The Skilled Services Troubleshooter, 2nd Edition

The skilling support you need, when you need it.

The Skilled Services Troubleshooter: Strategies for Covering Nursing Home Residents Under Medicare, Second Edition is an easy-to-read reference guide and CD-ROM set that brings you and your staff members up to speed on when and how to skill residents.

This comprehensive resource takes the mystery out of skilled services and explains how to identify skills, when to skill, and why, with these key benefits:

• Easy-to-understand explanations of complex government rules and regulations
• Common sense strategies to make the complicated process of skilling residents easier
• Checklists and handy forms for quick reference
• Ways to check your skills post-tests

Perfect for new and experienced staff members alike

The subject of skilling residents is complicated. The Skilled Services Troubleshooter, Second Edition is a must-have resource to help you train new nurses and MDS coordinators. It’s also a great daily reference guide for experienced staff members. Author Diane L. Brown answers the most commonly asked skilling questions and translates the information into plain English for fast comprehension.

Take a look at some of the skilled service scenarios included:

1. Hospice care
2. Psychiatric patients
3. Observation in the hospital
4. How long you can skill a resident
5. The 60-day break in skilled services
6. Tube-feeding
7. Presumption of coverage
8. What if the cost of care exceeds reimbursement?
9. Consolidated billing as it applies to skilled residents
10. Leaves of absence

The Skilled Services Troubleshooter, Second Edition provides you with the crucial forms your SNF needs to ensure proper Medicare reimbursement.

Some of those forms are:

• Advanced Beneficiary Notice (ABN)
• Notice of exclusion for Medicare Benefits
• Medicare Secondary Payer form
• Certification/recertification sheet
• Medicare meeting minutes
• SNF information sheet
• RUG score calculation tool
• Checklists for skilled therapy services
• Physician checklist for skilling residents

Never again will you miss out on the benefits and reimbursement you deserve because you were unsure about Medicare rules and regulations.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1
The Critical-Thinking Approach to Skilling a Resident
Chapter 2
Breaking Down the Rules and Regulations
Chapter 3
The MDS Is Your Barometer
Chapter 4
Top 10 Skilling Scenarios and Questions
Chapter 5
Strategies to Increase Your Skilled Census
Chapter 6
SNF Forms and Paperwork
Chapter 7
Check Your Skills Quiz

About the author:

Diane L. Brown, regulatory specialist at HCPro, Inc. is a longterm care educator, consultant, and publisher with over 25 years of operational experience in healthcare. She speaks on many long-term care topics, including MDS, Medicare, payment, and Swing-beds, and was a Master instructor for the NASPAC CRNAC program. She is the creator and instructor of HCPro’s Survey Prep Boot CampSM—Long-Term Care Version and is an alternate instructor of HCPro’s Medicare Boot Camp®—Long-Term Care Version.

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