Home Health & Hospice Week
Find Out How To Use Your PEPPER Correctly
You now can receive new PEPPER training at your convenience. Hospice PEPPER contractor TMF Health Quality Institute has posted its October 2014 training program on its website.
The October program is nearly an hour long and “reviews what has changed and what has stayed the same in the new Q4FY13 Hospice PEPPER (versus the prior Q4FY12 Hospice PEPPER),” TMF notes on its site. “Several commonly-asked questions are addressed, and there is a demonstration of the new method to access the Hospice PEPPER via the new secure PEPPER portal.”
You can also access training sessions from August 2014 on the same page. That training is broken up into three sessions.
See the latest training at at http://pepperresources.org/TrainingResources/Hospice.aspx under “Hospice PEPPER Update – October 2014.”
Home Health & Hospice Week
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