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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

Welcome to Continua Learning: Documentation & Legal Aspects for Florida CNA's! This course is designed to get you up to speed on the Documentation and Legal Aspects for Florida CNA's. As a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) in Florida, you must be equipped with an understanding of the value of proper Medical Documentation, commonly accepted practices of medical documentation, and important legal concepts that are unique to you. Read more

Hiring in the Home Care and Hospice industry can be a difficult task. Often, very specific skills are needed that can be hard to come by. That’s why it’s important to know how to keep key employees and reduce employee turnover rate, as well as finding new ones! Join Eric Scharber, Principal at Exact Recruiting, a Simione Talent Solution, as he describes what methods work and do not work when it comes to trying to keep your staff and attract top tier talent. Read more

Welcome to Patient Rights and Advance Directives! This course is built to satisfy the patient rights requirement for home care. ​ Read more

Patient falls make up a large number of all sentinel events. According to a Joint Commission review of sentinel events (1995 to 2012) falls are the 6th leading cause of sentinel events and account for 7.6% of all sentinel events. Each year, greater than 1/3 of adults over age 65 will fall. Crucially, many of these falls are preventable. This course has been designed to help you protect patients from falls. It will discuss how balance normally keeps us from falling, risk factors for falls and strategies for preventing falls. Read more

Welcome to Continua Learning: Effective Pain Management in Home Care! Effective pain management is ethically, and clinically necessary and is essential from a regulatory standpoint. You are ethically obligated to relieve pain and suffering. You are also required to assess and treat pain by regulatory standards. This course is designed to teach you about effective pain management in the home care workplace.​ Course Reviewer: Margie Fincham​ Read more