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Equip your field and intake staff with the advantageous skills and techniques of motivational interviewing. Utilize these tried and true skills to increase productivity and patient compliance to nutrition and exercise routines, and accurately complete OASIS and other patient assessments. Your agency’s outcome scores will be enhanced. Home care agencies are on the hunt to find competitive advantages – this skill in your toolkit is a hidden jewel in our industry. Do not miss this opportunity to elicit your patient’s motivation more effectively through your communications and actions. Course instructor - Diana Cullum-Dugan <!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Read More

For many decades this devastating condition was underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed as depression. The patients received incorrect medications with no results. Recent developments in the Pharmaceutical Industry revolutionized the treatment of Pseudobulbar Affect. Now is the time to recognize this condition Course Instructor - Dr. Alexander Smirnoff Read More

Medicare reform actions continue to define our industry, and CMS and MedPAC plans for home health identify where the benefit might be headed. How can we address regulatory updates, audit scrutiny, proposed co-payments, post-acute bundling model and more therapy payment changes? More importantly, how can we make sense of all of this? This presentation outlines the rationale behind CMS and MedPAC proposals, identifies care modifications required for survival and recounts the reasons why home health will remain a vital component of the care continuum. Course Instructor - Arnie Cisneros Read More

Therapy services continue to be under a high level of scrutiny, and keeping the small additional reimbursement that you gain from providing these services is harder than ever. While the requirements for 2015 only mandate reassessment visits a minimum of every 30 days, agencies and their clinicians still find themselves struggling with these policies and remain at great risk for non-compliance and consequently, loss of revenue. Participate in this session and learn how to improve compliance and help your clinicians gain a greater understanding of how to appropriately time reassessment visits and how to strengthen their documentation. Course Instructor - Jennifer Warfield Read More

We’ve survived the implementation of ICD-10. But since October we’ve found that there are many things we have to do differently because this is a brand new coding system (code set) for our country. Coding, without all these massive changes, is a very complex topic. Yet even for those of us who tried to prepare for the switch -- there were issues that had not been anticipated. Join Sparkle Sparks in this 90-minute webinar as she shares the most common questions that she’s gotten regarding ICD-10-CM. • Which 7th character should home health use? • How many codes should we be using? • Can we really leave M1025 blank? These questions will be discussed as well as other topics that have bedeviled home health coders both before & after the implementation of ICD-10. As always, Sparkle will provide the sources for her information and strategies to solve common coding problems. Course Instructor - Sparkle Sparks Read More

The Affordable Care Act (2010) creates new and exciting opportunities for private duty. In this presentation, attendees will learn about two healthcare reform initiatives, Care Transitions and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). Tools, tips and marketing strategies will be presented to help agencies realize their potential in this new market. Course instructor - Joan Haizlip Read More