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• Medicare
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Compliance Watch helps you keep up with regulatory changes and best practices in corporate compliance. Compliance Watch is an e-newsletter (for paid subscribers only) published quarterly by the National Council and edited by Mary Thornton.

This insightful newsletter includes analysis of government audits, rules development, enforcement and oversight activities, and articles by experts who share successes in reducing audit and investigatory risk while maintaining high clinical standards.

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Table of Contents for December 2009

• OIG Work Plan for FY2010
  Michael Lau
• DC Medicaid Integrity Review
  Anne Weiss
• Medicare Integrity
  Cynthia Aviles, Tamie Case, Mary Farrington
• Children & Antipsychotics
  Mary Thornton
• Impact of IMD Rules
  Mary Thornton
• Be Wary of Documentation “Shortcuts”
  Michael Lau
• Ask the Expert
  Mary Thornton
• Part Time Compliance
  Mary Meacham
• Treatment Planning
  Scott Migdole
• Compliance News

Case Management

• Targeted case management rate setting — CMS staff tutorial
• National Council Live Webinar
  Case Management: Implications of Recent Federal Activities
  Barbara Edwards and Mary Thornton, Sept 23, 2008

• Recording
• Barbara Edwards presentation
• Mary Thornton presentation
• Case management inventory of support services
  (from Pennsylvania Department of Health)

• Targeted case management provisions in Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008

• HHS letter to state child welfare and Medicaid directors clarifying targeted case management services
• Case management and targeted case management definitions in the Deficit Reduction Act 2006: CMS Interim Final Rule
• Case management Q&A from the National Association of State Medicaid Directors

Medicaid

• Minnesota statutes for payment of medical services in county correctional facilities 
• National Council issue brief: Continuity of care for justice involved individuals with mental illness
• Health Care Financing Administration's letter to state Medicaid directors on review of federal policies  to facilitate fulfillment of the Americans with Disabilities Act
• Supplemental Appropriations Act, Public Law 110-252
• Medicaid coverage for rehabilitative services: CMS Proposed Rule

Medicare

• Estimated cost savings to Medicare if improper Part B services were reduced: OIG Recommendations
• Medicare payments for Part B mental health services: CMS provider education article

Continuing Education

The National Council, in partnership with Essential Learning, offers nearly 300 e-learning courses to help ensure that employees are trained in compliance with state, federal and accrediting organizations’ requirements:

• OSHA requirements
• JCAHO Standards
• COA Standards
• CARF Standards
• Michigan Residential Services
• Tennessee Department of Children’s Services
• District of Columbia MHRS 708 Curriculum

We also offer a complete organizational Learning Management System with a continuously updated course library and systems to track and monitor employee training for compliance purposes. All learning resources are discounted for National Council members.