LIVE AUDIOCONFERENCE
Sponsored by Credentialing & Peer Review Legal Insider
Friday, May 30, 2008
1:00-2:30 p.m. (Eastern)
12:00-1:30 p.m. (Central)
11:00-12:30 p.m. (Mountain)
10:00-11:30 a.m. (Pacific)
Performing criminal background checks on practitioners has become standard practice in many organizations across the country. However, it is often unclear to MSPs:
- What is the most useful data to gather
- How to collect it
- What to do with the results
Gain practical strategies and clear steps for applying data gathered through background checks
Join HCPro on Friday, May 30 for the live audioconference Criminal Background Checks: What Are Your Data Telling You? Our expert speakers will help you examine what actions your MSO should take to protect patients without exposing your facility and medical staff practitioners to a lawsuit. You’ll learn:
- How to minimize liability for the hospital and medical staff
- How to set a consistent and reliable policy for background checks
- What to do when you uncover potential “red flag” information
- What the Fair Credit Report act means for practitioner background checks
- The risks involved in failing to address these issues
- What your peers are doing
Most healthcare organizations agree, criminal background checks protect all parties involved
Whether your organization is considering implementing background checks or they are already a part of the primary source verification process, this audio will help you determine how to apply the data gathered in the most practical ways. Our presenters include a field-experienced authority on performing background checks, an expert in legal issues for healthcare, and a veteran MSP who has implemented successful practices at her facility-so you will gain insight into the many aspects of this challenging topic. See below for more information on our presenters.
Our experts will also be available for a live Q&A session at the end of the program to answer participants’ questions.
At the end of this audioconference, participants will be able to:
- Develop an action plan for reviewing and processing physicians with prior criminal convictions
- Identify which individuals within the medical staff should have access to the criminal conviction information and which individuals will be responsible to review and make decisions/recommendations regarding those physicians
- Clarify the options available to the medical staff when faced with a practitioner with "red flag" information in his or her background
AGENDA
- What organizations are doing and why
- Trends
- Benchmarking against other health systems
- What kind of background checks should be done, and how far back
- Regulatory and accrediting agencies
- Developing a policy/bylaws language
- What types of practitioners should be subjected to a criminal background check
- Zero tolerance and other policies
- What to do with the information you receive
- Learn what methods are best to gain the desired information (e.g. reference letter vs. criminal background check)
- What to do if the practitioner denies results
- Other possibilities/things to expect
- Confidentiality
- Potential liabilities
- Pros and cons
- Releasing information to third party or not
- Case studies
- Live Q&A
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Karen F. Andrews, MHA, CPCS, CPMSM, is director of medical staff services for Southeast Georgia Health System in Brunswick, GA. Her position has oversight of peer review, credentialing, continuing medical education for physicians, medical library, and institutional review committee, as well as the implementation of processes to assure compliance with regulatory and accrediting agency standards.
Stephen G. Auer, J.D, is a partner with the firm of Christensen & Auer in Pasadena, CA. Auer’s practice involves healthcare transactional and litigation matters, focusing primarily on medical staff peer review, physician credentialing, hospital and medical group operations, managed care transactions, mergers and acquisitions of hospitals and medical groups, and telemedicine. His clients are primarily hospital medical staffs and IPAs.
Steve Walls, CPA, is director of healthcare solutions for USIS. Walls formed HES (Healthcare Employment Screening), now a part of USIS, and served as its president from 1999 to 2003. Walls assists clients in implementing best practices and fully compliant background screening protocols in human resources, medical staffing, credentialing, and staffing services.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Medical staff professionals at hospitals and CVOs, residency program directors and coordinators, medical staff coordinators, directors of medical staffs, VPMAs, credentials committee members, human resources representatives, risk managers, in-house counsel
AUDIO ON-DEMAND OPTION
In addition to the regular participation options for HCPro audioconferences—live, audio CD, or combination packages—we are pleased to offer an audio on-demand. Audio on-demand allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience through your computer or MP3 player.
DIAL IN TOLL-FREE!
You can call in toll-free to our live audioconferences. This added benefit means you can save on long-distance charges and receive even more value from this important program! Details on how to call will be sent to you via e-mail with your materials package.
CAN'T LISTEN LIVE?
No problem. Purchase a CD or audio on-demand of the program and listen when you can. It's also a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff. CD and audio on-demand orders will be fulfilled after the date of the live program.
PLEASE NOTE
Participation in the call is just $269 per site and allows access to ONE phone line for an unlimited number of people to listen. All materials must be retrieved from the Internet. Live orders are assessed a $5 processing fee. CD and combo orders are charged $18 for shipping and handling.
Audioconference materials will be delivered via e-mail approximately four days prior to the program and again on the day before the program.
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