Product Detail

1. Receive a compliance checklist, procedural forms, and training certificate
2. Discuss the most current HIPAA requirements and criminal and civil penalties
3. Review the HIPAA electronic transaction and code sets rule
4. Identify the challenges and exceptions to confidentiality when dealing with records regarding AIDS, mental health, abortion, and minors
5. Determine the best course of action when state and federal laws contradict one another
6. Explain the most common mistakes made when using electronic billing
7. Assess how you can simplify the process and take cost-effective security measures
8. Outline Medicare and Medicaid fraud implications
9. Examine mandatory medical records and billing—It is on the horizon! Be prepared
10. Discuss regulations regarding the 3 biggest issues in HIPAA: privacy, patient records access, and record retention

OVERVIEW OF HIPAA

• Determining who must comply
• Security regulations
• Privacy regulations
• Penalties
• What to do when state and federal laws contradict

HIPAA COMPLIANCE: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

• Treatment
• Payment
• Conducting a risk analysis
• Developing the HIPAA team
• selecting the privacy officer
• selecting the security officer
• Record retention and release rules
• Drafting policies, procedures, and consent forms
• Simplifying the process
• How long are you required to retain records?
• Mandatory medical records—how your practice could be affected

PRIVACY RULE

• Medical record inspection and copying policy
• Amendment and correction policy
• Log of disclosures policy
• Privacy notice policy
• Reasonable restrictions of health information policy
• Reasonable alternate communication policy
• Training and sanction system for employees

SECURITY RULE

• Risk analysis and risk management
• Determining who should have access to patient records
• Reasonable safeguards to protect health information program
• Protection from malicious software
• Emergency plans
• Computer access controls and passwords
• Administrative safeguards
• Physical safeguards
• Technical safeguards

ELECTRONIC RECORDS

• HIPAA transaction and code sets rule
• Payment
• Reimbursement
• Most common problems
• Medicare/Medicaid fraud implications

BLUEPRINT FOR REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS PLAN: FROM PAPER TO ELECTRONIC

• How to select electronic medical record vendors for hardware and software purchase

DEALING WITH SPECIALIZED ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS

• E-scripts
• E-test orders
• E-test results
• E-doctor's notes

SPECIALIZED RECORDS RULES

• Cancer
• AIDS
• Mental health
• Drug and alcohol addiction
• Genetic testing
• Abortion
• Minors
• Elders

OTHER CONFIDENTIAL RECORDS

• Court records
• Worker's compensation
• Subpoenas
• Court orders
• Search warrants
• Qualified protective orders
• Guardianships
• Evidence admissibility
• Verdicts

HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVES AND DURABLE POWERS OF ATTORNEY
STATISTICS AND CASE STUDY OF HIPAA CRIMINAL PROSECUTION
STATISTICS AND CASE STUDY OF HIPAA CIVIL COMPLAINTS AND FINES

Biography is not currently avaiable.

Save time and $10 off the price of other submission methods – purchase & take the CE test online for $9.99 USD per participant. Additional processing fees apply for other submission methods (i.e. mail, fax, etc.). Please contact our Customer Service at 1-800-397-0180 for more details.

Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations.

Certificates of Successful Completion are available for email, download and/or printing from your online account immediately following the successful completion of the post-test/evaluation.

**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.

Continuing Education Information
This educational offering is designed to qualify for continuing education for many professionals in every state.


Materials that are included in this course could include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice for your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.


Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this educational offering. Please note, your state licensing board dictates what is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact customerservice@vyne.com or 800-397-0180.


CE information is based on 100% attendance.

---

Psychologists
Vyne Education, LLC. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Vyne Education, LLC. maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This educational offering offers 6 CE credits for psychologists. Full attendance is required to receive credit for psychologist, variable credit for partial attendance may not be awarded based on the APA guidelines.

---

Other Professions
This educational offering qualifies for 6 continuing education hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific filing requirements.

All Professionals
In order to process continuing education, please supply the appropriate license certification number on the evaluation form.

Certificates, Educational Offering Completion Requirements
Certificates will be awarded upon receipt of payment and successful completion of the educational offering and evaluation form.

Requirements
Please note that full attendance and the completion of a post course assessment with a score of 80% or greater is required to receive full credit. Variable credit will not be awarded.

Technology Requirements
Digital Seminars, Live Video Webcast, and Online Course will require participants to set up a personal portal account via Vyne Education, LLC.’s website at www.vyne.com and have access to a computer with a sound device. Participants will have digital access to the  recording, course manual, post-test, and evaluation form. DVDs are sent through the mail (USPS). Participants will need access to a computer with an internet connection and a DVD drive. Participants will receive an Instruction Sheet and a DVD containing a link to the course manual, the video-recording, and a link to post-test and evaluation form. Participants have two options when completing their post-test and evaluation form; Participants may complete their test and evaluation online, which will require access to a computer and their personal portal account, or they may download, print, and complete the paper test and mail back to Vyne Education. 

ADA
If you require ADA accommodations, please contact Vyne Education at least two weeks before the seminar date or prior to purchasing any online or distance learning products so that arrangements can be made.

Health Information Management/Medical Records Managers, Business Office Managers, Billing Managers, Medical Information Services Personnel/Management, Department Heads, Nurse Managers/Clinicians, Physician, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Dentists/Dental Assistants/Hygienists, Pharmacists, Privacy/Security Officers, General Counsel Attorneys, Respiratory Therapists, All personnel involved with the storage and release/transfer of medical records in Hospitals, Nursing homes, rest homes, Medical practices, Physician groups, Home health, Substance abuse centers, Managed care, Application service providers, Mental health, Therapy and rehab, Laboratories, Insurance companies, Billing services, or Dental offices