WITHIN FIVE MINUTES, your admitting clinician makes critical decisions that have far-reaching effects on your agency’s care delivery under Medicare.

Too often, clinical compliance and financial difficulties experienced later in the episode stem from initial-visit admission decisions. Protect your outcomes and episode payments with this series of audio conferences, designed to teach you and your staff best practices in establishing new patients. In just one hour each month, you’ll learn how to manage admission visits and important homecare situations with powerful insights and strategies from Beacon Health.

Order now and learn:

• Techniques to ensure appropriate Medicare admissions
• Tips to streamline the admission visit
• Ways to demonstrate compliance with initial visit and assessment requirements
• How the first visit is key to the best patient outcomes and episode payment

Session 3: Establishing the Qualifying Service


• Know how to utilize skilled nursing services - observation and assessment, teaching, skilled procedures, etc.
• Recognize the concerns about management and evaluation being the qualifying service
• Take a closer look at therapy as the qualifying service
• Avoid denials for single visits, non-billable visits, and more


Earn 1.0 contact hours for each nurse participant per session - (CLICK HERE) for additional information.

The Presenter: Diane J. Omdahl, RN, MS