Essential Training At Your Finger Tips

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 Read more

Learn more about the VA Aid and Attendance Pension Benefit and how to easily and affordably market to aging veterans and their family members. Using online techniques and websites, home care agency owners and marketers can generate more referrals and inquiries from the veteran population, a group that is most deserving of your efforts and outreach. Course Instructor - Valerie Vanbooven Read more

This session will consist of a review and comparison of the Medicare Conditions of Participation (CoPs) for home health and hospice, with an emphasis on the most frequently cited CoPs as published by CMS. Participants will hear practical and useful approaches for adapting and renewing efforts to maintain compliance. Course Instructor - Gwen Franzgrote PT credits awarded for course completions are approved for 1 year and expire at the end of the calendar year unless otherwise stated. For a complete list of courses offering PT credits for this year, click here. Read more

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 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   PT credits awarded for course completions are approved for 1 year and expire at the end of the calendar year unless otherwise stated. For a complete list of courses offering PT credits for this year, click here. 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