Part 1 of this two-part package will address measuring, monitoring, guidelines, and regulations related to all five types of hospice live discharges. Using the information provided, a hospice will be able to determine if live discharges are an area of agency concern for potential scrutiny and if so, what they can do to fly below the CMS radar.

WEBINAR DETAILS

Medicare eligibility of live discharges remains a target area for CMS, so they should be an area of focus for all hospice agencies. Do staff understand the live discharge process, qualifications, and required documentation? Does your agency proactively manage and monitor the compliance complexities surrounding live discharges? Is your CAP and LOS an area of concern? Is your agency plagued with ADRs and patient eligibility issues? Is your HCI score adversely affected by burdensome transitions? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then the Live Discharges: How, When & Why Package will benefit your agency.

Part 1 will review the five types of allowable live discharges, how to proceed with each, the required documentation, and best practices to avoid problematic discharges. This program will evaluate the use of monitoring tools and reports for benchmarking and measuring compliance to prevent unwanted scrutiny. Learn best practices for live discharges, including working with frontline staff on hospice eligibility, which impacts live discharge statistics.

 AFTER THIS WEBINAR YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:

• Define the five allowable types of live discharges per the Conditions of Participation (CoPs)
• Utilize best practices for live discharges
• Understand the importance of monitoring, measuring, and benchmarking live discharges
• Recognize the warning signs of problematic discharges and know how to avoid them

THIS WEBINAR WILL BENEFIT THE FOLLOWING AGENCIES: Hospice

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?  This informative session is designed for leadership and strongly recommended for clinical managers and supervisors, quality assurance staff, CFOs, medical directors, intake coordinators, staff education RNs, assessment teams, MSWs, and administrators. 

TAKE-AWAY TOOLKIT

• Hospice PEPPER User’s Guide: Twelfth Edition
• Valuable links to websites and additional tools, including:
• Hospice Medicare Billing Codes Sheet
• Training log
• PDF of slides and speaker’s contact info for follow-up questions

MEET THE PRESENTER:  Kathy Ahearn, RN, BSN, PHN, ALECC, Inc.

Kathy Ahearn has a Bachelor’s in both Nursing and Social Work and is the CEO and Founder of ALECC, Inc. ALECC provides years of post-acute care experience, ranging from clinical staff to executive leadership and consulting. Kathy provides a unique ability to identify agency challenges and opportunities, quickly providing education, support, and mentoring to organizations, guiding them to a new level of operation and success.

Kathy helped develop pain scales to standardize assessment with the American Pain Society and the Joint Commission. She expanded into medical devices as a Managed Care Director developing one of the first real-time cloud-based disease specific software programs to assist patients, clinicians, and managed care organizations to improve outcomes and collect data.

Kathy began healthcare work due to a disabled parent and later a child living with chronic disease state. She has experienced healthcare professionally and personally, dedicating her life to it and to working as a change agent for the betterment of all served.

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