Subjects available:

• Built environment (see "safety standards")
• Core measures
• Emergency management standards
• Emergency preparedness
• Geropsychiatric inpatient programs
• HIPAA (confidentiality)
• Medicare including:
  • inpatient psychiatric PPS (IPPPS);
  • outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS)
  • partial hospitalization
  • conditions of participation surveys;
  • getting paid for inpatient psychiatric Medicare days: complying with local coverage determinations;
  • and more
  • also see "recovery audit contractors"
• Parity implementation ("New Regulations Explained by the Nation's Leading Analysts and Experts")
• Partial hospitalization (.pdf)
• Performance measurement  (see "core measures ")
• Recovery audit contractors (RACs)
• Restraint and seclusion ("Restraint and Seclusion Final Rule: Implementing the CMS Hospital Patients' Rights Conditions of Participation")
• Safety standards ("Safety and the Built Environment:  Helping Behavioral Healthcare Organizations Stay Up to the Minute," "Building for Tomorrow: Creating a Patient-Centered Built Environment," "Managing Risk in Behavioral Health Care," "Enhancing the Safety of the Physical Environment," "Environment-of-Care Standards," "Emergency Preparedness: Lessons Learned by Behavioral Healthcare Organizations That Have Survived Disasters," etc. Also see "Emergency Management Standards.")
• Smoking cessation
• Staffing
• Suicide
• Quality ("Managing Today's Challenging Behavioral Health Inpatient Treatment Demands")

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