What’s Your Agency’s Challenge?
HealthcareFirst, a software provider to home health and hospice agencies, recently conducted a survey and the results shouldn’t surprise too many agencies. 53% responded that managing overhead and costs …
Insights and News
New Bundles: Cardiac Care
A newly proposed bundled payment model is likely to be making its way to certain areas of the country next year. The new model is centered on the care provided …
Proposed 2017 Rule Updates Value Based Purchasing Model
The pilot program for Value Based Purchasing (VBP) is going to receive some important updates in the proposed 2017 rule. The pilot will affect 9 states: Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Maryland, …
2017 Home Health proposed Rule
The proposed rule for 2017 is out and home health agencies once again should be preparing for a cut. While the cut is not as large as that in 2016, …
OIG Midyear Work Plan for Home Health and Hospice
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for CMS has released their mid-year work plan for the remaining portion of the year. As always, home health and hospice is very clearly …
Pre-Claim review is now a reality in 5 states
CMS is pressing ahead with a new regulatory burden on 5 states. Pre-Claim reviews which was previously reported earlier this year as a potential demonstration is now a reality. The …
Prior Authorizations and Advocacy
CMS is really trying hard to combat fraud, but in their usual tactics seem to be not even addressing the problem but rather sweeping it under the rug. The experts, …
You can educate your staff, but what about the public?
Agencies spend thousands of dollars each year on staff education. Agencies also spend thousands of dollars on advertising and performing marketing services. But how much time and money is spent …
Cost report data – Use it to make money…
May is the standard cost report filing period for most agencies before the typical summer slowdown. The process of gathering the cost report data takes a while and is seen …
Analysis: Prior Authorizations and Advocacy
CMS is really trying hard to combat fraud but in their usual tactics seem to be not even addressing the problem but rather sweeping it under the rug. The experts, …