As nurse practitioners (NPs) continue to drive the growth in house calls around the country, the HCCI recently presented two workshops at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners’ (AANP) annual conference in Orlando to assist them in their efforts.
“Many of these NPs, who are extraordinarily entrepreneurial, are starting home-based primary care practices and growing them,” said Melissa Singleton, M.Ed., HCCI’s Chief Learning Officer.
The June 21 workshops, House Calls: The Key to Transforming Your Career and Health Care and Building Your House Call Toolbox: Optimizing Care for Your Homebound Patients, featured Singleton and faculty members, Dr. Paul Chiang, HCCI’s Senior Medical and Practice Advisor and Medical Director at HomeCare Physicians in suburban Chicago; Brianna Plencner, CPC, CPMC, Implementation Manager with Medically Home; and two NPs, Ron Ordona, DNP, FNP-BC, GS-C, with Senior Care Clinic in Sacramento, and Michael Kingan, DNP, AGPCNP-BC, CWOCN, with Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.
The HCCI faculty gave attendees tools and strategies to improve their efficiency, addressing topics like geographic scheduling and hierarchical condition category (HCC) coding — the latter was a popular subject, as the team shared how to get the best reimbursement for the work NPs are already doing in caring for medically complex patients.
During the hands-on workshops, HCCI used simulators to demonstrate a tracheostomy tube exchange, gastrostomy tube removal and replacement, wound care, and knee joint injections. The team also demonstrated technology that providers can use to check EKG rhythms on patients.
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