Improving clinical assessment and documentation is key to ensuring patients receive optimal outcomes. Perfecting documentation skills and consistently providing a true clinical picture, can also help meet or exceed clinical quality benchmarks and optimize your reimbursement. Appropriate and complete documentation is key to ensuring compliance with federal/state regulations and provides risk reduction to the organization. 

Learn more about how to successfully prepare for your ACHC Renal Dialysis survey.

This presentation will provide a background on the new reimbursement model with a full overview of the ESRD Treatment Choices (ETC) model.  Included will be scenario assessment of performance and process achievement through the ETC model.

This is the 3rd webinar in a 3-part series that is presented by Teresa Hoosier, ACHC Program Manager. This webinar provides attendees with an in-depth overview of ACHC's Renal Dialysis Accreditation process.

Now is the time to modernize and to do it boldly. Meet Biomedix Founder Eric Cirignano and VP Dan Wiles, and see how they’re using next-generation solutions to transform businesses, optimize communications, improve equipment reliability, and simplify compliance and documentation. Learn how Biomedix’s transformative company culture elevates patient care by nurturing collaboration between technical, clinical, and administrative teams that were previously siloed. This webinar will offer advanced solutions and technologies that can solve some of the industry’s most persistent challenges. We’ll talk about compliance, auditing, survey-readiness, digital documentation, and more.

Preparing New Organizations- Start-up of a Renal Dialysis Facility will provide guidance for a facility start-up before CMS certification.

"Preparing New Organizations - Introduction to Dialysis Services", is the 1st webinar in a 3-part webinar series that is co-presented with the professionals from Health Design Specialist, an international consulting service company dedicated to the dialysis industry. This first installment addresses requests from individuals seeking information regarding opening a Medicare-certified Renal Dialysis Facility, the different types of long-term dialysis service options, the impact of those options on the individual that requires dialysis, barriers that people face when deciding which option works best for them, as well as how a new facility coincides with the impact of the options offered.

This installment of the webinar series further focuses on some key steps a new organization or individual will need to consider prior to opening a Medicare-certified Renal Dialysis facility. Some of the considerations include but are not limited to: Certificate of Need requirements, state licensure requirements, obtaining a National Provider Identifier (NPI) number, submitting the Medicare Enrollment application, submitting CMS 3427, as well as ensuring compliance with the rules and regulations of CMS in order to become certified and accredited by obtaining some of the essential CMS manuals. The intent of the webinar focuses on considerations prior to the Initial CCN deeming Accreditation survey.

Boost your continuing education options. For a small fee, you can view select renal dialysis webinars offered by ACHCU and have an opportunity to gain nursing contact hour credits from the Virginia Nurses Association.

It’s simple: Register with ACHCU, view the webinar at your convenience, attest that you watched it, and complete an evaluation.

Webinars listed below offer contact hours for nurses affiliated with renal dialysis facilities. Contact ACHCU to learn more and sign up for these special presentations. Email [email protected] or call (919) 228-6559. We’re here to help you meet your continuing education goals.