AUDIO CONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ON-DEMAND
Sponsored by Medicare Boot Camp - Hospital Version
presented on November 5, 2008
Get a head start on the 2009 OIG Work Plan
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) released its annual Work Plan in October, letting you know what the Inspector General will look at in 2009, and where investigators will focus their attention.
Analysis of the annual OIG Work Plan represents a major component of any compliance program. Listen to HCPro's 90-minute audio conference Analyzing the 2009 OIG Work Plan: Strategies for Hospital Compliance. Our experts walk you through this year's compliance hot-spots, focusing on important new items like oversight of hospital compliance with EMTALA, serious medical errors, and hospital-owned physician practices.
The speakers also provide specific insights into investigative thinking, offer effective tips to implement Work Plan information into your compliance agenda, and establish steps to integrate Work Plan-related priorities throughout your facility.
Keep your facility off the OIG radar screen by positioning your staff and resources to make sure your hospital meets—and exceeds—the expectations and standards in the Work Plan. By the end of the audio conference you will take away usable tools and tips that you can immediately use in your facility.
THE AGENDA
- Priority items new in the 2009 Work Plan
- Oversight of hospitals' compliance with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)
- Hospital ownership of physician practices
- Reliability of hospital-reported quality measure data
- Coding and documentation changes under the Medicare severity-DRG (MS-DRG) system.
- Serious medical errors "never events")
- Work Plan items in progress
- Part A hospital capital payments
- Provider-based status for inpatient and outpatient facilities
- Critical Access Hospitals
- Medicare disproportionate share payments
- Interrupted stays at inpatient psychiatric facilities payments
- Provider bad debts
- Medicare secondary payer
- How to implement Work Plan priorities into your compliance program
- Tools to incorporate OIG Work Planagenda items into your facility's annual risk assessment
- Tools to help develop your hospital's own, targeted, 2009 work plan
- Question and answer session
Note: Purchasers should review the OIG Work Plan prior to the audio conference.
MEET THE SPEAKERS
James Kopf, president, Healthcare Oversight, Inc., (New Canaan, CT). Mr. Kopf possesses 26 years experience as a federal law enforcement officer with the Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Healthcare Oversight, Inc., specializes in the challenges of today's healthcare rules and regulations, including risk management, compliance, privacy, EMTALA, Stark II, anti-kickback, the False Claims Act, and other healthcare fraud investigations and quality of care.
Stephen A. Miller, JD, chief compliance/ privacy officer, Capital Health System, Inc. (Trenton, NJ). Mr. Miller is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the Federal District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and co-author of The Healthcare Compliance Professional's Guide to Risk Assessments.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN
- Compliance officers
- Auditors
- CEO
- CFO
- Health Information Managers
- Finance Directors
PROGRAM MATERIALS:
Program materials are provided with PDF links.
AUDIO ON-DEMAND
In addition to the regular purchase options for HCPro audio conferences, we are pleased to offer another option, 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. 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.
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