2021 HH Success: Timely RAPs, Telehealth, and COVID-19 Response

Recorded Webinar | Sharon Litwin, and Melinda A. Gaboury | From: Feb 05, 2021 - To: Dec 31, 2021

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Get a rundown of the latest changes in the 2021 home health final rule, including RAP requirements, episode timing, home health payments, quality reporting, and more. Learn how to speed up RAP submissions and comply with all pending requirements.

Learning Objectives:-

  • Adopt processes for speedier RAP submissions
  • Use and document telehealth for better patient care
  • Determine how your payments will be affected in 2021
  • Assess whether infusion therapy is right for you
  • Avoid payment delays related to the timing of OASIS submissions

Agenda:-

You’re at risk for a payment reduction starting in 2021 if RAPs are not submitted within the five-day window. This is a challenge for agencies that are also responding to COVID-19 and the public health emergency. And it’s just one of the changes set forth in the 2021 home health payment final rule.

Attend this 90-minute webinar for complete details on what CMS included in the final rule, including RAPs, functional impairment levels, wage-index changes, quality reporting, and infusion therapy.

Attendees will get:

  • Tips for timely RAP submissions
  • Telehealth compliance guides
  • Explanation of labor market delineations 
  • An overview of changes to infusion therapy payments

Who Should Attend?

  • Home health administrators
  • Clinical managers
  • Compliance officers
  • Directors of nursing
  • Quality managers
  • Clinicians
  • PTs
  • RNs

Sharon Litwin, and Melinda A. Gaboury

Sharon Litwin, RN, BSHS, MHA, HCS-D, is a founder and senior managing partner at 5 Star Consultants in Camdenton, Missouri, a national consulting and coding firm specializing in-home care and hospice services since 2003. She was an ACHC and CHAP surveyor, performing Medicare deemed surveys for 10 years.

In her consulting firm, Litwin assists home care and hospice agencies in providing quality, meeting regulations, ICD-10 coding, OASIS, increasing outcomes and star ratings and having continued survey readiness.

Melinda A. Gaboury, with more than 28 years of in-home care, has over 18 years of executive speaking and educating experience, including extensive day to day interaction with home care and hospice professionals. She routinely conducts Home Care and Hospice Reimbursement Workshops and speaks at state association meetings throughout the country. Melinda has profound experience in Medicare PPS training, billing, collections, case-mix calculations, chart reviews, and due diligence. UPIC, RA, ADR & TPE appeals with all Medicare MACs have become the forefront of Melinda’s current impact on the industry. She is currently serving on the NAHC/HHFMA Advisory Board and Work Group and is Associate Director on the Home Care Association of Florida Board of Directors. Melinda is also the author of the Home Health OASIS Guide to