2022 HCCA Webinar

  1. Asset Protection in an era of Enforcement

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | December 14, 2022 

    • Hear from a former federal prosecutor, risk management expert, and wealth management specialist regarding enforcement and liability trends in the healthcare industry.

    • Learn how asset forfeiture and litigation could impact your income and retirement.

    • Obtain insights into what steps you may legally take to ensure assets are preserved

  2. 2022 Risk Assessments: Why, What, When, How

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | December 12, 2022 

    • Understand the background and reasoning for completing a risk assessment.

    • Understand the core concepts of a risk assessment.

    • Learn the basics of completing a risk assessment such as: Where to start? Who to engage in the process? How frequently?

    • Centering a compliance program around a risk assessment.

    • Building a workplan form a risk assessment

  3. 2022 Innovating your Auditing and Monitoring Program

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | December 08, 2022 

    • Discuss the pros and cons of traditional documentation review methodologies.

    • Identify alternate and innovative auditing strategies to improve auditing results.

    • Apply real-life lessons learned to elevate your compliance program effectiveness.

  4. How Compliance Creates Value for the Healthcare Organization

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | November 29, 2022 

    • Understand the importance of selling the value of the Compliance function in your interactions with peers and organization leaders.

    • Articulate the value Compliance and reg change management bring to healthcare organizations of all sizes in five key areas: Effective compliance program mandate. Better patient experience. Reduced risk of fines. Increased revenue. PHI/HIPAA.

  5. The 7 Elements Made Easy: Translating Compliance Speak for New Professionals

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | November 16, 2022 

    • Define the overarching purpose of Compliance Programs

    • From a practical perspective in detecting, correcting, and preventing wrongdoing, and;

    • From the perspective of increasing the chances of reduced culpability with the Department of Justice if wrongdoing is missed and prosecuted

    • Discuss the varying language used to describe the 7 Elements Compliance Program across organizations and how they are related

    • Review the element though definition as well as practical application for each

    • Analyze the order of the elements and explore how they can be described as both linear and circular in nature as we strive for continuous improvement

  6. The Physician Payment Sunshine Act and the Future of Healthcare Transparency

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | November 15, 2022 

    • Reference the issues in the healthcare industry that led to the enactment of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (PPSA) that are relevant to an understanding of the current law and its growing enforcement.

    • Consider the impact from a fraud and abuse standpoint including the significance of the first examples of Department of Justice enforcement of the Act.

    • Highlight other state and international sunshine acts and compare them to the PPSA.

    • Examine the future of transparency statutes, including the Hospital Price Transparency Regulation.

  7. Is your SNF Compliance Program Ready for Survey? - November 2022

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | November 07, 2022 

    • Understand the Affordable Care Act compliance program requirements for SNFs.

    • Identify CMS survey expectations with respect to SNF compliance.

    • Develop a checklist of action items your organization needs to take to get compliant.

  8. Observation services: What are we missing?

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | November 02, 2022 

    • Describe how the Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice (MOON) form supports compliance with patient rights CoPs.

    • Explain the importance of identifying non-covered observation hours, including for PPS and Critical Access Hospitals.

    • Identify how the Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN) for observation can contribute to compliance

  9. 340B Pharmacy audit prep post COVID

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | November 01, 2022 

    • Verify that the registration for the entities and any child sites is up-to-date and listed correctly in the OPAIS database.

    • Perform transaction eligibility testing for mixed-use and contract pharmacy settings.

    • Review policies and procedures for each process impacting the 340B program, such as.

    • Reconcile inventory and purchases made under each purchasing account.

    • Ensure the process for recertification is clearly outlined.

    • Review the most recently filed Medicare cost report

  10. Preparing for 2023 Telehealth Policy: Comparison of CPT, Medicare Fee Schedule, and Legislative Changes

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | October 03, 2022 

    • Understand nuanced guideline changes for 2023 CPT Evaluation and Management services.

    • Compare current Medicare policy to those in Medicare's proposed rule, and compare/contrast with upcoming CPT changes.

    • Identify key points in recent federal legislation that impact Medicare payment policy in 2023 and beyond for telehealth services

  11. Apply Change Management For An Even More Effective Compliance Program

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | September 22, 2022 

    • Explore why some corrective action plans, regulatory changes, or process / technology enhancements fail to deliver the expected outcomes despite great project management.

    • Learn how to pay more attention to the people-side of change, and how to better support the individuals who need to behave or do their jobs differently to get better compliance results.

    • Come away with some specific strategies and tactics you can use to help employees at all levels understand why change is needed, how the change will impact them, and what they need to do differently to achieve improved compliance outcomes.

  12. Ransomware and the Healthcare Industry 2022

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | September 20, 2022 

    • Why the healthcare industry is particularly vulnerable to ransomware attacks.

    • Enforcement trends and expectations.

    • Best practices for healthcare companies to mitigate risk of an attack and what to do in the event of an attack

  13. The Evolving Landscape of Medical Necessity in Healthcare Compliance 2022

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | September 14, 2022 

    • Identify how the medical necessity of services is defined and by whom.

    • Review the current trends in medical necessity enforcement.

    • Evaluate how to incorporate the medical necessity of services into a compliance program.

  14. Making HIPAA Compliance Fun

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | September 12, 2022 

    • Overview HIPAA compliance and its Rules from the perspective of a supervisor or trainer.

    • Learn how to plan and prepare for HIPAA compliance.

    • Understand the current and potential uses of mobile technologies (such as health apps), and big data in health care with the privacy and security risks and challenges.

    • Overview of the possible temporary changes in respect to Covid-19 and/or future pandemics.

    • Gain an in-depth understanding of HIPAA Security, Privacy, and Transaction rule.

    • Understand who Business Associates and Covered Entities are and what will they have to do to ensure HITECH HIPAA compliance.

    • Gain an in-depth understanding of HIPAA's role within Telehealth.

  15. Pursuing Health Equity Through Regulation & Reimbursement

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | September 09, 2022 

    • Define 'health equity' and understand its impact on federal health policy.

    • Prepare for changes in regulatory requirements and reimbursement relating to health equity.

    • Identify the key elements of a health equity strategy and tactical plan

  16. DEI in Health Care: Turning a Heavy Topic into a Manageable Lift

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | August 30, 2022 

    • This presentation offers attendees - regardless of which sector of the health care industry or other industry they operate within: An introduction to the topic of health inequity, with particular emphasis on the life-or-death consequences that have been well documented in the research to-date,

    • Problematizes the harmful effects of implicit bias to your organization and the communities you serve - which, although less pernicious than explicit bias, is far more pervasive and potentially insurmountable if not interrupted,

    • Defines the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and proposes a value-proposition for why now is the time to build out what a pragmatic, immediate commitment to these values can look like at your organization, and

    • Presents a macro, long-term view of the larger legal and regulatory influences on health equity.

  17. Behavioral Health Changes for 2023 - What is in our Future?

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | August 24, 2022 

    • Educate audience on the FY 2023 ICD-10-CM updates as they relate to mental health services.

    • Discuss changes within the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting FY 2023.Train audience on proper behavioral health coding and billing guidelines.

    • Question and Answer period.

  18. Compliance Program Shift from Retributive to Restorative Justice

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | August 15, 2022 

    • Learn how building a trustworthy and fair system supports a culture of reporting .

    • Reframe your investigations to utilize restorative and inclusive approaches.

    • Adopt a "just culture" philosophy to shift the compliance program paradigm from retributive to restorative justice.

  19. A Proactive Approach to Cybersecurity: Adopting Best Practices is Critical 2022

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | August 04, 2022 

    • Summarize current trends in cybersecurity threats.

    • Compare and contrast common security frameworks and best practices.

    • Understand how compliance fits into the application of a framework.

    • Explain how the NIST Cybersecurity Framework can be used to define and implement an appropriate cybersecurity program and address compliance requirements.

    • Describe additional best practices that help keep your program on a proactive footing.

  20. Patient Information Access Automated with the Cures Act 2022

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | July 28, 2022 

    • Recap of the recent OCR guidance and their important topics and areas of focus

    • ONC 21st Century Cures Act Information Blocking and CMS Interoperability and Patient Access rules

    • Enforcement

    • Details about Implementation of the new rules

  21. How to Talk to your Pharmacist about 340B

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | July 11, 2022 

    • Describe the basic structure of a 340B program implementation at a hospital or grant-funded clinic.

    • Illustrate the permissible and impermissible uses of 340B-priced drugs.

    • Explain the roles of covered entities, contract pharmacies, and third-party administrators.

    • Understand, at a high level, the challenges that covered entities currently face in the 340B program.

  22. The Process of Parity: Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA): Compliance and Enforcement Considerations for the Health Plan

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | June 30, 2022 

    • Identify the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act's (MHPAEA's)

    • Requirements for Health Plans Understand the scope of a MHPAEA comparative analysis and identify resources for its development

    • Learn about recent enforcement trends and ways to demonstrate MHPAEA compliance

  23. 2022 Updates on Stark Regulations and Impacts on Fair Market Value/Commercial Reasonableness

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | June 28, 2022 

    • Impact 2021 Physician Fee Schedule has had/will have on Physician Compensation and Benchmark Data.

    • Impact COVID has had/will have on Physician Compensation. Evolution of Use of Benchmark Data, Fair Market Value and Unit of Compensation.

    • New Billing and Documentation Issues based on 2022 Physician Fee Schedule.

  24. Leveraging EHR to Maintain Clinical Research Billing Compliance

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | June 15, 2022 

    • Leverage technology to enable delivery of complex clinical trial treatments to patients while maintaining compliance with insurance billing guidelines.

    • Reduce the billing risk for sites and sponsors for clinical trials with inpatient stays. Speed up the delivery of novel compounds like CAR T cells to patients.

    • Understand when to bill a sponsor vs. a patient's insurance for clinical trials with required inpatient stays.

    • Streaming the budget development and negotiations for clinical trials with inpatient stays for patients.

  25. Compliance and HIPAA for Supervisors

    2022 HCCA Webinar  | June 02, 2022 

    • Overview of Compliance from the perspective of a supervisor.

    • Overview of HIPAA from the perspective of a supervisor.

    • Why Compliance knowledge is important from a supervisory perspective.

    • Why HIPAA knowledge is important from a supervisory perspective.

    • How to apply the learned concepts into your work process.