scheduling and it's easy to understand why healthcare provides are looking for alternatives to training.
Explore various types of learning with the help of careLearning: Mandatory Education, Competencies, Continuing Education, Hospital Specific Private Courses, Webinars and Nursing Education.
Learn more about careLearning or to download a brochure.
Questions, please call LeAnn Swanson, AzHHA Education at 602-445-4300 or e-mail: edservices@azhha.org
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Monthly Donor Network WEBINAR
Join us the third Wednesday of each month as we feature different speakers and discuss resources designed to increase organ donation at Arizona hospitals.
There is no cost to participate but if you would like to participate please email edservices@azhha.org to receive information on accessing the webinar a few days prior. Numerous people at your site are encouraged to participate in the webinar through one registration (utilizing one computer and one telephone line).
The next webinar is Wednesday, April 21
Upcoming Dates: May 19 and June 16
The Donor Network of Arizona and the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association are part of an HHS national breakthrough collaborative for organ donation. These monthly webinar series are being presented jointly in an effort to educate Arizona hospital professionals about organ donation and to increase our statewide conversion rate.
Questions: Please call 602-445-4356 or e-mail edservices@azhha.org
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