ON DEMAND 2024 Midwest Conference - Advanced Care Planning: Having difficult conversations and billing for them
CE Information
1.0 contact hourCompletion Time
53 minutesAvailable Until
December 31, 2025
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Specialties
Adult and GerontologicalSubspecialties
Palliative and Primary CareThis presentation navigates the topic of Advanced Care Planning (ACP), including when it is appropriate to discuss with patients and families, how to the integrate and complete crucial documents such as Practitioner Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) forms and Five Wishes. It highlights the pivotal role of these tools in honoring patient-centered end-of-life care preferences. The session addresses the how to properly bill insurance for ACP services, offering practical guidance to healthcare providers. This presentation equips professionals with the knowledge and skills to facilitate effective ACP discussions, complete POLST forms, and navigate insurance billing, ultimately enhancing patient care outcomes and securing reimbursement.
Learning Objectives
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Mastering Advanced Care Planning (ACP) Discussions: Train healthcare providers on when and how to initiate Advanced Care Planning discussions with patients and their families, focusing on the utilization of tools like POLST forms and Five Wishes to honor patient-centered end-of-life care preferences effectively.
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Navigating Insurance Billing for ACP: Equip healthcare providers with practical guidance on properly billing insurance for Advanced Care Planning services, ensuring that they can secure reimbursement while enhancing the quality of patient care through effective ACP practices.
Learning Outcome Evaluation: Participants will state one thing they learned from the program and how they will implement it into their practice.
Speakers
President, ISAPN
April J. Odom, MSN, APRN-FPA, CRRN, FNP-BC is a Family Nurse Practitioner with over 20 years of healthcare experience. She has worked as a pharmacy technician, certified nurse assistant (CNA), registered nurse (RN) and is currently practicing as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN-FPA) with Full Practice Authority. During her nursing career she gained experience in inpatient rehabilitation, home healthcare, outpatient surgery, emergency medicine, leadership and as an instructor teaching the future of nursing as co-founder of Competent Healthcare. April has been a preceptor for many nurses and has been both a mentee and mentor. She is the current Vice-President with Illinois Society for Advanced Practice Nurses (ISAPN) and an active participant on multiple committees. April is the Mentoring chair of Professional Women’s Network (PWN), a member of American Academy of Nurse Entrepreneurs (AANE), American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), and Illinois Obesity Society. April co-founded Train, educate and mentor (T.E.A.M) nurses a non-profit organization that focuses on training and educating health professionals, educating the community and mentoring the next generation. April is the CEO of Physicals Plus, a health and wellness clinic where she focuses on preventing chronic disease by offering vitamin therapy, medically supervised weight loss and comprehensive care for families, including house calls to the senior population. April teaches American Heart Association (AHA) approved cardiopulmonary (CPR) courses, business and other educational courses for health professionals and entrepreneurs as CEO of Odom Education and Consultants where she guides other aspiring business owners. April is the recipient of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) Magnusen Award (2014), PWN Ignitor Award (2019), Illinois Nurse Foundation (INF) 40 under 40 Emerging Nurse Leaders Award (2019) and Pinnacle Nurse Leader Award (2020). In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two sons. She loves traveling, planning events and trying new restaurants.
CE Information
This activity offers 1.0 contact hour to attendees.
Accredited by Illinois Nurses Foundation is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Montana Nurses Association, an accredited approver with distinction by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
The Illinois Nurses Foundation and the Illinois Society for Advanced Practice Nursing jointly provided this program.
Disclosures
To earn contact hours, learners must watch the entire webinar and submit an evaluation to receive the digital certificate after the session.
There are no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies for those involved with the ability to control the content of this activity
Activity Content
Registration to this activity includes access to the following supporting materials.
- Advanced Care Planning: Having difficult conversations and billing for them (Size: 1.51 MB)
Duration: about 1 hour | Quality: HD
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