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AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE OR CD
sponsored by Healthcare Audit Resource Center
presented on November 28
The Office of Inspector General's (OIG) annual Work Plan gives you a sneak preview at what the Inspector General will look at in 2007, and where investigators will focus their attention.
The Work Plan focuses on state false claims acts, billing trouble spots, mandates of the Deficit Reduction Act, and a host of other compliance challenges. Don't be left behind.
Hospital compliance professionals need to take advantage of every opportunity to learn about the whole spectrum of the OIG target areas.
Listen to Analyzing the 2007 OIG Work Plan: Strategies for Hospital Compliance, a 90-minute intermediate-level program to help you learn what's on the OIG's radar and what you need to know so you can position staff and resources to make sure your hospital meets—and exceeds—the expectations and standards in the Work Plan.
THE AGENDA
What’s new in the 2007 Work Plan
- The impact of state False Claims Acts under the Deficit Reduction Act
- Medicare inpatient capital payments
- New billing initiatives
- Upcoding of diagnosis related group (DRG) payments
- Unbundling of hospital outpatient services.
- “Inpatient-only” services performed in the outpatient setting.
- Inappropriate payments for diagnostic x-rays in hospital emergency departments
- Admissions from acute-care hospitals to long-term care hospitals
- Compliance with average length-of-stay criteria for long-term care hospitalsdepartments
- The underlying theme of quality of care
Issues that remain under scrutiny from previous work plans
- Inpatient prospective payment system wage indices
- Dialysis-related services
- Inpatient-rehab services
- Patient status billing
- Graduate Medical Education reimbursement
- Medicare Part D trouble spots
Strategies to help you develop your hospital’s work plan
- How to apply the guidance to develop your next audit plan
A question-and-answer session follows the presentation.
Note: Participants should review the OIG Work Plan prior to the audioconference.
MEET THE SPEAKERS
- James Kopf is the president of Healthcare Oversight, Inc. of New Canaan, CT
- Sharron Swann is an attorney in the health law section of Brown, McCarroll, LLP in Austin TX
- Stacy M. Gregory, RCC, CPC, is the owner of and senior consultant for Gregory Medical Consulting Services in Tacoma, WA
WHO SHOULD LISTEN
Compliance officers, audit committees, finance committees, CEOs, CFOs, COOs, executive committees, and coding directors and managers will benefit from this program.
PROGRAM MATERIALS
Program materials will be provided with PDF links.
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