Provider Telephone Seminars - Training Resources

Best Practices in Nursing Documentation: Writing Effective and Legal Proof Notes ...sLong gone are the days that nurses and other health care providers hand-wrote cryptic notes on essay paper-like chart pages that rarely were ever looked at again. Long gone, also, are the days that physicians would only look at labs, reports and other physician's notes, expecting the nurse to call to the physician's attention anything important about the patient so they didn't have to read  more...

15- Minute Expert Adult Patient Assessments: Practical Strategies, Tips, and Updates for Health Care Professionals ...Center, Inc. dba Lorman Education Services is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Wisconsin Nurses Association Continuing Education Approval Program Committee, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. This program qualifies for 1.5 contact hours. To receive a certificate of successful completion, you are required  more...

Preparing for Medicaid Audits ...all budgets. Those states are now looking toward Medicaid providers to make up the shortfall through the use of post payment audits and overpayment recovery. The use of statistics based upon a small sample of claims but extrapolated over an entire population of claims can lead to multimillion-dollar overpayments. The typical overpayment is no longer solely based on a medical necessity analysis,  more...

Medicare Secondary Payer Act - Protecting Medicare's Interest in Insurance Settlements ...n receipt of third-party payments, such as a beneficiary, provider, supplier, physician, attorney, state agency or private insurer (42 CFR 411.24(g)). Accordingly, it is essential that all parties to personal injury insurance settlements ensure that Medicare's interests are protected and therefore of the utmost importance for all attorneys, insurance company personnel and medical billing  more...

Influenza: Seasonal to Pandemic ...Center, Inc. dba Lorman Education Services is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Wisconsin Nurses Association Continuing Education Approval Program Committee, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. This program qualifies for 1.5 contact hours. To receive a certificate of successful completion, you are required  more...

Medical Identity Theft: Why You Must Prevent and How to Minimize Its Occurrence ...rmation is being captured electronically, both within the provider setting and remotely from the patients themselves. Additionally, an increasing number of myriad touches of this data occur on a daily basis by various known and unknown entities, not all of whom are authorized or have a specific need to know. In this environment, ample opportunity exists for personally identifiable information  more...

Managing External Health Information ...providers remain frustrated and uncertain about how to handle external health information. This information may come in the form of unsolicited health information - i.e., information that is volunteered by patients or by other health care providers, either at the time the patient arrives for treatment or thereafter - and in some cases even after the patient has been discharged. It may also come  more...

Infection Control Programs ...Center, Inc. dba Lorman Education Services is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Wisconsin Nurses Association Continuing Education Approval Program Committee, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. This program qualifies for 1.5 contact hours. To receive a certificate of successful completion, you are required  more...

Controlling Health Care Costs With Self-Funded Plan Options ... self-insured health plan options, for example, preferred provider, HMO, health savings accounts and health reimbursement arrangements. The importance of choosing a third-party administrator based on factors beyond just the per person administrative fee and types of savings achieved though a well thought out stop loss arrangement will be addressed. Human resource managers, benefits  more...

Patients' Rights Update ...providers, particularly long term care providers, mental health providers and hospices, have become increasingly aware of patients' rights concerns in recent years. Many states have passed bills of rights for their residents living in mental health, skilled nursed or other health care facilities. These bills of rights cover basic and not so basic concerns. From the right to be treated with  more...

Reducing Insulin Errors ... Education Services, Eau Claire, Wisconsin is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Wisconsin Nurses Association Continuing Education Approval Program Committee, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. n nThis program qualifies for 1.5 contact hours. To receive a certificate of successful completion, you are  more...