This webinar will discuss the CMS hospital conditions of participation on advance directives along with the Joint Commission standards to help hospitals ensure compliance with the standards. Hospitals have received a high number of deficiencies in this area and this program will cover in detail advance directives such as living will, durable power of attorney, organ donation, mental health declaration, organ donor cards, patient advocates and do not resuscitate orders.

Join us, as our expert covers in detail CMS infection control worksheet used to assess compliance with the infection control hospital CoPs. The worksheets are used by State and Federal surveyors when assessing compliance with the infection control standards. Infection control is hit hard during the survey and every hospital should have a working familiarity with this important document. This is the first time CMS has ever had tracers. Hospitals should develop tracer tools to match this worksheet. Accreditation organizations may also ask similar questions since all four must apply for deemed status from CMS.

Every hospital that accepts Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement must follow the CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) Conditions of Participation (CoPs) and it must be followed for all patients. This program will cover the nursing services section in the hospital CoP manual. Facilities accredited by the Joint Commission, Health Care Facility Accreditation Program, CIHQ, and DNV Healthcare must also follow these regulations. This section contains many problematic standards for hospitals including the nursing care plan standards and that an order is required for all medication especially if standing order or protocol used.

Restraint and Seclusion is a hot spot with both CMS and the Joint Commission and a common area where hospitals are cited for being out of compliance. The restraint policy is one of the hardest to write and understand in healthcare today. This program will simplify and take the mystery out of those 50 page restraint and seclusion interpretive guidelines. It will provide a crosswalk to the Joint Commission standards. Avoid the restraint nightmare now and let us take the mystery out of these confusing regulations by attending this program.

This program will provide a foundation of knowledge and understanding of the DRG system used as the structure for reimbursement under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Included in this will be a review of the DRG relative weights, case mix index and expected lengths of stay. Medical record coding will be explained in the context of how hospitals get reimbursed.

The world of healthcare is changing rapidly and so is the role of case management in that world! Federal fiscal year 2019 promises to bring new and exciting changes that will impact your work as a case management professional. Whether you are reading or hearing about value-based reimbursement, the Affordable Care Act, the continuum of care, bundled payments, transitions in care, or accountable care organizations, case management is at the center of it all!

Our Relias Certified CMS Professional Program will guide attendees through the entire CMS Hospital CoP manual and highlight major changes that impact hospitals. The program is divided into five parts with each part accompanied by an exam. After completing the program, attendees will receive a certification that they are a Certified CMS Professional (CCMSP).

Part I of the series will introduce the CMS Hospital CoP manual, discuss major changes in 2018, the CMS survey process, board and CEO, and medical records.

Our Relias Certified CMS Professional Program will guide attendees through the entire CMS Hospital CoP manual and highlight major changes that impact hospitals. The program is divided into five parts with each part accompanied by an exam. After completing the program, attendees will receive a certification that they are a Certified CMS Professional (CCMSP).

This program will also cover the CMS hospital discharge planning standards. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rewrote all of the interpretive guidelines on the hospital discharge planning standards in July 19, 2013 to match what is in the current worksheet. The memo was 39 pages long and the prior 24 standards were consolidated into 13. Come join this important webinar to learn about what your hospital has to do to be in compliance with the discharge planning standards. CMS has published data showing the number of deficiencies that hospitals have already received in the discharge planning standards and this data will be provided.

CMS has proposed some significant changes to the hospital conditions of participation (CoPs) that every hospital should know, including critical access hospitals. This include changes to nursing, medical records, infection control, QAPI, patient rights, and restraint and seclusion. It will also require all hospitals to have an antibiotic stewardship program and what the program should include. It will include a prohibition on discrimination which must be given to patients in writing. CMS is proposing to add the current law requirements under OCR 1557 and place them into the CMS hospital CoPs.