This is a three part training.  CLE credit is available for each part. Each part is described below.  After you have read the descriptions, please fill out the registration.  You will receive a link to another page which allows you to pay for the trainings online. These trainings are not offered free of charge. The charges are as follows:

Private Law Firms and Geriatric Care Managers can purchase any part for $100. Not-for-Profit Agencies and Students can purchase any part for $50.

Private Law Firms and Geriatric Care Managers can purchase all three parts for $270. Not-for-Profit Agencies and Students can purchase all three parts for $125.

Financial Hardship Policy available upon request. Contact Liz Price.

Medicaid Home Care Advocacy Training - Part 1

New York's Medicaid home care program is the most comprehensive in the country, enabling about 100,000 elderly or disabled persons a year to remain in their homes. As the government has cut back on all entitlements in the last decade, changes in policy make it more difficult to access home care. Aggressive advocacy is needed to obtain the amount of home care that clients need, but this requires intensive development of facts and medical evidence.

This training will explain to viewers the differences between the six different Medicaid home care programs, how to prepare medical documentation and win benefits for their clients, either through advocacy at the local Medicaid offices run by the Department of Social Services in each county (the "CASA" offices in New York City), by advocacy with certified home health care agencies (CHHAs), or by representing clients at a fair hearing.

Because of its length, this training has been broken into three parts. CLE credit will be awarded for each portion of the training completed. It is not required that all three parts of this training be viewed in order to receive CLE credit.

Part 1:

Learn the six different types of home care and which one suits your client:

• Personal care/home attendant,
• Certified home health care (CHHA),
• Waiver services (Lombardi, TBI, Nursing Home Diversion & Transition Waiver),
•  Private Duty Nursing,
• Managed Long Term Care
• Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program.

Learn about eligibility criteria, and which agency approves care. Also learn about the financial issues in home care - how does each program treat the "spend-down," spousal refusal, pooled trusts, transfers of assets, and the changing "spousal impoverishment" protections in the waiver programs such as Lombardi and TBI.

Date of Original Presentation: 1/13/09

Viewing Time: 2 hours 20 minutes

Presenters: Valerie Bogart & David Silva, Selfhelp Community Services, Inc., Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program
CLE Credits: 3.0 Professional Practice 

Newly admitted attorneys in New York State can not receive CLE credit for online training.

If you are an attorney who is not licensed in New York State and want CLE credit, please check to see if your state allows New York State CLE credits to be applied to your state's CLE requirements.

Medicaid Home Care Advocacy Training - Part 2

New York's Medicaid home care program is the most comprehensive in the country, enabling about 100,000 elderly or disabled persons a year to remain in their homes. As the government has cut back on all entitlements in the last decade, changes in policy make it more difficult to access home care. Aggressive advocacy is needed to obtain the amount of home care that clients need, but this requires intensive development of facts and medical evidence.
This training will explain to viewers the differences between the six different Medicaid home care programs, how to prepare medical documentation and win benefits for their clients, either through advocacy at the local Medicaid offices run by the Department of Social Services in each county (the "CASA" offices in New York City), by advocacy with certified home health care agencies (CHHAs), or by representing clients at a fair hearing. 

Part 2:

How to prepare an application for personal care ( a/k/a home attendant) services that will be approved quickly and in the amount of hours your client needs. The application is based on the treating physician's order called the "M11q" in New York City. Learn how the local DSS (CASA) evaluates requests and what standards it uses, and how to advocate at the local DSS (CASA) for more hours.

Date of Original Presentation: 1/13/09

Viewing Time: 3 hours

Presenters: Valerie Bogart & David Silva, Selfhelp Community Services, Inc., Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program

CLE Credits: 3.5 Professional Practice

Newly admitted attorneys in New York State can not receive CLE credit for online training.

If you are an attorney who is not licensed in New York State and want CLE credit, please check to see if your state allows New York State CLE credits to be applied to your state's CLE requirements

Medicaid Home Care Advocacy Training - Part 3

New York's Medicaid home care program is the most comprehensive in the country, enabling about 100,000 elderly or disabled persons a year to remain in their homes. As the government has cut back on all entitlements in the last decde, changes in policy make it more difficult to access home care. Aggressive advocacy is needed to obtain the amount of home care that clients need, but this requires intensive development of facts and medical evidence.
This training will explain to viewers the differences between the six different Medicaid home care programs, how to prepare medical documentation and win benefits for their clients, either through advocacy at the local Medicaid offices run by the Department of Social Services in each county (the "CASA" offices in New York City), by advocacy with certified home health care agencies (CHHAs), or by representing clients at a fair hearing.

Part 3:

How to prepare for and advocate at fair hearings, the Varshavsky "home hearing" process, fair hearing rights in Certified Home Health Agency (CHHA) cases (Catanzano), and how to request reimbursement for out-of-pocket care privately paid for before application was filed and while it is pending.
 
Date of Original Presentation: 2/02/09

Viewing Time: 3 hours 10 minutes

Presenters: Valerie Bogart & David Silva, Selfhelp Community Services, Inc., Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program

CLE Credits: 3.5 Professional Practice 

Newly admitted attorneys in New York State can not receive CLE credit for online training.

If you are an attorney who is not licensed in New York State and want CLE credit, please check to see if your state allows New York State CLE credits to be applied to your state's CLE requirements.