Healthcare reform will change how we produce and deliver care programs in the near future. As Medicare reinvents the care continuum to address advances in care programming, all clinicians will be challenged to rethink how we do what we do. Learn specifics of healthcare reform, ACOs and other care models that will focus on clinical quality and efficiency, and how you can start to focus and prepare today for the care challenges of tomorrow.
Wounds are one of our biggest obstacles in home health. The primary reason for this being, the wound was not properly identified initially. Wounds that are not identified and coded correctly at the initial evaluation are at major risk of not healing and/or deteriorating. Additionally, valuable non-routine supply costs can be left on the table when the correct ICD-9 codes are not used. Join Jennifer as she walks you through the maze of coding wounds in home health.
The 2012 Medicare Proposed Rule outlines the
re-distribution of therapy payments to address
CMS and Med Pac concerns regarding the
production and delivery of rehab services for
Home Health clients. The re-weighting of
payment based on visit volumes means that
homecare providers will experience a rate
increase for low-utilization therapy episodes
and a decrease in payment for high-utilization
therapy episodes. Both providers and clinicians
are perplexed by the proposals; what is the
logic in being paid less to deliver more
services? In addition, the contract nature of
rehab staffing makes adjustments to traditional
delivery models more difficult than with
employed clinical personnel.
This session
will allow you to address these changes with an
eye on the Medicare motivations behind the new
proposals. These latest attempts to introduce
cost and quality controls to therapy care
delivery will challenge all providers to
re-assess their rehab departments while
re-examining the levels of efficiency in these
types of programs. By breaking down the new
payment system, attendees will understand the
goals of the reforms, and learn how SNF rehab
care delivery was modified to address identical
payment reforms nearly 10 years ago. Also,
learn techniques that help you manage clinical
care concerns that speak to the very heart of
the payment reforms. Don’t believe the hype –
you can manage your therapy content and deliver
quality care for patients while preparing your
agency for future cost and quality refinements.
As a homecare coding specialist, OASIS
specialist and registered nurse with 30 years
of clinical and management experience, Jennifer
is an informational ally for hundreds of home
health agencies across the country. Well known
as an ICD-9 coding and OASIS expert, she
frequently conducts online and on-site
educational workshops and is a regular guest
speaker at numerous home care conferences
throughout the country.
Developed as a
means of tracking causes of death, the ICD
system is now used by the World Health
Organization (WHO) to collect causes of
morbidity and mortality. The US is behind other
industrialized countries as we still utilize
the ICD-9 system of coding. On Oct 1, 2013, the
US will change from ICD-9 to ICD-10 for medical
diagnoses in home health. This transition will
require major changes for agencies. Join
Jennifer Warfield as she presents an
introduction to the transition. Learn what you
should be doing now, important dates to
remember and ways to start preparing your
staff.
