Home Health & Hospice Week

Plus, get 15 percent off your next audioconference. Five Eli-sponsored audioconferences present timely topics for your education as well as your staff’s.   1) Concerned that you’ll lose money under the prospective payment system refinements or that Medicare wants to increase its managed care penetration? Now is the perfect opportunity to make sure your home health agency monitors the correct financial performance indicators to know when you need to take action to keep on track. In Proven Strategies to Drive Your Home Health Agency’s Finances Through the Roof on Mon. Jan. 7 at 1 pm ET, financial expert Mark Sharp, CPA will reveal details that will ensure your agency’s fiscal success and longevity. You’ll receive step-by-step guidance you can put to use immediately to help your agency get every penny it deserves. Learn more: www.audioeducator.com or call 1-800-508-2582.   2) Wound care coding continues to present HHAs’ coders and clinicians with considerable challenges. From reporting an accurate claim to making sure you receive the reimbursement your agency is entitled to based on the care provided, you have a lot to keep track of. Join Judy Adams, RN, BSN, HCS-D, COS-C, for Your Trusty Guide to Wound Care Coding in Home Health Thurs. Jan. 17 at 1 pm ET and make sure you don’t lose another dollar to inaccurate wound care coding. Learn more: http://www.audioeducator.com/ or call 1-800-508-2582.   3) As early as Jan. 1, 2008, your hospice must include new information on claims to receive payment. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has decided that the current amount of hospice claims information restricts payment accuracy--and has begun to carefully analyze hospice services. Find out exactly what you need to get paid in 2008. Join hospice billing expert M. Aaron Little, CPA, for Nail The New Medicare Billing Requirements for Hospice on Wed. Jan. 23 at 1 pm ET. Learn more: http://www.audioeducator.com/ or call 1-800-508-2582.   4) They’re here--the Medicare home health prospective payment system changes. And there are a lot of details to learn if your HHA is going to collect prompt reimbursement in 2008. To ensure a profitable year, your regulatory managers, finance personnel, billers, and IT staff all need to work as a team. But how do you turn all the PPS mumbo jumbo into practical processes everyone in your HHA can follow? That’s where M. Aaron Little, CPA, can help you succeed. Join him for Crash Course: Crucial Lessons Your HHA Billing Staff Must Know For 2008 on Thurs. Feb. 21 at 1 pm ET. Learn more: http://www.audioeducator.com/ or call 1-800-508-2582.   5) Don’t lose any more of your rightful reimbursement due to inaccurate OASIS coding. Make sure your staffers are completing key OASIS case mix items accurately to capture the payment you deserve. Coding expert Judy Adams, RN, BSN, HCS-D, COS-C, will help teach all your clinicians how to answer reimbursement-generating OASIS questions correctly in Your Exclusive Guide To Case Mix for Accurate PPS Reimbursement in 2008, Part 1 on Thurs. Feb. 28 at 1 pm ET. Even better, they’ll learn all they need to know with real-life examples so they can more easily apply what they’ve learned to your patients. Learn more: http://www.audioeducator.com/ or call 1-800-508-2582.   Bonus: To register, call 1-800-508-2582 or visit www.audioeducator.com. Mention code “15%OFF AUDIOHH” for 15 percent off the cost of your audioconference.