Home Health ICD-9/ICD-10 Alert
Prepare For New Hospice COPs and OASIS-C
Plan now for immediate staff training.
Get the latest information on Nursing Home and Hospice relationships and prepare for OASIS-C. Sign up for these Eli audioconferences to learn without leaving the office:
• What the New Conditions of Participation Mean for Nursing Home and Hospice Relation-ships. Avoid regulatory pitfalls in your hospice-nursing home relationship. You’ll gain important information about the new Conditions of Participation
and how to comply with them, regarding the nursing home-hospice relationship. Presenter Mary Michal will share overall risk areas, including anti-kickback and what the OIG is now targeting. Join Michal for this 60 minute audioconference Thurs.
Dec. 4 at 1 pm ET. For more information, visit www.audioeducator.com/industry_conferencephp?id=1309 or call 1-800-508-2582.
• OASIS-C: What You Need to Know Now About this Major Assessment Overhaul. OASIS is getting its first major overhaul since 2000. Learn about the newest OASIS revisions, and prepare your agency for the proposed version that comes
out this fall -- and the final version that takes effect in 2010. Wondering just how many extra questions OASIS-C will have -- and how much staff training you should plan for? You’ll get the scoop on improved versions of many familiar items, new
items that examine agency processes like assessing depression, pain and vaccination status, a revised approach to ADLs, and more! Join expert speaker Rebecca Friedman Zuber Dec. 11 at 1 pm ET, for this 60 minute audiconference. For
Home Health ICD-9/ICD-10 Alert
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