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Cahaba GBA Learning Corner‣ “Clinician’s Intro to the Medicare Hospice Benefit” WebinarDate: February 25, 2010Time: Noon – 1:30 p.m. Central TimeRegistration Deadline: February 22, 2010Intended Audience: Hospice clinicians, administrators, QI coordinators.Description: This Webinar will provide basic hospice benefit information, including the qualifyingcriteria of election, certification and terminal prognosis. Other topics to be discussed include thehospice local coverage determinations and medical review.‣ “Home Health Billing – Part 2” WebinarDate: March 2, 2010Time: Noon – 2:00 p.m. Central TimeRegistration Deadline: February 25, 2010Intended Audience: New home health providers or home health agencies with staff who are newto home health billing, and small home health agencies who have 25 or fewer full-time employees.Description: This event will discuss how to avoid billing errors for overlapping episodes and datesof service; appropriately submitting claims for special home health billing situations, andsubmitting demand and no-pay bills to Medicare. An overview of common home health billingerrors and resources for avoiding them will also be presented.‣ “Hospice Billing – Part 2” WebinarDate: March 9, 2010Time: Noon – 2:00 p.m. Central TimeRegistration Deadline: March 4, 2010Intended Audience: New hospice providers or hospices with staff who are new to hospice billing,and small hospice agencies who have 25 or fewer full-time employees.Description: This Webinar will present how and when to submit a cancel NOE, how to cancel abenefit period, appropriate billing of discharge/revocation claims, including the posting of revocationswhen omitted, and billing in transfer situations. In addition, the use of the advance beneficiary notice(ABN) will also be discussed as well as various billing situations and top billing errors and availableresources.Home Health & Hospice February 1, 2010 53Medicare A Newsline Vol. 17, No. 5