If your agency has experienced payment recoupment due to increased CMS oversight, this presentation is for your clinical staff. Poor clinical documentation to support terminality, long length of stays due to slow patient declines, poor surveys, and new clinical staff are just a few of the reasons to attend this webinar. Learn how to handle and avoid audits.

 AFTER THIS WEBINAR YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:

• Support Medicare hospice eligibility and ongoing terminality with required documentation
• Explain the benefits of working with the LCDs
• Understand technical and eligibility requirements of the Medicare hospice benefit
• Identify common deficiencies related to nursing and aide services
• Recognize areas where nursing documentation commonly leads to payment denials

 WEBINAR DETAILS: Part 2 of this five-part compliance series will focus on the roles of hospice RNs and aides. With continued CMS oversight, documentation starting with the initial assessment, comprehensive assessments, and ongoing visits must support patient eligibility for hospice. This presentation will address common compliance and documentation challenges, how to address them, and how to document terminality. It will review the Medicare hospice benefit with a focus on eligibility and how to support eligibility through assessment, LCD utilization, documentation, IDT participation, using the four levels of care, and discharging patients when needed. You’ll also learn about high-risk admissions, what triggers audits, and how to avoid them.

THIS WEBINAR WILL BENEFIT THE FOLLOWING AGENCIES: Hospice

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? This informative session is designed for executive leadership, COOs, CEOs, CFOs, board members, nursing leadership, clinical supervisors, staff nurses, RN coordinators and case managers, hospice aides, admission nurses, intake nurses, LVN/LPN staff, QA personnel, and all new clinical staff needing support with hospice eligibility, documentation, and onboarding.

 TAKE-AWAY TOOLKIT

• Links to:
  • Creating an Effective Hospice Plan of Care
  • Hospice election statement example
  • Patient notification of hospice non-covered items, services, and drugs example
  • Medicare LCD guidelines
  • NGS Hospice Documentation Audit Checklist
  • Model – Hospice Election Benefit Form and Addendum
  • Hospice RN Case Manager Job Description
  • Weblinks to Hospice CMS Program Integrity Manual and other resources
  • Training log
  • PDF of slides and speaker’s contact info for follow-up questions

DON’T MISS THIS RELATED WEBINAR!

How to Effectively Audit Hospice Documentation on Wednesday, May 1, 2024

NOTE: All materials are subject to copyright. Transmission, retransmission, or republishing of any webinar to other agencies or those not employed by your agency is prohibited. Print materials may be copied for eligible participants only.

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.

REGISTRATION FEES:     Members- $159          Non-members- $229

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