Newsletter

July 27, 2020

Leadership Spotlight: Consumer and Virtual Health Strategies for COVID-19

The pandemic has demonstrated the need for healthcare organizations to become more agile in finding ways to deliver patient care. On Thursday, explore how to integrate virtual health as an ongoing care delivery strategy during a free, interactive webinar worth 1 ACHE Qualified Education credit. You’ll hear from Indiana University Health and Cerner Corporation safety and virtual care experts about how they are reimagining healthcare delivery and leveraging virtual care as a core strategy to improve business operations and patient outcomes. Register today.

This webinar, titled “Respond, Recover and Reimagine: Consumer and Virtual Health Strategies for COVID-19,” is made possible in part by the support of Cerner Corporation, an ACHE Premier Corporate Partner.

For more thought leadership, including recordings of previous webinars and other resources and tools to help guide you through these unprecedented times, please visit ache.org/COVID. 

Creating a Healthier, More Equitable Future

In her most recent “Perspectives” column, ACHE President/CEO Deborah J. Bowen, FACHE, CAE, writes that as we consider lessons learned during COVID-19, “we might devise a ‘new normal’ that helps ensure equity for all.”

To help move forward, we must solve for what we can influence, Bowen writes, with enhanced planning, accelerated innovation and workforce support that can help build a more just “new normal” after COVID-19. Read the full column here.  

CMS: Patient-Driven Payment Model Interrupted Stay Issue

A new issue is affecting some inpatient hospital and skilled nursing facility claims when an interrupted stay is billed at the end of the month, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

The system incorrectly assigns edits U5601–U5608 (overlapping a hospital claim). If you billed the interrupted stay correctly and your claim is rejected, modify your billing so the claim spans past the last day of the interrupted stay. Bill two months at a time, or bill a month plus the days in the following month that span the interrupted stay plus one day.

Adjusting the statement covered from and through dates to encompass the entire interrupted stay will allow your claim to process and pay correctly. Medicare administrative contractors will finalize any suspended claims that meet the criteria, so you can make corrections and resubmit your claim.

If an inpatient hospital claim is rejected, the hospital should ask the SNF to modify its claim. Until Oct. 5, an SNF cannot submit an adjustment to a paid claim; it must cancel the paid claim and all subsequent claims in the same stay and resubmit them in sequential order.

CMS will correct the system in the future.

Summer Reading Is Sweeter With a Sale

Score summer reading deals during the Health Administration Press summer sale, now through Sept. 30. Order any book or self-study course and receive a 20 percent discount off ACHE member and nonmember prices when you use the promo code SUMMER20 at checkout. This sale does not apply to Futurescan 15-packs, ACHE Board of Governors Examination Flashcards and any multibook sets or bundles that are already discounted.

FACHE® Recertification Deadlines Extended

The recertification deadlines for Fellows whose credential were set to expire last year and this year have been extended.

Fellows whose credential expired in 2019 now have until Dec. 31, 2020, to meet all of the requirements to recertify, submit their application and pay the recertification fee. Fellows whose credential is set to expire this year have until March 31, 2021, to complete these three easy steps, which are outlined below:

  • Completing continuing education activities—you can now earn ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits through our new Virtual Face-to-Face Courses—or retaking and passing the Board of Governors Exam.
  • Completing four volunteer activities.
  • Paying the recertification fee of $200 when you submit your recertification application.

You can learn more about the recertification process by visiting ache.org/FACHE and selecting Maintain/Recertify My FACHE from the menu.