Join us at the 2022 Gulf Coast Conference & Exhibition

July 18 – 20

18th Annual Gulf Coast Conference & Exhibition

OASIS-E Overview
Speakers: Lisa Selman-Holman & Sherri Parson
When: 8:30a, July 19

Join us in for an OASIS E Overview, we will discuss changes that will come to the OASIS data set with OASIS E. New OASIS items, sections, and specifics related to the new items will be discussed. We will provide a more global understanding of the reasons behind the OASIS revisions and what CMS is aiming to accomplish. In this session, we will discuss the driving force behind the constant change, take a glimpse at what lies ahead for the OASIS-E related to these changes. Learning Outcomes:

Explain IMPACT Act and SPADES
Discuss how data from the SPADES are used
Discuss why the OASIS continues to evolve
Identify OASIS E items and sections
Apply OASIS assessment and completion concepts for specific items through scenarios

Is Good, Good Enough? Taking your Quality to the Next Level in VBP
Speakers: Lisa Selman-Holman & Sherri Parson
When: 11:30a, July 19

Improving your agency’s quality never ends, and exactly what CMS is getting at with VBP. Good should never be good enough. Use QAPI and process improvement to take your agency to the next level. A generalized approach to quality may not have the impact expected. How do we aim what it is we are doing to gain quality improvement? We will discuss a PDSA improvement project that we did and the positive results we obtained and the sustained improvement with repeats of the same process multiple times. In this presentation we will give you the steps to implement your own process improvement project. Learning Outcomes:

Identify elements of a quality improvement project
Discuss how to implement a personalized improvement project
Explain ways to improve performance in PDGM and VBP
Describe ways to objectively measure performance

Code your Way Out of a Paper Bag: Understanding Clinical Grouper and Comorbidity Adjustment
Speakers: Lisa Selman-Holman & Sherri Parson
When: 1:30p, July 19

So much in PDGM interacts with the correct primary diagnosis or clinical grouping. In this webinar understand the importance of the primary diagnosis for so many dimensions of PDGM. We will discuss criteria for choosing the primary diagnosis and illustrate the affect that the clinical grouper has on other calculations such as the functional impairment level. So much in PDGM interacts with the correct primary diagnosis or clinical grouping. In this webinar understand the importance of the primary diagnosis for so many dimensions of PDGM. We will discuss criteria for choosing the primary diagnosis and illustrate the affect that the clinical grouper has on other calculations such as the functional impairment level. Learning Outcomes:

Explain how to ensure a valid and accurate primary diagnosis
Describe the clinical groupings
Discuss when and why to query for the appropriate information for code assignment of the primary diagnosis
Explain how the comorbidity adjustments impact reimbursement in the Patient Driven Groupings Model
Describe how high and low comorbidities are calculated
Discuss principles for assigning secondary diagnosis