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Upcoming Seminars
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Legal Issues for Physicians' Practices - Protecting Your Practice 90-Minute Webinar: Payer Quality Initiatives & Pay for Performance
Legal Issues for Physicians’ Practices - Protecting Your Practice
Register now for this important seminar!
Contrary to the old saying: What you don't know can hurt you. Without a doubt, legal concerns pose the greatest threats to a physician's practice, given the many complexities that state and federal laws impose.
Few practices can afford to have an attorney "in-house" to provide immediate guidance on those concerns, so physicians, managers and staff need to improve their knowledge base as much as possible. You must know what to do and what not to do in the various problematic scenarios that might occur.
That's where the WSMA can help you! We've identified the most commonly occurring and potentially serious operational problems that you may encounter and will train you on what actions to take to protect yourself and your practice. Participants will learn about: - New health laws passed during the 2008 Washington State Legislative Session and their impact on physician practices.
- New and proposed reporting requirements of physician unprofessional conduct—when to report, to whom to report, and what to do if someone files a report against you.
- The recent national class action settlement with Regence and Premera—What you need to know!
- New developments on health insurers and quality measurement, including New York State Attorney General actions.
- The laws on Medical Records and Disclosure of Patient Health Information.
- Stark II Laws: Latest developments on Self-Referral Regulations
Added Bonus! Seminar registrants will receive with their registration confirmation an Assessment Tool to pose questions beforehand to the presenters!
Who Should Attend
This seminar is extremely valuable to all practice staff with responsibilities for clinical care or business operations. The entire practice team needs a thorough understanding of medical-legal issues so that each can monitor for potential legal pitfalls. "It's not my job" will not hold up if legal problems surface.
The Presenters
Tim Layton, JD, is Director of Legal Affairs for the Washington State Medical Association. He has practiced law in New York and Washington, D.C. Most recently with the Seattle law firm of Carney Badley Spellman, he worked with the firm's government affairs practice group focusing on the representation of businesses and business trade associations before the state legislature and various state agencies.
Bob Perna, FACMPE is the Director of Health Care Economics for the Washington State Medical Association (WSMA). He has over 35 years' experience in the health care industry, having held positions in professional relations with a major health insurer and in managerial positions in private medical practices and community health organizations.
Questions? Contact Jenelle Dalit
by phone at 1(800) 552-0612 or via email at jcd@wsma.org.
Seminars are conducted from 12:30 - 4:30 pm.
Check-in and On-Site
Registration opens 1/2 hour before the seminar begins
Tacoma
Wednesday, April 23
Best Western Tacoma Dome Hotel
2611 East E Street
Everett
Friday, April 25
Providence Colby Campus
1321 Colby Avenue Spokane
Tuesday, May 6
Deaconess Health & Education Center
910 W. 5th Street
Seminar Tuition
WSMA and WSMGMA members can attend for $149 per person, and may sponsor staff in the same practice for the member rate. Three or more members or sponsored staff from the same practice may register for a group discount of $129 per person. Cancellations received within five full business days prior to the seminar receive a full refund. Cancellations thereafter receive a refund less a $50 cancellation fee. Space is limited, so register early.
Non-members: Call for pricing.
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90-Minute Webinar: Payer Quality Initiatives & Pay For Performance
NEW!! 90-Minute Webinar!! Dial in using your telephone and computer Internet connection for this new educational program. Listen, watch and learn! We are now offering this new format, in addition to our traditional in-person seminars. Gain valuable knowledge without leaving your office! Save money—no travel expenses!
This important seminar includes the latest developments and strategies for guiding your practice. Health insurers and employer groups continue to search for new methods that will help temper increasing health care costs. The latest "solution" is the physician incentive plan or "Pay for Performance" (P4P). As these various emerging methodologies become more commonplace, physicians' practices must adapt to maintain their financial viability.
What you will learn: Issues Driving Pay For Performance - National and State P4P Initiatives
- Health Care Expenditures; Quality of Care; Performance Measurement
- Medicare: Physician Quality Reporting Initiative - Can it work in your practice?
- Bridges To Excellence; The Leapfrog Group; Commercial Insurers; States' Models
- Puget Sound Health Alliance - Community Check-up - quality measurement
Succeeding in P4P: Actions to Consider
- Data are Essential! Pressure for Adopting Electronic Medical Records (EMRs)
- Pressures on Practices to Adopt Electronic Medical Records
The Presenter
Bob Perna, FACMPE is the Director of Health Care Economics for the Washington State Medical Association (WSMA). He has over 35 years' experience in the health care industry. Bob is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Practice Managers and is board certified as a Certified Medical Practice Executive (CMPE).
Now offering a special discounted price! WSMA and WSMGMA members can attend for an introductory price of $79. One registration fee per phone line lets your entire staff listen in. Questions? Contact Jenelle Dalit
by phone at 1(800) 552-0612 or via email at jcd@wsma.org.
90 minute Webinar
Friday, May 9, 2008
12 - 1:30 pm PT
Non-members: Call for pricing.
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