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Fraudsters employ sophisticated tactics to defraud healthcare payers including “popup” providers, identity theft, and intentional upcoding. Fortunately, there are techniques you can use to protect yourself against these fraudsters. This session offers practical advice from two experts in payments integrity and reveals how you can better safeguard your payments environment with Change Healthcare’sSettlement Advocate and payment accuracy solutions.

Webinar Wednesday would like to thank our sponsor HSS. For more than 35 years, HSS provided comprehensive medical equipment support services to health care facilities across the nation.

This special webinar will provide some thought-provoking questions to help you get ready for the biggest change in long-term care in decades. Beginning October 1, a new case-mix model, the Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM), is set to take effect and replace the existing RUG-IV case-mix classification model. Reimbursement will largely shift from rehabilitation services to nursing services. It is essential that skilled nursing facilities consider every care process, from improved nursing assessment skills to a different relationship with their rehab provider.

Now more than ever, a larger share of your bill rests on your patients’ shoulders. And when they don’t pay, your bottom line suffers. How do you start collecting more of the money you’re owed while preserving your patient relationships? Join us for a discussion of patient pay tactics that work. Learn how top performers on the athenahealth network are successfully collecting on outstanding patient balances, and how to boost your overall financial performance.