NEW! — "Survey Survival Strategies" — Session 4 of the new "Focus on the PPS" series of teleconferences from Beacon Health, presented live April 2003.

Agency Reference Set (Updated for the PPS), includes the following three manuals:

• The Beacon Guide to Medicare Service Delivery
• The 485 Primer and Elements of Content
• The Conditions of Participation and Interpretive Guidelines
  Assorted References

FOCUS Reports:

• The Medicare Survey Primer: Responding to Survey Findings
• Medicare Denials: Reconsideration and Appeal
• Medications and Medicare Regulations: Guidelines for Compliance
• Preventing 'Reasonable and Necessary' Denials
  

• Survey Survival Kit, including the "Survey Strategy: Prepare for Success" video
  

• NEW – 100 Common Mistakes on the HCFA 485
  
  
• Homecare Clinical Compliance Program