Saturday, December 27, 2008

Supervision and Training or Corporate Compliance in Home Health

Supervision and Training

Author: Florence Whiteman Kaslow

Challenging methods of training, consultation, and supervision--predicated on different ideas about how people learn most effectively--are highlighted in this exceptional volume. Distinguished educator Florence W. Kaslow has compiled new concepts and state-of-the-art approaches that greatly enhance our understanding of the process whereby good professionals become better professionals. Both direct and indirect training methodologies are discussed, and a variety of dynamic, behavioral, and eclectic approaches to the supervision of individual, group, and family therapies are described.



Book review: Pasteles or Italian Food

Corporate Compliance in Home Health: Establishing a Plan, Managing the Risks

Author: Fay Rozovsky

Litigation is rampant in the home health field — and it's not just about billing and coding. It's also about other practices that could lead to compliance problems, such as substandard employment practices or failing to run background checks. A lawsuit against your agency could come completely out of left field. But you can avoid getting blind—sided and protect your agency. Corporate Compliance in Home Health: Establishing a Plan, Managing the Risks gives home health care providers practical, down—to—earth standards for controlling and preventing losses growing out of corporate compliance. With this new resource from Aspen, get an up—to—date and easy—to—understand review of the law of corporate compliance, find out how the new OIG (Office of the Inspector General of HCFA) model compliance guidance for hospitals impacts home health, and uncover where your agency is at risk. You'll find out what to do if and when your agency comes under investigation, and get important, timely federal reference material from the GAO to HHS, and key parts of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.

Kathie E. Yonkers

This comprehensive text on corporate compliance for home care draws on expertise gained in the banking and industry fields. It provides the history behind the need for corporate compliance, a relatively new process in healthcare, as well as the driving state and federal guidelines of regulatory compliance. Providing direction for a new process in home care, the author identifies key concepts in the regulatory environment with a focus on elimination of fraud, abuse, and financial waste. The quality of care costs to achieve these anticipated outcomes are fully explored. With no prior experience in corporate compliance techniques, the author relies heavily on industry experience involving banking, savings and loan, and defense industries. Caregivers, managers, senior personnel, and administrative employees will find useful information in this text. Highly qualified authorities guide the student in healthcare as well as the seasoned administrator through the legal context for corporate compliance programs with particular focus on the clinical healthcare arena. A thorough explanation of federal guidelines and antitrust law and how they fit with voluntary or involuntary compliance explains the critical nature of preparation with a corporate compliance plan. A straightforward approach to liability risk exposure, strategies that can be employed, and healthcare risk management processes along with appropriate [Federal] Register publications are featured in this text. With healthcare guidelines and federal law already moving to new levels, this text can be a foundation of explanation to the uninitiated. A careful selection of tools, forms, and sample programs provides a sense of somestability in the uncertain climate of healthcare. This book provides direction for compliance in home care, including dealers of durable medical equipment, and hospice services. Traditional home care workers will find examples of situations that trigger compliance exposure. The legal context for a corporate compliance plan, the risk management challenges, and strategies provide definition in strategic planning. To properly insulate home health agencies and healthcare entities from risk exposure, this first time look at issues involving compliance provides guidance and direction. Supportive historical background, legal scenarios, and legislative laws and requirements provide a path through the essential conditions for continuous improvement as well as follow the agenda for change.

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Reviewer: Kathie E. Yonkers, MS, RN-C, ANP (Visiting Nurse Association of Utica and Oneida City, Inc.)
Description: This comprehensive text on corporate compliance for home care draws on expertise gained in the banking and industry fields. It provides the history behind the need for corporate compliance, a relatively new process in healthcare, as well as the driving state and federal guidelines of regulatory compliance.
Purpose: Providing direction for a new process in home care, the author identifies key concepts in the regulatory environment with a focus on elimination of fraud, abuse, and financial waste. The quality of care costs to achieve these anticipated outcomes are fully explored. With no prior experience in corporate compliance techniques, the author relies heavily on industry experience involving banking, savings and loan, and defense industries.
Audience: Caregivers, managers, senior personnel, and administrative employees will find useful information in this text. Highly qualified authorities guide the student in healthcare as well as the seasoned administrator through the legal context for corporate compliance programs with particular focus on the clinical healthcare arena.
Features: A thorough explanation of federal guidelines and antitrust law and how they fit with voluntary or involuntary compliance explains the critical nature of preparation with a corporate compliance plan. A straightforward approach to liability risk exposure, strategies that can be employed, and healthcare risk management processes along with appropriate [Federal] Register publications are featured in this text. With healthcare guidelines and federal law already moving to new levels, this text can be a foundation of explanation to the uninitiated. A careful selection of tools, forms, and sample programs provides a sense of some stability in the uncertain climate of healthcare.
Assessment: This book provides direction for compliance in home care, including dealers of durable medical equipment, and hospice services. Traditional home care workers will find examples of situations that trigger compliance exposure. The legal context for a corporate compliance plan, the risk management challenges, and strategies provide definition in strategic planning. To properly insulate home health agencies and healthcare entities from risk exposure, this first time look at issues involving compliance provides guidance and direction. Supportive historical background, legal scenarios, and legislative laws and requirements provide a path through the essential conditions for continuous improvement as well as follow the agenda for change.

Booknews

A guide for home health care providers which offers practical standards for controlling and preventing losses growing out of corporate compliance. Rozosky (legal medicine, Medical College of Virginia and health administration, Virginia Commonwealth U.) offers a review of the law of corporate compliance, using risk management techniques, the seven basic elements of an acceptable compliance plan, and federal reference material and parts of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Intended for home health agency employees and home health care providers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody




Table of Contents:
Contents: The Forces Driving Home Care to Corporate Compliance Plans * Situations that Trigger Compliance Exposure in Home Health Care * The Legal Context for Corporate Compliance Plans * Voluntary Corporate Compliance Plans * The Involuntary Approach to Compliance * Corporate Compliance: Risk Management Challenges and Strategies * Appendix A: Federal Reg. 61: HCFA - Medicare and State Health Care Programs; Fraud and Abuse; Safe Harbors for Protecting Health Plans * Appendix B: Federal Reg. 63: HCFA - Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Physical Referrals to Health Care Entities with which They have Financial Relationships * Appendix C: Federal Reg. 63: HCFA - Medicare and State Health Care Programs; Surety Bond and Capitalization Requirements for Home Health Agencies * Index

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