Issues in Hospital-based Practice

webinar series and online resource

What is the Issues in Hospital-based Practice Webinar Series and Online Resource?

These are zoom-based interviews and webinar sessions with hospital and healthcare system-based acupuncturist colleagues. Each session covers an identified issue in the healthcare system setting, focusing on the acupuncturist community. However, as you can see in our current issues list, these issues are common for most providers in the healthcare system-based integrative health community.

2023 update

Subscribing to the “Issues Bundle” gets you access to the current year Issues events and resources and previous year modules (2020-2021, 2022)

2023 Issues in Hospital-based Practice webinar series sessions scheduled

(as of January 3rd, 2022)

• Subscriber discount codes for tickets to the HHP’s Jan 2023 Inpatient Acupuncture conference. For current subscribers.

  • If you are interested in setting up an inpatient acupuncture service, go to the HHP’s 2023 Inpatient Acupuncture conference.

• E/M Documentation for LAcs with Denise Tyson, LAc. April 2023.

• Safety Practices for Healthcare System-based Acupuncturist clinicians, leads, and program managers. Presentation from the HHP’s Safety Practices Workgroup. date TBA.

• Presentation from the HHP’s Employment Practices Workgroup. date TBA.

• Team-based care skills and communication. date TBA.

• Review of the HHP’s COVID-19 Research Share Group collaboration. A research communication virtual group for the healthcare system-based LAc community, March 2020-Sept. 2021. presentation date TBA.

  • a co-presentation with the all-volunteer resource group leads Sandro Graca of EBA, Bobbee Vang of Midwest Acupuncturist Consortium, and Megan Kingsley Gale of the HHP.

• More inpatient coding for LAcs. A follow-up presentation + community discussion from the Jan 2023 Inpatient Acupuncture conference. date TBA.

Content covered in previous years that you have access to when you subscribe to the “Issues Bundle”

2022

• On ECHO®, the telementoring hub & spokes model (2022 bonus content)

• Inpatient Pediatric Acupuncture Program, highlighting the HHP's inpatient acupuncture discussion group. Interview with Dr. Risi Idiokitas, DAOM, of Children's National—April 2022

• How to Hire & Credential an LAc in Your Healthcare System: Revenue Generation & Clinician Retention—June 2022

• A Review of SOAP Basics for Acupuncturists (documentation). July 2022.

• Introduction to Safety Practices for LAcs and Program Managers. First public presentation from the HHP’s Safety Practices workgroup. Sept. 2022.

• Intro to Safety Practices for Healthcare System-based Acupuncturist clinicians, leads, and program managers with guest speaker Paul Magee. 3rd public presentation from the HHP’s Safety Practices workgroup. November 2022.

2020-2021

• Medical Library Access and How to Request a New Subscription for Your Workplace (2021 bonus content)

• Medicare, the Social Security Act, and Acupuncturists: what's the connection? April 2021 session with federal legislative integrative health expert Dr. Kallie Byrd Guimond, D.OM., MPH

• How do you schedule multiple integrative health providers (including 2 LAcs) in a patient-centered, team-based care functional rehab model? What does it look like? A conversation with schedule images and explanations with Dr. Tara Fernalld, DACM, MHA, IPMC clinician, Madigan Army Medical Center. May 2021.

• Synopsis of the Community discussions on Pandemic Prep & Response, spring 2020

• Telehealth Roundtable Event for Hospital-based Acupuncture Programs: Issues, Innovations, and Discussion, June 2020. This extensive resource is a stand-alone module that is “bundled” into access with a subscription to the Issues resource.

• Interview with Dr. Annie Budhathoki on her oncology acupuncture work at Huntsman Cancer Institute

• Webinar with Dr. Timothy Suh on hospital contracting and inpatient billing for acupuncturists

Topics we may be able to cover in 2023 and into 2024 when this webinar series receives enough funding

• Documentation Standards topic-based series

  • How to Use a Validated Pain Scale in Your Chart Note, based on our short course.

  • Medication review and MEQ in Pain Management for Non-prescribers, with a focus on LAcs. An abbreviated version of what is in our short course.

  • Encore presentation: HHP Community Standard: The Peer Record Review

  • The Chart Audit, a quality improvement (QI) process

  • Using & choosing metrics in your documentation

  • Related topics/issues as requested and available

• Reimbursement Issues in Hospital and Healthcare System-Based Practice

  • The Current Models of Reimbursement and Valuation: RVU/patient load vs. “Value-based” vs. Hybrid

• Workplace Safety and Resources for the Healthcare System-based LAc

  • Presentations from the HHP’s Safety Practices Workgroup

  • After Action Review versus RCA in an HRO model

• Models of Care and Collaboration

  • the team-based care model

• Clinical Research

• Professional Practice & the HRO model

• Professional Practice: FPPE, OPPE, and peer record review

  • Encore presentation: HHP Community Standard: The Peer Record Review

• Other topics requested by the community, dependent on sponsorship, time, and resource availability

The Hospital Handbook Project for Acupuncturists and Their Hospital Sponsors is a program of the Society of Hospital & Healthcare System-based Acupuncturists, a nonprofit organization based in the U.S.A.