WEBINARS AND SEMINARS

We offer a selection of educational seminars and webinars throughout the year to guide you through the challenges of the RHC startup process, billing and cost reporting. To stay up to date with what’s coming up, you can register for our email newsletter here.

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Rural Health Clinic fall update seminars

Fall 2022

This is a one-day seminar for rural health clinics focusing on changes in the RHC program related to compliance, billing, cost reporting, and emergency preparedness. Clients of Healthcare Business Specialists (HBS) may send two attendees free of charge. The charge for non-HBS clients is $100.

 

RHC Benchmarks and Performance Measurement with Gregory Wolf

June 23, 2022

Join us for a webinar that outlines the nation’s largest RHC-specific benchmarking system, and shares state and regional comparative analytics in financial, operational, productivity and compensation domains. With the future push for public reporting, it is a growing imperative for RHCs to track and use benchmark data to demonstrate quality and value. Opportunities to receive RHC-specific benchmark reports for your clinics (at no cost) will be discussed.

Please register for RHC Benchmarks and Performance Measurement with Gregory Wolf on Jun 23, 2022 1:00 PM EDT at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4769266249011852300

 

Rural Health Clinic Information Exchange Lunch and Learn Webinar Series

Spring, 2022

The Rural Health Clinic (RHC) Information Exchange Facebook Group is conducting a series of lunch and learn webinars in the winter/spring of 2022. These webinars are free and will focus on rural health clinic billing and updates for the RHC community.

Each webinar is set up as a stand-alone webinar, so you will have to sign up for each of them to attend. Each will be recorded for later viewing and the slide presentations and recordings may be found at www.ruralhealthclinic.com. Each webinar will have speakers and panelists to help with questions and to provide insight or perspective to the material presented. The billing sessions (except the Update session) are designed for people new to RHC billing and each session will build on the previous sessions. If you have not yet joined the Facebook Group, here is the link:   (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1503414633296362)  

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 RHC Update for 2022 – RHC Billing, No Surprises Act, PRF Funds, sponsored by North American HMS

February 15, 2022

In this webinar, Charles James from North American Healthcare Management Services and Mark Lynn from Healthcare Business Specialists will update RHCs on changes to RHC reimbursement for 2022 including telehealth mental health visits now being paid at the all-inclusive rate, changes in the Telehealth payment rates, increased Medicare deductibles and the impact on negative reimbursement, No Surprises Act, changes to the billing of Covid vaccines and MABs for Medicare Advantage patients, PRF Reporting for Period 2, Cost Reporting, and other updates.

Elizabeth Morgan Burrows, JD, Principal, from Burrows Consulting, Inc. will be providing an update on grants management for all the RHCs that received the RHC Vaccine Confidence grants. Sponsor Message and Panelists: Charles James, North American Health Management Services, Mark Lynn – Healthcare Business Specialists, Dani Gilbert – Healthcare Business Specialists.

Please register for RHC Update for 2022 – RHC Billing,  No Surprise Act, PRF Funds, sponsored by North American HMS on Feb 15, 2022 12:00 PM CST at:

 https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2423215196719722255

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RHC Billing 101 – Building Blocks – RHC Billing Pre-test, Resources, Charges, NPI numbers, Initial rate setting, Acronyms, Medicare Secondary Payor Questionnaire, 838 Credit Balance Report

February 17, 2022

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.

Sponsor Message: Azalea Health, Panelists: Dani Gilbert – Healthcare Business Specialists, Douglas Swords – Azalea Health,

Please register for RHC Billing 101 – Building Blocks – RHC Billing Pre-test, Resources, Charges, NPI numbers, Initial rate setting, Acronyms, Medic on Feb 17, 2022 1:00 PM EST at:

 https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8120854765041309453

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RHC Billing 201 –  The Basics of Medicare billing for independent and provider-based RHCs with Amanda Dennison, MBA, CPC, CRHCP, Senior Consultant from Blue & Co. Sponsored by Blue & Co.

February 22, 2022

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 201 –  The Basics of Medicare billing for independent and provider-based RHCs with Amanda Dennison, MBA, CPC, CRHCP, on Feb 22, 2022 1:00 PM EST at:

 https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4886054172729377292

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Financial Management Reviews (FMR) for HRSA RHC Grant Recipients by Elizabeth Burrows JD

February 24, 2022

Elizabeth Morgan Burrows, JD will provide training on preparing for the limited Financial Management Reviews (FMR) for HRSA RHC Grant Recipients!  Elizabeth will educate attendees on preparing the necessary policies and procedures related to Management Control Areas including cash management; accounting system; disbursement/procurement; timekeeping and allowability of costs.  Be ready for your limited Financial Management Review with a grant expert that has been through this as a health center CEO and with her many grant clients around the country.

Please register for Financial Management Reviews (FMR) for HRSA RHC Grant Recipients by Elizabeth Burrows JD on Feb 24, 2022 1:00 PM EST at:

 https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8546400949630470923

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RHC Billing 301 – Completion of the UB-04 Form, Form Locator Values, Medicare Secondary Billing, and claim formatting by Douglas Swords from Azalea Health, sponsored by Azalea Health

February 25, 2022

In this webinar Douglas Swords of Azalea Health will cover the details of billing RHC claims including the claim formatting of the UB-04 form, the proper values to include in each form locator, the differences between Condition, Occurrence, and Value codes, how to bill Medicare as primary or secondary, what to do in the case of claim denials and the most common reasons for denied claims. Sponsored by Azalea Health.

 Please register for RHC Billing 301 – Completion of the UB-04 Form, Form Locator Values, Medicare Secondary Billing, and claim formatting by Douglas on Feb 25, 2022 1:00 PM EST at:

 https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2726080072638165264

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RHC Billing 401 – Advanced Subjects – Preventive Services, Mental Health Services, Billing Examples, Telehealth, Covid billing, and FAQs Sponsored by North American Healthcare Management Services

March 1, 2022

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, Covid billing, and FAQs answered by the panelists. Sponsored by North American Healthcare Management Services.

 Please register for RHC Billing 401 – Advanced Subjects – Preventive Services, Mental Health Services, Billing Examples, Telehealth, Covid billing,  on Mar 1, 2022 1:00 PM EST at:

 https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5833772722735311886

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PRF Reporting for Period 2, PRF Phase 4 and ARP Update plus RHC Medicare Bad Debts by Jordan Olson and Trent Jackson of Kraft Healthcare Consulting, LLC

March 3, 2022

 In this webinar Jordan Olson and Trent Jackson will update Rural Health Clinics on the Provider Relief Fund Reporting for Period 2, Phase 4 Funding, ARP Funding and how to claim Medicare Bad Debts on the RHC Medicare Cost Report, This webinar is sponsored by Kraft Healthcare Consulting, LLC.

Please register for PRF Reporting for Period 2, PRF Phase 4 and ARP Update plus RHC Medicare Bad Debts by Jordan Olson and Trent Jackson of Kraft Healthcare Consulting, LLC on Mar 3, 2022 1:00 PM EST at:

 https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5471351699987321359

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Tenncare Quarterly Wrap Around Payment Preparation with Dani Gilbert of Healthcare Business Specialists

March 8, 2022

In this webinar Dani Gilbert of Healthcare Business Specialists will provide information to Tennessee rural health clinics on how to prepare the quarterly Tenncare Wrap Around Payment Reconciliation Report accurately and how to avoid overpayments or underpayments by accurately counting visits and payments.

Please register for Tenncare Quarterly Wrap Around Payment Preparation on Mar 8, 2022 1:00 PM EST at:

 https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8194118523337489421

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 CONDUCTING A PROGRAM EVALUATION IN AN RHC WITH ANGIE CHARLET SPONSORED BY NORTH AMERICAN HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT SERVICES

February 10, 2022

 In this webinar, Angie Charlet from Canopy Associates and Mark Lynn from Healthcare Business Specialists with go over the Program Evaluation Requirement for RHCs. This evaluation is required every two years as a condition of participating in the rural health clinic program. We are finding that as the states are beginning to ramp back up their onsite resurveys, many RHCs are receiving condition level deficiencies which could lead to termination of the clinics from the RHC program. Program Evaluation along with Emergency Preparedness makes up nine (9) of the twenty (20) most cited deficiencies in RHCs for 2021 with 6.6% of RHCs being cited for not completing the program evaluation. These are serious deficiencies and take time to correct. The short time frames for developing an acceptable plan of correction (10 days) and implementing the plan of correction (either 30 or 45 days) can create significant stress on an RHC especially as we are still in the midst of a pandemic. This webinar explains the requirements and what you can do to get your clinic in compliance and survey ready regarding the Program Evaluation requirement. This webinar is sponsored by North American Healthcare Management Services.

Please register for Conducting a Program Evaluation in an RHC with Angie Charlet on Feb 10, 2022 1:00 PM EST at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/9201201905099738379

Sponsor Message and Panelists: Charles James, North American Health Management Services, Kate Hill – TCT, Elsie Crawford - AAAASF, Mark Schulz – Midwest Healthcare, Inc., Dani Gilbert – Healthcare Business Specialists

Here are the slides and recording for this session:

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