Increase Your Knowledge to Better Serve Your Hospital and Community
With all of the regulations and changes happening in your current environment, it’s important to increase your knowledge to better serve family and friends who rely on your rural clinic. An increased knowledge not only helps you meet the needs of your facility, but can spark innovation to improve the administration of care in your community.
We are here to help
Our Rural Health Clinic (RHC) webinar series is designed specifically for health care professionals in rural communities. This series addresses issues you face every day: billing, compliance, cost reports, MACRA and regulatory requirements. Join us for quality education and the opportunity to receive continuing education credits.
Webinar Schedule at a Glance
Practical Advice: Rural Health Clinics Medicare Cost Report and Survey Readiness(4/7/2017)
Billing Update for Rural Health Clinics(4/14/2017)
Practical Advice: Rural Health Clinic Medicare Cost Report and Survey Readiness
April 7, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. CT
CPE Credit: One CPE credit in Specialized Knowledge & Application, upon verification of participant attendance.
Overview
Keeping up-to-date on compliance, regulatory requirements of a Rural Health Clinic (RHC), and the items impacting the Medicare reimbursement of a RHC is a never ending-obligation. This session will provide practical advice to assist RHC leaders on hot button topics of the cost report, MACRA, and common deficiencies found during the RHC survey process.
Learning Objectives
- Identify reimbursement opportunities and common pitfalls for RHC Medicare cost report
- Discuss the potential MACRA impact to a RHC
- Review the key members and requirements of the yearly RHC program evaluation
- Identify methods of ongoing RHC program evaluation
- Discuss common deficiencies found during the RHC surveys
Eide Bailly Presenters
Brian Bertsch | Principal
Brian has more than 20 years of experience assisting rural providers improve their financial stability. He specializes in assisting CAHs and RHCs with compliance on Medicare, Medicaid and other third-party reimbursement rules and regulations to achieve proper reimbursement for services performed. Brian also provides education to staff, board members and constituents on Medicare reimbursement for rural providers.
Bruce Davidson | Health Care Consulting Manager
Bruce has more than 40 years of experience in the health care industry including 36 years as a registered nurse. He has 12 years of experience as a President and CEO of home health in multiple locations that include day-to-day operations, budgeting, marketing, governance, compliance, strategic planning, productivity analysis, third-party reimbursement, and startup of agencies. Bruce has experience assisting organizations in the application process for Rural Health Clinics.
Billing Update for Rural Health Clinics
April 14, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. CT
CPE Credit: One CPE credit in Specialized Knowledge & Application, upon verification of participant attendance.
Overview
CMS continues to focus on the shift from volume of services provided to the value of these services with focus on reduction and prevention of chronic diseases. 2017 has brought changes to the billing codes and supervision requirements for some of these preventive services.
This session will address billing and HCPCS code changes for rural health clinic service offerings. We will discuss the importance of diagnosis reporting to assure proper reporting of patient acuity for expected utilization of chronic as well as acute illnesses. In addition, we will also review common billing issues encountered by rural health clinics.
Learning Objectives
- Identify changes in billing preventive services
- Determine proper use of modifiers
- Discuss reporting requirements for non-RHC professional services
Eide Bailly Presenter
Deyon Suchla | Health Care Consulting Manager
Deyon has more than 26 years of experience in the health care industry with a focus on rural health clinic billing rules and regulations for third-party payers. She specializes in analyzing and providing recommendations for process improvement to revenue cycle activities, which includes onsite education and training of business office staff.
Live, In-person Learning
Mark your calendars for Eide Bailly’s Critical Access Hospital Conference in 2017. We will be coming to Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 6 - 7, 2017. This is a great opportunity to stay informed of the regulatory changes impacting CAHs, find answers to questions you have been searching for and network with your peers.
