Hospital Management
Sexual Misconduct in Mental Health – Strict Laws and the Ways Therapists Violate Them
This webinar is an informative trip into the world of sexual misconduct in the various mental health professions. Learn the most common, strict laws that apply to protect the patient, the staff of the therapist, and sometimes even the therapists themselves from sexual misconduct. Examine case law from the courts where state licensure boards have sanctioned the therapist for crossing that sacred line between..
The CMS Conditions of Participation for Discharge Planning
This program will review the current rules and regulations from the Conditions of Participation (CoP) for Discharge Planning. The CoP is the legal and regulatory requirements that hospitals and case management professionals must follow in order to be compliant in their role as discharge planners. This will be followed by a review of the changes to the Conditions of Participation for Discharge Planning that ..
The CMS Discharge Planning Rules and Regulations for 2018
This program will review the current rules and regulations from the Conditions of Participation for discharge planning. We will then discuss the most recent changes to the Medicare program and how they will impact the roles of the RN case manager and the social worker. We will review strategies for safely transitioning your patients across the continuum of care. In addition, we will review how to engage oth..
The Disruptive Practitioner: A Danger to the Hospital’s Operation
Most disciplinary policies are progressive. A progressive policy applies increasingly more severe sanctions to additional incidents of bad behavior. It is very important that the organized medical staff have a disruptive practitioner policy. This webinar will discuss the development of such a policy, including what it should include, and how it should be implemented. The course will also provide a detailed ..
The Healthcare Quality Improvement Act: The Quest for Immunity in Your Peer Review Process
This webinar will discuss the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) in detail, including the standards that must be met to achieve immunity under the act. The HCQIA itself will be reviewed, including a detailed look at the Congressional purpose for the act. The legislative history of the act will be reviewed to gain an understanding of the intent of Congress in passing the act.Next will be a review of..
The Nuts and Bolts of Filing a Whistleblower Case
The webinar will provide an overview of the Federal Civil False Claims Act (FCA) and how it works. It will also show how to file a Complaint under the FCA, what is required, and how a violation of other federal laws can form the basis for an action under the Act. We will start with a review of the Federal False Claims Act and discuss how it works. The webinar will take the Federal False Claims Act apart and..
Undercover Investigations and the Use of Deception by Law Enforcement Attorneys
Learn the general steps a state government agency undertakes to conduct investigations into misconduct in health care practice with a focus on undercover investigations of various health care practitioners. Cover the differences between civil and criminal investigations with the differing goals of each, and understand how criminal rights span both kinds of investigations.Investigations either exonerate or i..