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.

Get the audio CD 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 4: Mastering the Plan of Care

• Learn what happened to the CMS-485
• Understand the role of agency policy in completing the plan
• Develop strategies to complete the plan of care and show that services are reasonable, necessary, and skilled
• Identify locators of concern
• Master the plan-of-care scan - verify that the patient qualifies, determine that the services are appropriate, and avoid denials

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

The Presenter: Diane J. Omdahl, RN, MS