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Register: https://hospice.eewebinarnetwork.com/a/oha/webinar/what-every-hospice-home-care-provider-should-know-about-electronic-protected-health-information-paper-based-medical-records

As covered entities, hospices and home care providers are required to manage patients’ electronic protected health information (EPHI) and paper-based medical records in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy and security rules.  Noncompliance can lead to substantial fines (up to $1.5 million for privacy breaches), negative publicity, compromised patients, unhappy families, and damaged reputations.  Does your organization lawfully manage electronic and traditional PHI?  Have you established policies and strategies to ensure HIPAA compliance?  Are your business associates, including physicians and subcontractors, in compliance?  Join us to learn about records risks, policies, and compliance management best practices for hospices and home care providers.

Attendance certificate provided to self-report CE credits.

HIGHLIGHTS

• What is EPHI?
• What constitutes paper-based PHI?
• HIPAA risks, rules, and compliance
• What does HIPAA’s privacy rule demand of providers’ electronic and paper-based information?
• Strategies for complying with HIPAA’s security rule governing EPHI
• Patients’ privacy rights under HIPAA
• Responding to patients’ requests for access to PHI
• Best practices for securing EPHI
• How social media, texts, and email maximize EPHI and HIPAA risks – and how to shore up security breaches
• Implementing strategic, best-practices-based policies governing PHI, privacy, and security
• Supporting compliance with employee training
• Lawfully responding to an EPHI security breach
• Best-in-class technology solutions to safeguard electronic information and privacy
• Real-life disaster stories:  costly consequences of EPHI mismanagement and security breaches

• TAKE-AWAY TOOLKIT
  • Checklist: Seven Steps for HIPAA Compliance
  • Social media rules:  Guidelines for Creating Effective Social Media Policy

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This informative session is a must for compliance officers, lawyers, record managers, IT staff, human resources personnel, privacy officers, directors, and administrators.

PLEASE NOTE: Webinar content is subject to copyright and intended for your individual organization’s use only.

Register: https://hospice.eewebinarnetwork.com/a/oha/webinar/avoiding-the-top-five-survey-deficiencies

The FY2020 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update and Hospice Quality Reporting Requirements brought changes of great interest.  These range from wage index updates, to rebasing the level of care rates, to election statement changes.  This session will analyze the changes and comments that were sent in between the proposed and final rules to provide insight into the current state and future of hospice.  The Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) is continuously being massaged and current updates will be reviewed during this webinar.

Attendance certificate provided to self-report CE credits.

HIGHLIGHTS

• CMS hospice rebasing rate updates and implications for future payment
• Evaluation of activities to align hospices with post-acute-care providers
• CMS’s continuing concerns and analysis of hospice data shared by CMS, MedPAC, and others
• CAHPS Hospice Survey update for the future
• Expansion of the hospice quality reporting program

• TAKE-AWAY TOOLKIT
  • Reference guide to updates for hospice election statement content

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This informative session is designed for directors, administrators, and managers.

PLEASE NOTE: Webinar content is subject to copyright and intended for your individual organization’s use only.

Register: https://hospice.eewebinarnetwork.com/a/oha/webinar/hospice-2020-final-payment-rule-quality-update

The FY2020 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update and Hospice Quality Reporting Requirements brought changes of great interest.  These range from wage index updates, to rebasing the level of care rates, to election statement changes.  This session will analyze the changes and comments that were sent in between the proposed and final rules to provide insight into the current state and future of hospice.  The Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) is continuously being massaged and current updates will be reviewed during this webinar.

Attendance certificate provided to self-report CE credits.

HIGHLIGHTS

• CMS hospice rebasing rate updates and implications for future payment
• Evaluation of activities to align hospices with post-acute-care providers
• CMS’s continuing concerns and analysis of hospice data shared by CMS, MedPAC, and others
• CAHPS Hospice Survey update for the future
• Expansion of the hospice quality reporting program

• TAKE-AWAY TOOLKIT
  • Reference guide to updates for hospice election statement content

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This informative session is designed for directors, administrators, and managers.

PLEASE NOTE: Webinar content is subject to copyright and intended for your individual organization’s use only.

OHPCA Regulatory/QAPI Networking Call

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https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/191026613

You can also dial in using your phone.
United States: +1 (872) 240-3412

Access Code: 191-026-613

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Register: https://hospice.eewebinarnetwork.com/a/oha/webinar/avoiding-the-top-five-survey-deficiencies

A bad survey can create many problems for a provider, from disrupting a plan of correction to potential termination of Medicare provider agreement and/or license.  Avoiding a bad survey requires providers to maintain compliance.  Awareness of surveyors’ focus areas helps to ensure compliance.  Medicare also helps this effort by sharing industry survey data.  This seminar will look at current survey data and trends to identify areas of significant survey focus.

In addition, CMS recently revised Appendix Q of the State Operations Manual, which governs immediate jeopardy determinations and enforcement.  Since publication of the revised Appendix Q, there has been a noticeable increase in surveys resulting in immediate jeopardy determinations.  This program will review key changes to Appendix Q to help providers understand what can lead to immediate jeopardy determinations, as well as compliance strategies for areas of heightened surveyor focus.  Join us to learn how your agency’s compliance program can help maintain compliance between surveys and some strategies for use during the survey.

Attendance certificate provided to self-report CE credits.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Top areas of surveyor focus based upon survey data
• Why certain administrative issues are of great concern to surveyors
• Key changes CMS made to Appendix Q and their impact
• How agency administration can lead to condition-level findings, even with quality patient care
• Insight into how a compliance program can be leveraged to increase survey readiness
• The immediate jeopardy process
• Process to appeal Medicare termination provisions

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This informative session is designed for administrators, clinical managers, nurses, compliance officers, compliance staff, executives, and management.

PLEASE NOTE: Webinar content is subject to copyright and intended for your individual organization’s use only.

Register: https://hospice.eewebinarnetwork.com/a/oha/webinar/hospice-billing-series-face-to-face-hospice-cap-palliative-care

Face-to-face requirements, physician billing, and the aggregate cap self-reporting requirement are a few of the daily reimbursement-related challenges faced by hospices.  This webinar will address those issues and will also include a review of specific physician billing codes for palliative care, the current HIS transmission requirements, and how noncompliance affects reimbursement.  The top five reasons for denied claims under medical review will round out this informative session.

Attendance certificate provided to self-report CE credits.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Hospice face-to-face requirements
• Recap the self-reporting of hospice aggregate cap
• List of palliative care specific codes for billing Part B
• HIS reporting requirements
• Top five medical review denial reasons

• TAKE-AWAY TOOLKIT
  • Responding to an ADR

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This informative session is designed for directors, clinical managers, intake/authorization staff, and the revenue cycle team.

PLEASE NOTE: Webinar content is subject to copyright and intended for your individual organization’s use only.

Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.
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You can also dial in using your phone.
United States: +1 (872) 240-3311

Access Code: 829-564-157

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Monthly conference call which will focus on Inpatient Hospice issues. This call will be a forum for Hospice managers and staff to ask questions, share information, discuss new regulations, etc. No meeting in May 2019.

OHPCA-WSHPCO Inpatient Managers & Staff Networking Meeting

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https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/734746861

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United States: +1 (571) 317-3122

Access Code: 734-746-861

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Register: https://hospice.eewebinarnetwork.com/a/oha/webinar/ethical-challenges-and-skills-assessing-suicidal-ideations-and-interventions

According to the CDC, there is one death by suicide in the United States every 12 minutes.  In hospice and home care this is especially relevant because cancer patients have nearly twice the incidence of suicide as the general population.  Working with seriously ill people can create unique challenges that may include navigating the legal system, advocating for self-determination, and understanding organizational policies and community perceptions.  This webinar will examine personal, professional, and ethical conflicts, address essential skill sets, and take an in-depth look at how to assess suicidal ideation.

Attendance certificate provided to self-report CE credits.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Discuss challenges that derive from growing support for “rational suicide” versus the need to follow state and national regulations
• Four potential ethical dilemmas that may emanate from suicidal ideation and planning
• Eight common errors when working with people with various levels of suicidal ideation
• Applying skills/interventions from two theoretical frameworks to common situations

• TAKE-AWAY TOOLKIT
  • Sample policy/procedure
  • Counseling toolkit
  • Sample “no-suicide” contract
  • Additional slides/handout to use for ongoing staff and volunteer training
  • Handout with lecture notes
  • List of references, bibliography, and learning opportunities

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This enlightening webinar is designed for all team members, including management and leadership.  Although time will be spent on counseling interventions, this webinar will provide intervention variations that all team members can use.

PLEASE NOTE: Webinar content is subject to copyright and intended for your individual organization’s use only.

OHPCA Board of Directors Meeting by GoToMeeting

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https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/663129957

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United States: +1 (646) 749-3122

Access Code: 663-129-957

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OHPCA’s annual fall conference. View program information HERE.

Register: https://hospice.eewebinarnetwork.com/a/oha/webinar/disaster-recovery-business-continuity

According to the 2017 State of Resilience Report, 73% of organizations that experienced a systems failure were down for 30 minutes or more!  This presentation will explain business continuity and survival by going through three essential steps.  It will address the concepts of business continuity and disaster planning in general terms, but will focus primarily on specific IT strategies you can easily and affordably implement.

Attendance certificate provided to self-report CE credits.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Causes of data loss
• Impact of data loss and downtime
• Risk analysis
• Data protection methods
• Components of a business continuity plan

• TAKE-AWAY TOOLKIT
  • List of trusted online analysis tools
  • Reference websites
  • Tips on data protection methods

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This informative session is designed for IT and operations personnel, security and compliance officers, CIOs, directors, executives, and agency owners.  Although this information is technical in nature, all senior management will benefit from the risk analysis element of this program.

PLEASE NOTE: Webinar content is subject to copyright and intended for your individual organization’s use only.

Register: https://hospice.eewebinarnetwork.com/a/oha/webinar/compliance-series-for-non-clinical-staff-compliance-for-hospice-bereavement-staff

While not much has been written in the CoPs about bereavement, there are several areas where you must ensure regulatory compliance and that quality bereavement care is being provided.  One area of concern for hospices is the correlation between bereavement risk assessments and follow-up care for people at medium-to-high risk.  The CoPs require bereavement counseling.  But which team members are qualified to provide that counseling?  This webinar will cover key regulations and offer suggestions for bereavement care and programming, especially with limited staff and resources.

Attendance certificate provided to self-report CE credits.

HIGHLIGHTS

• List of hospice Medicare Conditions of Participation (CoPs) for providing bereavement services
• Define bereavement counseling as it applies to pre- and post-death counseling
• The “qualified professional” CoP requirement
• One process to ensure the bereavement plan of care is individualized
• Requirement to extend bereavement counseling to residents of SNF/NF or ICF/MR facilities
• Ways to move from “compliance” to best practices in bereavement counseling and services

• TAKE-AWAY TOOLKIT
  • FAQs
  • List of Medicare regulations
  • Program evaluation checklist
  • Resources specifically related to hospice bereavement programs
  • Handout with lecture notes
  • References and additional learning opportunities

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This informative session is designed for bereavement professionals, program managers, and team members involved with providing bereavement counseling and services.  Senior leadership will also benefit.

PLEASE NOTE: Webinar content is subject to copyright and intended for your individual organization’s use only.

OHPCA Regulatory/QAPI Networking Call

Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/191026613

You can also dial in using your phone.
United States: +1 (872) 240-3412

Access Code: 191-026-613

First GoToMeeting? Let’s do a quick system check:
https://link.gotomeeting.com/system-check

Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/829564157

You can also dial in using your phone.
United States: +1 (872) 240-3311

Access Code: 829-564-157

First GoToMeeting? Let’s do a quick system check: https://link.gotomeeting.com/system-check

Monthly conference call which will focus on Inpatient Hospice issues. This call will be a forum for Hospice managers and staff to ask questions, share information, discuss new regulations, etc. No meeting in May 2019.

OHPCA-WSHPCO Inpatient Managers & Staff Networking Meeting

Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/734746861

You can also dial in using your phone.
United States: +1 (571) 317-3122

Access Code: 734-746-861

First GoToMeeting? Let’s do a quick system check:
https://link.gotomeeting.com/system-check