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Legal Issues in Behavioral Health Maryland by Lois Fenner

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Without the proper legal awareness needed to stay in compliance, you may face grave legal and financial consequences. This seminar will show you how to continue to help the people you’ve been trained to help while still protecting yourself from many legal pitfalls. If you watch only one seminar this year, make it this one.

Court Orders: Must You Appear?
When Not to Release Your Documentation
Prevent Liability and Avoid Paying Damages
Protect Your Credentials/ License
Do’s And Don’ts of Documentation
Why and When to Call an Attorney
Avoid the Litigation Hot Seat

Complete this recording and leave with a greater understanding of the latest Maryland laws as they relate to behavioral health. You will take home practical strategies to minimize and manage legal and ethical risks and you will learn how to immediately implement these risk reducing strategies into your practice.

Overview/Confidentiality of Mental Health Records

When and to Whom Records Can Be Released
Mandatory Disclosure Requirements
Alcohol/Drug and AIDS/HIV Treatment Records
Necessary Documentation

HIPAA 101 – Federal Confidentiality Regulations

What Is HIPAA Today?
How Do I Comply with the Regulations?
What Are “Psychotherapy Notes”?
When May I Release Records?
How Much Paperwork Will This Be for My Office?

Responding to Subpoenas, Court Orders and Law Enforcement

Subpoenas; Types of Subpoenas; Duty to Respond; Time Limits
Search Warrants & Court Orders
Authority to Obtain Information
Investigations
Development of Policies and Procedures to Respond

Balancing the Rights of Minors & Parents

Minors’ Rights
Age of Majority
Access to Records
Rights of Minors to Refuse/Consent to Medication and Treatment
Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Treatment Issues for Minors
Parental Rights
Custodial and Divorce Factors
Child Abuse Allegations
Custodial vs. Non-Custodial Parent’s Rights to Records

Voluntary and Involuntary Mental Health Commitments

Reasons to Use a Voluntary Commitment or an Involuntary Commitment
Grounds for an Involuntary Commitment: Dangerousness (as Defined by Statute)
Mental Illness
Procedures

Professional Ethics and Boundary Issues

Consent Elements and Competency Issues
Medication: Right to Refuse
Restraints and Seclusion
Individual’s Legal Rights
Informed Consent
Boundary Issues: Where the Lines Are Blurred
Prescribing Practices
Board of Health Professionals Investigation – Disciplinary Proceedings

Legal Liabilities of the Professional

Duty to Warn Issues
Professional Obligations and Standards
Fraud & Abuse Issues
Billing & Coding Errors
Documentation
Compliance with Contradictory Laws

More information about Medical:

Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.
Contemporary medicine applies biomedical sciences, biomedical research, genetics, and medical technology to diagnose, treat, and prevent injury and disease,
typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints and traction, medical devices, biologics, and ionizing radiation, amongst others.

Medicine has been around for thousands of years, during most of which it was an art (an area of skill and knowledge) frequently having connections to the religious and
philosophical beliefs of local culture. For example, a medicine man would apply herbs and say prayers for healing, or an ancient philosopher and physician would apply bloodletting according to the theories of humorism.
In recent centuries, since the advent of modern science, most medicine has become a combination of art and science (both basic and applied, under the umbrella of medical science).
While stitching technique for sutures is an art learned through practice, the knowledge of what happens at the cellular and molecular level in the tissues being stitched arises through science.

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