IMPLEMENTING A REMOTE MONITORING PROGRAM IN A RURAL HEALTH CLINIC

with VitalSync Health and Throughcare Webinar

April 11, 2024

Unlock the potential of enhanced Medicare reimbursements for Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) with our pivotal webinar, designed to guide you through the expanded utilization of HCPCS code G0511. Starting in January 2024, Medicare's updated guidance provides RHCs a golden opportunity to deliver superior, value-based chronic care management services to underserved rural populations. This expansion not only broadens the scope of reimbursable services under G0511 but also marks a significant stride towards facilitating comprehensive care management, including Chronic Care Management (CCM) for patients requiring 20 minutes or more of clinical staff time per month.

Previously, RHCs were limited to billing G0511 for a singular care management service per patient each month. The 2024 modifications revolutionize this approach by permitting multiple billings for distinct, qualified services per month, as long as they are medically necessary and meet all billing requirements. This development underscores the importance of precise billing practices and the strategic implementation of care management services, ensuring that RHCs can maximize their reimbursement potential while enhancing patient care.

In collaboration with Vitalsync Health and Lavance Northington, we are excited to offer an insightful one-hour webinar, shedding light on how RHCs can effectively implement remote patient monitoring (RPM) and integrate cutting-edge strategies into their care delivery models. This session will delve into:

  • Billing Strategies: Explore innovative ways to incorporate remote monitoring, interactive communication, and data reporting into a cohesive therapy plan that aligns with the expanded G0511 guidelines.

  • Remote Monitoring Equipment: Learn how to establish a successful RPM program, enabling patients to monitor their health with provided equipment, such as blood pressure cuffs, weight scales, glucose monitors, and pulse oximeters, facilitating continuous care beyond clinic walls. 

  • Chronic Care Management: Learn how a unified RPM and CCM solution enables providers to deliver personalized treatment plans to patients, increase patient, engagement and adherence, gain real-time access to data for timely interventions, and increase CMS reimbursement for both RPM and CCM billing.

  • Social Determinants of Health: Address the crucial factors affecting health outcomes and strategies to reduce hospital visits and alleviate patient stress, thereby improving overall wellbeing.

  • Telehealth Use in Rural Healthcare: Discover how Telehealth and RPM can transform the accessibility and efficiency of rural healthcare, overcoming common barriers and enhancing the patient-provider connection.

Attendees are eligible for one hour of CEUs from the National Association of Rural Health Clinics (NARHC) at a Certified Rural Health Clinic Professional (CRHCP) level, provided they watch the webinar LIVE, and engage in 3 of 4 poll questions.

Vitalsync Health, renowned for its innovative “white glove” services, partners with physician practices to transition from traditional care models to a comprehensive, coordinated approach. This collaboration aims to improve patient outcomes, strategize on patient population management, reduce overall care costs, generate new revenue, and achieve 5-star quality ratings.

Dan Godla from Throughcare will provide a recorded message on the recent guidance provided by CMS on G0511 in the RHC Fact Sheet.

Join us to navigate the intricacies of Medicare’s G0511 expansion and leverage the full potential of remote patient monitoring to elevate care in rural health clinics.

Please register for Implementing a Remote Monitoring Program in a Rural Health Clinic with VitalSync Health on April 11, 2024 1:00 PM EDT at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1380939763288600149

RHC COST REPORTING FOR 12/31/2023

February 4, 2024: It is that time of year again. This cost report season looks to be the most demanding yet. Due to significant modifications within the Rural Health Clinic (RHC) program introduced by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA), there has been a notable increase in the National Statutory Upper Payment Limits. These adjustments have escalated the per visit reimbursement rate to $139 in 2024, with an increase to $190 by 2028. Furthermore, the program has expanded to include various services that do not fall under the All-Inclusive Rate, necessitating their exclusion from the cost-per-visit calculation. These changes underscore the heightened influence of cost reports on financial settlements, both positive and negative, as well as the increased complexity and time required for their preparation. To ensure the timely and accurate completion of your cost report, we strongly advise that all requisite information be uploaded to your designated portal by May 1, 2024. Failure to meet this deadline may compromise our ability to guarantee the timely filing of your report.

To help you accumulate the information needed to file an accurate and timely cost report we have provided the following resources and will have a webinar on February 6, 2024 to go over the requirements. Provided below is a 3 -page Cost Report checklist, a 24-page checklist and supporting workpapers that should be completed for us to have all the information needed to file the cost report, or if you prefer an Excel file to complete the workpapers is included as well.

Cost Reporting for Rural Health Clinics - What is needed to file an accurate and timely cost report

In this webinar, Mark Lynn, CPA (Inactive), CRHCP, CCRS and Dani Gilbert, CPA, CRHCP, Page Chambers, CIA, CRHCP, and Trent Jackson, CCRS will go over cost reporting for Rural Health Clinics. Topics covered will include information needed to be compiled for preparation of the cost report, electronic filing of cost reports using MCREF, allowable expenses on the cost report, increased upper limits for RHCs, counting visits including how to treat telehealth, CCM, and other services not included in the calculation of the All-Inclusive Rate, Medicare Bad Debts, and flu, pneumococcal, COVID-19 vaccines, and MAB infusions/injections. The webinar will go over the process for gathering information to file cost reports with Healthcare Business Specialists so no continuing education credits for CRHCP since is a client The webinar will last one hour and some time for questions will be available.

Please register for Cost Reporting for Rural Health Clinics - What is needed to file an accurate and timely cost report on Feb 6, 2024 1:00 PM EST at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/885934129964292700 

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CHRONIC CARE MANAGEMENT WEBINAR WITH DAN GODLA FROM THOROUGHCARE, INC.

Do you need information on how changes to G0511 and Chronic Care Management services affect RHCs in 2024 and do you need Continuing Education Credit for your Certified Rural Health Clinic Professional Certification? Here is a quick, free way to do both.

Update on Chronic Care Management covered services in RHCs for 2024 with Dan Godla from ThoroughCare, Inc.

In this webinar Dan Golda from ThoroughCare, Inc will discuss updates to Medicare's Chronic Care Management covered services in RHCs for 2024. The Chronic Care Management services which can be provided and paid for to RHCs is substantially different in 2024 with several new services being paid for in the RHC environment. This is a great opportunity to provide necessary services to our rural, underserved patients as well as open new revenue streams for RHCs. The webinar will be 45 to 60 minutes and there is no charge. This webinar qualifies for one hour of continuing education credits for Certified Rural Health Clinic Professionals (CRHCP) from the NARHC if at least 3 of the 4 poll questions are answered during the session.

Please register for Update on Chronic Care Management covered services in RHCs for 2024 with Dan Godla from ThoroughCare, Inc. on Feb 15, 2024 1:00 PM EST at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3613965414804474454

Dan Godla from ThoroughCare, Inc. will be presenting on Chronic Care Management on February 15, 2024










RHC Cost Reporting & Billing Webinars

 Healthcare Business Specialists is pleased to provide several webinars over the next few months or so as we strive to keep rural health clinics informed of changes to the RHC program. We are pleased to partner with other entities that have important information to share with the RHC community. More information regarding these webinars can be found at www.ruralhealthclinic.com  or go to our Facebook Group called the Rural Health Clinic Information Exchange: 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1503414633296362/

 

RHC Cost Reporting - What to do before Year-End

 

In this webinar, Mark Lynn, CPA (Inactive), CRHCP, CCRS, Dani Gilbert, CPA, CRHCP, Page Chambers, and Trent Jackson will go over important year-end Rural Health Clinic cost reporting deadlines, how to ensure you optimize your reimbursement in an environment of increased Medicare caps for Independent or Freestanding RHCs. We will discuss the importance of writing off Medicare bad debts on or before 12/31/2023 in order to file them on the Medicare Cost Report. Please register for RHC Cost Reporting - What to do before Year-End on Nov 14, 2023 1:00 PM EST at:

 https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2850484329874010197

 New to RHC - For New RHCs or Clinics considering becoming an RHC

 

In this webinar, Mark R. Lynn, CPA (Inactive), CRHCP, CCRS will present information to providers interested in becoming a rural health clinic (RHC) or RHCs new to the RHC program. It will provide basic information on conditions of participation, reimbursement, billing, and cost reporting. We will discuss advantages and disadvantages of the program and identify resources to help you become RHC compliant and obtain RHC reimbursement from Medicare and Medicaid. This 45-minute webinar is designed for people new to the RHC program or have become interested in converting their medical clinic into a rural health clinic under Public Law 95-210. We will discuss the nine conditions of participation, some basics of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, provide a timeline for certification, and provide some basic benchmarking information from provider based and independent RHCs.

 Please register for New to RHC - For New RHCs or Clinics considering becoming an RHC on Nov 28, 2023 1:00 PM EST at:

 https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6552984183422388565


RHC Billing Primer – How to find billing information for RHCs and basic principles of RHC Billing

In this webinar Mark Lynn from Healthcare Business Specialists will provide new RHCs the building blocks to begin billing as a rural health clinic. This webinar is designed for clinics new to the RHC program and have not billed as an RHC previously. The webinar will have an RHC Billing Pre-test, direct RHCs to billing resources, explain how to charge for services and to collect the correct co-pay and deductible amounts, issues with NPI numbers, commonly used acronyms, when to obtain a Medicare Secondary Payor questionnaire, and when to complete the 838 Credit Balance Report.

 Please register for RHC Billing Primer – How to find billing information for RHCs and basic principles of RHC Billing on Nov 30, 2023 1:00 PM EST at:

 https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4849655954043958616

 RHC Billing 101 – The Basics of Medicare billing for independent and provider-based RHCs with Amanda Dennison, MBA, CPC, CRHCP

Amanda Dennison, MBA, CPC, CRHCP, Senior Consultant from Blue & Co. will go over billing basics for RHCs including claim forms, incident to, definition of a visit, bill types, revenue codes, Medicare Advantage billing, and ancillary services. Medicaid billing will not be covered in this or any of the sessions. This session is sponsored by Blue & Co.

Please register for RHC Billing 101 – The Basics of Medicare billing for independent and provider-based RHCs with Amanda Dennison, MBA, CPC, CRHCP on Dec 5, 2023 1:00 PM EST at: 

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3018262107910897494

RHC Billing 201 Lunch and Learn with Patty Harper RHIA,  CHC, Principal, InQuiseek Consulting

In RHC Billing 201 Patty Harper, RHIA, CHC, Principal with InQuiseek Consulting will pick up where RHC 101 left off with more basics of RHC billing including billing examples, negative reimbursement, deductibles, coinsurance, chronic care management, telehealth billing, incident to billing, modifiers, condition codes, occurrence codes, Medicare secondary billing, etc. Sponsored by InQuiseek Consulting.

 Please register for RHC Billing 201 Lunch and Learn with Patty Harper RHIA,  CHC, Principal, InQuiseek Consulting on Dec 7, 2023 1:00 PM EST at:

 https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7385582766596485212

RHC Billing 301 – Advanced Subjects - Charles James, Jr., North American HMS

 In this webinar Charles James from North American Healthcare Management Services will go over some advanced topics with billing examples, preventive services, mental health services, Telehealth, Chronic Care Management, etc. Sponsored by North American Healthcare Management Services. 

Please register for RHC Billing 301 – Advanced Subjects - Charles James, Jr., North American HMS on Dec 12, 2023 1:00 PM EST at:

 https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6827726850548732761

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RHC Update Seminar Presentations

Fall, 2022

We’re back. After a three-year hiatus for Covid, the RHC Update Seminars are back. Healthcare Business Specialists, Kentucky Medical Billing Associates, Inc., Azalea Health, and Main Street Health are providing RHC Update Seminars in Nashville, Jackson, Birmingham, and Somerset, Kentucky.

Birmingham, Alabama PRESENTATIONs - NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Here are the downloads of presentations for the seminar. Just double clinic to download the PDF. Once the presentation is uploaded the (Placeholder) label will be removed.

Here are the downloads of presentations for the seminar. Just double clinic to download the PDF. Once the presentation is uploaded the (Placeholder) label will be removed.




Fall, 2019

On this page we will include a link to a Google Doc with all the Presentations for the RHC Update Seminars and other relevant information. Additionally we will include links to each of the presentations if you do not use the Google Doc.

Here are the presentations used in the meeting if you do not want to use the Google Document