Issue

• Title

Page

20.1
Winter

• Change to eRA Commons

8

2007

• Perspectives of a new chair

10

• Searching for my new boss

11

• Becoming a contracted provider – Issues and challenges

12

• Institute of Medicine report: Cancer care and psychiatry

15

• Strategies for improving behavioral health hospital services

17

• OIG 2008 workplan and psychiatry

18

• Consultation documentation

19

19.4
Fall

• 14 ways to prevent no-shows

6

2007

• Tamperproof prescriptions

7

• NIH electronic submission errors

12

• NIH Financial Status Report

1

• Analyzing your organization’s profitability by service line and contract

11

• Clarification of CMS provider number nomenclature

15

19.3
Summer

• Mentoring and professionalism

7

2007

• Commonwealth medicine: Applied knowledge in public service

8

• Functional magnetic resonance imaging: Bridging the science between animal and human research

10

• The next generation: Integrated mental and physical health care

10

• Analyzing your organization’s profitability by service line and contract

11

• Clarification of CMS provider number nomenclature

15

• NIH announces changes to eRA Commons

16

19.2
Spring

• CMS publishes final patient rights rule on use of restraint and seclusion

5

2007

• NIH eSubmission news

8

• The research “piece of the pie”

10

19.1
Winter

• Shared departmental governance

6

2006

• The darker side of physician practice

7

• Women’s mental health – prenatal depression

8

• Mind-body medicine

9

• Staff development: Defining a culture

11

• CMS hospital death reporting requirement

12

• Medicare discharge notice final rule

13

• Resource center on psychiatric advance directives

13

• Faculty charged 100% to sponsored programs

14

18.4
Fall 2006

• Multiple principal investigators coming

4

• NIH policy on late submission of grant applications

5

• CPT changes and additions

10

• Inpatient psychiatry PPS co morbidity changes

11

• How successful people stay successful

12

• UM Med School software keeps track of business

13

18.3
Summer

• Volunteering for Katrina: A Psychiatrist as a General Practitioner in Louisiana

8

2006

• JCAHO Performance Measures: Hospital-Based inpatient psychiatric measures

9

• Effort reporting at Northwestern University after the NIH/DoJ settlement

10

• Strategies for personal effectiveness

11

• New Institute of Medicine report on improving quality of mental health care

15

• NIH electronic grants submission

16

• Medicare provides payment increase, policy changes for inpatient psychiatric facilities

18

• Consultation billing checklist and FAQ

19

18.2
Spring

• Academic administrators can help their practices by helping their residents

2006

• National Business Group on Health unveils employer guide to behavioral health services

• Medicare prescription formulary website launched

• New consultation codes

• CMS issues new non-physician consultation rules

• EDs address influx of psych patients

18.1

• Playing in the same academic sandbox

• Prescriptive authority for psychologists: Demand and training requirements

• Telemedicine: Lessons learned and future trends

• Building effective teams: A group dynamics model

• Disease management initiatives for the severely and persistently mentally ill

• National provider identifier (NPI): Not just another number

• New CPT codes for psychological testing effective January 1, 2006

• CMS physician voluntary reporting program

17.4

• Mental illness stigmas receding, misconceptions remain

Summer 2005

• Developing a compensation report card

• Good Leadership requires good conflict management

• FDA approves Cyberonics' VNS Therapy System for treatment resistant depression (TRD)

• Billing for VNS services

17.3

• Academic psychiatry and managed care: An innovative approach

Summer 2005

• There’s no place like home

• Quality outcome assessment program development

• Developing the nation’s first depression center

• Mental health care in unsuspecting places: The need for further integration of medical-psychiatric care

• Place of service coding

• Children’s inpatient Medicaid funding in jeopardy

17.2

• Administrators must link physician production, academis's mission

Spring 2005

• From apathy to epiphany: How to train residents in practice management

• Pointers ensure that academic practices collect their due from clinical trails

• NIH establishes webstie for new investigators

• Implementation of Office of Human Research Protections guidance on research involving coded private information and bilogical specimens

17.1

• The evolution of AAP

Winter 2005

• Business development - the Chair's Perspective

• Planning new service delivery programs in the land of managed care

• Maintaing and growing an outpatient community mental health center

• One world, one medicine: International healthcare business development

• New Medicare inpatient prospective payment system

• Lawmakers pass mental health/criminal justice bill

• Overtime rules change affects RN, Pas and other medical professionals

• Final 2005 impace chart released for physician payment

16.4

• Academic practice self-assessment tool

4

Summer 2004

• Bridging the physician-administrator communication gap

6

16.3

• Integrating psychiatry into mainstream medicine

4

Spring 2004

• Research infrastructure

5

• Medicare prospective payment system for inpatient psychiatry facilities

7

• Teaching residents

8

• Telemedicine in psychiatry

9

• Next level performance: Executive coaching for academic administrators

9

• Dealing with institutional culture change

10

• Medicare incentive payments for physician care in underserved areas

14

• A dozen ways to improve billing

15

• CMS releases instructions on incident-to billing

16

• When is it better to be professionally rude?

16

• Government limits areas eligible for foreign physicians

17

16.2
Winter 2003

• Preparing psychiatrist-in-training for service in the community

6

16.1
Fall 2003

• Faculty clinical productivity and successful business practices

6

• Clinical trial program development

7

• Clinical contract management

7

• Integrating family practice with psychiatry

8

• Conflict management

9

• Institute of Medicine report: Research training in psychiatry – Strategies for reform

13

• HHS issues guidance regarding services to limited English proficient persons

20

15.4
Summer

• New study reveals widespread HIPAA noncompliance in emails

4

2003

• President’s commission offers prescription for broken mental health system

6

15.3

• The academic-public partnership

8

Spring 2003

• Faculty pay: Changing a culture

9

• Research roundtables

9

• Denial management – How to track denials if your computer won’t

13

15.2
Spring 2003

• Behavioral health groups publish “Learning from each other: Success stories and ideas for reducingrestraint and seclusion in behavioral health”

5

• CMS clarification of teaching physician documentation

8

• Impact of the HIPAA privacy rule on NIH processes involving the review, funding and progress monitoring of grants, cooperative agreements, and research contracts

9

• HIPAA privacy regs will have impact on use of patient health info in research

11

15.1

• Fostering quality care – A challenge to administrators

4

Winter 2002

• How are we doing – Using clinical financial indicators

4

• Developing an investment strategy – The hows and whys of rebalancing a portfolio

5

• Healthcare systems and financing issues for the academic psychiatry department

6

• Successful development and operation of an integrated delivery network

7

• Regulations, rules and compliance

8

14.4
Fall 2002

• To have and to hold – But for how long? Guidelines for records retention

4

• Compliance – What’s good about a necessary evil?

6

• How HIPAA affects the use and disclosure of health information for research

9

14.3

• How to survive your chair and the dean’s office

7

Summer 2002

• Psychiatry consults – Maximizing reimbursements

7

• Administrative leadership with an academic unit

9

• Outpatient psychiatry financial feasibility – Some new ideas

12

14.2
Spring

• Nation’s first comprehensive Depression Center to be established at the University of Michigan

6

2002

• Administrators and chairs – Working effectively together

7

• Do we have to keep updating our policies and procedures

8

• New codes for health and behavior assessment and intervention

13

• CPT coding for ECT

13

14.1

• Behavioral health trends

3

Winter 2001

• Revenue enhancements to clinical care

4

• Financial reporting: What is critical for us to know

5

• Non-clinical revenue enhancement in the department of psychiatry – Medical College of Ohio

10

13.4
Fall 2001

• Behavioral healthcare treatment organizations face challenges in collecting performance measures

4

• Get patient’s consent before using e-mail

5

• To make the most of your temps, manage them

6

13.3

• Psychiatry – Past, present and future

6

Summer 2001

• Dynamics of a public and community psychiatry program at an academic health center

6

• Faculty incentive plans

7

• The FISH philosophy

8

• Implementing an electronic medical record in psychiatry

9

• HHS issues new protections for children in Medicaid psychiatric residential treatment centers

11

13.2
Spring 2001

• 8 steps to avoid billing mistakes

9

13.1

• Issues affecting psychiatry

6

Winter 2000

• Preparing for Medicare review

6

• The fundamentals of mission based management

7

• Using RVU’s to measure clinical productivity

9

• New perspective on inpatient psychiatry costs

9

• Treating the whole person: University of Michigan Health System, Washtenaw County launch Nation’s first program linking mental and physical health for Medicaid, indigent patients

10

• Medicare coverage policy change – Clinical trials

12

12.4
Fall 2000

• The value of measuring health care quality

4

12.3

• Leadership

3

Summer 2000

• Coding and documentation to maximize clinical revenues

4

• Federal mental health initiatives

4

• Fundraising strategies for departments of psychiatry

5

• Documentation basics

8

12.2

• Dealing with complaints

4

Spring 2000

• How to code E&M and win

8

12.1
Winter

• Psychiatry and the new millennium: Past, present and future perspectives for leadership

5

1999

• Setting, tracking and measuring clinical productivity

6

• Administrative/medical leadership effectiveness

7

• Effective ways to improve billings and collections

8

11.4
Fall 1999

• What is the Emotional IQ of your company?

6

11.3
Summer

• Integration vs. isolation: Moving psychiatry into the next millennium

4

1999

• Academic MBHOs: What they bring to the academic health center

5

• Conflict in workgroups

5

• Telemedicine in psychiatry

6

• Creating a culture for excellence in customer service

7

• Medicare coverage of psychological testing

10

11.2
Spring 1999

• How to appeal managed care reimbursement denials

7

11.1

• Building adequate infrastructures with inadequate resources

6

Winter 1998

• A historical perspective on strategic planning for psychiatry within an academic medical model

6

• Strategies for selecting an enterprise information system

7

• Challenges and implications of electronic medical records

8

• Performance benchmarking – Tools for analysis and communication

12

• Do you want to be the “best practice?”

12