Murer Consultants, Inc. is a firm designed to solve the problems of their clients in an efficient manner. Yet without proper training, the problem can never truly be resolved. While the firm utilizes in-house training, they also realize the potential of the ever-growing Internet world. Murer Consultants, Inc. formed alliances with two great publishing companies to bring their healthcare training to both the client and the public.

The following are lessons that have been written by Murer Consultants as part of a joint project between Murer Consultants, Commerce Clearing House (CCH) and Ernst & Young.

How online learning just may solve training's equivalent of Y2K
E-Learning's Greatest Test - (Hippa Information)

The lessons are as follows:
Academic Medical Centers
HIPAA for Managed Care
Medicare Billing for Nurse Practitioner
Advance Notification of Medicare Non-coverage
HIPAA Fundamentals
Medicare Managed Care Organizations Marketing Agents
Advanced EMTALA
HIPAA Overview
Myocardical Perfusion Imaging
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Medical Records
HIPAA Privacy for AMCs
OIG Compliance Guidance for Nursing Facility Caregivers
Ambulatory Surgical Centers
HIPAA Privacy Rule
OIG Compliance Guidance for SNF Managers
Anti-Kickback Law & Ambulance Restocking
HIPAA and Workstation Security
Partial Hospitalization Program
Basic EMTALA
Home Health Payment Issues
Patient Rights:  Privacy, Confidentiality, & Care Participation
Basic Hospital Patient Rights
Home Health:  Plan of Care and Quality Services
Patient Rights:  Restraints & Seclusion
Business Associate Contracts
Hospice:  Eligibility, Election, & Referrals
Peer Review Organizations
Communications with Plan Sponsors
Patients Rights, Notification, Informed Consent and Advance Directories
Physician Billing at Teaching Hospitals (PATH)
Compliance for Physicians
Hospital Pharmacy Compliance
Physician Compliance:  The Stark Law
Compliance Process I:  Elements
Incident to Physician Practitioner
Physician False Claims & Anti-Kickback Law
Compliance Process II:  Anonymous Reporting Systems and Prevention Violations
Introduction to APCs
Physician Recruitment & Tax-Exempt Status

 

Compliance Process III:  Reporting, Investing and Responding to Compliance Complaints
Introduction to Compliance
Physician Recruitment:  Anti-Kickback & Stark Law
Compliance with Outpatient Technical Modifiers
Introduction to Compliance:  Managed Care
Provider-Based Designation
Consent & Authorization
Introduction to Therapy Billing
Psychiatric Hospitals
Cost Allocation:  Home Office
Laboratory Conditions of Participation
Rehab PPS
Duties of the Hospital Board
Lab II
Reimbursement for Observational Services
E&M Coding Part I
Managed Care:  Prohibited Marketing Activities
Related Party Transactions
E&M Coding Part II
Medical Necessity Certification:  Durable Medical Equipment
Reserve Cost Reports
EMTALA & Managed Care
Marketing, Fundraising and the Use of Protected Health Information Under HIPAA
Prescription & False Claims

 

Essentials of Compliance for Department Managers
Medical Necessity Certification:  Home Health Services
Skilled Nursing Facilities  II
Fundamentals of Compliant Hospital Billing
Medical Necessity Certification:  Skilled Nursing Facility
The 3-Day Window Rule
Fundamentals of Compliant Hospital Coding
Medical Records

 

The Discharge-Transfer Rule
Gainsharing
Medicare Allowable Bad Debt
Therapy Billing in Post-Acute Care
Gifts & Gratuities
Medicare Allowable Costs
  Upcoding:  Basic Principles & Three High Risk DRGs
Health Plans and Written Communication 
Medicare as Secondary Payor
 

These lessons can be found on the web at www.complianceedge.com