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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 four:
PPS Changes & Non-Routine Supplies
Tuesday, June 26, 2007, 1:00-2:30 p.m. Eastern Time
The CMS proposed refinements to the Home Health
PPS include a major change in payment for medical supplies. As
with all other aspects of the Proposed Rule, your supply revenue
will depend on clinician OASIS accuracy.
Supply payment will be unbundled
and based on specific OASIS information relative to patient
severity and diagnosis codes. This change is likely to present
a host of new challenges. Unfortunately many agencies have
not even billed for medical supplies and most home health agencies
do not currently have the capability to monitor their medical
supply usage by diagnosis.
Learn how to cope with the bottom-line effects
of the proposed rule as it relates to your supply payment from
your expert speakers: Pat and Lynda Laff, Laff
Associates, Hilton Head Island, SC, who advise their clients
on how to streamline their organizations, achieve positive patient
outcomes, increase profits and reduce costs.
By attending this audio conference,
you’ll
uncover valuable strategies to help you prepare for the changes
and make sure your profits don’t take a beating. Afterwards,
participants will be able to:
- Discuss how the medical supply changes
in the PPS Proposed Rule may affect their organization.
- Recognize areas for improvement in the ordering
and distribution of supplies.
- Identify ways to develop medical supply “best
practices.”
- Create a process to ensure that supplies
that are ordered by the clinicians are in accordance with
agency protocols and physician orders.
- Capture supply data to monitor
use, costs and trends, and to identify problem areas for quick
resolution.
- Develop a plan for management of supply cost
by diagnosis.
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Your
Expert Speakers:
 Lynda
Laff
Home Care and Hospice Consultant
Laff Associates
Hilton Head Island, South
Carolina
Lynda Laff has 30 years of experience
in Home Health Care and Hospice in various senior
management positions and most recently spent 6
years as Executive Vice President of Operations
for a multi-office home care and hospice agency
operating in Georgia and South Carolina. She has
worked with tele-monitoring since 2001 and has
extensive successful hands-on experience with
telehealth implementation, change management and
outcomes improvement in the home care setting.
Lynda served as a JCAHO deemed status home care
and hospice registered nurse surveyor for 10 years.
She has presented numerous workshops at state
and national home health care and hospice forums
on home care clinical models, management and operations,
outcome improvement strategies, compliance and
telehealth implementation and management. She
consults nationally with home health agencies,
hospices and home health care vendors.
Pat Laff, C.P.A
Managing Principal
Laff Associates
Hilton Head
Island, South Carolina
Pat Laff, is a former home health
agency owner, administrator and CFO. He has hands-on
operational knowledge and expertise with all “backroom” clinical
and financial functions and processes necessary
to efficiently and effectively document and bill
for home care services. He is considered an expert
in the areas of fiscal and operations management,
diversification and reorganization, budgeting,
cash management and strategic structuring and
positioning. He regularly conducts national and
regional workshops and lectures. Mr. Laff is the
Vice Chair of the board of the National Association
For Home Care Home Health Financial Manager Association. |
Who Should
Attend:
This audio conference benefits a wide variety of health
care professionals.
- Home health agency CEOs
- CFOs
- Administrators
- Sales & marketing staff
- Billing managers
- Administrative and clerical staff
- Clinical and QI managers
- Field clinicians
- Consultants
- Attorneys
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
Health Line is the industry’s top
source of analysis on regulatory and legislative
changes, business and legal guidance, industry
benchmarks, competitive trends and more.
DecisionHealth®,
publisher of Home Health Line, 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.
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