Continuing Education

Successful Completion

Successful completion of the workshop for continuing education credit is defined as attending the entire day and completing an evaluation. Physicians must inform AFMC regarding the amount of credit they intend to claim.

Continuing Education

Nursing:

Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by Arkansas Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care designates this activity for 4.2 contact hours.

AHIMA:

This program has been approved for 5.0 continuing education units for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Prior approval by AHIMA does not constitute endorsement of the program content or its program sponsor. Core Content Areas Approved: Performance Improvement

AAPC:

This program has prior approval of the American Academy of Professional Coders for 5.0 continuing education units. Granting of this approval in no way constitutes endorsement by the Academy of the program, content or the program sponsor

Professional Coders

This program has prior approval of the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) for 5.0 continuing education units.  Granting of this approval in no way constitutes endorsement by the Academy of the program, content or the program sponsor.  Index #AFMC0328081121A.

PMI

This program has been approved for 5.0 education units by Practice Management Institute®. These CEUs may be applied toward the recertification requirements of the CMC, CMIS and CMOM credentials.

Disclosure
AFMC operates under contract with Arkansas Medicaid and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a Federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to accomplish health care quality improvement for Arkansas.

It is the policy of AFMC to ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all sponsored or jointly sponsored educational programs. Faculty and planners are required to disclose any relationships with commercial entities related to the conference educational content that could be considered a conflict of interest or potential source of bias. Details disclosed by faculty will be announced on the day of the conference. Planners have disclosed no such relationships. Faculty is also required to disclose when any product is mentioned that is not labeled for the use under discussion or is still investigational.