HMDCB Community Event Calendar

 

Webinars & Coffee Chats

Webinars and Coffee Chats are free for certified physicians to attend, except for sessions that include CME. To learn more about each webinar, click here

 

December 10, 2024 at 11 am CT
Certificant Coffee Chat

January 21 at 1:30 pm CT
Webinar: What are my Options? MAID in Hospice Care

February 2025
Certificant Coffee Chat, Registration Coming Soon

March 18 at 5 pm CT
Webinar: Hospice Core Roles & Responsibilities

April 17, 2025 
Webinar: Pediatric Hospice Care (CME available), Registration Coming Soon 

May 2025
Webinar: Preparing for a Career in Hospice, Registration Coming Soon 

June 2025
Certificant Coffee Chat, Registration Coming Soon 

July 2025 
Webinar, Registration Coming Soon 

August 2025 
Certificant Coffee Chat, Registration Coming Soon 

September 2025
Webinar, Registration Coming Soon

October 2025
Certificant Coffee Chat,  Registration Coming Soon

November 2025
Webinar, Registration Coming Soon

December 2025
Certificant Coffee Chat, Registration Coming Soon 

 

Hospice Super Forum 

AAHPM and HMDCB are pleased to present The Hospice Super Forum. This virtual educational event will address trending topics in hospice medicine, including hospice ethical challenges, hospice deprescribing, and complex symptom management. Learners can expect to gain a basic framework of ethical decision making within the context of end-of-life care, learn critical thinking processes for assessing the appropriateness of individual medication in serious illness, and review and examine pharmacological and nonpharmacological approaches to managing top complex symptoms. Registration is closed for this event, the 2024 recording will be available early 2025. The next forum will take place in late 2025. 

 

External Partner Events

HMDCB is proud to partner with Weatherbee Resources to provide certificants and initial applicants with a discount on some of their hospice educational events. Certificants can receiving a 10% discount for the below events. For the discount code, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The 2024 Weatherbee events are now closed for registration. The 2025 event dates will be posted soon. 

 

Hospice Physician Compliance Conference

This all-day event will provide a foundation in regulations surrounding the Medicare Hospice Benefit. This course is applicable to all hospice physicians, however, it is specifically designed to catapult new hospice physicians into the complexities of hospice regulations while providing guidance on best practices to ensure compliance and payment. The cost of the conference is $895 per person and includes access to the live sessions, PDF workbook, all session recordings, and up to 7.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™️

 

The GIP Intensive

This course will provide guidance on appropriate utilization, documentation and billing of GIP care, while also offering strategies for strengthening your hospice’s GIP practice. The registration fee is $725 per person and includes access to the live event, a PDF workbook, the session recording, and up to 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™️. 

 

Hospice Audit Survival Training 

This course will take a deep dive into the most prevalent audits and share a step-by-step plan to ensure a timely and comprehensive response from initial clinical record submission to the provision of expert witness testimony at the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) appeal level or beyond. The cost is $750 per person and includes access to the live session, PDF work, session recording, and up to 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™️. 

 

“I became Hospice Medical Director Board Certified to continue to remain current, relevant, and in touch with colleagues and peers from around the country."

Amy Wirts, MD HMDC