Our instructor-led educational series demonstrates the implementation of an effective compliance program. Presentations promote general documentation principles of the medical record to ensure full compliance with all billing requirements, including providing accurate billing to both the patient and third-party payers for both Hospital and Professional Fees. The UPHS compliance program requires training for all billing providers and applicable billing personnel. These training sessions concen...

A monthly morbidity and mortality conference which will present inpatient and/or outpatient case presentations to order to discuss management decisions, provide education, and work to develop and implement solutions for both provider and systemic inadequacies which have led to suboptimal patient outcomes through interprofessional discussion.

The goal of the Hematology/Oncology Fellows Tumor Board Case Conference is to present cases and introduce data to support the treatment plan. The conference will address many issues pertaining to diagnosis of patients. Fellows present the cases along with experts who advise the proper treatment plan. Each case presentation is supported by evidence from the research literature. Also will assist in preparation for board exams

To present challenging urology cases to optimize management during monthly conferences. Morbidity and mortality cases are presented on a three-month basis which serves as quality control and for improvement.

During QAPI meetings we will review quality metrics, improvement performance projects within the Penn Transplant Institute, and identify targets for quality improvement and improved patient outcomes.

Throughout the course of the series, participants will have the opportunity to bring forth clinical cases for which they have questions surrounding the genomic results. Physicians with expertise in genomics and various cancer types will give didactics where they discuss topics such as mutation classes and which are more likely to be disease causing in tumor suppressors versus oncogenes, review the clinical differences between DNA, RNA and protein based tests and identify important components of ...

The Hematopathology Case Conference provides educational content in areas of Hematopathology and allied fields (hematology/oncology, flow cytometry, molecular diagnostics, cytogenetics) as well as emerging diagnostic recommendations to improve standard-of-care. Content is intended to be up-to-date, evidence-based and relevant to the practice of Hematopathology.

To comply with ACGME's specialty guidelines competency-based curriculum through interactive lectures given by leaders in the field in all aspects of Urology from basic science to the latest treatment options to physician patient communication.

Neuroendocrine Tumor (NET) Board provides a forum for the presentation of neuroendocrine patient cases to a multidisciplinary team of care providers for the porpose of engaging in the process of shared decision-making to determine optimal, personalized treatment plans for NET patient / families. This forum also provides a platform for the dissemination and discussion of important topics in the field of neuroendocrinology, such as: (1) identifying newly approved treatments, imaging techniques, ph...

The goal of Cardiovascular Surgery M&M conference is to provide a forum for faculty, nurses, PAs, and trainees to explore the management details of particular cases wherein morbidity or mortality occurred. In carefully reviewing the records and specifics of care, a primal goal of these sessions is to revisit errors to gain insight without blame or derision.