Education:
MASTER CRUCIAL COMPLIANCE, REIMBURSEMENT ISSUES WITH THESE EDUCATIONAL OFFERINGS
Published on Tue Apr 15, 2008
Info on hospice relationships, PPS billing and more available in Eli audioconferences.
• Hospice Business Ventures: How to Seize Opportunities and Stay Compliant, Wed. May 21, 11 am ET. Hospice marketing and facility relationships can sound like great ideas that’ll land you big profits--but if you don’t watch out, they could land your organization in big trouble instead. If you feel like you need someone to clearly explain the legal mumbo jumbo and tell you straight up what you can and can’t do, join health care attorney Robert W. Markette, Jr. • Home Health PPS 2008 Reimbursement Issues and How to Deal With Them Effectively, Wed. May 21, 1 pm ET. If you’re still feeling the aftershock of the home health PPS revisions, you’re not alone. Join reimbursement expert Michelle Enger for this valuable session where you’ll not only learn the important PPS changes in plain English, but you’ll also know how to be better prepared for upcoming yearly changes. • Hospice Services for Nursing Home Residents: The Compliance Ins and Outs, Tues. June 10, 11 am ET. Hospices that don’t know how to jointly offer services with a nursing home could risk capsizing in some turbulent compliance seas. Not to mention, this joint relationship requires careful collaboration, coordination and planning. Attorney Ross Lanzafame will give you a framework to structure your hospice/nursing home relationship that both promotes regulatory compliance and helps advance the mission of both providers. • Introduction to Home Health Medicare PPS, Wed. June 4, 3 pm ET. If you’re even the slightest bit foggy on how the Medicare home health prospective payment system works, you could be costing your home health agency much-deserved reimbursement--and that’s something you can’t afford these days when every penny counts. Get your training on PPS eligibility requirements, how OASIS affects reimbursement, how to use the common working file (CWF), and much more in this audioconference by billing expert Michelle Enger. • Home Health Compliance: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth Several Pounds of Cure, Wed. June 11, 3 pm ET. Medicare fraud enforcement has notably increased. At the same time, Congress and CMS are putting more pressure on states to recover money through Medicaid fraud enforcement. So if your home health agency isn’t taking precautionary steps, it should be--and developing a compliance program is a good place to start. Attorney Robert W. Markette, Jr. will reveal the biggest compliance issues that plague home care, and the key elements to a compliance plan.
