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Essentially Women and VGM Education offer a bundle of courses that cover the basics of billing and reimbursement for post-mastectomy providers. Courses contain billing basics, claims filing and processing claims, advanced beneficiary notice, external breast prosthesis documentation and billing, understanding the medicare supplier standards, introduction to patient receivable management, and medicare appeals process.

The purpose of this course is to help nurses and other health care professionals with incorporating the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Patient’s Bill of Rights into their practice and into their patient education. 

This course will help you become familiar with the process of billing for repairs to home medical equipment (HME).

This course will help you become familiar with the documentation, coding, modifiers and billing requirements in order to bill Medicare for ostomy supplies.

This course explains how to bill Medicare for all types of hospital beds and accessories and what documentation is required.

This course explains how to bill Medicare for manual wheelchairs and what documentation is required.

This course addresses the billing and coverage of external breast prosthesis for individuals who have had a mastectomy.

This course introduces positive airway pressure (PAP) devices, and discusses proper billing procedures for reimbursement from Medicare and other third party payers who follow the same criteria.

This course will help you become familiar with the documentation required to bill Medicare for blood glucose monitors and testing supplies.

This course will help you become familiar with the process of billing Medicare for all types of urological supplies.

This course is designed to assist billers and patient service personnel in understanding Medicare oxygen reimbursement.

This guide details clinical and reimbursement criteria, Medicare’s documentation expectations, and billing codes to help ensure proper coverage for wound-related durable medical equipment (DME), including surgical dressings, support surfaces, hospital beds, and negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT). This can be downloaded to help educate referral sources.

NOTE: Unit price includes shipping to a single location.  Please allow 7-10 business days to process your order.

This course provides an overview of patient billing and collection. The course is written for billing managers and customer service/intake employees.

Patients have rights that health care providers are required to follow. These rights ensure that all patients are given choices, have the rights to refuse services or care, understand treatments, and receive quality care. This course is designed to give an overview of patient rights following the federal model patient bill of rights that are a condition of participation in Medicare and Medicaid. If the patient lacks decision-making ability or is legally incompetent, a designated surrogate, family member, or guardian can exercise the patient’s rights on their behalf. You will learn about various types of advance directives, which are legal documents that detail a patient’s health care preferences and end-of-life decisions.

This course will address Medicare coverage for several frequently ordered durable medical equipment products. This course will also explain the process of billing Medicare for capped rental items and inexpensive and routinely purchased items.

This course explains how to bill Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) for all types of pressure-reducing support surfaces and provide the documentation necessary to submit a clean claim. Before taking this course, you should complete the courses: BILL100 – Introduction to CMS and Medicare, BILL105 – Frequently Ordered DME, and BILL106 – Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN).

Intended Audience: Location managers, billing managers, marketing/sales managers, regional managers, and other designated managers and supervisors. Use of the term supervisors will be used throughout this training as a generic term to include all in the intended audience.

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:
1. Identify ways to recognize evidence of employee alcohol and other drug abuse.
2. Identify how to document employee alcohol and other drug abuse problems.
3. Identify how to conduct appropriate investigations related to substance abuse.
4. Identify how to validate and confront employees with substance abuse problems.
5. Identify ways to effectuate the basic requirements for drug testing.

Regulations for long-term care vary from state to state. This course was adapted from best practices developed for long-term care nursing assistants. Please note that the furniture and equipment in your facility may vary as well. Be aware of your facility policies, procedures, and protocols for care of the residents and follow them. If you have questions regarding residents in your care, see the nurse in charge. The resident’s current level of mobility and functioning will depend upon the degree of assistance needed to complete daily tasks. As a nursing assistant, you are key in facilitating each resident meets their highest level of functioning. This course will discuss bathing, grooming, dressing, oral care, and perineal care.

To review the rights of residents in the long-term care setting.

Unique challenges can arise when performing perioperative care for older surgical patients. This course reviews the challenges of performing such care that all members of a patient’s health care team should be aware.

People who are consumers of health care have rights, including the right to receive quality care. Along with those rights come certain responsibilities. This course explains what those rights and responsibilities are as defined in 1997 by the Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry.

LGBTQ individuals have faced many challenges that have kept them in the closet or forced them back into the closet because of discrimination and bullying from friends and family, health care workers, and the general public. This self-study will help health care staff understand LGBTQ terminology and ways to provide compassionate, LGBTQ-informed care.

This bundle of 4 courses is the recorded audio and slides presented by Heather Trumm and Ronda Buhrmester at the Heartland Conference 2019. Included in your Wound Care 101 education is an optional 30-minute meeting with Ronda Buhrmester and Heather Trumm to discuss any additional wound care questions. Contact Heather at [email protected] to schedule a meeting. 

The nursing assistant is an important part in providing assistance to residents to enable them to function at the highest possible level. Restorative care programs are key in ensuring that residents are assessed and offered activities that benefit their well-being. This course will discuss safe transfers, mobility, and dining assistance.

Purpose:  This is the second part of a three-part series exploring cultures, ethnicities, age-appropriate care, and historical issues that affect the present health care climate. ALL115a covers cultural competency in health care, ALL115b highlights age-specific considerations in health care, and ALL115c addresses past and current issues of the health care industry, such as racism and discrimination, and how to respond as an individual and facility.

In this course, health care professionals will increase their understanding and skills in providing optimal care to individuals from varying age groups.