2020 Virtual Seattle Regional Conference

1. Attorney Contacts, Subpoenas, Deposition, & Testimony - How Having a Legal Proceedings Consultant Can Protect Your Institution

   2020 Virtual Seattle Regional Conference  | Presenter(s): Brandy Bewley  | June 05, 2020 

   • Understand a treating provider’s role in a patient’s legal matter as well as the provider’s rights, obligations, and options related to attorney requests

   • Understand the HIPAA requirements that must be met to ensure a healthcare provider and institution are complying with applicable laws

   • Understand how a legal proceedings consultant can benefit a healthcare institution and play an important role in protecting it from liability exposure by helping its providers better understand applicable laws and policies to facilitate cooperation with the legal process

2. Complex, Crazy, and Challenging Privacy Issues

   2020 Virtual Seattle Regional Conference  | Presenter(s): Marti Arvin  | June 05, 2020 

   • Complex privacy issues involved in the use of big data sets

   • Challenge of ensuring end users understand proper accesses, uses and disclosures of health information

   • Crazy combination of privacy laws and the implications for today’s healthcare entity

3. What is Records Management...And Why Should I Care?

   2020 Virtual Seattle Regional Conference  | Presenter(s): Barbara Benson  | June 05, 2020 

   • The ROI of records management

   • Accountability and the establishment of standards to minimize risk

   • There must be some rules we have to follow— compliance responsibility

4. Consent Issues with Minors

   2020 Virtual Seattle Regional Conference  | Presenter(s): Denise Atwood  | June 05, 2020 

   • Minors accessing health care – required consent

   • Status of the minor and guardianship issues

   • Three steps to comply with mature minor rule

   • Case studies – open discussion with participants

5. The Art of Benchmarking for Risk: How to Target Your Outliers Without Needing a Math Degree

   2020 Virtual Seattle Regional Conference  | Presenter(s): Jared Krawczyk  | June 05, 2020 

   • Explore benchmarking techniques needed to assess the risk of a physician’s coding patterns (E/Ms, Modifiers, Productivity, Procedural Billing)

   • Demonstrate how to organize the analysis results into one comprehensive physician compliance scorecard

   • Discuss how to apply the benchmarking results for the entire medical group into a singular prioritized audit plan (Providing actual example audit plans)

6. Math and Mayhem

   2020 Virtual Seattle Regional Conference  | Presenter(s): Larissa Payne, Matt Kuehn, Melody Crick Peters  | June 05, 2020 

   • Overview of the Washington Medicaid Fraud Control Division, including authority, jurisdiction and organization

   • Highlights of recently prosecuted cases around the State of Washington demonstrating the types of fact patterns and trends we are seeing and some investigative strategies

   • Highlights of recent civil cases locally and national, demonstrating the types of fact patterns and trends we are seeing and some investigative strategies