This comprehensive seminar will help you manage Medicare’s biggest challenges, demonstrate compliance, and retain more of the payment you’ve earned—sure to pay dividends for years to come.

• Acquire a set of Medicare skills that will help you guide behavior in your agency with confidence.
• Discover what clinicians need to know about the Revised PPS.
• Learn techniques for demonstrating that services are skilled, reasonable, and necessary.
• Bulletproof your documentation and use it to support your case.

Ideal for homecare administrators and directors, clinical managers and educators, financial managers, quality improvement leaders, and homecare nurses and therapists.

Seminar Agenda

Day One
Morning Session: OASIS-C

• Assessment basics
• Dealing with the changes in OASIS-C
• Process data elements
• Implementation of evidence-based best practices
• Survey traps in OASIS-C
• OBQI, OBQM, and Home Health Compare

Afternoon Session: OASIS-C in the PPS

• HHRG Four-equation Model and the Supply HHRG
• Consolidated billing—outpatient therapy and supplies
• New diagnosis coding data elements—primary diagnosis, other diagnoses, payment diagnoses
• Principles for diagnosis sequencing and documentation
• Diagnosis coding issues and strategies

Day Two: RACS in the PPS

• The risks and repercussions of scrutiny
• The RAC matrix
• Principles for minimizing risk
• RAC red flags
• A blueprint for action

Meet Your Presenters

Diane J. Omdahl, RN, MS, is editor-in-chief and founder of three highly acclaimed newsletters: Homecare Direction™, Homecare Q&A ™, and Homecare E-News™. In 1987, she founded Beacon Health. Diane has been a featured speaker at national and state association meetings and at professional gatherings of major homecare corporations. She has been presenting homecare seminars for more than 16 years and consistently receives rave reviews.

Lu Post, RN, MN, COS-C, is president of Home Care Institute, LLC, a technology-based company with a focus on the development of homecare and hospice educational resources. She is certified as a clinical OASIS Specialist from the OASIS Certificate and Competency Board, Inc. She has served in a variety of senior leadership and educational roles for some of the largest homecare and hospice organizations in the country for more than 20 years.

Location and Lodging

Hyatt Harborside
101 Harborside Drive, Boston, MA 02128
617/568-1234

Enjoy dramatic views of this historic city as well as Boston Harbor. Architectural details and ornate accents abound. Enjoy fine dining, luxurious guest rooms, business and fitness center, and indoor sauna, pool, and whirlpool. Soak up Boston’s famed culture destinations, located minutes away. Complimentary airport shuttle.

HCPro, Inc. is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation.

This educational activity for 8.75 nursing contact hours is provided by HCPro, Inc.