SimiTree Insider Articles

Will home health rate cut be frozen?.Home health agencies are battening the hatches for Medicare’s proposed rate cut in 2023, with industry advocates cautioning that a 4.2 percent reduction could leave as many as 44...

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...

Quality focus: What is the ‘right’ level of investment?.Quality scores play an important role in home health and hospice, driving decisions by both payers and referral sources and prompting new scrutiny on how quality management spending...

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...

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...

CMS wants to change the VBP baseline year. Here’s what you need to know..By Charles Breznicky Jr., RN MSN MBA HCS-D, Clinical Consulting Director In the CY 2022 HH Final Rule, CMS indicated its plan to expand the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing...

Guidance updates for your summer reading list.Summertime and the livin’ is easy — except in the compliance department, where a flurry of recent guidance changes and updates has compliance teams on their toes this...

Build a magnetic compensation model to attract the best and brightest.Like a magnet, a solid compensation model draws top performers with the skills to build a motivated sales force, drive clinical performance to achieve better patient outcomes with...