Weatherbee's Hospice Regulatory Boot Camps for 2013

How well does your staff understand the rules and regulations that enable you to provide the highest quality hospice care to eligible patients? Do they know:

• The payment-related requirements of the election, certification/recertification, physician narrative, face-to-face encounter, and plan of care?

• The regulatory requirements governing the interdisciplinary assessment process and documentation to support hospice eligibility?

• The importance of determining when medications and other services are or are not related to the patient’s terminal diagnosis, and how to document accordingly?

• The required elements to support the billing of higher levels of care (continuous care and general inpatient care)?

• The regulatory requirements and the compliance challenges associated with providing hospice care in facilities?

• How to ensure compliance with QAPI and reporting requirements?

If the answer to any of the above isn’t a resounding “ABSOLUTELY,” then your team needs Weatherbee's Boot Camp!  

Review the agenda for the two-day boot camp and see for yourself all that you and your team will learn.

Review the agenda for the optional third day - Eligibility & ADRs (NC and NM only).

Review the agenda for the optional third day - HIPAA Review (NC and NM only).

Weatherbee Boot Camps are perfect for:

•  New CEOs and other leaders who need an immersion in hospice regulations

• Supplemental learning for senior medical/clinical, finance, quality, compliance and other leaders responsible for ensuring compliance

• On-going training for medical directors, clinical managers, QAPI coordinators, educators and those responsible for determining eligibility, changing the level of care, billing, training or mentoring new staff, and interdisciplinary team leaders
  

Hospice Regulatory Boot Camps Scheduled for 2013

Boot Camp Agenda     |     Register by Mail or Fax

June 24 & 25 & optional 3rd day on June 26*	Charlotte Marriott Executive Park Hotel Charlotte, North Carolina Eff June 1, Marriott will become Crowne Plaza	Co-sponsored by the Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life Care
August 12 & 13 & optional 3rd day on August 14th*	Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town Albuquerque, New Mexico	Co-sponsored by the Texas & New Mexico Hospice Organization
October 7 & 8	Renaissance Providence Downtown Providence, Rhode Island
December 10 & 11	Bellagio Hotel Las Vegas, Nevada	Co-sponsored by the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association

*  An optional third day of workshops will be offered at the North Carolina and New Mexico boot camps. Participants may select a full day workshop entitled HIPAA Review presented by Heather Wilson, Ph.D.; or Managing Additional Development Requests (ADRs) & Investigation and Documenting Clinical Eligibility presented by Joy Barry, RN, M.Ed, LNC.

Boot Camp Faculty: Heather Wilson, PhD, CEO of the Hospice Education Network (HEN); Joy Barry, RN, MEd, LNC, CEO of Weatherbee Resources; Holly Swiger, PhD, MPH, RN, VP of Regulatory Initiatives at Weatherbee Resources; Terri Maxwell, Ph.D., APRN, VP of Strategic Initiatives at Weatherbee and HEN; and Howard Young, JD, Partner at Morgan, Lewis.

Continuing education for nurses (approximately 11 CEs for the boot camp / 6 CEs for the optional 3rd full day) is provided by the Hospice Education Network, Inc.  The Hospice Education Network is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. (ANCC) 

The Hospice Regulatory Boot Camp meets the criteria for completion of Regulatory & Compliance Issues, a Level II Module of NHPCO's Manager Development Program (MDP).