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Medical Director Symposia

Medical Director Symposia: Care Guidelines Use in Medical Management

Medical Director Symposia provides web seminars for medical directors, physician advisors, nurse case managers and other clinicians who use our solutions. These informal one-hour sessions provide attendees an opportunity to explore new guideline features, evolving medical treatments and technology, and general healthcare-related issues that impact our clients. MCG editors, MCG subject matter experts, and clinical education staff lead the webinars and are available to answer questions.

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  • Levels of Care in the Acute Setting
  • Overview of New Multiple Condition Management Guidelines
  • What’s New in the 19th Edition?
  • Chronic Care Enhancements
  • Overview of Indicia Solutions
  • Applied Behavioral Analysis & Mental Health Parity: MCG Impact
  • Overview of Cite AutoAuth Module Solution
  • NICU Levels of Care Management
  • Utilization Statistics for Post-acute Care
  • New Transitions of Care Guidelines
  • CareWebQI Reporting
  • Surgical Robotics

Levels of Care in the Acute Setting

January 15, 2015
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT/1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
Julie Meyer, RN, MSN, CCM, CTT+, Lead Clinical Educator

Learning Objectives

  1. Identify care guidelines level of care resources
  2. Apply the level of care resources
  3. Differentiate between the inpatient and observation level of care guidelines
  4. Define the prematurity guideline stages of care
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Overview of New Multiple Condition Management Guidelines

February 19, 2015
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT/1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
Bill Rifkin, MD, FACP, FHM, Managing Editor

Learning Objectives

  1. >Recognize the distinguishing features of the new Multiple Condition Management guidelines
  2. Describe patients for which the new Multiple Condition Management content applies
  3. >Define clinically active comorbidities
  4. Define Multiple Condition Benchmark Length of Stay (MBLOS)
  5. Apply the new Multiple Condition Management guidelines for patients with two active conditions requiring concomitant management
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What's New in the 19th Edition?

March 19, 2015
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT/1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
Rebecca A. Jordan, RN, BSN, CTT+, Curriculum Developer/Clinical Educator

Learning Objectives

  1. Identify the 19th edition content, format and  functionality changes and enhancements
  2. Demonstrate how to access the Summary of Changes
  3. Summarize product-by-product revised, enhanced and reorganized clinical content
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Chronic Care Enhancements

April 16, 2015
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT/1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
Angela Askren-Gonzalez, RN, MSN, CMC, Managing Editor Post-acute Care

Learning Objectives

  1. Explain the enhancements to the Chronic Care content
  2. Identify the purpose and benefits for the use of this content
  3. Recall information regarding future enhancements to Chronic Care
  4. Generate feedback on format, content and usability
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Overview of Indicia Solutions

May 21, 2015
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT/1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
Marivie Lanter, RN, BSN, Senior Product Manager
Dawn Vande Moortel, RN, MS, CTT+, Senior Product Consultant

Learning Objectives

  1. Describe how Indicia for Utilization Review provides quick and easy access for level of care decisions
  2. Demonstrate how Indicia for Case Management helps improve clinical and financial outcomes
  3. Explain how Indicia for Admission Support can help physicians document length of stay expectations to mitigate the risk of short-stay patient status denials by both Medicare and commercial health plan reviewers 
  4. Demonstrate how to effectively and efficiently manage observation stays through to admission or discharge 
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Applied Behavioral Analysis & Mental Health Parity: MCG Impact

June 18 , 2015
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT/1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
Monique Yohanan, MD, MPH, Editor

Learning Objectives

  1. Gain a general familiarity with the history of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) regulations
  2. Describe the impact of the MHPAEA regulations on Essential Health Benefits
  3. Define Applied Behavioral Analysis and its role in the treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders
  4. Identify how current MCG content addresses Applied Behavioral Analysis
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Overview of Cite AutoAuth Module Solution

July 16, 2015
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT/1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
Bill Hughes, Senior Product Manager
Bob Barbo, Senior Product Owner

Learning Objectives

  1. Identify trends in medical authorizations
  2. Demonstrate workflow associated with automating the authorization process
  3. Describe capabilities of the Auto Authorization solution
  4. Recall strategies to optimize physician adoption of the automated authorization process
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NICU Levels of Care Management

August 20, 2015
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT/1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
Mindy Lazor, RN, BSN, CCM, RN-BC, CCP, CTT+, Senior Clinical Educator

Learning Objectives

  1. Identify neonatal levels of care
  2. Apply the Neonatal Level of Care guidelines to determine the appropriate level of care
  3. Use evidence-based care guidelines content to manage neonates through the appropriate levels of care
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Utilization Statistics for Post-acute Care

September 17, 2015
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT/1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
John Ninomiya, PhD, MSc, FSA, Director, Epidemiology and Health Services Research
Angela Askren-Gonzalez, RN, MSN, CMC, Managing Editor, Post-acute Care

Learning Objectives

  1. Recognize the major determinants of skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities and home care utilization rates
  2. Describe how length of stay and visit benchmarks for MCG post-acute care guidelines are developed
  3. Recall the additional types of post-acute care statistics available from MCG
  4. Locate post-acute care information on the MCG Benchmarks and Data Website 
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New Transitions of Care Guidelines

October 15, 2015
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT/1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
Angela Askren-Gonzalez, RN, MSN, CMC, Managing Editor Post-acute Care

Learning Objectives

  1. Describe the new Transitions of Care guidelines
  2. Identify the purpose and benefits for the use of this content
  3. Generate feedback on format, content and usability
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CareWebQI Reporting

November 19, 2015
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT/1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
Jason Taylor, RN, BSN, CTT+, VCTT+, Lead Clinical Educator

Learning Objectives

  1. Define the CareWebQI report types
  2. Demonstrate how to run, view, copy and modify a standard report
  3. Create a basic new report
  4. List the steps required to create a CareWebQI custom report “from scratch”
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Surgical Robotics

December 17, 2015
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT/1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
Alan Greenfield, MD, MBA, Editor

Learning Objectives

  1. Describe the development of robotics and its advantages over manual surgical techniques
  2. Identify and categorize various surgical robot types
  3. Describe specialty-specific robotic applications
  4. Describe the difference between MCG’s 16th and 19th editions regarding evidence supporting various robotic applications
  5. Describe ongoing robot-assisted application development
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