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Health Law
Prices include any applicable early registration discounts
Denver, CO
Jul 10, 2013-Jul 11, 2013
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Essentials of Health Law
Course Description
An overview of health care laws and how they pertain to organizations. Includes an examination of today's hottest health care legal issues: medical error liability, managed care contracting, patient rights, and equal opportunity in the workplace.
Other topics include:
- How to negotiate the best contracts for your organization
- Antitrust and conflicts of interest
- EMTALA and other critical patient care issues
- Problem physicians-protecting patients and the organization
- Medical compliance and billing errors
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Target Audience
This CME activity is intended for physicians or health care leaders who wish to acquire a basic understanding of current laws which affect health care organizations. This course is an elective requirement for the degree and certification prerequisite curriculum.
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Course Objectives »
- Interpret statutes and judicial opinions that affect health care.
- Examine how the law affects business relationships and the health care decision-making process.
- Explore the legal trends in legal liability for hospitals and managed care organizations and ways to reduce the risk.
- Identify problem practitioners and develop effective strategies for dealing with them.
- Review issues related to managed care, including key contract provisions.
CME
Live Conference - 14 CME
InterAct Express (self study) - 8 CME
Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships and Potential Conflicts of Interest
Consistent with ACPE CME policies, everyone involved in the development, management, presentation and evaluation of this CME activity has provided full disclosure information, and there are no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Faculty Credentials
Method of Physician Participation
Live Course - To earn CME credit, you must attend all the sessions for this course, be engaged in the lectures, and read the course materials. Estimated time to complete course- 14 hours.
InterAct Express (self-study) - To earn CME credit, you must watch all the lectures for this course, and read the course materials and complete an online CME quiz. Estimated time to complete course- 8 hours.
Evaluation Method
Each ACPE CME activity includes an evaluation process to determine that the learning objectives have been met, and that the activity was of educational value to the target audience and was unbiased. the evaluation also assess whether or not the CME activity resulted in a change in physician practice behavior and offers participants a method of feedback.
Course formats and materials
Live Conference: PDF materials are available for download
InterAct Express (self-study): course lectures and readings on DVD, course booklet included, website for lectures, readings, there is no online discussion or assignments for Express.
Interact Requirements
System: Microsoft Windows 2000 or later / Mac OS X v10.4 or later
Browser: Internet Explorer 6.0 or later / Safari 3.x or later / Firefox 3.x Windows.
(Firefox for Macintosh is NOT supported)
 Flash and Adobe Reader required.
Accreditation — The American College of Physician Executives (ACPE) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation for InterAct Express— The American College of Physician Executives designates this enduring material for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Original Course Release Date (InterAct distance education only) — March 2010.
Course Termination Date (InterAct distance education only) — March 2013.
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