The admission process to Medicare home care is a series of mandated sequential steps that are crucial to appropriately deciding whether to admit or not admit.
Should You Admit or Not Admit This Referred Person to Your Medicare or Related Home Care Agency? That is the first and most vital question for the patient, the agency, the staff, and the financial well being of your agency.
Get it wrong, and you may be required to return with penalties all the money you accrued from the admission. And long term you may have to admit at some point: “This patient should never have been admitted”. Or you could, by your admission processes failures, run up against questions in your federal Medicare or related survey.
The admission process to Medicare home care is a series of mandated sequential steps that are crucial to appropriately deciding whether to admit or not admit. You want to be on top of the admission process in any agency type you might have occasion to work in. Want to be primed to be the best? Well stop right now and sign up to attend this exacting webinar featuring a well-known expert.
Areas Covered in the seminar:
- Explain the difference between a referral and an initial home care order.
- Describe the types of initial orders that might apply for Medicare home care patients.
- Discuss the unique data to be collected when possible in taking a referral for patient admission under Medicare and /or related licensure.
- Share the one situation you as the RN skilled visit nurse do not want to be caught in during the initial visit.
- Detail, at a beginning level, how to write physician’s orders using the right format and processes under Medicare and/or related licensure types.
Who Will Benefit:
- Administrator
- Directors of Clinical/Professional Services
- Registered Nurse Case Managers
- Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical/Vocational Skilled Nurse Visit Nurses
- Home Health Care Agencies Holding Provider Status under Medicare and/or Related Entities (I.E JCAHO, CHAPS, ETC)
Instructor Profile:
Joyce Binegar, with over 20+ years experience in nursing, nursing education and health care consulting, Joyce Binegar has an in-depth knowledge, understanding and unique insight into the health care issues of today. She has worked as a nurse in staff and management positions in hospitals and home health care agencies. In home care, she has held positions as Case Manager, Clinical Supervisor, and Director of Professional Services.
Currently, Joyce is an independent consultant, chart reviewer, presenter, author and provider of educational services in the health care field. She has performed mock surveys, system analysis, and competency testing, and provided assistance in revamping of home care agencies to return to compliance with Federal and State mandates (Medicare/Medicaid).
