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• Archive: Faculty:Biron Bedard | Nicholas F. CasolaroDuration:5 Hours 26 MinutesFormat:Audio and VideoCopyright:May 29, 2019 Description A better understanding of your ethical and legal obligations can not only help you provide more effective treatment to your clients, but can help you avoid costly mistakes.
• This recording will provide you with the necessary tools to avoid a wide range of ethical and legal pitfalls.If you watch only one recording this year, make it this one.
• Watch attorneys Biron Bedard and Andrea Daly for an entertaining and enlightening content and leave with a greater understanding of the latest New Hampshire law as it relates to mental 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.
• Handouts Manual - Legal & Ethical Issues in Behavioral Health in New Hampshire (4.35 MB) 193 Pages Available after Purchase Outline Confidentiality of RecordsHIPAA Privacy Rules and Effect on State lawDisclosure RequirementsMandatory Reporting RequirementsConsequences of Improper Reporting and DisclosureHIPAA ComplianceReleases for Treatment, Payment, and Healthcare OperationsNotice of Privacy PracticesAuthorizationsBusiness AssociatesPsychotherapy NotesThe HI TECH ActResponding to Subpoenas, Court Orders, and Law Enforcement PersonnelSubpoenas:Types of Subpoenas, Duty to Respond, Time LimitsCourt Orders:Duty to Respond, Search WarrantsLaw EnforcementAuthority to Obtain Information, Investigations, Development of Policies and Procedures to RespondHIPAA 101 – Revised Federal Confidentiality RegulationsWhat is HIPAA Today?How Do I Comply with the Revised Regulations?What Are “Psychotherapy Notes”?When May I Release Records?How Much Paperwork Will This be for My Office?Balancing the Rights of Minors & ParentsMinors RightsAge of MajorityAccess to RecordsRights of Minors to Refuse/Consent to Medication and TreatmentAlcohol, Drug Abuse and Treatment Issues for MinorsParental RightsCustodial and Divorce FactorsChild Abuse AllegationsCustodial vs.
• Non-Custodial Parent’s Rights to RecordsVoluntary and Involuntary Mental Health CommitmentsReasons to Use a Voluntary CommitmentReasons to Use an Involuntary CommitmentGrounds for an Involuntary Commitment: Dangerousness (as Defined by Statute)ProceduresProfessional Ethics and Boundary IssuesConsent Elements and Competency IssuesIndividual’s Legal RightsInformed ConsentBoundary Issues: Where the Lines are BlurredBoard of Health Professionals Investigation – Disciplinary ProceedingsLegal Liabilities for the ProfessionalDuty to Warn IssuesProfessional Obligations and StandardsFraud & Abuse IssuesBilling & Coding ErrorsDocumentation Faculty Biron Bedard, JD, BA Related seminars and products: 1 BIRON BEDARD is a director and shareholder with the law firm Ransmeier & Spellman, P.C., in Concord, New Hampshire.