Ready, set, succeed: 3 ways to address leaner margins expected in 2023
Home health and hospice providers are bracing for leaner margins in 2023, looking for ways to tighten productivity and set in place efficiencies to make a bottom-line difference.
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What will change in VBP baseline year mean?
When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the proposed home health payment rule for 2023, it included the expected implementation of a nationwide Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) program…
OIG intensifies compliance focus
Medicare fraud and abuse investigations are on the rise, with SimiTree compliance and regulatory team reporting increased numbers of payment related audits and investigations, and saying they expect more to…
4 strategies for scaling RCM as your agency grows
By Lynn Labarta SimiTree VP, Revenue Cycle Management To be successful, home health and hospice agencies must generate revenue.
What’s in your post-merger playbook?
Effective planning and integration services make for seamless transitionSuspense keeps all eyes on the diligence phase when one company acquires or merges with another, with crucial questions to be answered…
What do workers want … really?
By John Rabbia, PT, DPT, MS, MBA, COS-C Director, Operations Consulting Healthcare organizations across the country have been struggling to maintain staffing levels during the COVID-19 pandemic, an era commonly…
Use data to reduce audit risk
Is your home health or hospice agency effectively monitoring its own data to determine the risk of a Medicare or Medicaid payment-related audit? Data can help home health and hospice providers…
New G codes proposed for telehealth, but no pay
As Medicare looks to begin tracking the number of telehealth visits by discipline without offering any reimbursement to home health providers, SimiTree consultants say providers need to find other value…