Wednesday, April 8

Mitigate immediate revenue loss to your facility and protect its future financial health by learning an effective strategy to help prevent and manage complex DRG denials.

Thursday, April 16

Understand the rules and policy, while mitigating common misunderstandings surrounding the billing for incident-to and split-shared services.

Thursday, April 30

Learn how to effectively overturn clinical validation denials for malnutrition and encephalopathy by overpowering faulty payer and third-party review rationale.

Michael Calahan explains what hospitals need to know about the "Two-Midnight Rule," how this rule impacts observation services, and how these services are informed by the federal expectations around short-stay admissions and the physician orders for inpatient admissions.

This webcast explains —in plain English— the Medicare regulation and the manual provisions for billing incident-to and split-shared services while clearing up common misunderstandings surrounding these services.

This webcast describes what you should do to mitigate exposure in dealing with the governmental and commercials payers who establish their own "hit lists" and "audit targets."

Basic concepts and compliant billing of observation services are reviewed during this webcast, including proper use of condition code 44, when observation is used and not used after surgery, and how to avoid excess hours denials.

Discharge Planning Conditions of Participation, the CMS Final Rule, is sure to be a game-changer for most hospitals and health systems. Learn how one of America's largest health systems is complying with the tough requirements mandated by CMS.

New and significant "must-know" changes to the Medicare program, including the correct reporting of credits for implantable medical devices and managing patient accounts when such devices are billed, are discussed in this webcast led by Michael Calahan.

There are significant therapy changes for 2020, and providers must be prepared to navigate the changes prior to Jan. 1, 2020. During this RACmonitor webcast, nationally recognized outpatient therapy compliance expert Nancy Beckley reviews new codes for outpatient therapy.

For this RACmonitor webcast, we've secured Dr. Ronald Hirsch, one of our most trusted and popular presenters, to help you sort out key changes in the 2020 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Final Rule, so you're equipped to seize opportunity and minimize your compliance risks in 2020.

This RACmonitor webcast, led by healthcare attorney David Glaser, provides practical tips that will lower the chance your organization will face a government investigation.

Revenue loss related to THAs coming off the inpatient-only list is inevitable, but effective plans in place to minimize such losses are crucial in this age of tight operational margins as presented in this RACmonitor webcast.

New regulations from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2020 for IRF providers are discussed by Angela Phillips during this webcast that's designed to help you and your team accurately report, document and bill for IRF services in an environment of increased scrutiny by auditors.

This exclusive RACmonitor webcast, led by David Mullens, JD, DPM describes how to write a letter brief that is understandable to the ALJ and describes the patient's problem, helps the ALJ understand what was done, and persuades the ALJ to agree that what was done was the correct thing to do for the problem.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the final rule for discharge planning conditions of participation. The significant changes are addressed by Dr. Ronald Hirsch during this exclusive RACmonitor news webcast.

This RACmonitor webcast discusses laws, regulations and other sources of regulatory requirements that govern Medicare Advantage plans and, importantly, when and how these plans can make changes to their contracts or operations that can have an impact on your facility.

This webcast will demonstrate to you and your team how to distinguish inpatients from outpatients with observation services, while helping you to understand the time-sensitivity of observation services and what steps to take in preparation for observation audits.

Learn how you should assign the appropriate status to support medical necessity, optimize quality data and ensure appropriate hospital reimbursement in order to avoid claim denials by commercial payers.

Learn how to leverage Managed Medicare insurers who are denying authorizations for inpatients requiring post-acute care. A more recent challenge is obtaining authorizations for long term acute care (LTAC), acute rehabilitation and subacute rehabilitation (SAR) which will be explained in this webcast.

The 2020 IPPS Final Rule, the 2020 proposed rules for OPPS and the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule are reviewed during this webcast so that your facility can prepare for these new regulations that become effective Oct. 1, 2019. Failure to comply leads to compliance, revenue and patient dissatisfaction risks.

This exclusive RACmonitor webcast, led by David Glaser, provides you and your team useful legal arguments for responding to denials with proven strategies for how to best package your appeals, including how to write effective appeal letters and execute smart legal approaches.

Using actual examples of non-compliant issues, this webcast demonstrates the ongoing compliance challenges with HCCs in a risk-adjusted environment such as physician practices and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).

You may think that you are adequately appealing your adverse decisions. But if you know the issues that even CMS believes exist regarding the RACs, you may be more successful in your appeals as you will discover during this webcast led by healthcare attorney Knicole Emanuel.

This exclusive RACmonitor webcast addresses the perils of "simply removing FIMTM elements" from an IRFs documentation while providing success strategies for assuring accurate and compliant scoring.

This exclusive RACmonitor webcast demonstrates how and when to use the right patient notification form when communicating a patient's status. Using the wrong form or even the right form with incomplete information is a red flag to auditors who typically side with patients in case involving disputes.

This webcast demonstrates how to strategize, track and trend claim denials in order to capture revenue, clean up claim submissions, improve efficiencies and prevent revenue leaks. It is estimated that claims denials are costing hospitals as much as 5 percent of their net revenue stream.

Learn how providers should assign the appropriate status to support medical necessity, optimize quality data and ensure appropriate hospital reimbursement in order to avoid claim denials by Medicare Part C auditors.

Every MCR-participating facility utilizing the 2-Midnight rule has to be familiar with CMS-guided self-deny decision process resulting in subsequent rebilling. Recent and increased 2-midnight audits by the QIOs mean your facility could be at risk if you are an outlier.

This webcast will review point-by-point how to optimize your organization's appeals process. From initial understanding of appeal processes available via contractual agreements to denial review and assessment and finally to effective appeal, you'll come away with a step-by-step map ready to implement.