Compliance for the Hospice Nurse & Aide


Date/Time: 02/28/2024, 12:00 pm

Provider: FHPCA

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If your agency has experienced payment recoupment due to increased CMS oversight, this presentation is for your clinical staff.

Poor clinical documentation to support terminality, long length of stays due to slow patient declines, poor surveys, and new clinical staff are just a few of the reasons to attend this webinar. Learn how to handle and avoid audits.
AFTER THIS WEBINAR YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:
  • Support Medicare hospice eligibility and ongoing terminality with required documentation
  • Explain the benefits of working with the LCDs
  • Understand technical and eligibility requirements of the Medicare hospice benefit
  • Identify common deficiencies related to nursing and aide services
  • Recognize areas where nursing documentation commonly leads to payment denials

This webinar is part of the 2024 CoP Compliance for Hospice Personnel Series. Learn more and save 15% when you purchase the entire series!

WEBINAR DETAILS

Part 2 of this five-part compliance series will focus on the roles of hospice RNs and aides. With continued CMS oversight, documentation starting with the initial assessment, comprehensive assessments, and ongoing visits must support patient eligibility for hospice. This presentation will address common compliance and documentation challenges, how to address them, and how to document terminality. It will review the Medicare hospice benefit with a focus on eligibility and how to support eligibility through assessment, LCD utilization, documentation, IDT participation, using the four levels of care, and discharging patients when needed. You’ll also learn about high-risk admissions, what triggers audits, and how to avoid them.

THIS WEBINAR WILL BENEFIT THE FOLLOWING AGENCIES:

  • Hospice

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This informative session is designed for executive leadership, COOs, CEOs, CFOs, board members, nursing leadership, clinical supervisors, staff nurses, RN coordinators and case managers, hospice aides, admission nurses, intake nurses, LVN/LPN staff, QA personnel, and all new clinical staff needing support with hospice eligibility, documentation, and onboarding.

TAKE-AWAY TOOLKIT

  •  Links to:
    • Creating an Effective Hospice Plan of Care
  • Hospice election statement example
  • Patient notification of hospice non-covered items, services, and drugs example
  • Medicare LCD guidelines
  • NGS Hospice Documentation Audit Checklist
  • Model – Hospice Election Benefit Form and Addendum
  • Hospice RN Case Manager Job Description
  • Weblinks to Hospice CMS Program Integrity Manual and other resources
  • Training log
  • PDF of slides and speaker’s contact info for follow-up questions
  • Attendance certificate provided, however there are no pre-approved CEs associated with this webinar
NOTE: All materials are subject to copyright. Transmission, retransmission, or republishing of any webinar to other agencies or those not employed by your agency is prohibited. Print materials may be copied for eligible participants only.

Presented ByKathy Ahearn

Kathy Ahearn

ALECC, INC.

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