AUDIOCONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ON-DEMAND
Sponsored by Skilled Services Troubleshooter
presented on April 3, 2008
Are you capturing all the skilled coverage that you are entitled to? You could be throwing money away and not even realize it…
Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF’s) won’t get paid by Medicare for services rendered if the resident doesn’t meet the coverage criteria. This can cause a major loss of revenue for SNF’s across the country. To further complicate the matter, the skilled criteria is often misunderstood and it’s imperative that your staff fully understand the coverage guidelines in order to be paid properly.
Listen to HCPro and speaker Diane L. Brown for this 90-minute audioconference Determining Skilled Coverage Levels in SNFs: Capture the necessary areas. This program will help you to evaluate your current skilled coverage policies so you can identify areas that need improvement. We’ll offer tips and strategies to keep up with skills as they change so your facility receives the Medicare reimbursement it deserves.
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Identify the admission picture of skills required
2. Implement methods to update skills as they change
3. Recognize the linkage between evaluation of care plan and observation-assessment
4. Identify the components of direct skilled nursing
TAKE A LOOK AT OUR AGENDA
- Medicare coverage guidelines (skilled criteria that are often misunderstood)
- 3-day hospital stay
- 30-day transfer
- Meeting the SNF level of care
- Skill level of employees
- Five skilling areas with examples and pitfalls of each:
- Management and Evaluation of Care Plan
- Observation and Assessment
- Teaching and Training
- Direct skilled nursing
- Direct skilled rehab
- Cut policies re-examined
- Criteria for cutting beneficiary
- Proper notification
- Tips to review and change ‘cut policies’ within your institution
- Reexamine current criteria and implement changes
- Clinical impact
- Q&A
BONUS TOOLS INCLUDED IN YOUR MATERIAL PACKET!
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you'll also receive these helpful “take-aways” provided within your materials pack:
- SNF Spell of Illness Cheat Sheet
- Benefit Decision Tree
- Skill Criteria Examples
- Skilled Criteria from Admission to End of Stay
These materials are provided with PDF links.
MEET THE SPEAKER
Diane L. Brown, Regulatory Specialist at HCPro, is a long-term care educator, consultant, and publisher with over 25 year’s operational experience in healthcare. She speaks on many long-term care topics, including MDS, Medicare, payment, Swing-Beds and was a Master instructor for the NASPAC CRNAC program. She is the creator and instructor of HCPro’s Survey Prep Boot Camp—Long-Term Care Version and is an alternate instructor of HCPro’s Medicare Boot Camp—Long-Term Care Version.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Administrator, MDS coordinator, CFO, CEO, DON, ADON, admissions coordinator, Medicare personnel, business officers, revenue, finance, Medicare case management, clinical staff who determine skilled need.
AUDIO ON-DEMAND
In addition to the regular participation options for HCPro audioconferences—CD, or combination packages—we are pleased to offer another option, an audio on-demand. Audio on-demand allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience through your computer or MP3 player. Purchase a CD or audio on–demand and listen when you can. It's also a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.
Save money when you purchase multiple copies! Ask your customer service representative about money-saving
discounts and bulk orders. Call toll free 800-650-6787 or e-mail
customerservice@hcpro.com.
