Outcomes Telephone Seminars

Effective Auditing of Physicians' Documentation BenefitsThe federal government's increasing interest in fraud, waste and abuse heightens the awareness of physician practices, both large and small, of the increasing scrutiny of physician documentation to support billings. In the past, audits are performed and physicians were lectured but all too often little improvement was noted. How can practices efficiently and effectively audit physician  more...

Service Level Fundamentals: Maximizing Business Value ...ce providers to achieve their customers' desired business outcomes. However, too often customers discover that those service levels are being achieved with reports showing 'green' while the service itself feels 'red.' In these situations, customers often find that those service levels: measure the wrong aspects of the services; are defined too vaguely to be enforced; cannot be measured using  more...

Response to Intervention: Addressing Emerging Issues ...ant framework through which school staffs can improve the outcomes for all of their learners and more accurately identify those learners with disabilities. On the other hand, to achieve these benefits school staffs must have a high fidelity of implementation. Since RTI is not just a technical solution of new tests, curricula or instructional practices, careful consideration is needed to achieve  more...

Commonly Encountered Sales and Use Tax Audit Issues and Strategies to Defuse Them ...ures, products and services are increasingly complex with outcomes that don't always fit neatly into vaguely worded and outdated statutes. Heightened audit activity, the states' shifting tax policies and a new wave of proposed sales tax legislation all serve to highlight the importance of staying current on tax law while minding your business operations. Failing to do so may lead to unexpected  more...

Workers' Compensation Metrics: Assessing and Reporting on the Success of Your Program ...ed reports are generally focused on tactics, not strategy outcomes. This leaves many employers unable to answer some of the most critical risk management and fundamental program performance questions. In this live audio conference we'll discuss the Optimal Program Triad - the three elements of a successful program and metrics focused on these elements. We will discuss the hierarchy of data and  more...

Commercial Real Estate Financing: Current Trends & Opportunities ...loans including who the key players are and what possible outcomes exist from negotiations. Borrowers will learn how others are not only solving their trouble loan problems but also creating opportunities from the same troubled asset. Trends in new financing including the emergency of CMBS lenders, life insurance companies, banks and other special lenders will be discussed. This live audio  more...

The Essentials of Wastewater Grit Removal ...technical and business point of view - to achieve optimal outcomes. Learning Objectives - You will be able to recognize grit composition by geographic region. - You will be able to discuss benefits of a properly designed and functioning system. - You will be able to identify key considerations to an accurate grit removal efficiency test. - You will be able to review flume flow dynamics and  more...

Workout Strategies for Troubled Condominium Projects ...at each party brings to bear, and explore the options and outcomes available for the distressed condominium project in today's uncertain times. Attorneys, real estate developers, lenders, borrowers, mortgage companies, mezzanine lenders, financial institutions, loan servicers, investment banks, private equity companies and other investors, real estate professionals, condominium associations  more...

Current Issues in Digital Billboards and Sign Regulations ...ecision for one municipality today can lead to even worse outcomes in the future for other municipalities. Please join us in learning how to defeat the sign code shakedown. Learning Objectives You will be able to summarize regulations of digital signs by the Federal Highway Administration and the impact on local and state governments. You will be able to give examples of studies impacting  more...

Medical Identity Theft: Why You Must Prevent and How to Minimize Its Occurrence ...ut also, and more critical, is the threat to safe patient outcomes. This teleconference will focus on how to minimize patient identity and medical identity theft threats through implementation of good information management practices. Medical records directors, health information directors, coders, billing managers, business and office managers, hospital administrators, nurses, social workers,  more...

Transitioning Special Needs Students: It Doesn't Start at 21! ...onals working in special education want the best possible outcomes for their students it is often unclear what that might be for any given student, how to find out what the student will best succeed in, and how to best prepare them for the 'real world'. This teleconference is designed to provide professionals with the information they need to enhance their students' opportunities as an adult.  more...

Implementing a Health Risk Assessment for Your Health Plan: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Legal ...am. Learn about health risk assessment goals and expected outcomes, common design issues and encouraging participation, offering rewards and penalties, overcoming objections and the all-important employee buy-in. You will also learn how to avoid legal pitfalls and which health risk assessment designs raise sticky legal issues. Benefits professionals, human resource managers, personnel and  more...

Developing Safety Incentive Programs to Reduce Workers' Compensation Claims ...only used technique to obtain a step-level improvement in outcomes. Join us for this examination of safety incentive programs, as we examine the underlying premises, the common features, and caveats facing those considering implementation or examining their current use of such programs. Based upon both theoretical and empirical examination of programs, this teleconference examines both sides of  more...

Dealing with Difficult Patients ...stitutions and identify specific approaches to manage the outcomes of most types of conflicts in a variety of health care settings. Learning Objectives: - You will be able to describe types of conflict in the health care setting. - You will be able to discuss patient and caregiver safety issues. - You will be able to identify strategies to diffuse difficult situations. - You will be able to  more...

Early Case Assessment Strategies for Paralegals ...ol legal costs while at the same time producing favorable outcomes. Studies have indicated that early case assessment evaluation, if done correctly, can accomplish both of these goals. Irrespective of the complexity of the case, early case assessment can be beneficial not only to the client, but also to the legal team as well. This teleconference will discuss strategies and tools that can help  more...

Workplace Flexibility: Innovative Strategies for an Evolving Workforce ...ns are using flexibility to improve business and employee outcomes. You will gain the ability to communicate effectively about policy approaches on workplace flexibility currently being considering in Washington - and understand how those policies may impact your business practices and strategies. More critically, you will learn about the challenges and opportunities for business and government  more...

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Children ...o produce a wide spectrum of morphological and behavioral outcomes. The most affected children in the spectrum display a characteristic pattern of morphological anomalies known as fetal alcohol syndrome. The majority of children exposed to alcohol, however, do not display morphological anomalies, yet they may show significant cognitive deficits. Therefore, the term fetal alcohol spectrum  more...

Effective Program Evaluation for Nonprofits nThe importance of evaluating your nonprofit cannot be underestimated! The data you collect and analyze will let you know the extent to which you have met your goals and objectives, how your clients feel about your organization and its services, whether you are using quality processes, what you can celebrate and how you can improve! Effective evaluations can also tell you about the program design  more...