CMS Sets Guidelines for the Home Health Advance Beneficiary Notice (Audio Conference)

AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE OR CD

Sponsored by “24 Essential Inservices for Home Health”

presented on September 6, 2006

Changes to the Home Health Advance Beneficiary Notice are coming. Make these new rules work for you!

CMS has firmed up its guidelines for the Home Health Advance Beneficiary Notice (HHABN), which home health agencies can use to inform Medicare beneficiaries of the end of their benefit period, and everyone must comply. Take a proactive approach and incorporate the new rules into your routine right away. Knowing how to conform to the new requirements will help you seamlessly continue providing quality care with minimal impact to your staff and patients.

Listen to this 90-minute audioconference and hear positive strategies for using the ABN in your home health agency. During CMS Sets Guidelines for the Home Health Advance Beneficiary Notice: How to Comply with the HHABN Rules, expert Karen Vance, OTR, will provide an overview of the new ABN rules, including who should receive the notice. You'll also learn beneficial assessment, goal-setting, and discharge planning skills that pertain to the ABN, and how the ABN works within the expedited determination process.

AGENDA

1. Finalized requirements for the new Home Health Advance Beneficiary Notice (HHABN)
2. Confirmed effective date
3. How to implement/when to use the new HHABN, which is a notice of non-coverage
4. Strategies to reduce the impact on staff and patients
5. Q&A (30 minutes)

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of this program, listeners will be able to:

• Describe the intent of the new Home Health Advance Beneficiary Notice (HHABN)
• Outline the required forms, time frames and instructions
• Articulate 2 strategies that reduce the impact on patients

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Karen Vance, OTR, is a Supervising Consultant at BKD, LLP located in Springfield, MO. Karen provides clinical and general operations consulting services to home care agencies. She also provides reimbursement and compliance consulting services and helps home care providers establish and maintain quality management practices. Karen is an occupational therapist with 26 years of home care experience as a provider, clinical and regulatory manager. Karen has presented home care seminars since 1988 for national, state and regional health care associations and industry media organizations. She has also contributed to several publications on home care for AOTA.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN:

Home health agency directors, nursing staff, therapy staff and billers, agency administration, management, and clinicians

BONUS TOOLS INCLUDED IN YOUR MATERIALS PACKET:

In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and tools including sample CMS requirement forms.

Program materials will be provided with PDF links.

Purchase a tape or CD of the program and listen when you can. It's a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.

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