hme-business.com/webinars. Jeff (who sits on our board) also spoke a bit on the topic on the HME Business Podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play.
Also, the American Association for Homecare has launched a Payer Relations Council that is focused on non-Medicare payer relations, such as Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, Medicaid Managed Care Organizations and commercial plans.
Continuing the monumental work done by Laura Williard, vice president of Payer Relations at AAHomecare, this high-level committee will identify current and future payer relations issues impacting providers across the country, educate providers about those issues, and help them address those issues. In fact, the council already had its first meeting in late August.
Does this new shift to diversified payer relations represent a new learning curve? Absolutely. Is it one that providers, who have weathered more than a decade of tumultuous change, can adapt to? You betcha.