CEU Catalog

Title Certification Topic Code Credit Hours
Ambulance Cost Data Collection CAC, CACO, CAFO, CAPO Ambulance Billing Procedures 1.00 Purchase
All you need to know about ambulance cost data collection.  What do you need to be doing now to prepare, what is the effective date and other pertinent information. $40.00
Body Cameras in the Age of Privacy CAPO, CACO Compliance 1.00 Purchase
In light of well-publicized recent events, many EMS agencies are considering equipping providers with body cameras.  But, there are serious privacy concerns that come with using “body cams.”  In this timely discussion, we’ll examine the pros and cons of using body cameras and highlight exactly how HIPAA permits and limits their use.  We’ll discuss your duty to back up these recordings, how videos should be stored, and when you might have to redact recordings.   You’ll also learn when patients, and potentially the public, might have a right to body cam videos.      $40.00  
Can You Survive the Privacy Challenge CAC, CACO, CAPO HIPAA 1.00 Purchase
Real life scenarios are presented to help you understand the rules and regulations of HIPAA. $40.00
Compliance Hotlines: How to Set One Up - and How it Can Save Your Agency CACO, CAFO, CAPO Compliance 1.00 Purchase
One of the OIG’s recommended elements of an effective compliance program is to have a compliance “hotline” in place.  Compliance hotlines can take many forms, and this session will explore the various options to help you set up a working program.  Most importantly, we’ll discuss how to handle compliance inquiries and complaints – including effective follow-up – to keep your problems “in house” whenever possible and reduce the chance of costly whistleblower complaints and government investigations and audits. $40.00  
Compliance Update - 2024 CACO, CAFO, CAPO Compliance 1.00 Purchase
Not eligible for CAC mandatory or elective credit. This lesson includes all of the compliance changes and new information for 2024.  Not eligible for CAC mandatory or elective credit. $110.00
Cybercrime and Cybersecurity: Why Stealing Your Data is More Profitable Than Robbing a Bank CAC, CAPO, CACO HIPAA 0.50 Purchase
In this session, you’ll learn why the EMS industry is at a much greater risk for data theft and you’ll learn ways that hackers and your own employees could be exploiting your data.  Discover the tools you need to prevent your information from being stolen.  $30.00  
Dealing with Requests for Patient Information From Law Enforcement, Attorneys, Family Members and Others CAC, CAPO, CACO HIPAA 1.00 Purchase
Almost every EMS agency faces a daily challenge when they interact with the police and other law enforcement agencies who demand patient information from your organization or your crew members.  Another common situation is dealing with attorney requests for patient information.  Ambulance services also have to field requests from patients, family members, personal representatives and others. This session will cut through some of the fog that has fallen over these areas of HIPAA compliance, and tell you exactly in which circumstances you can release PHI to law enforcement officers, attorneys, patient representatives, and others.  We’ll also tell you how to properly document those disclosures so they can’t come back and bite you down the road. $40.00  
Documentation in an Electronic World CAC, CACO, CAPO Patient Care Documentation 1.00 Purchase
Customizing your ePCR to avoid compliance risk. $40.00
ET3, Community Paramedicine, TNT, Cost Collection CAC, CACO, CAPO Medicare Rules & Regulations 0.50 Purchase
How ET3 and Community Paramedicine represent a shift toward a new way of thinking aobut EMS and true mobile healthcare delivery.  How cost data collection is the unifying principle as EMS moves to this bold new future. $30.00
Five Lessons Learned CAC, CACO, CAPO Claims Review/Auditing 1.00 Purchase
From a recent false claims victory case.  When is a claim false?  Intentional fraud, deliberate indifference or reckless disregard for the truth and specific intent. $40.00
Hey Mr. Privacy...Can We Share That? CAC, CACO, CAPO HIPAA 0.50 Purchase
A potpourri session of questions we have received to address some of the common issues surrounding HIPAA.  $30.00
HIPAA's Dirty Dozen: Snooping and 11 Other Ways Your Staff are Putting Your Agency at Risk CAC, CAPO, CACO HIPAA 1.00 Purchase
When health care providers are asked about their biggest “HIPAA risk,” they typically think of headline-grabbing incidents like a major data breach.  Yet one of the most common HIPAA violations is “snooping,” where your own employees view the medical records of friends, coworkers and even celebrities. The reality is your staff members, not outside hackers, often pose the greatest risk to your patient data.  In this session, you’ll learn the 12 most common ways your staff members are setting you up for a HIPAA violation and get proven techniques to lessen your core risks.     $40.00
How EMS Telehealth Can Improve Care and Boost Your Bottom Line CAC, CACO, CAPO Other 1.00 Purchase
Likely enduring changes from COVID-19, what will stay forever, what is temporary.  Treatment in place via telehealth, transport to alternative desitinations though telehealth triage, more pruden use of ambulance services. $40.00
Identifying and Using Compliance Champions Within Your Agency CAC, CACO, CAFO, CAPO Compliance 0.50 Purchase
How are compliance concerns reported and handled effectively within your organization and how to improve your compliance efforts using the folks already in your organzaiton. $30.00
Medicare Learning Network Web-Based Trainings CAC, CACO, CAPO Other Details
Medicare Learning Network’s Web-Based Training Courses are designed for self-paced training via the Internet and provide information on a broad range of CMS topics for health care professionals and their staff.  Click HERE to see which Web-Based Trainings are approved for NAAC CEU Credit. Visit the Medicare Learning Network’s Web-Based Trainings page to learn more and view the trainings.   ALL CEUs from MLN are free of charge!  You will recieve a certificate of completion from MLN send that to CustomerServices@AmbulanceCompliance.com to recieve your CEU certificate.  
One Quick Question CAC, CACO, CAPO Other 1.00 Purchase
For which there is no quick answer.  Your billing, compliance and privacy questions answered.  Seemingly “simple” but nothing is simple in ambulance billing and compliance.  How we analyze and come up with answers. $40.00
Privacy Update - 2024 CACO, CAPO HIPAA 1.00 Purchase
Not eligible for CAC mandatory or elective credit. This lesson includes all of the HIPAA and privacy changes and new information for 2024.  Not eligible for CAC mandatory or elective credit. $110.00
PWW Media ED Wait Times and the Ambulance Patient Offload Crisis: What EMS Needs to Know Webinar Recording CAC, CACO, CAPO ICD/Condition Coding 1.50 Details
Prolonged patient offload times are an increasing challenge for EMS systems as the delta wave of COVID cases crushes emergency departments throughout the country.  Unprecedented patient volumes in often understaffed EDs are causing an EMS crisis as ambulances are being tied up for extended wait times, sometimes for hours on end. EMS crew members are being told they must wait with their patients – sometimes even in their ambulances – until the ED staff is ready to accept them. Nationwide reports indicate that many EMS agencies, and individual EMS practitioners, are stressed to the breaking point $129.00
Streamlining Your Billing Office for Maximum Efficiency CAC, CACO, CAPO Ambulance Billing Procedures 1.00 Purchase
Understanding what efficiency is….and is not.  Identify six key roadbloacks to improved efficiency in your billing office.  Provide action steps to improve efficiency. $40.00
The Anatomy of an EMS Cyber Attack CAC, CACO, CAPO HIPAA 1.00 Purchase
General look at an EMS cyber attack.  How much is your information worth and more. $40.00