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		Disruptive Behavior and the Joint Commission's Sentinel Event Alert New Gainsharing Exception The Sixteen Step Program
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	AHP Potpourri Board Conflicts of Interest The "Borderline" Physician: Managing Performance Improvement for Those Who Can Improve (and Building the Legal Record for Those Who Can't) Charity Care Class Action Lawsuits Clinical Privileges: Tough Issues and Solutions CMS Clarification on Hospital Privileging CMS Issues Final Rule on 4 CoPs CMS: The New Guidelines for Informed Consent - Process, Policies and Forms Community Need for Physicians: How to Analyze, Prove and Document It Conduct Outside the Hospital: Are You Your Brother's Keeper? Conflicts of Interest on the Medical Staff Contracting and Credentialing: Bridge the Gap or Pay the Piper Corporate Bylaws: When Was the Last Time You Looked Yours Over? Credentialing and Medical Staff Records - Access, Control and Confidentiality Credentialing and Privileging Teleradiologists The Credentialing Process: Who is Slipping Through the Cracks? Credentialing the Aging Physician Credentialing Verification in the Trenches Criminal Background Checks for Physicians Deferred Compensation for ER Call Effective Performance Improvement Plans Employing Physicians Series EMTALA and On-Call: Important New Changes EMTALA: The Final Rule and Regulations EMTALA Guidelines EMTALA Investigations: How to Survive Excess Benefit Transactions Exclusive Contracts - Strategies to Deal with the Shortage of Doctors Executive Compensation in IRS Crosshairs Fair Market Value The Feds Are Coming – Do You Know Where Your Physician Contracts Are? Forgoing Life Sustaining Treatment Fraud, Abuse & the OIG: A Look Back — A Look Ahead Free Speech or Disruptive Behavior? The FTC's Evanston Decision - Are Mergers Still OK? HIPAA and Credentialing HIPAA - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know — And Weren't Afraid to Ask HIPAA Investigations and Enforcement HIPAA Security Regulations Hospitalists: The Who, What and How The "Independent" Medical Staff – What Would It Really Mean? Investigations and Hearings — Should You Follow Your Bylaws? Maybe Not! IRS Final Form 990 The IRS is Watching YOU – Part I: Good Governance Practices for 501(c)(3) Organizations The IRS is Watching YOU – Part II: Exempt Organizations Executive Compensation Compliance Project Report It's Never Too Late for an Amicable Resolution — Alternatives that Can Protect Patients and Save a Career Joint Venture Series The Kadlec Appeal – Decision Against Hospital Reversed! The Limited English Proficiency Rules Low and No Volume Practitioners Malpractice Claims and Your Credentialing Process Malpractice Insurance Premiums: Helping Your Doctors Pay Managing the Disruptive or Difficult Patient Medical Ethical Issues - Right Choices, Legal Answers Medical Record Deficiencies: Practical Solutions to a Persistent Problem Medical Staff Integration Models for a Sustainable Future Medicare Physician Supervision and "Incident-to" Billing: What are the Rules? New MS.1.20: Stay the Course or Jump Ship? Must Hospitals Train Their Staffs to Bite the Hand that Feeds Them? Nonprofit Governance Audio Series: Legal Compliance and Public Disclosure Effective Governance Practices Financial Management and Fundraising On-Call Audit & EMTALA Update On-Call Problems and Solutions The Organized Medical Staff & Joint Commission Compliance:: Real Life Issues, Practical Solutions Panel on Nonprofit Sector Announces Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice Patient Complaints and Grievances – Time to Take Them Seriously Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act: Proposed Regulations Paying for On-Call Services - the OIG Speaks Physician Behavior Physician Recruitment and Retention After Stark III Poliner: Court Upholds Jury's Findings Practical Solutions to Your Toughest On-Call Problems Practical Tips for Developing Medical Staff Leaders Precautionary Suspensions are to Protect Patients A Primer on Preemption: Incorporating State Privacy Laws into Your HIPAA Compliance Plan Protecting Peer Review Information Quality/Performance Improvement & Peer Review Best Practices Reconciling Conflicting Financial Interests of Physicians & Hospitals Recruitment Before Credentialing: What Were You Thinking? Resignation of Privileges to Avoid On Call Responsibilities Self-Disclosure & Government Investigation Sexual Harassment - It's Not Going Away! Does "Sham" Peer Review Really Happen? Sizzlin' Hot Credentialing Issues Specialty Hospitals and Gainsharing Alert! Stark 3.5? Proposed Changes in Inpatient Prospective Payment Rules Stark 2.5 - the Party's Over Stark Phase III Regulations ... They're he-e-e-e-e-e-re! Stark: Software/New Stark and Antikickback Rules Stark Violations in Your Medical Staff Office? Strategies to Address Medical Records Violations Take Control of Your Medical Staff Hearing Process Tax-Exempt Hospitals and Politics: Survival Guide for the Election Year Teleradiologists: Credentialing and Privileging Temporary & Locum Tenens Privileges Unanticipated Outcomes Disclosure and Medical Error Reporting


	On-Call Audit & EMTALA Update Audio CD/MP3 Recorded July 26, 2007 Faculty: Alan Steinberg, Susan Lapenta & Dr. David Siegel
	"On call" issues continue to top the list of challenges for medical staff and hospital leaders. The best way to deal with these issues is to have appropriate language in your medical staff bylaws and on-call policy. The time to "audit" your documents and your own knowledge of EMTALA's on-call rules is now, before a crisis hits. Alan Steinberg and Susan Lapenta, partners of Horty, Springer & Mattern, as they discuss how to audit your bylaws, policies and procedures to address critical on-call issues. Bylaws and policy language will be provided. Alan and Susan are joined by Dr. David Siegel, the Chairman of the EMTALA Technical Advisory Group, which was created by federal law to make EMTALA "quality improvement" recommendations directly to HHS and CMS. Alan, Susan and Dr. Siegel discuss: What is a reasonable on-call schedule? What is a reasonable coverage period? How should you define response time? In actual minutes? Does this include "call back" and "come in" times? Does your policy address the physician who is on call at two (or more) hospitals at the same time? The physician who schedules elective surgery while on call? Does your policy provide sufficient guidance to deal with the on-call physician who is slow to respond or who doesn't respond at all? Do you have rules that define the role of the physician assistant, advanced registered nurse practitioner or orthopedic technician in supporting the on-call physician in an EMTALA-compliant manner? Don't leave inpatient consults to chance. Make sure these are addressed in medical staff bylaws or in the rules and regulations. Selectively resigning some clinical privileges to avoid on-call obligations can place an even greater burden on the other physicians who provide call coverage. Define the process for the limited resignation of privileges to make sure it is fair and equitable. What are the on-call rules when the proposed receiving hospital has "specialized capabilities" compared to the sending hospital? Can the receiving hospital say no? The ED physician? The on-call physician? What staff categories carry on-call obligations? What is fair? Is it time to change the rules for on-call obligations?

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