Course Overview 

Home Health Nuts & Bolts© is a comprehensive 101/201-level course designed for professionals who work in — or support — home health agencies and need a strong, working command of how home health operates within today’s regulatory and payment environment.

This training provides a structured, in-depth review of the core regulatory, clinical, and operational requirements that govern home health practice. While foundational in scope, the content is substantive and detailed, reflecting the level of understanding required to support compliant operations, accurate documentation, and survey readiness.

Delivered primarily through expert-led instruction with real-time interaction, the course walks participants through the essential building blocks of home health — including patient eligibility, documentation expectations, payment and quality programs, and Conditions of Participation — with a consistent focus on how these requirements are applied, reviewed, and cited in real-world settings.

Whether you are newer to home health, transitioning into a support or oversight role, or looking to strengthen your foundational knowledge, Home Health Nuts & Bolts© builds the critical framework needed to understand how patient care, documentation, compliance, reimbursement, and survey risk intersect across the life of a home health episode.

Who this Course is For

Home Health Nuts & Bolts© is designed fora broad audience, including:

• Nurses, therapists, and clinicians new to home health
• Intake, referral, and scheduling staff
• Coding and billing team members
• Quality, compliance, and education staff
• Operations, management, and leadership roles
• Sales, implementation, and support professionals who work with home health agencies

What You'll Learn

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the structure and intent of the Home Health Conditions of Participation
• Identify required elements of compliant home health documentation
• Explain patient eligibility, coverage basics, and the role of physician orders
• Recognize common compliance risks and documentation pitfalls
• Understand how OASIS fits into care delivery, payment, and quality oversight
• Describe the connection between clinical practice, reimbursement, and survey outcomes
• Apply foundational concepts to real-world home health scenarios

Key Topics Covered

Home Health Nuts & Bolts© reinforces regulatory and compliance essentials across core areas of home health practice, including:

• Home Health Medicare Benefit and coverage fundamentals
• PDGM (Patient-Driven Groupings Model)
• OASIS essentials, accuracy, and downstream impact
• HHVBP (Home Health Value-Based Purchasing)
• Regulatory requirements and the Conditions of Participation
• Survey readiness and common deficiency trends
• Quality reporting (HHQRP), QAPI, and OASIS-E2 updates

Course Format & Experience

• Live instructor-led virtual training
• Delivered over three half-day sessions
• Opportunities for questions and discussions throughout
• Designed to be approachable, practical, and immediately useful
• Focused on how things actually work in home health - not just what the regulations say

Continuing Education:

This activity is eligible for 9.75 nurse ANCC contact hours.WellSky is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Recording: 
This event will be recorded and is available for three months for anyone registering prior to the start of the event.

Confirmation:

Prior to the webinar, you will receive a link to the WellSky Learning Center and the webinar will be hosted through TEAMS. This is where you will access the webinar, download handouts, take the post test, evaluation, and your CE certificate. Attendees will need to log into the Wellsky Learning Center to download your handouts.

Registration Fee:

The registration fee covers one individual and one continuing education (CE) certificate (if applicable). Multiple site participation from individuals within your agency will require separate registration. For example: if your agency has paid for 1 participating registration but 3 people from your agency would like to attend and receive CE credit, your agency will need to pay a separate registration fee for all 3 participants. In addition, if your agency has sent in 1 registration but 3 people from your agency register through the TEAMS link, your agency will be invoiced the registration fee for the additional 2 registrations. Handouts must be downloaded through the Wellsky Learning Center. If you would like to register more than 10 attendees from your agency, please contact [email protected] for discount group pricing.

Cancellation and Substitution Policy:

Fees will be refunded, or invoices will be adjusted, only if written notice of cancellation is received by AHHC one week prior to the event. In the event of cancellation, AHHC will retain, or charge, 50% of the initial registration fee, per registrant, to cover administrative overhead. Once written cancellation is received, an AHHC staff member will review for approval. If your cancellation is approved, we will email back a signed and dated copy of the cancellation that your agency should retain on file in case of questions. Substitutions may be made up to the day of the event.