Ethics and Risk Management in the Age of the Affordable Care Act: Everything You Didn't Want to Know and Were Afraid to Ask

Friday, June 10, 2016
Registration: 8 - 9 a.m.
Program: 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Ewald Conference Center
1000 Westgate Drive
Saint Paul, MN  55114

Earn 6 Continuing Education Credits and eligibility to receive a 15% discount off your Trust Sponsored Professional Liability Policy premium

About the Program

Workshop Sequence VI diverges from The Trust's typical approach to risk management training.  Rather than focusing primarily on specific risk issues in psychological practice and strategies that minimize them, this workshop will focus on ethical and risk management issues as they relate to the broader changes in psychological practice that we and other observers believe are and will be generated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

This workshop will attempt to describe the changes we and other observers see coming and add some preliminary thoughts about strategies for dealing with these changes. Good risk management requires facing these trends knowledgeably and beginning to develop adaptive strategies.

In addition, this workshop will provide an updated focus on the changes in practice that will result from the digital information revolution.  The ACA will require practitioners to digitize their records with interactive capacities so that care can be more effectively coordinated.  More patients will want to communicate electronically, and there will be a great expansion of telepsychological services, both direct and adjunctive.  There will need to be changes in the ethics code and other regulations to separate private from professional activities, to allow different methods of marketing and practice promotion, and to deal with the complex issues presented by interjurisdictional practice.

This workshop will provide what we hope will be a beginning conversation about a process that will be with us for a number of years - changes which present dangers and opportunities for the profession of psychology.

Participants will be able to:

1. Summarize the basic principles of The Trust's Risk Management Strategy.
2. Identify three major changes in the organization and delivery of healthcare services that will impact psychological practice.
3. Develop a strategy for transitioning to and working with electronic health record systems.
4. Develop documentation strategies for interacting with medical homes and other medical healthcare delivery systems
5. Describe three boundary implications of technology and steps to address them.
6. Summarize the structure through which DHHS is increasing its HIPAA enforcement processes and their implications for practitioners.

Please note that APA CE rules require that we only give credit to those who attend the entire workshop. Those arriving more than 15 minutes after the scheduled start time or leaving before the workshop is completed will not receive CE credits and will not be eligible for the 15% insurance premium discount.

The Minnesota Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  The Minnesota Psychological Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

About the Presenter:

Daniel O. Taube, J.D., Ph.D., earned his J.D. from Villanova University in 1985 and this Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Hahnemann University in 1987, as a member of the Hahnemann/Villanova Joint Psychology and Law Graduate Program.  He is a Full Professor at the California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco at Alliant International University, past Psy.D. Program Director, founder and coordinator of the Forensic Family Child Track and member of the Child/Family Track. His areas of professional focus include ethical and legal issues in professional practice, child protection, addictions, and disabiliity and parenting.  In addition to his teaching and research interests, he has been in private practice for 23 years, has served on the APA Ethics Appeals Panel for the past 20 years, and taught graduate and professional level courses on ethical and legal issues in professional practice for 25 years.  Dr Taube regularly consults with a wide range of practitioners and community agencies regarding standards of practice and ethical concerns.

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Refund/Cancellation Policy: A 100% refund will be made if the event is cancelled. Refunds, less a $5 handling free, will be given if a written cancellation is received at least two working days before the scheduled program begins. Transfer of fee to another program is granted if written cancellation notice is received at least one day before the program. No refund or transfer is given the day of the program.