HIPAA's Dirty Dozen: Snooping and 11 Other Ways Your Staff are Putting Your Agency at Risk
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CAC, CAPO, CACO |
HIPAA |
1.00 |
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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
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How EMS Telehealth Can Improve Care and Boost Your Bottom Line
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CAC, CACO, CAPO |
Other |
1.00 |
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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
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How to Prevent Lawyers From Screwing Up Your Revenue Cycle
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CAC, CACO |
Other |
1.00 |
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Whether your patient was involved in an accident or you’re now taking him to court to collect an unpaid bill, there’s a chance that your patient is represented by legal counsel. As much as your patient’s lawyer may try to convince you that you have no right to collect your payment, or tries to get you to hold off on collecting with a “letter of protection” or similar agreement, the truth is that having a lawyer in the picture doesn’t have to screw up your revenue cycle. We’ll teach you how to get the money your agency is legally entitled to when your patient has a lawyer, and help you separate fact from legal baloney in the process.
$40.00
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How To Win Appeals
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CAC, CACO |
Appeal Procedures |
1.00 |
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This lesson features practical, tested strategies for winning reimbursement appeals.
$40.00
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Identifying and Using Compliance Champions Within Your Agency
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CAC, CACO, CAPO |
Compliance |
0.50 |
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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
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Making Sense of Signatures: AOBs, PCSs, ABNs, PCRs and More
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CAC, CACO |
Medicare Rules & Regulations |
1.00 |
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Just about every type of EMS document, whether clinical or operational, requires signatures. This session brings all of the various signature rules into one session and presents them all in a logical fashion that demystifies the whole process of maintaining signature compliance in all of your ambulance documentation.
$85.00
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Medicaid Matters
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CAC, CACO |
Other |
1.00 |
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This lesson discusses Medicaid, a joint federal and state program with broad guidelines established by federal law and specific guidelines established by each state.
$40.00
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Medicare Learning Network Web-Based Trainings
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CAC, CACO, CAPO |
Other |
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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.
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Mythbusters
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CAC, CACO |
Compliance |
1.00 |
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The truth behind common billing and compliance misconceptions.
$40.00
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Navigating the 60 Day Overpayment Rule
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CAC, CACO |
Compliance |
1.00 |
Purchase |
Not eligible for CAC elective credit. This lesson covers the Medicare regulations that provide extensive detail on how providers are required to detect, report and return Part B overpayments within 60 days of being identified. Not eligible for CAC elective credit.
$85.00
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No More You Call, We Haul
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CAC, CACO |
Patient Care Documentation |
0.50 |
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Documentation expectations for refusals, treatment-in-place, alternative destinations and other non-transport situations.
$30.00
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Non-Emergency Prior Authorization Program
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CAC, CACO |
Ambulance Billing Procedures |
1.00 |
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This lesson covers the basics of Medicare’s Non-Emergency Prior Authorization Program, an anti-fraud program targeted at ambulance suppliers who transport patients on a scheduled, repetitive basis. $85.00
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One Quick Question
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CAC, CACO, CAPO |
Other |
1.00 |
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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
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Part A vs. Part B: The Ins and Outs of Facility Billing Rules
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CAC, CACO |
Ambulance Billing Procedures |
1.00 |
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One of the foggiest areas of ambulance billing involves transports to and from medical facilities. This session address not only the rules, but also specific strategies to improve communication, and contracting tips to better solidify your revenue stream from this critical segment of your business.
$90.00
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Privacy Update - 2023
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CACO, CAPO |
HIPAA |
1.00 |
Purchase |
Not eligible for CAC mandatory or elective credit.
This lesson includes all of the compliance changes and new information for 2022.
Not eligible for CAC mandatory or elective credit.
$135.00
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PWW Media CMS Proposes PCS Rule Changes
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CAC, CACO |
Other |
1.50 |
Details |
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) just released a Proposed Rule(link is external) that could spell significant changes to Medicare’s Physician Certification Statement (PCS) rules. If the proposed revisions are adopted, they would drastically impact the current PCS rules and require ambulance services nationwide to update their existing PCS forms.
CMS is soliciting comments on the Proposed Rule. In order to best represent the industry, PWW Media hosted a special Webinar to discuss what the proposed PCS rules would mean for the industry and to solicit your questions and comments about the Rule. The attorneys and consultants of PWW will use Webinar attendee feedback when they comment to CMS on the Proposed Rule by the deadline of September 27, 2019.
What You’ll Learn:
Why CMS is proposing these changes now
Why CMS is adding the “Non-Physician Certification Statement” to the regulations
Why PCS forms should be renamed
The changes you’ll need to make to your PCS forms
The timeline for updating your PCS forms
Who the new proposed PCS signers are and how to verify their credentials
Why the list of proposed PCS signers could be even broader than the what’s in Proposed Rule
The minimum requirements for PCS forms
Essential staff training on the proposed PCS rules
What the removal of the term “physician’s order” from the rules might mean for appeals
Why some agencies are using a “streamlined” PCS form and our recommendations
$129.00
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PWW Media Compliance in 911 Contracts
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CAC, CACO |
Compliance |
1.50 |
Details |
The landmark case involved allegations that a local agency received kickbacks in awarding a contract to a vendor. Though there were many unique aspects of that EMS system that made the government’s case highly questionable, there are nevertheless many important principles of compliance that must be followed whenever an ambulance company enters into a contract – or even an unwritten arrangement - to provide EMS in a community.
$129.00
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PWW Media - COVID-19 Vaccine: Everything Ambulance Services Need to Know Webinar
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CAC, CACO |
Other |
1.00 |
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This webinar addresses how ambulance services can get direct reimbursement by enrolling as a mass immunizer with Medicare. The operational issues to be addresses – like scope of practice. How much Medicare is paying for the vaccine. Vaccine reporting, management and storage requirements. How private insurance might cover the vaccine. Your 855B obligations What to do if an empoyee refuses the vaccine. The policies and waiver forms you should have in place and so much more. The purchase includes the recording and hanouts.
$129.00
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PWW Media ED Wait Times and the Ambulance Patient Offload Crisis: What EMS Needs to Know Webinar Recording
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CAC, CACO, CAPO |
ICD/Condition Coding |
1.50 |
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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 ($69.00 Client Connect Price)
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PWW Media ED Wait Times and the Ambulance Patient Offload Crisis: What EMS Needs to Know Webinar Recording
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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
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