Hospice 201: Updates for CY 2025 & Key Quality & Payment Model Initiatives

September 25, 2024
Live Webinar
DateSep 25, 2024Duration90 minutes
12:00 PM PDT01:00 PM MDT
02:00 PM CDT03:00 PM EDT
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Are you out of the loop? Does your agency have new players or leadership at the helm?

Attending this webinar will provide a good summary and overview of today’s hospice industry and what to anticipate in CY2025 and beyond. It will be interactive, allowing for Q&A to help everyone understand today’s trends, challenges, and changes – which will help guide your agency and its leadership.

AFTER THIS WEBINAR YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:
  • Speak to the regulatory updates impacting hospice for CY2025
  • Understand updates to the Hospice Quality Reporting Program and the patient assessment instrument HOPE (Hospice Outcomes & Patient Evaluation)
  • Explain key areas of focus related to compliance, reimbursement, and enhanced oversight impacting hospice
  • Identify updates to CMS hospice payment models

WEBINAR DETAILS

Hospice 201 will provide a current review of the hospice industry and what to anticipate with final rule updates for CY2025. It will look at hospice from a regulatory, compliance, reimbursement, and quality perspective. It will address how to prepare your agency to meet the changes, including touching on the introduction of the new HOPE patient assessment instrument.

This will be a high-level “touch point” webinar focusing on current trends and concerns impacting the hospice industry, including but not limited to key survey findings and how to remain as initiative-taking as possible in an industry that continues to embrace change and increased oversight.

THIS WEBINAR WILL BENEFIT THE FOLLOWING AGENCIES:

  • Hospice
  • Palliative Care

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This informative session is designed for all hospice leadership, including CEOs, administrators, CFOs, directors of patient services, clinical managers and supervisors, medical directors, board members, intake staff, business development professionals, liaisons, and quality and performance improvement staff.

TAKE-AWAY TOOLKIT

  • Medicare hospice benefit guidelines for eligibility
  • Medicare LCD clinical guidelines
  • CMS model Hospice Election Statement (NOE) and Patient Notification of Hospice Non-Covered Items, Services, and Drugs addendum (updated 3-2024)
  • HOPE draft guidance manual and tool
  • Website links to critical tools and current hospice information
  • Training log
  • PDF of slides and speaker’s contact info for follow-up questions
  • Attendance certificate provided, however there are no pre-approved CEs associated with this webinar

NOTE: All materials are subject to copyright. Transmission, retransmission, or republishing of any webinar to other agencies or those not employed by your agency is prohibited. Print materials may be copied for eligible participants only.

Presented By

Kathy AhearnKathy Ahearn
ALECC, Inc.
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