DecisionHealth – publisher of Home Health Line, Diagnosis Coding Pro for Home Health and Home Care Outcomes – presents:

PPS Drill Down: A Live Audio Conference Series
on Proposed Sweeping Changes
A 4-part audio conference series, June 2007

Week three:
PPS Changes Redefine OASIS Payment Questions
Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time

Under the PPS changes, CMS plans to redefine the OASIS questions that determine your episodic payments as soon as January 2008. Inaccurate OASIS scoring can reduce Medicare reimbursement, distort outcome reporting and jeopardize the financial health of your agency.

Problem: Many of the new OASIS questions contain nuances that make it difficult for clinicians to answer these questions accurately and consistently. You can’t afford to wait to develop a strategic training program that focuses on these new OASIS payment questions.

Solution: Sign up today for this 90-minute audio conference and you’ll receive an easy-to-understand explanation of how OASIS answers will be used to determine payment under the revised case-mix model. You also get tips and tools for training staff how to navigate the subtleties of the following new OASIS payment questions:

• M0826 (therapy need),
• M0110 (episode timing)
• M0246 (case-mix diagnosis)
• M0800 (management of injectable medications)
• M0470 (current number of stasis ulcers)
• M0520 (urinary incontinence)

Your Expert Speakers: Julie Vandre, R.N. COS-C Julie Vandre, R.N. COS-C, is a 10-year health care veteran, who currently works as a nurse consultant with McBee Associates in Columbia, Md. Julie frequently conducts OASIS accuracy audits to ensure regulatory and operational compliance. She has more than ten years of health care experience, during which time she worked as a home health case manager, clinical coordinator and quality manager. Who Should Attend: This audio conference benefits a wide variety of health care professionals. Home health agency clinical and QA/QI managers and staff Clinical field staff/supervisors Coders Billers Administrators Executives Compliance officers There is no limit to the number of staff from your office who can tune in to the seminar via speakerphone. Invite them all to join you. A single registration fee pays for your entire team! (One dial-in per registration fee.) Sponsors Home Care Outcomes is the nation’s leading source of independent guidance on home health quality outcomes, quality improvement, OASIS accuracy, ICD-9 coding and competencies. DecisionHealth®, publisher of Home Care Outcomes, serves the business and regulatory needs of health care practitioners, providers and their administrative staff nationwide by offering more than 50 independent newsletters, magazines, books, web sites and loose-leaf services that help readers make the best business decisions. << Back to Home | Next >>