Sunday, April 30, 2017: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Georgetown West (Washington Hilton) - Concourse Level
Faculty:
Sue Lyn Schramm, MA, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, Alexandria, VA, Apollo Townsend Stevens, DNP, RN, Transitions LifeCare (founded as Hospice of Wake County), Raleigh, NC and Robert Peter Phillips-Plona, Ames Family Hospice House, Cleveland, OH
Hospice facilities all over the nation are showing signs of increasing distress. Facility lengths of stay are down. GIP days are down. Staffing woes are up. For even a modest-sized facility, a significant drop in GIP billable days can easily mean the loss of more than $1 million a year in revenue.
NHPCO believes that the new era of tight regulatory oversight and scrutiny is here to stay, but there are many practical real-world approaches that can stem losses from hospice facilities. In this half-day session, you’ll learn from experts in the field who are meeting these challenges successfully with innovation and effective strategies to maintain facility revenue. This session will cover case studies from facilities that have successfully maintained both occupancy and revenue while staying while documenting GIP appropriateness.
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the root causes of shrinking GIP utilization
2. Name several methods for analyzing census and length of stay reductions at their own facilities
3. List practical, achievable methods for improving revenue at hospice GIP facilities
CE/CME: Nurse