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December 5, 2014

CAHCF - General Membership Meeting

CAHCF - Best Practices

Legislative Visits

HealthCare Heroes Awards Luncheon

DHHS OIG

AHCA/NCAL - ICD-10 Webinars

Alzheimer's Association - Caring For People with Alzheimer's Disease: Train the Trainer Curriculum

AHCA/NCAL - Independent Owners Webinar

AHCA/NCAL Preferred Products and Services Program

Thought For The Week

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CAHCF - General Membership Meeting

Thursday, December 11th, Sheraton, Rocky Hill, CT. 9:00 AM (Registration opens

at 8:30 AM) until 11:30 AM.

You know you have to be there! Lots of important information to share with you that you

will only get at the General Membership Meeting.

This meeting we shall be featuring a current review of where we are with criminal

background checks presented by legal counsel, Heather Berchem, Esq of Murtha

Cullina, Esq. You need to hear this!

2.0 CEUs awarded to Nursing Home Administrators for their attendance at the entire

event.

This meeting is generously sponsored by our friends at Ovation, Now a Digital Benefit

Advisors Company. Thank you, Mike!

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CAHCF - Best Practices

One more left!, and Heather and Dena tell us that it's critical information you need

to have. Make sure that someone from your facility is there to hear it!

Dates, Times, Locations, Program Announcements and Registration Information are

now posted to the Calendar/Event/Seminar Info page of our website at

www.cahcf.org/event.htm.

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12/16 Best Practices: HIPAA Security

Individual seminar offerings are Member $ 75.00/person first attendee; Member $ 50.00/person second and subsequent attendee from the SAME FACILITY; $

90.00/person not-yet-a-Member.

All seminars will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel and Conference Center in

Cromwell, CT and are three (3) contact hours.

Substitutions ARE allowed.

Up to 15 CEUs will be awarded to Nursing Home Administrators for their attendance.

Save the dates and sign up ASAP!!!

Questions? Please contact Adriana Manning at the Association at 860-290-9424;

[email protected].

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Legislative Visits

Your facility is probably all spruced up for the Holidays! What a great time to show it

off!!!

NOW would be a great time to invite your State Senator and Representative and local

officials to your facility, especially if you have newly elected representatives. Invite them

over to meet with you, your residents, families and staff. Tell them what you do. Show

them whom you care for. Explain to them the difficulties you have to overcome to

deliver the care your residents expect and deserve. YOU are the experts! Offer your

assistance to them for the upcoming legislative session. YOU can do this!

Need help? Matt ([email protected]) and Rick ([email protected]) are here to

assist.

Thanks.

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HealthCare Heroes Awards Luncheon

Matt and Rick were invited to attend the HealthCare Heroes Awards Luncheon Tuesday

as guests of the Connecticut Culture Change Coalition (CTCCC) Steering Committee.

CTCCC was a Finalist in one of the Award categories, and although they didn't win their

category, they were certainly worthy of the recognition.



Omnicare Pharmacy of CT

O'Connor Davies

PharMerica

CAHCF is an active supporter of CTCCC and their efforts, and we urge you to involve

yourselves with them. Visit them on their website at www.ctculturechange.org.

Congratulations, Connecticut Culture Change Coalition!

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DHHS OIG

From our friends at the Office of the Inspector General, Department of Health and

Human Services:

Exclusions

LEIE Database Updated with November 2014 Exclusions and Reinstatements

http://go.usa.gov/VYsP

The updated List of Excluded Individuals and Entities (LEIE) database file

reflects all OIG exclusion and reinstatement actions up to, and including, those

taken in Novvember 2014. This updated LEIE is a complete database file

containing all exclusions now in effect. Individuals and entities reinstated to

Federal health care programs are not included in this file.

Please note that LEIE files that do not contain the National Provider Identifier

(NPI), Waiver, and Waiver States fields are no longer available.

OIG archives only monthly supplement files for the previous 12 months. Older

material is no longer available on the website or via phone call to Exclusions

staff, although the Downloadable LEIE gives users the latest information on

excluded individuals or entities.

OIG has added NPIs to LEIE records starting in 2008. Please note that not every

individual or entity that is excluded has an NPI to add. Therefore, many records

will not include information in the NPI field.



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AHCA/NCAL - ICD-10 Webinars

From our friends at the American Health Care Association (AHCA/NCAL):

Please join us on Dec. 5, 2014, 2:00PM, ET, for the first webinar in a 2-part

series entitled, ICD-10 Team Preparation: Are you Ready?, with HCPro expert,

Diane L. Brown, BA, CPRA, where you will learn:

• Diagnosis Coding Basics

• Scope of ICD-10 Implementation

• Managing ICD-10 Transition Issues

The overall purpose of this webinar is to assist SNFs in understanding the ICD-

10 basics, as well as some of the specifics of coding in the LTC environment.

Although the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has provided

numerous training sessions to hospitals and physicians over the last several

years; it has not provided any specific ICD-10 training to SNF organizations and

staff. Now is the time for SNFs to prepare for the ICD-10 system; and it involves

planning, calculating the scope of work, determining timing and the learning

“curve,” and securing an adequate budget to accomplish the task. Recognizing

the consequences of and improving the choices SNFs make as we approach the

ICD-10 transition is the focus of this webinar. Some SNFs may have already

begun the preparation process; but some still have some work to do to meet the

new transition deadline of Oct. 1, 2015. This webinar will prove invaluable to

those of you looking for concrete ICD-10 direction and instruction now.

REGISTER NOW at http://webinars.ahcancal.org/session.php?id=14943.

Further, mark your calendar now for Dec. 11, 2014, at 2:00PM, ET, when we’ve

scheduled the second webinar in this series, Is Your ICD-10 Coding Accurate?

Diane Brown will again be leading this discussion; but this time the discussion

will focus on:

• ICD-10 Official Coding Guidelines

• Using the Index and Tables

• Selecting Proper Code from the Index

REGISTER NOW at http://webinars.ahcancal.org/session.php?id=14944.

Prior to each webinar, we encourage you to go on AHCA’s website at

http://www.ahcapublications.org/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=8296

and purchase ICD-10 Essentials for Long-Term Care: Your Guide to Preparation

and Implementation, by Karen L. Fabrizion, RHIA, CPRA. This manual will help

greatly as you listen and participate in the upcoming AHCA webinars.

Dianne De La Mare

VP, Legal Affairs

AHCA



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Newsletter Links

E-mail Paul Liistro,

CAHCF President

E-mail Matthew V. Barrett,

CAHCF Executive Vice

President

E-mail Adriana Manning,

CAHCF Mngr Educational and

Administrative Services

E-mail Richard C. Brown,

CAHCF Dir Member Services

Quick Links

ahca Bookstore

ahca/ncal Members ONLY

(call/e-mail for username and

password)

cahcf Grassroots / Legislative

(Advocacy)

1201 L Street NW

Washington, DC 20005

202-898-2830

Thank you, AHCA/NCAL!

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Alzheimer's Association - Caring For People with

Alzheimer's Disease: Train the Trainer Curriculum

The Alzheimer's Association, Connecticut Chapter

is pleased to announce multiple presentations of their Caring for People with

Alzheimer's Disease: Train the Trainer Curriculum.

This is a great opportunity for you to train someone from your facility to provide

mandated dementia training to your staff that meets the requirements of the law.

Please note well the discounted rate due to funding provided by the State of CT

Department of Labor! CAHCF was part of the group that worked hard to make this

happen for you. We encourage you to take advantage of the opportunity.

Presentation dates, sites and registration information are provided in the flyer available

from the Calendar/Event/Seminar page of our website at www.cahcf.org/event.htm.

Thank you for your consideration.

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AHCA/NCAL - Independent Owners Webinar

From our friends at the American Health Care Association (AHCA/NCAL):

Good day IO Council members,

I would like to make you aware of a webinar coming up specifically for

Independent Owners. Below please find the dates, descriptions and registration

information. I hope you will make plans to attend as well as share this

information with the IOs in your state and your state executives.

SNF Re-hospitalization Program – Independent Owners Preparing for

Implementation

December 17, 2014 at 1:00 PM EST (90 minutes)

http://webinars.ahcancal.org/session.php?id=14836

The Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (H.R. 4302; Pub.L. 113–93)

included several important provisions for the skilled nursing center industry. Of

key importance is a re-hospitalization program. The Centers for Medicare and

Medicaid (CMS) will withhold two percent of Medicare fee-for-services payments

to skilled nursing centers. In turn, skilled nursing centers will be able to receive

these withheld funds by meeting CMS and industry agreed to facility-specific re-

hospitalization rates.

Learning Objectives:

1. Basics of the SNF Re-Hospitalization Program

2. Ideas for Preparation Including Use of Long Term Care Trend Tracker

3. Information on How Some Members Are Preparing for Implementation

Please let me know what questions you have. I am happy to be helpful.

Sincerely,



cahcf Members

ONLY (call/e-mail for

username and password)

Christy Sharp

Senior Director, Member Services

American Health Care Association

1201 L Street NW

Washington, DC 20005

202-898-2839

[email protected]

Thank you AHCA/NCAL.

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AHCA/NCAL Preferred Products and Services Program

In an environment of ever-diminishing resources, make sure that you explore ALL of the

possibilities offered through the AHCA/NCAL Preferred Products and Services

Program.

Make sure to visit www.ahcabenefits.com for information on employee health

insurance!

Additional information is available from the AHCA/NCAL website at

www.ahcancal.org/about_ahca/ahca_membership/Pages/PreferredProducts.aspx.

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Thought For The Week

When you look for the good in others, you discover the best in yourself.

MARTIN WALSH

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