Corporate Compliance
VNA Education & Training 2014
December 16, 2014
Certifying Patients for the Medicare Home Health Benefit
This webinar reviewed benefit overview, patient eligibility, certification requirements including the Required Face-to-Face Encounter, recertification requirements, and resources.
December 11, 2014
Restoring Case-Mix Levels Through UR-based Care Programs Part 2
December 3, 2014
Restoring Case-Mix Levels Through UR-based Care Programs Part 1
November 19, 2014
Jurisdiction 6: Revalidation of Provider Enrollment Information
This webinar provides an overview of the requirements for providers to revalidate their enrollment information and explains the required supporting documentation to submit with the revalidation.
November 18, 2014
Financial Impact of the Medicare Rate Changes for 2015
This webinar provides information on financial basics to the final rule, stats, face-to-face changes, wage index changes, recalibration, case mix analysis, therapy assessments, quality and general impact.
November 17, 2014
VNAA Learn How the Proposed Home Health COPs Could Impact Your Agency
VNAA's Public Policy Council briefing call will highlight key components of the proposed Conditions of Participation rule and seek feedback from member agencies to guide the development of VNAA comments to CMS. VNAA has developed a summary document highlighting the new and revised provisions of the proposed rule and specific areas on which CMS seeks feedback. Please plan to join the call to assist VNAA and your own agency in the development of comments on the proposed COPs.
November 6, 2014
Federal Register Part 2: Department of Health and Human Services Final Rule
This 88-page handout covers Medicare and Medicaid programs, 2015 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update, Home Health Quality Reporting Requirements, and Survey and Enforcement Requirements for Home Health Agencies.
November 5, 2014
Transitioning to ICD-10
HHS has issued a rule finalizing October 1, 2015 as the new compliance date for health care providers, health plans, and health care clearinghouses to transition to ICD-10. During this MLN Connects National Provider Call, CMS subject matter experts will discuss ICD-10 implementation issues, opportunities for testing, and resources.
October 15, 2014
Progressing Together: The Next Phase of HHQI (Home Health Quality Improvement)
This webinar introduces the HHQI's EDNA Learning & Action Network (LAN), the new HHQI CardioLAN, HHQI University, and the Best Practice Intervention Packages (BPIPs).
October 2, 2104
Billing Compliant Conditional Claims (Part 2) - The Examples!
This webinar provides a review of Medicare secondary payer (MSP) claim examples that represent compliant conditional claims prepared after the provider receives NO payment from the primary payer for a valid reason or promptly (within 120 days for accident situations only). This webinar is intended for providers that submit claims to Medicare on a UB-04/CMS-1450 claim form or its electronic equivalent (8371) and who already attended Part 1 of this session on 9/22/14 or 9/26/14.
September 29, 2014
OCR Is Coming! Be Prepared for OCR Audits and Breach Investigation
This webinar explains the background, the breach notification rules and updates, OCR investigations, History of OCR audits, and Phase II of OCR audits.
September 25, 2014
The Risk Analysis/Risk Management Cycle: Foundation for an Effective Security and Privacy Program
This webinar explains risk/analysis/risk management requirements and key concepts, how to establish an effective RA/RM program, and how to use the RA/RM program to improve your information security and privacy program.
September 23, 2014
The Boomerang Effect - How to Avoid Medicare Advantage Organization Plan and Hospice-Related Rejections
This webinar assists Part A providers in understanding when and how to bill in situations in which Medicare patients have enrolled in an MAO plan rather than traditional Medicare or have elected hospice benefit.
September 22, 2014
Billing Compliant Conditional Claims (Part 1) - Doing it Right the First Time!
This webinar explains why and how to prepare and submit compliant conditional claims after you receive no payment from the primary payer.
September 3, 2014
OASIS-C1 / ICD-9 CMS National Webinar
June 18, 2014
Proven Strategies to Withstand Scrutiny of Face-to-Face Documentation
This webinar provided information about proven strategies to withstand scrutiny and denial prevention of Face-to-Face documentation.
May 21, 2014
Face-to-Face Encounters
National Government Services Jurisdiction 6 and Jurisdiction K home health clinical educator provided specific instruction regarding how to ensure that face-to-face encounter documents provided by home health agencies are completed as per the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare regulations. This hour and a half time frame will include samples of correct and incorrect certifications and face-to-face encounter documents.
