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This session is aimed at providing agencies with insight into new federal emergency preparedness requirements in connection to state-specific requirements. Other items of discussion will include the elimination of the 10-mile rule, enhancements to the online licensure program, and other regulatory updates. Time permitting, attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions. Course Instructor - Dayle Mooney Read more

Why should Florida home care agencies pay attention to clients with long-term care insurance (LTICi) policies? There are 300 Million reasons! The nation's largest long-term care insurance (LTCi) carriers pay an average of $500 million in claims benefits for home care services, with a staggering 60 percent of benefits (totaling approximately $300 million) paid to Floridians. While LTCi clients can provide your agency with valuable revenue streams, servicing them can be challenging without expertise and proper knowledge of billing procedures. Join Matt Capell to learn billing best practices for LTCi clients so as to ensure effective accounts receivable and proper cash flow. Course Instructor - Matthew Capell​ Read more

Even though it is part of Medicare's Conditions of Participation (CoPs), the emergency preparedness provision will go into effect before January 2018. Are you prepared for surveyors to evaluate your agency's emergency preparedness plan starting November 15, 2017? Certain conditions must be met even before November, and this interactive session will help providers prepare to care for patients and be compliant during an emergency. Course Instructor - J'non Griffin, RN MHA WCC, HCS-D, HCS-H, HCS-C, COS-C Read more

Digital marketing isn’t just a trend these days; it’s the way to get your business out in front of your audience. According to recent industry studies, searching online is the #1 way clients find home care agencies today. Getting found, however, is not so easy. How does Google even know your agency has a website? Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential aspect of digital marketing that uses a variety of tactics to help your agency website show up in online searches. SEO is a multilayered strategy that takes commitment, research, and evaluation over time in order to be effective. This webinar will showcase how best to build an ongoing SEO strategy that gets results. Also discussed will be why pay-per-click (PPC) ads are declining in importance and shouldreceive less focus in your marketing campaigns. Due to the increased use of ad blocking technology, which effectively renders your PPC ads invisible, the smart agency owner will focus on SEO versus PPC in 2017. Read more

Join HCAF Director of Private Duty Services Kristen Wheeler on the first Friday of each month for an informal and informative chat covering hot topics affecting the private duty industry! Providentia Marketing's Jason Chagnon will be our featured speaker, chatting about Recruiting Optimization - How to get more response from active job seekers! Have you found that candidates are becoming harder to find, and that traditional recruiting methods (i.e. job posting) are no longer as effective as they used to be? Read more

Under HHGM, the 60-day episode of care is replaced with a 30-day period of payment and patients are placed into one of 144 payment groups. The structure of determining the payment grouping is as follows: • Admission Source & Timing (Claims) – Community Early, Community Late, Institutional Early or Institutional Late • Clinical Grouping (Primary Diagnosis) – Medication Management Teaching & Assessment (MMTA), Neuro Rehab, Wounds, Complex Nursing Interventions, Musculoskeletal (MS) Rehab, Behavioral Health • Functional Level (OASIS Items) – Low, Medium, High Comorbidity Adjustment (Secondary Diagnoses) – No or Yes • Low Utilization Payment Adjustments (LUPA) will exist in the HHGM, but there are multiple ways to calculate compared to the current standard. Join one of the nation’s leading experts on the complexities of home health payment for a 90-minute webinar to review the proposed rule and to glean talking points as you develop your own comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on the proposed rule. Read more