For the Record: Best Practices for the Employer, Employee and Clinic

Legal Issues in the Workplace:
The Employer and Employee Perspective

(9 a.m. – Noon)

Knowing how to best handle legal issues that arise in the workplace is essential to the success of large and small clinics, employers and their employees. Join this interactive session where a panel of legal and human resources professionals will delve into some of the issues and questions most frequently faced, including those specific to health care work environments. Topics will include:

• Employees—From Start to Finish: Hiring dos and don’ts; background and reference checks; performance reviews; personnel records; and when the relationship ends.
• Protection of the Clinic and its Employees: The employee handbook; social media, employees and privacy; the employee as a patient; privacy and conflicts; identity theft; and fraud and embezzlement.

Panelists Thomas Shorter, JD, Moderator, Godfrey & Kahn SC; Martin (Marty) Kohler, JD, Kohler & Hart LLP; C. Wade Harrison, Esq., Godfrey & Kahn, SC; Jean Marsch, MBA, St. Vincent Hospital, Green Bay; Faith Mondry, JD, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Wisconsin Office

Read panelists' bios here.

Lunch: Wisconsin Legislative Update

(Noon – 1 p.m.)

Mark Grapentine, JD, the Society’s senior vice president of government relations, will share information about legislative issues that impact physicians, clinics, patients and more. With all of the news at the state Capitol this year, here’s your chance to hear first hand what’s happening related to health care.

Compliance—From the Paper to the Electronic Record and Everywhere in Between

(1 – 4 p.m.)

Whether you maintain a paper record, have moved to electronic or are somewhere in between, compliance is an ongoing concern. In addition, expanded health care fraud and abuse laws and final HIPAA regulations (from the Affordable Care Act of 2010) are due this spring. During this interactive session, panelists will examine compliance as it relates to medical records. Topics will include:

• Documentation Issues: Templates and cloned documentation; amending notes; self-disclosure protocols.
• Retention and Destruction Guidelines: Policies and procedures, including hybrid records; storage requirements; destruction rules and statute of limitations.
• Privacy and Security Risks: Remote employees and outsourced service providers; business associate agreements; perceived vs. real breaches; changes to HIPAA.

Panelists Penny Osmon, Moderator, Wisconsin Medical Society; Carrie Aiken, SVA Health Care Services; Brett Aiken, WPS Medicare Part B; Sally Ihenfeld, JD, von Briesen & Roper; Carrie Norbin Killoran, JD, Aurora Health Care

Read panelists' bios here.


Questions?
Call the Education Department at 866.442.3820 (toll free) or e-mail Stephanie Taylor.