The Association continues to work diligently to provide its members the critical information needed to re-engineer their agencies, streamline operations, reduce costs, and develop new product lines and revenue sources while ensuring their patients continue to receive the highest quality of care possible. This area of SCHC’s website is designed to announce events and workshops, or to provide educational resources for use within your organization to help you stay ahead of the curve. SCHCA Members Save 10% on the Most Popular Coding Resources & Exams!
Below is a list of SCHCA’s latest educational offerings. To view program descriptions, dates and locations, or to download registration forms click on the specific event.
Have you mastered the 2012 PPS Final rules and determined how they will impact your home health agency? Are you aware of the actions you need to take related to claims since 10/1/11 that include 294.2x codes for unspecified dementia that may have been underpaid?
The final home health 2012 PPS rules contain multiple changes that will impact PPS case mix for agencies. You have probably already read and heard the basic facts about the changes for 2012. However, this 90 minute webinar will provide both a summary of the changes that are contained in the 2012 PPS rule, but more importantly actual examples illustrating the real impact of those changes. Many of the changes are actually can provide a positive or negative financial incentive to HHAs depending on your unique patient caseload.
Medicare Advantage/HMO billing can be a total nightmare. This session will walk agencies through the requirements of the contractor and how to successfully bill these payers. Details will include preauthorization requirements, contract requirements, as well as some specifics of billing requirements. In addition, this session will discuss the intermediary contracted to settle disputes between providers and PFFS plans. This session is a must for billers, administrators and any financial personnel.
These SNAP audio conferences cover a wide range of topics including the aide’s role in caring for patients with respiratory conditions, shortness of breath, Alzheimer’s, difficult behaviors, urinary incontinence and pain. Aides receive practical, useful information on fall prevention, caring for HIV/Aids patients, patient medication self-management and safety, improving patient self-care and independence, the aide’s role in preventing patient hospitalization and patient rights.
In each SNAP Packet you will find three unique aide training audio conferences on CDROM (each one is about 1 hour in length) with learning objectives. You will also receive accompanying handouts, a post-test with answer sheet and a certificate of completion template. Choose from among four different packets to meet your specific aide learning needs! Buy all four - take advantage of significant savings - and you have 12 packaged aide inservices ready for the year ahead!
The Association for Home & Hospice Care of North Carolina, is proud to present a new teleconference series for your valuable team members - the hospice aides. Each teleconference is an hour in length and will cover topics as diverse as pain management and palliative care, cultural differences regarding end of life and empowering patients and their families. Hospice Volunteers may also find the teleconferences useful. For one fee, unlimited participation is allowed from each individual site.
OASIS-C A Series of 90 minute teleconferences on Process Measures and other Hot Topics
Ever since OASIS C became effective on January 1, 2010, there have been certain items that have been more problematic for HHAs than others. In particular, many questions still arise related to the proper completion and follow up for the multitude of process items in OASIS C.
These teleconferences are designed to provide an in-depth look at some of the most problematic OASIS C items. In each teleconference, we will look at one primary topic and review the CMS guidance in Chapter 3 of the OASIS C Guidance Manual, and pertinent Q&A’s that have added additional information for the appropriate scoring and response. As always, we will team interpretive material with sample questions or mini scenarios to help your staff understand the intention and meaning of the items. Each teleconference will also provide an opportunity for you to share your successes and ask your specific question about the items.
For home health and hospice agencies, these hour-long teleconferences can be used to help meet the 12 hours per year educational requirements under the Medicare Conditions of Participation. For all aide providers, an educational investment in your aides pays off in quality care!
Sample Teleconference:The Aides Role in Helping Patients with Over the Counter Medications
