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How to get Men in the Door: Benefits
to the Whole Family Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Alfonso Carlon,
Project Director, Cardea - Austin, TX Oscar Raúl López,
Proprietor and Lead Trainer, Connected Health Solutions - New York,
NY Efrain Franco, Jr.,
Male Central Clinic Director, Family Planning of the Coastal Integrating male sexual and reproductive health services into family
planning settings is essential for public health. Men need and have a
right to a range of medical and, in particular, educational and
counseling services to protect their own health and well-being, as well
as to equip themselves to be better partners and fathers. This session
completes this two-part webinar.
By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:
Three
Men and a Webinar: Integrating Males into Family Planning Settings
Speakers:
Coastal Blend – Corpus Christi, TX
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Date:
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Speakers:
- Alfonso Carlon, Project Director, Cardea - Austin, TX
- Oscar Raúl López, Proprietor and Lead Trainer, Connected Health Solutions - New York, NY
- Efrain Franco, Jr., Male Central Clinic Director,
Family Planning of the Coastal
Coastal Blend – Corpus Christi, TX
Integrating male sexual and reproductive health services into family planning settings is essential for public health. Men need and have a right to a range of medical and, in particular, educational and counseling services to protect their own health and well-being, as well as to equip themselves to be better partners and fathers. This is the first of a two-part webinar.
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Title: Understanding the Submission and Remittance Process for the Ambulatory Patient Group (APG) Payment System for Family Planning Providers
Date: Tuesday,
December 6, 2011
Speakers: Ann
Finn, Provider Consulting Solutions, Inc.; Robert Tompkins, Provider
Consulting Solutions, Inc.
Description:
This is a presentation of the New York State Center of Excellence for Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services for New York State family planning providers.
The purpose of the Webinar, “Understanding the Submission and Remittance Process for the Ambulatory Patient Group (APG) Payment System for Family Planning Providers,” is to clarify the submission and remittance processes surrounding APG and Ordered Ambulatory Fee claims for fiscal and billing staff and administrators in the family planning setting. As a result of this presentation, participants will have a better understanding of how to submit claims to Medicaid using APGs, as well as common nuances in the family planning setting; be familiar with common issues relating to the 835 remittance file; recognize frequent causes for claims denials and understand how to manage denied claims; learn how to validate claim payments and adjust paid claims; and gain answers to questions about validating APG remittances and payments.
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Update: STD Treatment Guidelines
Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Speaker: Gale Burstein, MD, MPH, FAAP – University at Buffalo
PRCH Panelists:
- Monica Dragoman, MD, MPH, FACOG, Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center
- Francesco Leanza, MD, Beth Israel Medical Center/Residency in Urban Family Medicine/Institute for Urban Family Health
- Sarah B. Miller, MD, Montefiore Medical Group - Family Health Center (FHC)
The Region II Family Planning Training Center (Cicatelli Associates Inc.), in collaboration with the Region II STD/HIV Prevention Training Center, Part 1 (New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene) and Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health (PRCH), is pleased to announce a webinar on STD Treatment Guidelines. These guidelines are for the treatment of individuals who have or are at risk for STDs, and were updated by CDC in late 2010.
This 90-minute webinar will provide an overview of STD diagnosis and treatment, highlight the key changes in the CDC 2010 STD Treatment Guidelines and the latest gonorrhea antimicrobial therapy recommendations and explore strategies for accurately diagnosing and effectively treating patients with STDs or at risk for STDs in a clinic setting using case studies and a panel discussion.
This program is designed for clinicians and other staff who work in health care settings that provide clinical care for persons with or at risk for STDs. CME and CNE credits will be provided for FREE.
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Introduction to Medicaid Billing Using Ambulatory Patient Groups (APG) for Family Planning Providers
Date: Tuesday, October 18,
2011
Speakers: Ann Finn, Provider Consulting Solutions, Inc.; Steve
MacCormack, Provider Consulting Solutions, Inc.; Ronald Bass, New York
State Department of Health Office of Health Insurance Programs; Alan
Maughan, New York State Department of Health Office of Health Insurance
Programs
This is a presentation of the New York State Center of Excellence for Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services for New York State family planning providers.
New York State’s transition to the Ambulatory Patient Group (or “APG”) payment methodology has required considerable investments in time and resources from family planning providers. Fortunately, these upfront investments will be more than outweighed by the long-term benefits of having a Medicaid payment methodology that reflects the real cost of providing quality care. The purpose of this Webinar is to provide participants with a foundational knowledge of Medicaid billing using APGs.
Through this presentation, participants will learn the general payment and policy rules for the APG payment methodology; will become familiar with special payment rules and issues of special interest to family planning providers; and will gain an understanding of how family planning providers can maximize revenue by managing their claims to assure appropriate billing and payment. The program also will provide participants with a handful of concrete examples specific to the family planning setting to which they may refer.
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Accessing the Enhanced Medicaid Ambulatory Patient Group (APG)
Payment for Family Planning Providers
Speakers: Alan Maughan, New York State Department of Health Office of Health Insurance Programs; Ann Finn, Provider Consulting Solutions, Inc.; Lana MacCormack, Provider Consulting Solutions, Inc.
This is a presentation of the New York State Center of Excellence for Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services for New York State family planning providers.
The transition to the Ambulatory Patient Group (or “APG”) payment methodology has required considerable investments in time and resources from family planning providers. Fortunately, these upfront investments will be more than outweighed by the long-term benefits of having a Medicaid payment methodology that reflects the real cost of providing quality care. Beginning in July 2011, an enhanced Medicaid payment for federally designated family planning procedures further augmented the potential reimbursements available to providers.
At the end of this presentation, participants will have a better understanding of APG 875 for Contraceptive Management, including the rationale for its creation and policies for its use, including special circumstances and exceptions; and will recognize how the appropriate use of APG 875 will result in increased revenue. The program also will provide participants with a handful of concrete examples specific to the family planning setting to which they may refer.
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Human Trafficking: A Family Planning Perspective
Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Speaker: Sarah Grenzeback, Polaris Project, NHTRC Technical Assistance Coordinator
Human trafficking, a form of modern-day slavery where perpetrators profit from the control and exploitation of others, is considered to be one of the fastest growing criminal industries in the world. Victims of human trafficking include children involved in the sex trade, adults age 18 or over who are coerced or deceived into commercial sex acts, and anyone forced into different forms of "labor or services" against their will. Every year, human traffickers generate billions of dollars in profits by victimizing millions of people around the world, and in the United States.
At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to define human trafficking, identify contemporary issues of human trafficking that involve unequal distribution of human rights and labor practices, and describe the extent of the crime throughout Region II (NY, NJ, PR & USVI). This program will also provide participants with the tools to identify victim identification and assessment using various scenarios specific to family planning clinic settings.
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ICD 10 Coding: An Introduction
Date: Thursday, June 2, 2011
Speaker: Caroline Peucker, CPC, CPC-I
Priority Management Group, Inc (PMG)
The upcoming transition to ICD 10 will be the most significant change to family planning coding in over 20 years. The current diagnosis code set includes more than 9,000 codes. The updated ICD 10 list exceeds 150,000 code options. This transition will affect not only providers but billing and EMR systems, contract negotiations, and even front desk staff.
Webinar participants will understand the transition, common planning tools, cost estimates and finally an up-to-date schedule for the transition. This session is one not to miss, as its ramifications are far and wide throughout the organization.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Understand the why, when, and how of the impending transition to ICD 10.
- Identify areas throughout the organization which will be affected by this code update and begin the important planning process to ensure readiness.
- Understand the need for a well developed and carefully implemented training plan across the entirety of the organization.
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Capacity & Demand: Link to Increasing Access to Family Planning Services
Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Speakers: Dawn Middleton, BS, and Susan Gadon, MPA
Project Directors and Clinic Managers have influence and control over how health care delivery systems are designed and implemented including the allocation of resources. Decisions about how care is delivered and how resources are allocated have profound influence on access to services, patient outcomes, and staff satisfaction.
Understanding a health center’s capacity to serve the target population is the first step in planning for the delivery of clinical services to the community. It is the foundation upon which a Title X program should be planned, implemented and evaluated. Demand is the total patient request for care. If demand for care is greater than the capacity of the system, there will be a delay in providing care and reduced access. If the capacity of a program is greater than demand, then resources are being wasted. When capacity and demand are matched, delays to care are reduced, access improved, and program sustainability can be achieved.
This webinar will provide participants with some easy to use tools for estimating capacity and demand within their health centers along with some tips on how to shape capacity and demand to maximize available resources and enhance client outcomes .
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Maximizing Revenue through Billing Practices
March 24, 2011 and April 7, 2011Speaker: Raymond Jorgensen, CHBME
Along with many other organizations, family planning agencies are being squeezed across the country financially. Billing and coding inefficiencies and mistakes unfortunately are prevalent in many of these organizations.
Participants at
this two-part training learn the most common
errors and ways to improve these weaknesses. They understand best practices to strive for in the
billing and coding area. Finally, the sessions review proven methods
to maximize per-patient revenue while remaining compliant. These
sessions are a must for those organizations looking to increase revenue
and realize improvement in their coding and billing areas.
By the end of both sessions, participants
are able to:
- Understand the coding and billing processes at their family planning organization.
- Identify areas throughout the organization which affect reimbursement and areas to reduce inefficiency and improve collections.
- Understand the most significant mistakes which occur at family planning organizations from a billing and coding standpoint and how to avoid these issues.
NYS Mandatory Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse
February 16, 2011
Speakers:
Bernadette Hoppe, MA, JD, MPH, Attorney, The Littell House
Amanda Brown, MPH, Cicatelli Associates Inc.
For the past several years, CAI has offered face-to-face training programs on addressing issues around mandatory reporting of child abuse, which continues to be a major OPA priority. This ninety-minute webinar will include a presentation on the New York State laws on child abuse reporting with an emphasis on application in the Title X clinic setting. Participants will have the opportunity to explore strategies related to mandatory reporting as it pertains to serving adolescent clients.
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Preconception Counseling in Family Planning
January 19, 2011
Speakers:
Iris Stendig–Raskin, MSN, CRNP, WHNP-BC,
Clinician/Consultant
Amanda Brown, MPH,
Cicatelli Associates Inc.
Each year, Title X family planning centers provide reproductive health care and related preventive health services to millions of low-income and uninsured women. - Preconception Care aims to improve the health of women and couples, before conception of a first or subsequent pregnancy. Combining preconception care with family planning initiatives would be a significant step in reaching the dual goal of improving women's overall health and birth outcomes.
This webinar explored the knowledge and skills involved in offering preconception counseling services to family planning clients. Nursing Contact Hour(s) available for this webinar. Cicatelli Associates Inc. is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the New York State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
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Long Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC): Effective Methods for Adolescents
December 14, 2010
Speaker:
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecologyy
Mount Sinai Medical School
According to research conducted by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, half of all pregnancies in the United States are unplanned; this amounts to about 3 million unplanned pregnancies each year. Three in ten girls in the U.S. get pregnant at least once by age 20. Despite the increasing availability of contraceptives, unintended pregnancy remains a national problem.
According to studies, one strategy that can reverse this alarming trend is the increased use of long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods. LARC methods are reversible and require no daily or coital adherence. They include the following: copper intrauterine devices (IUDs), progestogen-releasing intrauterine system, and injectable and implantable contraceptives. Despite their safety and efficacy records, LARC methods remain underutilized.
This webinar explored the role that LARC methods (with appropriate contraceptive counseling) can play in reducing unintended pregnancy rates, particularly among adolescents. It reviewed the various LARC methods, a discussion of misconceptions surrounding LARC methods, and case studies of appropriate candidates for these methods.
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Improving Reproductive Health Through the Use
of Family Planning Health Educators in a Clinical Setting
October 28, 2010
Speaker:
Yael S. Lipton, MPH, CHES
Director of Health Education, Community Healthcare Network
This webinar
explored the successes and challenges of one family planning
agency’s comprehensive family planning health education program/model,
which uses health educators to counsel and educate patients who present
for family planning services in the clinic setting. This presentation
focused on the methods, results, next steps, limitations, and
benefits that family planning health educators bring to clinical
settings. Additionally, the presentation provided guidance to family
planning clinical providers on starting their own health education
programs using health educators.
As a result of this webinar, participants were able to a) describe
how health educators are used to educate family planning patients in a
clinical setting, b) discuss the results of one agency’s program
evaluation, including the benefits of having health educators in the
clinical settings as well as the positive impact they have on patient
outcomes, and c) discuss steps to implementing their own family planning
health education program using health educators.
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Implementing Evidence-Based Practices: Quick Start
June 16, 2010
Speaker: Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mount Sinai Medical SchoolHistorically, women have been instructed to postpone starting hormonal contraceptives until the next menses. However, research has revealed that most women can safely begin taking hormonal contraception (and even be provided an IUD) on the same day of their clinic visit, without having undergone a Pap smear, and at any point in the menstrual cycle (Quick Start method). This webinar will review evidence-based protocols and practices to support the design and delivery of reproductive health services to female family planning users that will facilitate enhanced access to contraception, streamlined clinical processes and enhanced patient outcomes.
Nursing Contact Hour(s) and Continuing Medical Education available for this webinar. Cicatelli Associates Inc. is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the New York State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
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Using New Media as Effective Communication Tools for Patient Recruitment and Retention
June 1, 2010
Speakers:
Rebecca Brookes, President, Upstream Social Marketing LLC;
Janelle Hutchinson, Health Educator, Oswego County Opportunities, Inc.The overwhelming majority of adolescents, as well as women ages 20-29, are completely “plugged in” to new media. These young women use online tools like Facebook, texting, blogs, Twitter, YouTube, and podcasting to educate themselves and make decisions, to purchase, and to communicate with one another. Yet many family planning organizations do not take advantage of the opportunities of new media, either as tools to interest and recruit new patients, or as methods of effective communication with existing patients.
This webinar will provide a brief overview of new media as well as concrete examples of how health providers use these tools to communicate, educate, and encourage use of services with their audiences.
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Title X Program Diagnostic Tool
May 26, 2010
Speaker: Dawn Middleton, Project Director
Cicatelli Associates Inc.In an environment of limited resources, conducting an evaluation of core areas of program operations to assess opportunities to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of Title X health service delivery structures becomes essential.
This webinar will review the use and application of a simple self administered diagnostic tool designed to support Title X programs in examining patterns of staff utilization and productivity, evaluate health center capacity as compared to demand for services and assess opportunities to enhance fiscal sustainability of program operations. Webinar proceedings will include Title X program staff sharing their experiences and findings from utilizing the diagnostic tool to assess program operations and how to utilize findings to identify areas for improvement.
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Implementing Evidence-Based Practices: Pap Smears
April 14, 2010
Speaker: Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mount Sinai Medical SchoolThe practice of annual Pap smear examination is largely a historical phenomenon. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) support the newly revised evidence-based guidelines regarding initiation of cervical screening as well as frequency of subsequent screening. Most cases of cervical cancer occur in women who are not screened adequately, as opposed to infrequently. Unnecessary screening of average women can have adverse economic, emotional, and future childbearing implications. This webinar will investigate the trend of decreasing the frequency of Pap smear exams and moving the baseline screening to 3 years after the start of sexual activity or age 21, whichever comes first.
Nursing Contact Hour(s) and Continuing Medical Education available for this webinar. Cicatelli Associates Inc. is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the New York State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
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Addressing Reproductive Health Inequities
March 18, 2010
Compelling evidence indicate that race and ethnicity correlate with persistent and often increasing health disparities among the U.S. population. Promoting health equities will require new knowledge about determinants of disease, causes of health disparities, and effective interventions for prevention and treatment. This webinar is intended to increase participant awareness about reproductive healthcare disparities and support Title X providers in considering ways to promote health equities within their clinic setting.
Nursing Contact Hour(s) and Continuing Medical Education available for this webinar.
Cicatelli Associates Inc. is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the New York State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
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Using New Media as Effective Communication Tools for Patient Recruitment and Retention
February 26, 2010
Speaker: Rebecca Brookes
President, Upstream Social Marketing LLCThe overwhelming majority of adolescents, as well as women 20-29, are completely “plugged in” to new media. These young women use online tools like texting, blogs, Twitter, YouTube, and podcasting to educate themselves and make decisions, to purchase, and to communicate with one another. Yet many family planning organizations do not take advantage of the opportunities of new media, either as tools to interest and recruit new patients, or as methods of effective communication to existing patients.
This webinar will provide a brief overview of new media as well as concrete examples of how health providers use these tools to communicate, educate, and encourage use of services with their audiences.
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Clinical Services for Males
January 14, 2010Family Planning agencies have been working for many years to involve males in reproductive health care. This effort is being heightened by the direct provision of health services to males in communities. This training will focus on the clinical protocols, issues and skills needed, to provide clinical services to males.
The webinar will address the following topic areas: performing the male exam, STD and HIV testing and treatment, and health education strategies.
1.5 Nursing Contact Hour(s) available for this webinar. Cicatelli Associates Inc. is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the New York State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
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The Changing Role of the Family Planning Health Educator
June 2, 2009
April 2, 2009Fast Track: Increasing Access to Reproductive Health Care Services for Adolescents by Implementing Evidence-Based Protocols
Dawn Middleton, Project Director, CAI
U.S. Preventive Service Task Force Pap Guidelines
Practical Strategies for Implementing Comprehensive
Male Service Programs
January 29, 2009Download PowerPoint presentation (PPT)
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