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2018 Subscriber Webinars

Webinars will be linked to and handouts uploaded once the webinar is completed.

DateTitleHandouts
1/12/2018Making Sense of the Long Term Care Mega Rule: Unnecessary Drugs & Psychotropics (unavailable)January Handout
2/9/2018LISTEN: The Role of PhysicianFebruary Handout
3/10/2018LISTEN: The Face to Face Encounter and Brief Physician NarrativeMarch Handout
4/14/2018LISTEN: The New Nursing Facility Regulations & Hospices – How Is It Going?April Handouts
5/12/2018LISTEN: The Four Paths to EligibilityMay Handouts
6/9/2018LISTEN: The FY 2019 Wage Index Proposed RuleJune Handout
7/14/2018LISTEN: The New Nursing Home Regulations & Hospices – How Is It Going?July Handouts
8/11/2018LISTEN: Clinicians Connection: The Role of the IDG in EligibilityAugust Handouts
9/8/2018LISTEN: The Hospice Quality Reporting Program: The 2018 UpdatesSeptember Handout
10/13/2018LISTEN: All Aboard: Getting Your Volunteers on the QAPI TrainOctober Handout
11/11/2018LISTEN: GIP: Getting It RightNovember Handout
12/9/2018LISTEN: Integrating Physician Services: A Basic GuideDecember Handout

2017 Subscriber Webinars

Webinars prior to 2018 are not available. Please refer to handouts for content review.

DateTitleHandouts
1/8/2017Emergency Preparedness – The New RequirementsJanuary Handout
16.13 Emergency Preparedness
Emergency Resource Sheet
2/10/2017Hospice and the Letter People: Who Are They and What Do They Want?February Handout
3/10/2017The Clinician’s Connection to Documentation: Using the PPS, FAST, BMI and MACMarch Handout
4/14/2017Reinhart Law Firm Guest PresenterApril Handouts
5/12/2017Sales Compliance and Integrity: How to Grow While Following the RulesMay Handouts
6/9/2017Avoiding the Top Ten Auditing & Monitoring BlundersJune Handout
Supplemental
7/14/2017The Emergency Preparedness Regulations & Interpretive GuidelinesJuly Handouts
Emergency Preparedness Guidelines
What Surveyors Expect
Emergency Resource Sheet
8/11/2017The Hospice Quality Reporting Program: The 2017 UpdatesAugust Handouts
9/8/2017The New NH Surveyor Interpretive GuidelinesSeptember Handout
10/13/2017ABNs – The Why, The What and The WhenOctober Handout
NOMNC Flowchart
ABN 
NOMNC
DENC
11/11/2017Coding When There Is No Clear Terminal Diagnosis + The 2018 ICD-10-CM UpdatesNovember Handout
12/9/2017Care Planning: Problems, Goals and InterventionsDecember Handout
Conditions of Participation: Patient Care

2016 Subscriber Webinars

Webinars prior to 2018 are not available. Please refer to handouts for content review.

DateTitleHandouts
1/8/2016Medicare Part DJanuary Handout
2/12/2016The Clinicians Connection to
Eligibility: Assessing and Documenting for Decline
February Handout
3/11/2016Avoiding & Managing Unplanned HospitalizationsMarch Handout
4/8/2016The Certification/ Recertification Process: No Room for ErrorApril Handouts
Medicare Certification & Re-Certification Pre-Billing Audit
Medicare Election of Benefits Form Check List
5/13/2016ADRs & DenialsMay Handouts
6/10/2016The FY2017 Wage Index Proposed RuleJune Handout
7/8/2016Documentation, A Key Part of the VisitJuly Handouts
8/12/2016GIP: Geting It RightAugust Handouts
9/9/2016Hospice Quality Reporting Program UpdateSeptember Handout
10/14/2016The Prudent Hospice Approach to Evaluating and Planning for Discharge October Handout
11/10/2016Getting Ready for 2017November Handout
12/9/2016Challenges of a Continuous Home Care ProgramDecember Handout
ADDITIONALICD-10 Coding Clarifications for Hospice: Part 1Handout
ADDITIONALICD-10 Coding Clarifications for Hospice: Part 2 Dementia CodingHandout
     

2015 Subscriber Webinars

Webinars prior to 2018 are not available. Please refer to handouts for content review.

DateTitleHandouts
7/10/2015Making Metrics Meaningful to StaffJuly Handouts
8/14/2015FY 2016 Wage Index Final RuleAugust Handouts
9/11/2015Eligible or Not? What Do We Do until the Hospice Crystal Ball Is Perfected?September Handout
10/9/2015The Clinician’s Connection to Documentation: Medicare Payment and the Plan of CareOctober Handout
Plan of Care Process Assessment Tool
11/13/2015Getting Ready for 2016November Handout
12/11/2015Quality Reporting: Where We Are Now and Where We Are HeadedDecember Handout
     

2014 Subscriber Webinars

Webinars prior to 2018 are not available. Please refer to handouts for content review.

DateTitleHandouts
1/10/2014ICD-CM Coding: The Structural ConsiderationsJanuary Handout
2/14/2014The OIG Work PlanFebruary Handout
3/14/2014Tackling the Beasts: CR 8358 & Hospice and Part DMarch Handout
4/11/2014The Clinician’s Connection to DocumentationApril Handouts
5/9/2014Part D & Hospice: Having the Conversations
May Handouts
6/13/2014Auditing and Monitoring: Focusing Your ResourcesJune Handout
7/11/2014 Summer PotpourriJuly Handouts
8/8/2014Preventing and Managing Unplanned Hospital AdmissionsAugust Handouts
9/12/2014Tackling the New Requirements: NOEs, NOTRs, & Designation of Attending PhysicianSeptember Handout
10/10/2014Volunteer Services – Time for a RevisitOctober Handout
Excel Sheet
11/14/2014Hospice Quality Reporting: Where Are We Now?November Handout
NOVEMBER EXTRACoding Dementias and Other Unspecified ConditionsHandout
12/12/2014Getting Ready for 2015December Handout
     

2013 Subscriber Webinars ARCHIVE

Webinars prior to 2018 are not available. Please refer to handouts for content review.

DateTitleHandouts
1/11/2013Payment and the Plan of Care – Understanding the ConnectionJanuary Handout
2/08/2013Who Are These People and What do They Want? The OIG, ZPICs, MIC and More.February Handout
3/08/2013QAPI – Making an ImprovementMarch Handout
4/12/2013The Clinician’s Connection to Documentation: Using the PPS, FAST, BMI & MACApril Handouts
5/10/2013Spring PotpourriMay Handouts
6/14/2013The Art & Science of Diagnostic Coding: Part 1
The Art & Science of Diagnostic Coding: Part 2
June Handout P1
June Handout P2
7/12/2013Hospice Eligibility – Prognosis or Diagnosis?July Handouts
8/9/2013ADRs & DenialAugust Handouts
9/13/2013Higher Levels Of Care: General Inpatient Care, Continuous Care & RespiteSeptember Handout
10/11/2013Fall PotpourriOctober Handout
11/08/2013Quality Measures – What’s on the Horizon?November Handout
12/13/2013Getting Ready for 2014December Handout
     

2012 Audioconference
& Ask the Experts Archive

Webinars prior to 2018 are not available. Please refer to handouts for content review.

DateTitleHandouts
1/13/2012AUDIO CONFERENCE: QAPI – Zeroing in on the PIPsQAPI Handout
2/10/2012ASK THE EXPERTS: Medical Review & the MACsMedical Review Handout
3/09/2012AUDIO CONFERENCE: Clinician’s Connection to DocumentationMarch Documentation
4/13/2012ASK THE EXPERTS: Comfortable Dying – Preparing for ReportingApril Handouts
5/11/2012AUDIO CONFERENCE: Hospice 101 – Transmitting the Critical Care Elements to the Clinical StaffMay Handouts
6/8/2012ASK THE EXPERTS: Audits and MonitorsJune Handouts
7/13/2012AUDIO CONFERENCE: Certs & Elections – The Continuing SagaJuly Handouts
8/10/2012ASK THE EXPERTS: Medicare Part D, Hospice and the OIGAugust Handouts
9/14/2012AUDIO CONFERENCE: Hospice Care in the Nursing Home – Stepping Through the MinefieldSeptember Handout
10/12/2012ASK THE EXPERTS: Fall PotpourriOctober Handout
11/9/2012AUDIO CONFERENCE: Hospice Quality Reporting: Where Are We Now?November Handout
12/14/2012ASK THE EXPERTS: Your “2012” Compliance Plan Must-HavesDecember Handout
     

 

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