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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.

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

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

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 process of billing for repairs to home medical equipment (HME).

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 guide offers quick access to Medicare’s coverage rules, reimbursement criteria, and documentation needs across multiple categories of home medical equipment, including commodes, patient lifts, mobility aids, oxygen therapy, PAP/RAD devices, and more. 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 offers an introduction to the Medicare program and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

The Advance Determination of Medicare Coverage (ADMC) is a process by which your local Medicare carrier will provide you and the beneficiary with a coverage decision prior to delivery of an item. This course describes the ADMC process.

This course provides explanation of the current standards that a durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies (DMEPOS) supplier must meet to receive and maintain a Medicare Supplier Number and to submit claims to and receive payment from Medicare.

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

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 the structural and procedural changes that have been made to the process that Medicare beneficiaries can use to appeal claim denial and the steps that need to be followed in the appeals process.

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).

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.

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. 

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 explains how to bill Medicare for power wheelchairs and scooters (POVs), collectively referred to as power mobility devices (PMDs), and what documentation is required.

In this course intended for nursing and management staff in the long-term care setting you will learn what is social media, what privacy rights residents have related to social media, and types of possible criminal abuse via social media. You will study what the August 5, 2016 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) memo mandated that nursing homes do in regards to social media, including creating and implementing policies, training staff, and responding and reporting allegations of abuse. In June 2016, the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) gave written guidance to members about what these policies may encompass, which will be discussed.

VGM has developed a Policies and Procedures Manual that is specifically designed for compliance with the imposition of quality standards and accreditation requirements of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA).

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

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.