ACCC Center for Provider Education: On-Site Training
ACCC is the leading source of essential information on issues that affect cancer programs, hospitals, and practices on both national and state levels. We make our information available to our members through a broad range of high-quality, high-value educational and training resources to meet the providers' educational needs.
The Cancer Program Improvement Project (CPIP)
The Center for Provider Education of the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) is pleased to offer selected ACCC member institutions The Cancer Program Improvement Project (CPIP), a training workshop that is designed to provide cancer programs with the innovative tools they need to solve management problems and ensure financial viability. The program is supported by an educational grant from Amgen Inc.
This program is for hospital-based oncology programs. Its goal is to help the Cancer Center Administrator improve financial results and thereby create and maintain the best cancer program possible. The four-hour seminars are delivered by an ACCC trainer sent to the hosting hospital. The agenda addresses:
- payment rates with particular focus on how new legislation and regulations will affect hospitals;
- rebilling;
- average sales price;
- and informing the hospital pharmacists on best practices in gathering data.
Participants will receive the 2007 edition of the Oncology Reimbursement Toolbox.
The many changes in rules and regulations that have impacted outpatient payment have created the critical need for hospital administrative leaders to evaluate their oncology product line. It is imperative that hospitals poise themselves to operate effectively and efficiently and, more importantly, to plan the strategic direction for their oncology program.
To succeed under ambulatory payment classifications (APCs), hospitals must change their internal operations and adopt a team approach to managing outpatient oncology services. This program will provide suggestions to help Patient Accounts work more closely with other departments that provide services.
Included in this program and booklet is a detailed explanation of the hospital outpatient revenue generation process for cancer services, including medical oncology, radiation oncology, and pharmacy. Although there are many ways to implement these procedures, quality assurance is as important as the actual policy itself.
The process described includes four actual phases: charge preparation, charge capture, claims production, and payment processing. Each phase necessitates working cooperatively with other departments within your hospital.
Want to learn more? To put your institution on the waiting list for this practical program, contact ACCC's Center for Provider Education.
Lu Anne Bankert, Senior Director, Programs and MeetingsPhone 301.984.9496, ext. 219, Email labankert@accc-cancer.org
