Nursing facilities are facing increased government scrutiny. Federal and state government agencies are auditing the services provided and carefully inspecting documentation, coding, billing, and the quality of care provided. An effective compliance education program is essential in protecting nursing facilities from fines and penalties.

 

Online compliance training courses from HCCS are in use at hundreds of healthcare institutions across the country to provide recurring compliance training for staff and administrators. The courses, including the new Nursing Facility compliance course and online HIPAA compliance training course, are designed to change staff behavior and maintain compliance with changing regulations. The online courses are customizable, easy to understand, and updated annually or more often as regulations change. The courses include interactive exercises to keep learners engaged and increase retention.

 

The Nursing Facility Compliance course covers many areas including:

 

• Compliance Risk Areas
• Compliance Programs
• Documentation and Coding
• Compliance Review
• Billing and Reimbursement
• Resident Care Risk Areas

“The Nursing Facility Compliance course expands our widely used online compliance training library to the vital long term care providers," says Ben Diamond, President of HCCS. "The course provides a great foundation for a compliance program to educate nursing facility employees about fraud, waste, and abuse. It provides a measure of protection for these organizations from increasing and relentless government attention. Large health systems can utilize both the HCCS Corporate Compliance online training course and this new Nursing Facility Compliance course to meet the compliance training needs of all of their facilities."

 

The Nursing Facility Compliance online training course is available now.

 

 

About HCCS

Health Care Compliance Strategies, Inc. (HCCS) provides up-to-date compliance and competency training courseware and learning systems to hospitals, health plans, teaching facilities, medical schools and other healthcare entities.  HCCS programs are used at hundreds of healthcare facilities nationwide, with over one and a half million registered learners.  HCCS provides a full library of nearly one thousand online courses to fulfill the demanding needs of healthcare staff training.  The HCCS Healthcare Learning Platform (HLP) is a learning management system and healthcare talent management suite.

 

For more information about HCCS compliance training courses or the HCCS Healthcare Learning Platform^TM, contact HCCS at (877) 933-4227, by email at info@hccs.com, or via the web at www.hccs.com.

 

HCCS' online compliance training courses are designed to help healthcare institutions provide recurring updated training in an effort to change staff behavior and maintain compliance with changing regulations. HCCS addresses these issues and many others in customizable, easy to understand online courses that are updated annually, and as regulations change.

 

HCCS has updated the courses with new videos, scenarios and interactive exercises to engage learners and improve information retention.

 

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) includes the HITECH Act, which brings ongoing changes to HIPAA regulations through the year 2014. Healthcare institutions are facing a myriad of changing regulations with various deadlines for compliance, making it very difficult for compliance departments to keep content current and up to date with staff training. It can be costly and time consuming for organizations to monitor and research the changes, and then incorporate them into staff training.

 

"Compliance with HIPAA regulations is of paramount importance now with all of the changes in regulations stemming from the HITECH Act," says Ben Diamond, President of HCCS. "A lapse in compliance training can bring government intervention, large fines and unwanted media attention. By providing automatic content updates for staff education, we are able to help organizations focus on their primary mission of patient care."

 

Content updates to the HCCS HIPAA online training course include:

 

• HITECH information regarding Business Associates
• Stimulus Act summary and it's relation to the Privacy Rule
• Identity theft, medical identity theft, and Identity Theft Red Flags Rule
• New CMS compliance guidance on remote access to ePHI
• and many other topics

The updated HIPAA Compliance online training course is available now.

 

 

About HCCS

Health Care Compliance Strategies, Inc. (HCCS) provides up-to-date compliance and competency training courseware and learning systems to hospitals, health plans, teaching facilities, medical schools and other healthcare entities.  HCCS programs are used at hundreds of healthcare facilities nationwide, with over one million registered learners.  HCCS provides a full library of over one thousand online courses to fulfill the demanding needs of healthcare staff training.  The HCCS Healthcare Learning Platform (HLP) is a learning management system and healthcare talent management suite.

 

For more information about HCCS compliance training courses or the HCCS Healthcare Learning Platform^TM, contact HCCS at (877) 933-4227, by email at info@hccs.com, or via the web at www.hccs.com.

 

“Proper disclosure and tracking of conflicts of interest among staff is necessary to maintain transparency and ensure credibility,” says Alex Eremia, Vice President of MedStar Health.  “The COI-SMART system from HCCS simplifies and automates the process by providing an online disclosure form to our staff and full management, tracking and reporting capabilities for our administrators.  With this automation process we will see significant cost savings and efficiency. We can concentrate on potential and actual COIs, instead of chasing paper.”

 

COI-SMART's simple interface provides improved control over the conflicts of interest disclosure and review process at the individual and institutional level.  This automated tool conforms to the process an organization already has in place or provides the framework for a new process, eliminating cumbersome manual disclosure tracking.  Sophisticated yet simple to use management tools provide for the tracking of disclosures from identification through resolution.

 

“COI-SMART was designed with organizations like MedStar Health in mind,” says Ben Diamond, President of HCCS.  “The system provides a level of knowledge and an ability to manage conflicts of interest that was not readily available before.  Organizations that need to disclose and track their staff member's conflicts of interest will see an operational benefit and significant ROI from using this system.”

 

COI-SMART provides tools for the development of multilevel questionnaires, automated assignment of reviewers, the development of COI management plans, and data mining tools for auditing, tracking and reporting on potential conflicts of interest.

 

 

About the MedStar Health

MedStar Health is a $3.8 billion not-for-profit, regional healthcare system with a network of nine hospitals and 20 other health-related businesses across Maryland and the Washington, D.C., region.  As the area's largest health system, it is one of the region's largest employers with more than 26,000 associates and 5,300 affiliated physicians, all of whom support MedStar Health's patient-first philosophy that combines care, compassion and clinical excellence with an emphasis on customer service.

www.medstarhealth.org

 

About Health Care Compliance Strategies, Inc.  (HCCS)

HCCS is the leading provider of compliance training and tracking solutions to healthcare facilities.  HCCS has provided over 2.5 million hours of compliance and competency online training courses to hospitals, teaching facilities, medical schools, health plans and other health care entities.  The HCCS Compliance Learning Library contains expert training content in the areas of Medicare, Medicaid, HIPAA, Harassment, Research, Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Compliance.  COI-SMART is a new HCCS solution for tracking and managing Conflicts of Interest.

www.hccs.com

 

For more information about COI-SMART, contact HCCS at (877) 933-4227, by email at info@hccs.com, or via the web at www.hccs.com.