Early Bird Deadline: January 11, 2010

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

Location and Lodging

Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa
3050 Bristol Street, Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Phone: 714/540-7000

This contemporary hotel is located near popular attractions and within walking distance to extraordinary shopping. Oversized, plush guest rooms, wireless Internet access, 24-hour business and fitness centers, on-site masseuse, outdoor heated pool, dining, and more. Complimentary shuttle to the John Wayne Orange County Airport.

$129 per night (room block discount expires January 31, 2010)

Register early and save!
Costa Mesa, CA
February 22-23
Early Bird Deadline: January 11, 2010

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.