The Texas Association for Home Care is pleased to offer a web-based educational program addressing Medicare’s PPS changes, custom-designed to meet the training needs of all your staff.

 

On January 1, 2008, Medicare will implement the first revisions to the Prospective Payment System (PPS) since it was introduced seven years ago. These changes are expected to trigger the most significant change for home care since the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, and will require that you provide training to your clinicians, back office staff and administrators alike.

 

TAHC has teamed with the Home Care Information Network (HCIN) to offer you the industry’s most comprehensive PPS training program. Courses custom-designed to address the training needs of your nurses, therapists, billers, coders, financial managers and administrators are delivered over the Internet using HCIN’s state-of-the-art video streaming technology. Your staff can take these courses at their convenience, from home or office, 24/7/365.

 

 

With HCIN’s easy-to-use interface, viewing a seminar, taking a test and getting course credit couldn’t be simpler.

 

 

* $300 offer available exclusively to TAHC members (price for 1-3 sites). Non-member price is $450.

 

 

 

 

 

Eleven PPS Seminars From Leading Industry Experts for as Little as $300*

 

The PPS Success Strategies series is unlike any other training program ever offered to home care providers in the U.S. For one low price, you will get 11 custom-designed training programs taught by HCIN’s expert faculty. In addition, you will receive periodic updates and breaking news broadcasts at no additional cost.

 

HCIN has pulled together an “all-star team” of industry experts that includes: Lisa Selman-Holman, Trish Tulloch, Melinda Gaboury, Cindy Krafft, Karen Vance, Mark Sharp, Aaron Little, Bob Wardwell, Robert Markette, Tim Rowan and Tom Williams. All available online, eliminating costly travel or the need to crowd around a phone. To view a brief video with more information on the PPS Success Strategies series, please CLICK HERE.

 

ADDED BONUS… nurses participating in these courses can earn more than 8 Contact Hours at no additional cost!

 

Three Easy Steps to Staff Training Success

 

Step 1: CLICK HERE to download an order form. When you sign up for the PPS Success Strategies series, your staff will have unlimited access to all of the courses for an entire year for one low price.

 

Step 2: Set up your HCIN account. Each of your staff will have a personalized course catalog and their own login and password.

 

Step 3: View your courses from any Internet-enabled computer, any time of day… then take your tests and get your credits, all online. No travel expense or scheduling hassles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What’s Included in This Seminar Series?

 

Course Title

HCIN Faculty

Mins

CEUs

·  2008 PPS Reform in Historical Perspective

Bob Wardwell

45

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·  2008 Changes – Implications for Therapy

Cindy Krafft

68

1.4

·  PPS101 Reformed

Melinda Gaboury

95

1.8

·  Fraud and Abuse - An Overview For Clinicians

Robert Markette

53

1.2

·  2008 OASIS Updates

Trish Tulloch

66

1.3

·  Financial Overview of the Medicare Home Health PPS

Mark Sharp

51

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·  Conducting Impact Studies on the PPS Refinements

Mark Sharp

35

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·  New PPS Therapy Structure & How To Rethink Your Agency’s Practice

Cindy Krafft, Karen Vance

65

1.3

·  PPS Refinements – What Your Billing Staff Need to Know

Aaron Little

104

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·  Optimize Occupational Therapy – A Guide for Home Health Therapists

Karen Vance

51

1.1

·  2008 PPS Coding Changes

Lisa Selman-Holman

73

1.5

 

 

 

A Message From TAHC’s Executive Director

                                                                

The PPS Success Strategies series is an outstanding educational value, and I strongly encourage you to take advantage of this valuable program to provide training to all of your staff. The experts brought together to teach these courses are experienced educators and are among the most sought-after speakers in the home care industry. Through our affiliation with HCIN, TAHC is able to bring these presentations to you at an unheard of price, making this high quality education affordable to agencies throughout Texas, regardless of size. I know you will find your HCIN education experience to be valuable.

 

                                                                                                             Anita Bradberry