Update on the hospice CoPs: What are your hot-button issues?
If you're facing a plethora of compliance challenges relating to the new hospice CoPs, you're not alone. The new -- and complex -- Conditions of Participation have left even the most diligent compliance staff with the nagging feeling that they're missing something. Don't risk your hospice's compliance -- join us for an interactive audio session in which expert speaker, Mary Michal, will reveal the biggest issues facing CoP compliance and identify areas that could get your organization into hot water.
Topics covered:
- Up-to-the-minute information on CoP compliance challenges -- plus, any new guidance from CMS and NHPCO.
- Careful: Your contracts could have major flaws. Find out more.
- Criminal background checks for your regular staff versus contracted staff -- what you need to know.
- An overview of what to expect from surveyors and what the new interpretive guidelines look like.
- What constitutes adequate training for contracted staff? You'll get the answer here.
- When you must use your own employees. New issues for hospices.
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Mary Michal is a shareholder in the Health Care Department of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. in Madison, Wisconsin, where she Co-Chairs the law firm's Hospice & Palliative Care Practice Group, and has practiced law since 1977. Mary is a national authority on hospice, palliative and end of life care and has published and lectured extensively on issues such as anti-kickback considerations, physician contracting and palliative care program development. Mary has authored and co authored a number of publications, including, most recently: Hospice and Nursing Home/Assisted Living Contracting Toolkit and Medical Director and Physician Contracting Toolkit for Hospice and Palliative Care. Mary is past president of the Hospice Organization of Wisconsin, a past commissioner of the National Continuing Care Accreditation Commission and past president of the Hospice Manager's Monograph. She is currently a member of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization's Regulatory Committee.
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