2021 Portland Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference

  1. 2021 Evaluation and Management Changes

    2021 Portland Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): Cori Bowmer, Dana Brown  | February 05, 2021 

    • Distinguish what has changed, and what has stayed the same with Evaluation & Management coding with the new 2021 guidelines

    • Understand the new E/M guidelines and how to apply them to coding and auditing

    • Understand how the E/M guideline changes will it affect the industry

  2. How Do We Monitor and Audit Telehealth: Past, History, and Present

    2021 Portland Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): Lori Laubach  | February 05, 2021 

    • Identify controls related to telehealth necessary to mitigate the risk in the present and after PHE

    • Operational uses of telehealth – what are the compliance issues?

    • Audit and monitoring of the telehealth controls

    • Review potential corrective action ideas and how to provide results without creating additional risk

  3. How to Respond to "I Heard That's Illegal!" (2021 Portland Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference)

    2021 Portland Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): David Glaser  | February 05, 2021 

    • Suggestions for improving your hiring process for compliance professionals

    • Tips for explaining complicated rules and the legal hierarchy to both compliance and medical professionals

    • Strategies for analyzing contradictory “expert” opinions and reducing the legal anxiety that can prompt employees to become external whistleblowers

    • Review examples of situations where compliance professionals correctly, or incorrectly, concluded something was illegal

  4. Medicare Fee-for-Service Compliance Education

    2021 Portland Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): Lori Weber  | February 05, 2021 

    • Reviewing various regulations, statutes and Medicare program exclusions

    • Defining CMS post-pay reviewers and their roles

    • Providing successful documentation and valuable resources from both Noridian and CMS

  5. Phishing - Sharks & Minnows: Protecting Yourself and Your Devices

    2021 Portland Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): Brian Hole  | February 05, 2021 

    • Identify phishing email and know what to do with them

    • Proactively keep your phone and computers protected with simple easy steps

    • Apply good account password hygiene

  6. Reimbursement Policy and Medical Records Documentation

    2021 Portland Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): Kimberly Haas  | February 05, 2021 

    • Identify appropriate documentation which can be used to support billed services

    • Define the correct way to make legal additions or corrections to the medical record

    • Identify common documentation problems that lead to denials and how to avoid them