Grassi & Co.’s Director of Healthcare Consulting, Anne M. Dunne, RN-BC, MBA, MSCNand Diane McKenna of Atlantic Coding and Validations, Inc will be co-presenting at the 2013 Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC)-ACTRIMS Annual Meeting.  The meeting will be held on May 29 – June 1, 2013 at the Hilton Orlando Hotel in Orlando, Florida.  Anne and Diane will be presenting specifically on:

May 29th, 2013 from 2:15-4:15 p.m.

Reimbursement Guidelines for NPs/PAs

Multiple Sclerosis Care Centers and private practices who employ and use non-physician providers (physician assistants and advanced practice nurses) continues to grow in our current healthcare environment. Understanding and navigating the legal and billing compliance issues associated with non-physician providers is critical to a practice’s successful use of this essential clinicians.  Anne and Diane’s session  will assist  you in determining the scope of practice, delegation and supervision of duties, and documentation and billing requirements for non-physician providers in your practice.

Additionally, they will discuss  the pending change to ICD-10 diagnosis coding and the implications to practices which specialize in MS. Coding and cross walking diagnoses specific to Multiple Sclerosis will be discussed.

Following the session, CMSC attendees will be  able to:

1.  Identify issues on the OIG Work Plan associated with NPPs
2.  Identify risk areas for NPP
3.  Identify physician supervision requirements for non-physician providers
4. Determine the documentation requirements for supervision and chart review
5. Understand the payer requirements for billing non -physician providers’ services
6. Identify the difference between Incident to and shared visit
7. Understand the importance of preparing for ICD-10 changes
8. Identify how to code common MS related diagnoses and MS symptomatology
9. Crosswalk the top 25 most common MS related diagnoses to ICD-10

Anne’s session will focus on home care providers, tuberculosis testing and accurately assessing test results is essential—particularly for those employing large numbers of workers from diverse foreign and domestic backgrounds.  At this interactive, session, get an overview of New York State guidelines for TB testing, learn about standard TB skin testing, the TB screening questionnaire and the blood assay for TB testing, the QFT.  Review how to use the TB screening questionnaire and the protocol to follow for positive TB screening results. See pictures of PPD site reactions, learn techniques on how to measure reactions and discuss anti-TB meds and the side effects and monitoring requirements. You will also review chest x-ray requirements and see an example of an x-ray with an actual TB lesion.  You will come away from this session fully prepared to accurately test and assess your workers for TB!

To view the materials presented by Daniel Greenhaus as well as Grassi & Co.’s Financial Services Practice Brochure, please click below.

1.   Presentation

2.   Grassi & Co. Financial Services Practice Brochure 

If you have any questions with regards to any of the information above, please feel free to contact Grassi & Co. at 212-661-6166 and ask for any of the professionals within our Financial Services Practice.

Blood Borne Pathogens and Exposure Incidents

Presented by Anne Dunne, RN-BC, MBA, MSCN, Director of Healthcare Management Consulting, Grassi & Co.

Not all injuries that occur in the course of caring for a patient should be classified as blood borne pathogen injuries. When injuries have been contaminated with blood borne pathogens, timely testing for hepatitis and HIV must occur and home care workers should be evaluated for post exposure treatment.

This webinar will provide an overview of the OSHA guidelines related to the reporting and required medical care following a post exposure injury.  Emphasis will be placed on the correct identification of true exposure incidents, work place and engineering controls that minimize the risk for an injury and the required paperwork that must be filed following an injury. Discussion regarding PEP (post exposure prophylaxis) and testing of the home care worker and source will be reviewed.

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Grassi and Co hosted a program to help ensure you protect yourself and remain compliant.

Sales Tax 101: What the Contractor Needs to Know, covered topics that help define the laws and better prepare you for the sales tax audit process.

The topic was presented by David A. Shuster, JD, LLM, Tax Principal, Director of Tax Controversy Services and Matthew McCullough, Tax Controversy Supervisor.

To view the presentation please access the provided link below:

Sales Tax 101: What the Contractor Needs to Know

Mandated Sequestration Payment Reductions Beginning for Medicare EHR Incentive Program

Incentive payments made through the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program are subject to the mandatory reductions in federal spending known as sequestration, required by the Budget Control Act of 2011.

Incentive Payment Reduction
The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 postponed sequestration for two months.  As required by law, President Obama issued a sequestration order on March 1, 2013. Under these mandatory reductions, Medicare EHR incentive payments made to eligible professionals and eligible hospitals will be reduced by 2%.

Reduction Timing
This 2% reduction will be applied to any Medicare EHR incentive payment for a reporting period that ends on or after April 1, 2013. If the final day of the reporting period occurs before April 1, 2013, those incentive payments will not be subject to the reduction.

Please note: This reduction does not apply to Medicaid EHR incentive payments, which are exempt from the mandatory reductions.

Want more information about the EHR Incentive Programs?
Please contact Anne M. Dunne, Director of Healthcare Consulting, Grassi and Co.  at adunne@grassicpas.com or visit the EHR Incentive Programs website for the latest news and updates on the EHR Incentive Programs.

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There are certain instances when small businesses are required to obtain bonding – this training session is designed to address many of the issues / questions that small businesses encounter.

SPEAKER PANEL: 

Grassi CPAs:  Bill Fischer / Construction Risk Partners:  Fred Nicholson

• General discussion of surety marketplace
• Basic underwriting criteria and financial statement presentation
• Methods to create deferral strategies to help preserve workingcapital while financing projects  
• Things companies need to do for external reporting to sureties between financial statement periods
• Unique issues facing small businesses and secondary and third tier suppliers and contractors
• Alternative products
• Bid bonds vs. performance bonds (what is difference and impacts to small business)
• Teaming, Joint ventures and mentor programs with larger contractors to increase and or enhance capacity  for smaller companies in niche type work
• Various public agency nuances 
•  Working with MBE/WBE companies and how they can achieve competitive advantages

New York City Transit:  Laura Smith, Assistant Chief Procurement Program

There will be a presentation on NY City Transit’s Discretionary Procurement Program specifically providing procurement opportunities for minority, small and women-owned businesses.

New York City Transit:  Steve Picillo, Senior Director Procurement

Steve is responsible for the acquisition of all parts required for the scheduled maintenance and repair of NY City Transit’s fleet of approximately 6,300 subway cars.  He will discuss general opportunities for Long Island businesses.

MTA Headquarters – Department of Diversity and Civil Rights: George A. Cleary, Deputy Director, Small Business Mentoring Programs

There will be a presentation on the Small Business Mentoring Program.

Small Business Administration (SBA:  Frank J. Lalumiere, SBA Director of Surety Bonding Program

There will be a discussion about the various surety bonding programs available to small businesses.

Empire State Development (ESD):  Rachael Dubin, Senior Project Manager
ESD will provide an overview of how, through the New York State Surety Bond Assistance Program, ESD can help business access the technical assistance they need to better position themselves to secure surety bonds and may also be able to provide the collateral support a business needs to help a surety company issue them a surety bond.

Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requestd at least two weeks in advance.  Contact Nene Alameda at 631-846-2712.

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