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Acucare's workshops are "A 10+, very informative"

Acucare's workshops are a "Fabulous motivator with lots of energy, Very interactive"
 


In-Services and Training Programs

We offer a broad number of workshops and seminars to address our clients' needs. Our goal is to provide our clients with a productive learning experience. We have drawn specialists from across a number of healthcare disciplines to develop programs that help you deal with a dynamic organizational environment.

Below we list our current in-services and training programs. We are regularly revamping our programs and developing new training sessions. If you don't see a program that fits your specific organizational need, please contact us to discuss your specific requirements.
  1. Medicare Hospice: Maximizing Reimbursement Through Documentation
  2. Medicare Home Health: Maximizing Reimbursement Through Documentation
  3. Marketing Strategies for Hospice and Home Health
  4. Manage Your Referrals and Increase Your Admissions
  5. Dealing with Organizational Change
  6. Process Redesign - What is it and who needs it
  7. Organizational Redesign
  8. Avoiding Pit Falls of Process Redesign
  9. Census vs. Budget
  10. Performance Improvement: The Joint Commission Way
  11. JCAHO Preparation
  12. Pre-Billing Audits: How To Start One
1. Medicare Hospice: Maximizing Reimbursement Through Documentation
A thorough review of hospice medical records highlighting elements required for reimbursement. This class provides guidance on how to avoid denial of claims through effective documentation (recommended for management & clinicians).
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2. Medicare Home Health: Maximizing Reimbursement Through Documentation
A thorough review of home health medical records highlighting elements required for reimbursement. This class provides guidance on how to avoid claims denials through effective documentation (recommended for management & clinicians).
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3. Marketing Strategies for Hospice and Home Health
Participants in this interactive workshop will learn probing techniques on overcoming objections, setting and achieving goals, and strategies to overcome late referrals. Attendees will also gain managed care negotiating skills (recommended for marketing, liaisons, and management).
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4. Manage Your Referrals and Increase Your Admissions
Participants will learn how to manage referrals, convert them into admissions, increase productivity, and maintain a referrals to admissions ratio of 80% or higher (recommended for management and leaders).
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5. Dealing with Organizational Change
This workshop is designed to educate managers how to deal with the impact of change and the staff's reaction to multiple changes in the workplace environment (recommended for line managers and leaders).
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6. Process Redesign - What is it and who needs it
Participants will learn how to address the need to implement organizational efficiencies, implement process redesign in a healthcare environment, increase productivity, and ensure profitability (recommended for clinicians, managers and leaders).
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7. Organizational Redesign
This workshop will assist organizational leaders plan and successfully implement organizational changes while maintaining profit margin (recommended for leaders and executives).
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8. Avoiding Pit Falls of Process Redesign
Participants will learn how to evaluate their organizations' operations, design a process change, and implement the new plan while avoiding the pit falls of this enormous task. (recommended for leaders and executives).
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9. Census vs. Budget
This class teaches participants to transform the census and length of stay data into an actual budget. It also covers how to budget admissions to meet yearly financial goals (recommended for management and leaders).
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10. Performance Improvement: The Joint Commission Way
Designed for management & leaders, this class takes a look at the standards under the performance improvement function (recommended for leaders).
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11. JCAHO Preparation
This class provides an overview of the survey process, tips for success, and a closer look at the historically troublesome standards. This class can be tailored to the specific needs of your agency (recommended for management).
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12. Pre-Billing Audits: How To Start One
This course is designed to assist your agency in maximizing reimbursement and minimizing denials through effective pre-billing audit techniques. Includes process design and sample audit tools (recommended for management and financial staff).

 
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