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WITHIN FIVE MINUTES, your admitting clinician makes critical decisions that have far-reaching effects on your agency’s care delivery under Medicare. Too often, clinical compliance and financial difficulties experienced later in the episode stem from initial-visit admission decisions. Protect your outcomes and episode payments with this series of audio conferences, designed to teach you and your staff best practices in establishing new patients. In just one hour each month, you’ll learn how to manage admission visits and important homecare situations with powerful insights and strategies from Beacon Health®.
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REGISTER NOW AND LEARN:
• Techniques to ensure appropriate Medicare admissions
• Tips to streamline the admission visit
• Ways to demonstrate compliance with initial visit and assessment requirements
• How the first visit IS KEY to the best patient outcomes and episode payment
WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE?
• Homecare Administrators and Directors
• Clinical Managers, Educators
• Quality Managers
• Homecare Nurses
• Key Staff Members
USE THESE SESSIONS:
• for monthly in-services
• to update key personnel
• to keep your entire staff focused on your agency’s success
2008 FALL SESSIONS
Sept. 18 Beginning the Initial Assessment Process
Oct. 16 Verifying Patient Eligibility
Nov. 20 Establishing the Qualifying Service
Dec. 18 Mastering the Plan of Care
SESSION 1 (Audio Recording Available)
Beginning the Initial Assessment Process
- Properly manage referrals and start-of-care orders
- Understand the difference between initial visit and initial assessment
- Receive valuable tips to streamline and ease the admission process
- Learn how to bill for a visit on the day of hospital discharge
- Get the facts and resolve concerns about the initial visit
SESSION 2: (Audio Recording Available)
Verifying Patient Eligibility
- Learn how to determine within the first five minutes whether or not the patient is homebound
- Explore the four components of homebound status
- Gain insight into part-time or intermittent services
- Identify the qualifying discipline
- Know how to fit occupational therapy, home health aide, and medical social service into the mix
- Clinical Managers, Educators
- Quality Managers
SESSION 3: THURSDAY, NOV. 20, 2008, 1-2 P.M. CDT
Establishing the Qualifying Service
- Know how to utilize skilled nursing services—observation and assessment, teaching, skilled procedures, etc.
- Recognize the concerns about management and evaluation being the qualifying service
- Take a closer look at therapy as the qualifying service
- Avoid denials for single visits, non-billable visits, and more
SESSION 4: THURSDAY, DEC. 18, 2008, 1-2 P.M. CDT
Mastering the Plan of Care
- Learn what happened to the CMS-485
- Understand the role of agency policy in completing the plan
- Develop strategies to complete the plan of care and show that services are reasonable, necessary, and skilled
- Identify locators of concern
- Master the plan-of-care scan—verify that the patient qualifies, determine that the services are appropriate, and avoid denials
- Homecare Nurses
- Key Staff Members
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