This Navigating Insurance & Managing Medical Bills webinar covers tips to navigate health insurance and reduce out-of-pocket costs. This includes how to compare options, appeal denials of coverage, manage medical bills and health care expenses, and protect your credit.
April 21, 2022
10am PT | 12pm CT | 1pm ET
Duration: 90 minutes
Course Level: Beginner
Meet our Experts
Presenting the Navigating Insurance & Managing Medical Bills webinar are Triage Cancer COO, Monica Bryant, Esq., and Program Manager, Madison McMahon Ward, MPH
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For professionals: profession-specific accreditation information, and other requirements.
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Register for the Navigating Insurance & Managing Medical Bills webinar directly below. To register for multiple 2022 Triage Cancer webinars at once, visit the main Webinar page.
Participants who need accommodations for a disability should email webinars@triagecancer.org.
Accreditation Information
During this live and interactive webinar, social workers, nurses, and board certified patient advocates in attendance obtain a better understanding of how to navigate health insurance and manage medical bills. This webinar will cover tips to navigate health insurance and reduce out-of-pocket costs, including how to compare options, appeals denials of coverage, manage medical bills and health care expenses, and protect your credit.
This webinar will provide social workers, nurses, and other types of health care professionals with a foundation to help patients make decisions about navigating health insurance and managing medical bills and provide appropriate referrals. All attendees will have the opportunity to ask the speakers questions in real-time via a chat box.
Nurses
Triage Cancer is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Nurses who meet the requirements will be awarded 1.5 contact hour.
90 minutes of instruction/60 minutes = 1.5 contact hour
Social Workers
Triage Cancer, #1689, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Triage Cancer maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 08/26/2020 to 08/26/2023. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 continuing education credit.
Triage Cancer is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0626. Social workers completing this course will receive 1.5 contact hours.
This course, Navigating Insurance & Managing Medical Bills, Approval #211811-411, provided by Triage Cancer is approved for continuing education by the New Jersey Social Work Continuing Education Approval Collaborative, which is administered by NASW-NJ. CE Approval Collaborative Approval Period: Monday, January 10, 2022 through August 31, 2024. New Jersey social workers will receive 1.5 General CE credits for participating in this course.
Board Certified Patient Advocates
Triage Cancer (Provider Code BCPA-ACE2006) Webinar ‘Navigating Health Insurance & Managing Medical Bills’ is approved for 1.5 CEs by the Patient Advocate Certification Board to satisfy the requirements for Board Certified Patient Advocates (BCPA). Program Approval Code BCPA-ACE2006.20220421.
Human Resources Professionals
Triage Cancer is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits(PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.
Other Professionals
If you would like a general certificate of completion, you must indicate that when completing the webinar evaluation form. You must attend the entire event.
Evaluation forms are emailed after the webinar and are required for a certificate. You will also receive a post-test, which is not mandatory, but strongly encouraged.
Agenda
12:00-12:05pm Central – Welcome, Speaker Introductions
12:05pm-1:00pm Central – Overview of tips for navigating health insurance and managing medical bills
1:00pm-1:25pm Central – Workshop on how to compare health insurance options to reduce out-of-pocket costs
1:25pm–1:30pm Central – Questions
1:30-1:40pm Central – Post Test
Objectives
- Attendees will be able to outline various strategies to minimize out-of-pocket health care costs.
- Attendees will be able to describe how the appeals process is useful in accessing care after a cancer diagnosis.
Requirements to Receive Credit (all professionals)
In order to receive CE/contact hour/PDC, attendees must register individually. Participants who “listen in” on another participant’s phone/computer will not be eligible for credit. Participants must attend the entire webinar. No partial credit will be given.
Post-test & Evaluation
Participants will be emailed a link to the online evaluation and post-test one DAY after the completion of the webinar and will have one week to complete both. Participants must receive a passing grade (80%) on the post-test to receive CE/contact hour (only required for nurses and social workers). Participants who do not pass the post-test will be given one opportunity to re-take the test. Instructions and a link to re-take the exam will be emailed to every participant who does not receive a passing grade on the post-test. If participants do not pass the post-test on the second attempt they will not receive credit.
Certificates
The relevant certificates will be emailed to eligible attendees within 4 weeks of the event.
Accreditation Questions or Grievances
Questions about Triage Cancer’s accreditation can be made by phone at424.456.4628 or via email at CE@TriageCancer.org. Complaints may be filed via fax (424) 258-7064, email CE@TriageCancer.org or by mail to 6348N. Milwaukee Ave. #136, Chicago, IL 60646.
While this educational program has received commercial support from the previously listed sponsors the content of the program has no relation to the commercial interest of the organization’s products or services.
System Requirements
Triage Cancer uses the Zoom platform to host its webinars. Please see Zoom's system requirements for more information.
An email will be sent to you after you register with additional login information.
Experts
Presenting the Navigating Insurance & Managing Medical Bills webinar are Triage Cancer COO, Monica Bryant, Esq., and Program Manager, Madison McMahon Ward, MPH.
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