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Workshop Title: HIPAA Briefing

Workshop Duration: 3-4 hours


TARGET AUDIENCE:

From the medical community: physicians; dentists; nurses; therapists; chiropractors; medical and dental technicians. From off-shore outsourcing services community: medical billers, medical transcription providers, call-centers, etc. From the infrastructure and administrative support community: policy makers, regulators, educators, researchers, hospital and medical facility administrators, lawyers and those interested with healthcare treatment, payment and operations (TPO).


WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES:

  1. Trace and link HIPAA workflow in a microcosm of healthcare day-to-day operations and processes.
  2. Introduce off-shore medical billing, medical transcription and other healthcare outsourcing services in addressing HIPAA business issues and contingencies.
  3. Introduce policy makers, regulators, educators, researchers, hospital and medical facility administrators and lawyers in harmonizing Philippine healthcare delivery standards to U.S. standards.
  4. Introduce medical practitioners in adopting best practices and lessons learned based on the HIPAA model.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

On August 21, 1996, President Clinton signed into law the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191 (HIPAA). Critical dates of the mandate are: October 15, 2002 - for the submission of completed Transaction and Code Set (TCS) Extension form with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; April 14, 2003 (April 14, 2004 for entities less than $5M gross per year) for the implementation of the Privacy ruling; and, October 16, 2003 for the implementation of the TCS component. The primary objectives of the legislation are: reduce fraud; achieve healthcare coverage portability; achieve administrative simplification; and, achieve patient privacy and security.

Utilizing diabetes management program case studies, the workshop will trace HIPAA TCS, privacy and security implementations (or applications) and workflow in multi-disciplinary and multiple layers of covered entities, business associates and vendors, including but not limited to Independent Physician Practice, dentists, IPAs, MSOs, Payers, Medical Billers, Software Vendors, Hospitals, Insurance Companies, HMOs, PPOs, DMEs, TPAs, Pharmacies, Therapists, Nursing Homes, Home Health, Hospices, Clearinghouse, Dental Office, Patient Record Services, Medical Transcription Services, Laboratories, Banks/Financial Services, etc.


RESOURCE SPEAKERS:

Manuel A. Sison, M.D.
Medical Ophthalmology and Ocular Surgery
Diplomate, American Board of Ophthalmology

Yolanda Sison
Continuing Medical Education Coordinator, Philippine Medical Association of Southern California, an accredited provider of CME for physicians by the California Medical Association Institute of Medical Quality since 1995.

David Paraiso Jr.
Director HIPAA Programs, Healthcare Coalition Institute
Instructor, University of California


BACKGROUND:

The contents of this Briefing are based on HIPAA pilots that the HIPAA Coalition has been conducting since November 2001. This course is an extract and subset of a CME Workshop: HIPAA Implementations in Diabetes Management Programs for physicians conducted in the state of California, and classified as levels 1-2, in a scale of 1-5. Other follow-up courses are available. Medical specialists from several hospitals and disciplines participated in developing this program.


VENUE:
AIM ACCEED Conference Center, Paseo de Roxas Avenue, Makati City, Philippines


DATE:
November 19, 2002, 2:00-5:00pm


REGISTRATION FEE:
P300.00, Seats are limited on first-come, first-served basis.


CONTACT US:
Fiera de Manila (632) 896-0637, 890-2101; Email: fiera@info.com.ph



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