DAY 2 Main Conference

8:30 – 9:45 a.m.

Survive state surveys: Master medication review & reconciliation

Ann Rambusch

Efficiently and accurately assess for high-risk medications (M2000), reconcile medication issues (M2002) and improve coordination and communication with physicians (M2004) with Ann’s proven tactics. Adopt best practices related to medication review and reconciliation so you can survive your next CMS state survey with zero deficiencies.

Tools: Audit tool to assess your agency’s survey readiness, medication profile, medication query guideline and medication follow-up decision tree

9:45 – 10:45 a.m.

Implement disease-management programs: CHF and COPD

Carol Schlismann

Get best practices, strategic education and self-monitoring tools to improve the outcomes of your CHF and COPD patients. You’ll learn how Saint Elizabeth Home Care created a disease-management program for CHF and COPD patients that improved its acute care hospitalization score by 6 percentage points. 

Tools: Emergency action and COPD and CHF teaching plans, including guidance for monitoring and interventions, and information on relating symptoms to diet and lifestyle

10:45 – 11:00 a.m.

Refreshment break

11:00 a.m. – Noon

Part 1: Master the OASIS-C wound items

Ann Rambusch

Master the most challenging OASIS-C wound items by working through patient scenarios to learn how to score previously healed stage 3 and 4 pressure ulcers, when a pressure ulcer is unstageable, how and when to use column 2 in M1308, how to determine when a surgical wound becomes a scar and when to choose “newly epithelialized” for surgical wounds and pressure and stasis ulcers.

Tool: Pressure ulcer response grid

Noon – 1:00 p.m.

Networking lunch

1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

Part 2: Improve wounds with a moist wound healing program

Barbara Dale

Improve your surgical wound outcomes by more than 10 percentage points by implementing Quality Home Health’s moist wound healing program. Also, learn how to use the Braden Scale to determine the most appropriate interventions and how to design situation-specific protocols for wound healing.

Tools: M1308 answer grid and two moist wound healing protocols

2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Post-episode audits: Connecting eligibility, clinical documentation, billing

Katy LaBauve
Protect your reimbursement and ultimately your agency from a ZPIC, OIG, RAC or MAC audit by mitigating risks. Walk away with the processes, strategies and tools to implement a successful auditing program that ensures the episode of care meets Medicare’s eligibility, clinical documentation and billing/claim requirements. Also, learn how to quickly rectify an inconsistency to ensure prompt and accurate reimbursement.

Tools: Eligibility, billing and clinical audit checklists

3:00 – 3:15 p.m.

Refreshment break

3:15 – 4:15 p.m.

Transition to a patient services model: Improve outcomes, case mix and utilization

Nancy Orsborn

Improve outcomes, increase patient census and provide more efficient care by using a patient services coordination staffing model. Education about implementing this organizational model includes how to change job descriptions, oversee day-to-day implementation strategies and achieve staff buy-in when making an organizational change in staffing.

4:15 – 5:00 p.m.

Q&A with our experts

Panel: Robert Markette, Arlene Maxim, Elizabeth Lane, Katy LaBauve, Ann Rambusch, Dee Kornetti

Ask our panel your toughest compliance, quality, OASIS-C and/or therapy questions and walk away with solid guidance and expert advice.

5:00 p.m.

Main conference adjourns

5:15 – 6:45 p.m.

Study session for HCS-O exam

Be sure that your clinicians are just as competent as your coders, and prepare coders to be effective members of the QI team. Attend this study session to prepare for your BMSC HCS-O certification exam, then sit for your exam onsite Sept. 22 at 9:00 a.m.