HCFA Offers FREE Medicare Training for Providers

The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has launched a series of education and training programs designed to leverage emerging Internet and satellite technologies to offer just-in-time training to Medicare providers and suppliers throughout the United States. These programs include free downloadable computer based training courses and the delivery of live satellite broadcast training presentations.

• Free Computer Based Training (CBT) Courses
  Choose from the following available CBT courses:

  1. The goal of the Adult Immunization course is to help you better understand the importance of adult immunizations and identify ways to increase the immunization rates in the healthcare community.
  2. The Women’s Health course is meant to increase awareness of women’s health benefits that are covered by Medicare.
  3. World of Medicare is an introduction to the Medicare program.
  4. ICD-9-CM Coding instructs you in the proper use of the ICD-9-CM manual for correct diagnosis coding.
  5. Medicare Fraud & Abuse emphasizes the prevention and early detection of fraud and abuse.
  6. Front Office Management provides essential knowledge needed for "checking in" Medicare patients.
  7. Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) provides basic information about the MSP program.
  8. HCFA-1500  provides essential information required to properly complete the HCFA-1500 claim form.
  9. HCFA-1450 or UB-92 provides essential information required to properly complete the HCFA-1450 claim form.
  10. Home Health Agency emphasizes the guidelines that providers must follow when dealing with Home Health Agencies.

  After downloading and installing to a personal computer (Windows 95, 98, or NT, only), you may take as long as you wish to complete each course. You may also complete the courses as often as you like.

• Free Medicare Training via Satellite Broadcasts
  In an effort to reach larger audiences more cost effectively, HCFA has provided a series of live satellite broadcasts for the national provider community. Broadcast attendees throughout the United States are given the opportunity to interact with a panel of medical experts, who discuss medical issues in a national context. In addition, those who are unable to attend can request a FREE video tape of each broadcast. During 1999, the following satellite broadcasts were scheduled:
  • Steps to Promoting Wellness: Adult Immunizations
  • Medicare Fraud and Abuse: Proactive Measures to Avoid Becoming a Victim
  • Steps to Promoting Wellness: Women’s Health (Panelists/Participants Contact Information)
    
  • Medicare Resident Training Program: What Every Medical Resident Needs to Know About Medicare

• 1999 Fact Sheets and Qs & As on Medicare's Pneumococcal and Influenza Vaccine Benefits

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Last Updated December 17, 1999