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Educational Materials
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Titles Available From AAHCP
- "MAKING HOUSE CALLS A PART OF YOUR PRACTICE".
Revised for 2008 — Written by practicing AAHCP Board Members. Filled with practical tips for those considering adding house calls to their practice.
Booklets are $18 for members, and $25 for non-members.
- Introduction
Disclaimer
Target Audience
Why Make House Calls - The Added Value
Managed Care
Caveat Emptor
- Steps To Starting
Defining the Scope and Focus of Your Practice
Getting Organized
Making the House Call
Billing, Reimbursement and Regulatory Issues
- Being Successful
Growing the Practice
Business Issues
Demonstrating the Value of Your House Calls Program to Potential Funders
- Appendix
Some Models of House Call Practices
Accreditation
Financial Spreadsheet
Shipping and Handling:
| 1 - 5 | $3.50 |
| 6 - 9 | $6.00 |
| 10 -15 | $8.50 |
- MAKING HOME CARE WORK IN A MEDICAL PRACTICE:
A Brief Guide to Reimbursement and Regulations
Revised for 2008
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Home Care as an Office Extension
- Office Infrastructure and Teamwork
- House Calls Codes & Billing for 2002
- Domiciliary Care Visits
- Documentation for Common House Call Codes
- Specialty Services in Home Care
- Homebound Status/Medicare Qualifying Services
- Agency Selection
- Home Health Agency Orders and Forms
- Home-Based Hospice
- New Payment Codes Effective since 2001
- Care Plan Oversight Billing and Documentation
- Home Medical Equipment Orders and Forms
- Some Commonly Used ICD-9 Codes
- Fraud, Abuse, and Stark Issues
- Prices: $10.00 for members and $12.00 for non-members
- Shipping and Handling:
| 1 - 5 | $3.50 |
| 6 - 9 | $6.00 |
| 10 -15 | $8.50
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- Medical Visits in Assisted Living Facilities and Other Congregate Care Settings
by the American Academy of Home Care Physicians
Revised 2007
Booklets are $18 for members, and $25 for non-members.
- Contents:
- Introduction for Facility Administrators
- Introduction for Physicians
- Steps to Starting
Defining the Scope and Focus of Your Practice
Getting Organized
Making the House Call
Billing, Reimbursement, and Regulatory Issues
- Being Successful
Growing the Practice
The Business Realities of Growing a House Call Practice
- Appendix
Principles of Medical Ethics
CPT Code Descriptors for 2007 Domiciliary Care Codes
Shipping and Handling:
| 1 - 5 | $3.50 |
| 6 - 9 | $6.00 |
| 10 - 15 | $8.50
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- Medical Directorship of Home Health Agencies: A Brief Guide to Physician Reimbursement in the Realm of the Home Health Industry
by the American Academy of Home Care Physicians
Revised February 2008
Price: $30 for members; $50 for nonmembers
- Contents:
- The Thoroughly Rewarding Experience of Home Health Agency Medical Directorship
- The Culture of Home Care Agencies
- The Reality of Home Care Agencies Today
- Rules, Regulations, and Standards
- Oasis—Quality Measurement and Outcomes Analysis
- Billing and Reimbursement
- The Denial and Appeals Process
- Community Liaison and Physician Education
- Education of Staff, Nurses, Therapists, Patients, and Employee Health
- Ethics (Patient Advocacy) and Research
- Stark Regulations: Fraud and Abuse
- Contracts, Job Descriptions, and Negotiations with Home Care Agencies
- Appendices/Sample Forms
Shipping and Handling:
| 1 - 5 | $3.50 |
| 6 - 9 | $6.00 |
| 10 -15 | $8.50
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- Home Care Bibliography.
The first ever bibliography of home care articles with 238 citations including full-text articles and dozens of abstracts. Price: CD-Rom $25 (+$5 shipping and handling)
- PRACTICE MANAGEMENT TOOL KIT
This valuable tool kit includes the AAHCP Standards of Conduct, practical information on Choosing an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Starting a Home Care Practice by Dr. Kevin Jackson, A Physician’s Guide to Prospective Payment in Medicare Home Health Care by Dr. Peter Boling; several articles on billing issues including the new Medicare domiciliary care rates, Stark regulations, Place of Service codes; Q&A about billing, practice management and clinical issues; allegations of billing and coding fraud, OIG audit of care plan oversight, Dollars and Sense, and Board President Dr. Gresham Bayne’s “10 Things I have Learned” about making house calls. Also includes Dr. George Taler’s presentation on CPT Code Changes for Nursing Facility and Assisted Living Facility Services.
Price: $20 for members; $25 for non-members. Shipping and handling included. (Price is for U.S. delivery; for foreign delivery cost, please contact the AAHCP.)
- ETHICS STATEMENT
AMA Principles annotated for Home Care available for $1.00 from the AAHCP
- Communication Templates, Developed by Peter Boling, MD, with the help of
Academy members
The templates are a one-step solution to improving home health agency nurse-physician communication. The templates give a guide to agency nurses as to what information physicians need to respond appropriately and quickly to changes in a patient’s condition. The 20 templates cover the most common chronic conditions and problems geriatric patients present.
The templates meet Medicare requirements for physician notification and provide documentation of the change in condition, critical for compliance. The forms are simple, complete, and easy-to-use. They even provide space for documenting the physician’s response and verbal orders. The templates come in a binder that includes a manual with instructions and tips for
effective use.
Price: $95, shipping and handling included. (Price is for U.S. delivery; for foreign delivery cost, please contact the AAHCP.)
- An Approach to the Management of Pressure Ulcers: A Home Care Perspective
Produced by the American Academy of Home Care Physicians through an unrestricted grant provided by KCI, Inc. Dr. George Taler, editor and lead author.
Intended for primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and nurses, this monograph should enable the reader to use best practices in preventing and treating typical pressure ulcer wounds found in home care medical practice. Covers all aspects of wound care management, with embedded graphics or pictures, to give you everything you need to know to take care of wound care problems in the home. Chapters include pressure ulcer epidemiology, home care considerations, review of wound care basics, introduction to risk assessment and how to manage risk factors for pressure ulcer prevention and clinical factors that influence wound healing, wound assessment and local management, a summary of existing guidelines, governmental/legal issues, case studies, and references. Category 1 CME available.
Price: CD-ROM $20 for members; $25 for non-members. Shipping and handling included. (Price is for U.S. delivery; for foreign delivery cost, please contact the AAHCP.)
- Medical Management of the Home Care Patient: Guidelines for Physicians, 3rd edition, 2007.
Your guide to better continuity of care, this 70-page guide is a collaboration of the AMA and AAHCP, and contains everything you want to know about:
- The physician's role in home care
- The physician-patient-caregiver relationship
- Paying for home care
- Implementation and oversight of the home care plan
- Choosing a home care agency
- Case management: Making use of community resources
- Special populations
- Home hospice care
- Technology
- Medical ethics
- A patient's rights and responsibilities
- Detection and treatment of abuse in home care
- Rules and regulations
Price: $18.00 (includes shipping and handling) We can only process orders of fewer than 10 copies. Orders of 10+ copies must be placed directly through the AMA website.
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