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Alva Baker, MD, CMD; Jeffery Burl, MD, CMD; Thomas Edmondson, MD, CMD; Leonard Gelman, MD, CMD; Karyn Leible, MD, CMD; Bruce Robinson, MD, CMD
All planning committee members have no relevant financial relationships to disclose for the activities provided through AMDA e-University.
Registrants can earn AMA/PRA Category 1 credit™ and AMDCP-approved management and clinical credits toward certification or recertification for the successful completion of an online CME component for each of the sessions. Click here for details.
In 2012, AMDA will host monthly webinars on a variety of clinical and non-clinical topics. Details on the 2012 schedule will be posted as they become available.
AMDA e-University offers clinical and management enduring self-study education opportunities specific to long term care settings. All programs are approved for both CME and CMD credits. Additional CME information will be presented with the enduring material once purchased.
| Self-Study Title |
Format |
Learning Objectives |
Ordering |
| 2008 Regulatory Update |
Mp3 audio with pdf handouts |
- Cite the clarifications to guidelines for F-tags: 309, addressing pain management; 323, addressing accidents and supervision; 329, addressing unnecessary medication; 325, addressing nutrition; and 371, addressing sanitary conditions
- Examine how the clarifications can have a positive impact on the quality of care in facilities
- Understand the trends in survey results regarding the F-tags
- Establish mechanisms to improve quality management
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Ordering Information:
Product Code 2008RU
Member Price: $25.00
Non-Member Price: $35.00
Follow this link to order |
| Advanced Billing and Documentation 2008
|
Mp3 audio with pdf handouts |
- Provide documentation and use nursing home codes that are appropriate to complex patient visits
- Assign appropriate services and codes for non-physician practitioners
- Use appropriate codes for visits to patients in assisted living facilities
- Use appropriate codes for visits to patients enrolled in hospice
- Know the appropriate codes for procedures provided in the nursing home
- Know the documentation required with transitions of care
- Discuss development of policies to obtain better value of care relative to cost
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Ordering Information:
Product Code ABCD2008
Member Price: $25.00
Non-Member Price: $35.00
Follow this link to order |
| Age and Aging: Meaning and Implications for Long Term Care as the Boomers Grow Old |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Describe biological aging and its effects on older persons
- Define the delineation between normal aging and disease
- Discuss the projected 'culture earthquake' as LTC facilities become occupied by frail boomers
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Ordering Information:
Product Code WEB1201E
Member Price: $75.00
Non-Member Price: $99.00
Follow this link to order |
| Billing and Coding Basics |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Delineate the CPT codes used in nursing facilities
- Define the CPT requirements for each of these codes
- Discuss associated basic requirements for billing for services in nursing facilities
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Ordering Information:
Product Code BCLTC11
Member Price: $55.00
Non-Member Price: $75.00
Follow this link to order |
| Billing and Coding EM Criteria |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- List components of the Evaluation and Management documentation system
- Define the process for choosing an appropriate CPT code for services rendered using the Evaluation and Management system matrix
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Ordering Information:
Product Code BCLTC12
Member Price: $55.00
Non-Member Price: $75.00
Follow this link to order |
| Billing and Coding webinar: Misc. - Hospice, Non-physic. Practitioners |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Discuss various topics related to correct coding and billing, including, but not limited to, NPP services, incident to services, gang visits, and hospice care
- Discuss correct coding and billing for these services as they relate to fraud and abuse control initiatives in the current health care reform environment
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Ordering Information:
Product Code BCLTC10
Member Price: $55.00
Non-Member Price: $75.00
Follow this link to order |
| Billing & Coding in LTC Procedures & Non-billable Codes |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Review common procedures that may be appropriate for long term care
- Understand reimbursement of discussed items
- Explain which services are not reimbursed in LTC under Medicare
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Ordering Information:
Product Code WEB1109E
Member Price: $75.00
Non-Member Price: $99.00
Follow this link to order |
| Billing & Coding in LTC: Review of Recent Updates |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Define the function of the Medicare Claims Processing Manual as a reference source for regulations concerning billing and coding.
- Explain the role of medical necessity as it relates to reimbursement.
- Describe how the elimination of consult codes affects billing.
- Review “AI” modifier and prolonged service codes and how to use them.
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Ordering Information:
Product Code BCLTC1
Member Price: $55.00
Non-Member Price: $75.00
Follow this link to order |
| Brains and Games: Assessing Capacity and Limitation |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Focus the capacity question on a functional issue
- Consider different tests to assist in the capacity assessment
- Suggest the least restrictive means of limiting capacity
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Ordering Information:
Product Code 2010A6
Member Price: $25.00
Non-Member Price: $35.00
Follow this link to order |
| Clinical Controversies: Vitamin D in Older Adults |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Describe the effect of vitamin D and calcium on pathophysiology.
- Examine the epidemiology of vitamin D and calcium in the health of elders
- Review the clinical studies on vitamin D and calcium
- Summarize the indications for adding vitamin D and/or calcium supplements to the diets of elders
- Tailor the use and doses of vitamin D and/or calcium to individual patients
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Ordering Information:
Product Code CCVD
Member Price: $25.00
Non-Member Price: $35.00
Follow this link to order |
| COPD CPG Test |
Online test of CPG content. Separate purchase of CPG is required. |
- Recognize patients with COPD who reside in long-term care (LTC) facilities
- Assess patients with COPD who reside in long-term care (LTC) facilities
- Manage patients with COPD who reside in long-term care (LTC) facilities
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Ordering Information:
Product Code CPG18PT
Member Price: $20.00
Non-Member Price: $30.00
Follow this link to order |
| Congestive Heart Failure in the Long Term Care Setting |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Delineate the pathophysiology of congestive heart failure
- List the current treatment recommendations for this disease
- Develop a plan for ensuring the adequacy of care for patient with advancing congestive heart failure in the long term care setting
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Ordering Information:
Product Code WEB1204C
Member Price: $75.00
Non-Member Price: $99.00
Follow this link to order |
| Elder Mistreatment in the Nursing Home |
Mp3 audio with pdf handouts |
- Cite the background information on and define elder mistreatment
- Describe the current evidence regarding mistreatment in the nursing home
- Develop strategies to improve recognition and lower the likelihood of mistreatment
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Ordering Information:
Product Code EMITNH
Member Price: $25.00
Non-Member Price: $35.00
Follow this link to order |
| Ethical Leadership Self Study |
Mp3 audio with pdf handouts |
- Discuss the underlying attributes of ethical leadership
- Identify ethical challenges for medical directors
- Analyze the responsibilities of an ethical leader
- Promote a culture of ethics in the long term care setting
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Ordering Information:
Product Code ELFMD
Member Price: $25.00
Non-Member Price: $35.00
Follow this link to order |
| Exec Control and the Capacity for Medical Decision |
Mp3 audio with pdf handouts |
- Define executive control function (ECF) and identify which cognitive functions are most essential to decisional capacity
- Examine the legal standards for assessing decisional capacity and determine their implications in practice
- Choose tests for cognitive function and interpret the results
- Develop awareness and sensitivity to early detection of executive impairments
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Ordering Information:
Product Code EXCTRL
Member Price: $25.00
Non-Member Price: $35.00
Follow this link to order |
| Expecting the Unexpected: Skilled Nursing Home to Emergency Department Transitions |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Understand the perceptions, and accuracy, of the insufficient quality and quantity of information received at the Emergency Department from skilled nursing facility (SNF) admissions.
- Explore strategies to reduce the number of residents transferred back to the Emergency Department/Hospital from the SNF.
- Institute procedures to insure that those residents who must return to the Emergency Department/Hospital do so with appropriate information to augment patient safety.
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Ordering Information:
Product Code E1103C
Member Price: $75.00
Non-Member Price: $99.00
Follow this link to order |
| Falls Prevention |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Review scope and severity of falls in older persons
- Delineate etiologies of falls
- Complete a comprehensive assessment of falls risks in older adults
- Define targeted intervention strategies to reduce falls risk based on assessment outcomes
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Ordering Information:
Product Code WEB1108E
Member Price: $75.00
Non-Member Price: $99.00
Follow this link to order |
| Heart Failure CPG Self-Study Test |
Online test of CPG content. Separate purchase of CPG is required. |
- Recognize patients with Heart Failure who reside in long-term care (LTC) facilities
- Assess patients with Heart Failure who reside in long-term care (LTC) facilities
- Treat patients with Heart Failure who reside in long-term care (LTC) facilities
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Ordering Information:
Product Code CPG6RT
Member Price: $20.00
Non-Member Price: $30.00
Follow this link to order |
| Infectious Disease Panel: Update on Treating MRSA |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Describe the factors contributing to the emergence of multi drug-resistant organisms.
- Discuss the challenges associated with managing MDRO colonization and infection.
- Identify strategies for prevention and control of MDRO emergence and transmission.
- Discuss the role of the medical director in supporting infection control practices to address MDROs with a focus on antibiotic stewardship
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Ordering Information:
Product Code 2010A1
Member Price: $25.00
Non-Member Price: $35.00
Follow this link to order |
| Infection Control |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Understand evidence-based and consensus recommendations to diagnose and prevent transmission of infections balancing adverse effects on autonomy, rehabilitation and socialization.
- Understand the relationship between overuse of antibiotics and the emergence of MDROs.
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Ordering Information:
Product Code E1106C
Member Price: $75.00
Non-Member Price: $99.00
Follow this link to order |
| Introduction to the Care Process in the Long Term |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Understand how to assess and improve care in your facility through the implementation of an evidence based care process (AMDA CPGs)
- Understand your responsibilities with guideline implementation
- Understand how care processes protect you from litigation and survey deficiencies
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Ordering Information:
Product Code WEB1102C
Member Price: $75.00
Non-Member Price: $99.00
Follow this link to order |
| Leadership in Long Term Care |
Mp3 audio with pdf handouts |
- Discuss the attributes of leaders
- Describe principles of leadership
- List the consensus-building skills of a leader
- Apply methods of building consensus to achieve organizational goal
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Ordering Information:
Product Code LILTC
Member Price: $25.00
Non-Member Price: $35.00
Follow this link to order |
MDS 3.0’s Care Area Assessment and the AMDA Care Process - Why You Need to Care!
Complete Two Part Webinar Series |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Describe the purpose and intent of the MDS 3.0 Care Area Triggers (CATs) and Care Area Assessments (CAAs)
- Understand the differences between the MDS 2.0 Resident Assessment Protocols (RAPs) and MDS 3.0 CAAs
- Identify how to use the 4 stages of the care process within the AMDA CPGs to conduct a thorough assessment of the resident to meet CAA requirements
Design a plan for implementing strategies using AMDA’s evidence-based CPGs as the care planning process for working through a CAA
- Part I: Identify a plan for working through the CATs for Delirium and Dehydration with AMDA CPGs
- Part II: Identify a plan for working through the CATs for Dementia and Pressure Ulcers with AMDA CPGs
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Ordering Information:
Product Code WEB1105C
Member Price: $125.00
Non-Member Price: $170.00
Follow this link to order |
| MDS 3.0's Care Assessment and the AMDA Care Process - Why You Need to Care! Webinar Series Part One |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Describe the purpose and intent of the MDS 3.0 Care Area Triggers (CATs) and Care Area Assessments (CAAs)
- Understand the differences between the MDS 2.0 Resident Assessment Protocols (RAPs) and MDS 3.0 CAAs
- Identify how to use the 4 stages of the care process within the AMDA CPGs to conduct a thorough assessment of the resident to meet CAA requirements
Design a plan for implementing strategies using AMDA’s evidence-based CPGs as the care planning process for working through a CAA
- Part I: Identify a plan for working through the CATs for Delirium and Dehydration with AMDA CPGs
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Ordering Information:
Product Code WEB1104C
Member Price: $75.00
Non-Member Price: $99.00
Follow this link to order |
| Medical Director's Report |
Mp3 audio with pdf handouts |
- Complete mental health related documentation at preadmission, admission, and at times of cognitive/ behavioral/mood changes
- Monitor processes once an intervention has been implemented
- Describe the clinical and regulatory documentation necessary when residents are placed on psychoactive medications
- Create processes and provide tools that ensure appropriate documentation
- Train staff in the necessity and requirements for accurate documentation.
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Ordering Information:
Product Code MDR
Member Price: $25.00
Non-Member Price: $35.00
Follow this link to order |
| Medication Management |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Medication management in nursing facilities Survey of the
- Federal regulations governing the use of medications
- Emphasis on the use and management of psychotropic medications Suggested approaches for use by the
- Medical Director as well as attending physicians
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Ordering Information:
Product Code WEB1106E
Member Price: $75.00
Non-Member Price: $99.00
Follow this link to order |
| Medications on the Horizon |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- List 3 recently FDA-approved medications with significant clinical application in the elderly
- List 2 medications in phase III clinical trials with significant clinical application in the elderly
- Explain the potential benefits and risks of these medications in elderly patient
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Ordering Information:
Product Code 2010A3
Member Price: $25.00
Non-Member Price: $35.00
Follow this link to order |
| Mental Health Documentation in the Nursing Home |
Monograph in PDF format delivered online |
- Complete mental health related documentation at preadmission, admission, and at times of cognitive/ behavioral/mood changes
- Monitor processes once an intervention has been implemented
- Describe the clinical and regulatory documentation necessary when residents are placed on psychoactive medications
- Create processes and provide tools that ensure appropriate documentation
- Train staff in the necessity and requirements for accurate documentation
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Ordering Information:
Product Code MHD1
Member Price: $25.00
Non-Member Price: $35.00
Follow this link to order |
| Palliative Care in Long Term Care |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Identify patients with chronic illnesses who may benefit from palliative care
- Relate practical approaches to assessment of dyspnea and pain
- Describe policies and procedures to ensure safe use of opioids in frail elderly patients
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Ordering Information:
Product Code E1103H
Member Price: $75.00
Non-Member Price: $99.00
Follow this link to order |
| Parkinson's Disease CPG self-study test |
Online test of CPG content. Separate purchase of CPG is required. |
- Recognize patients with Parkinson's Disease who reside in long-term care (LTC) facilities
- Assess patients with Parkinson's Disease who reside in long-term care (LTC) facilities
- Treat patients with Parkinson's Disease who reside in long-term care (LTC) facilities
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Ordering Information:
Product Code CPG16T
Member Price: $20.00
Non-Member Price: $30.00
Follow this link to order |
| Psychiatric Issues in Long Term Care |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Understand how the changes between MDS 2.0 and 3.0 foster the use of standardized instruments to quantify psychiatric symptomatology, which can prove helpful in making treatment decisions.
- Develop an interdisciplinary strategy for assessing and monitoring mental status.
- Discuss regulatory and clinical documentation tools for both nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic treatment decisions.
- Understand, through a case-based discussion, which circumstances should prompt you to ask for psychiatric consultation when managing a resident in long term care with a psychiatric illness.
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Ordering Information:
Product Code E1105E
Member Price: $75.00
Non-Member Price: $99.00
Follow this link to order |
| Risk Management in LTC Recorded Webinar |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Define Risk Management
- Identify domains of Risk Management
- Discuss the role of the Medical Director in organizational Risk Management
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Ordering Information:
Product Code WEB1102R
Member Price: $75.00
Non-Member Price: $99.00
Follow this link to order |
| Silence is Not Golden: Communication Techniques in Long Term Care Transitions |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Identify available communication tools that can improve patient safety in LTC transitions
- Explore the gaps in patient transitions, and how to overcome them
- Utilize patient-centered care as a method to improve communication in care transitions
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Ordering Information:
Product Code WEB1108C
Member Price: $75.00
Non-Member Price: $99.00
Follow this link to order |
| State of Financial Health for Nursing Home Facilities |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Consider the clinical basis of utilization decisions
- Identify factors associated with effective and problematic service utilization
- Review potential medical director and attending physician roles in helping support and improve effective utilization
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Ordering Information:
Product Code 2010A5
Member Price: $25.00
Non-Member Price: $35.00
Follow this link to order |
| The True Meaning of Non-Pharmacologic Management of Behavioral Symptoms in Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Define non-pharmacologic management of behavioral symptoms
- Review the causes of behavioral symptoms
- Discuss the process of analyzing challenging behaviors
- Delineate the process of developing, implementing and monitoring non-pharmacologic interventions
- Correlate the use of non-pharmacologic interventions with the use of psychoactive medications
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Ordering Information:
Product Code WEB1102R
Member Price: $75.00
Non-Member Price: $99.00
Follow this link to order |
| Transitions of Care: Who Pays for What Why and How Long? |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- Discuss the different opportunities for post-acute care.
- List the elements of a quality transition in care.
- Explain the basic elements of the Medicare RAC
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Ordering Information:
Product Code 2010A4
Member Price: $25.00
Non-Member Price: $35.00
Follow this link to order |
| VTE Panel: Update on Recent Guidelines |
Video recording synchronized slides and audio |
- State current knowledge regarding risk factors for VTE
- State current evidence based recommendations for VTE management
- Define immobility in long term care residents.
- Describe consensus recommendations for VTE prophylaxis in long term care resident
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Ordering Information:
Product Code 2010A2
Member Price: $25.00
Non-Member Price: $35.00
Follow this link to order |
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