Hospital Healthcare Training Conferences

Online Training & Education For Hospitals/Health Systems

Are critical changes in the regulations and laws that impact your hospital or healthcare facility overwhelming you and slowing you down? Whether it’s life safety measures, resource management, business structures, or legal implications, we have the strategies to help you stay on track, keep your resources functioning at optimum levels and ensure you receive your full reimbursements – every time.

Coding for Hospitals

Coding represents one of the most crucial areas for hospitals, since correct coding ensures your facility submits clean claims and receives the full reimbursement amounts you’re due. Outpatient, inpatient, injection infusion and hospitalist coding each present issues for hospitals and health systems, and making sure your coding and billing staff in these departments is up on the latest developments in ICD-10 and CPT coding is essential.

Hospital Regulatory Issues

Hospitals now face some of the most complex and confusing regulatory requirements in the history of the healthcare industry. Let our hospital compliance experts guide you through the hoops with conferences that regularly cover:

• Implementing the latest updates to Conditions of Participation from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Ensuring that physicians you employ are compliant with the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA)
• CMS’s physician supervision and hospital privilege rules
• Provider-based and hospital-based clinics
• Audits of payment claims by recovery audit contractors (RACs)
• OIG hospital compliance reviews
• Case management and the conversion to quality vs. quantity of care
• Compliance with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) [Free Report]
• Telemedicine and telehealth issues
• Updates to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS), the Acute Care Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and the Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) system
• Discharge planning requirements under the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act
• Compliant use of CMS’s Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice (MOON) form

Administrative Concerns

From mergers and acquisitions of hospitals, facilities and clinics to contracting, incident-to billing [Free Report] and locum tenens staffing issues, our hospital compliance experts address a range of administrative topics that your facility is likely to face in today’s complex healthcare delivery system.

CMS CoPs and Other Regulations

CMS regulates hospitals that participate in Medicare and Medicaid in a variety of ways. So our speakers educate hospitals and their staffs with a variety of programs that address:

• Food and dietetic services
• Pharmacy services
• Discharge planning
• Nursing
• Standards of hospital accrediting bodies including The Joint Commission (TJC) and Det Norske Veritas (DNV)
• Standards for Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs)
• Standing orders, protocols and order sets
• Readmission and discharge
• Infection control
• Restraint and seclusion
• Grievances and complaints
• IV medication and opioids
• Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) programs

Our hospital healthcare management conferences are designed to fit your exact requirements. Get the tips and tricks you need to tackle your trouble spots by learning how to spot safety deficiencies, regulators’ red flags, and resource management loopholes with up-to-date presentations, specific examples and case studies provided by our panel of expert speakers.

Get trained when and where it’s convenient for you ­– in your office or conference room, or right at your desk. No travel means big savings for your organization. Our live audio conferences and webinars provide AAPC-approved CEUs for your entire staff at affordable prices. And be sure to check out the AudioEducator Blog, which regularly features updates and posts that relate to hospitals and their ever-expanding compliance concerns.