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Blog

• 10 Strategies to Combat Burnout in Behavioral Health Staff
• 2024 Home Health Proposed Rule: What Agencies Need to Know Q&A
• 2025 Home Health Guide: Essential Changes in CoP Requirements, HOPE Tool & OASIS-E1 
• 3 Ways EHR Technology is Changing Home Health, Hospice, and Behavioral Health Organizations
• 4 Common Reasons for HIT Claim Denials
• 4 Job Seeking Tips to Land Your Dream Job from SimiTree’s Ryan Mattson, Director of Recruiting, Talent Solutions
• 4 Tips for Streamlining the Insurance Process that Every Behavioral Health Organization Needs to Know
• 5 Best Practices Healthcare Leaders Should Leverage to Build a Winning Team
• 5 Common Pitfalls Leading to Home Health Agency Failure
• 5 Key Strategies to Address Staffing Challenges in Behavioral Health RCM
• 5 Steps to Ensure Your Staffing Process Attracts the Right Fit for Your Organization
• 5 Things Smart Agencies Are Doing in 2022
• 5 Ways Your Behavioral Health Organization Can Stop Claims from Getting Denied
• 6 Keys to the Complex World of Behavioral Health Billing
• 7 Key Differences Between Behavioral Health Billing and Medical Billing
• 8 Things to Know About the Final Rule for Home Health – plus a new vaccine mandate
• A Proactive Approach to Compliance: What Home Health & Hospice Agencies Need In 2024
• A Year of Milestones
• Avoid the #1 Claim Rejection: Are your home health patients eligible for insurance reimbursement?
• Behavioral Health Staffing: Experts Share Strategies for Success
• Best Practices for Streamlining Behavioral Health Revenue Cycle Management
• Beyond Automation: How AI Empowers Clinicians and Redefines Home Healthcare Delivery
• Beyond the Basics: 8 Questions Every Behavioral Health Organization Should Ask Payers
• Big Changes Ahead for North Carolina State Health Plan Providers: A Clear Guide to Navigating the Network Transition
• Breaking Down the Key Changes in the Proposed FY 2025 Hospice Rule: A Guide for Providers
• Building a Data-Driven Culture in Behavioral Health
• Building a Strong Behavioral Health Workforce
• Care Compare quarterly refresh available for hospice
• Celebrating Physical Therapy Month with John Rabbia, Director, Operations
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Calendar Year Home Health Final Rule Debrief – Including Physician and Hospice Impacts
• Change Healthcare Cyber Security Incident: What You Need to Know
• Changes are Coming to VBP – Don’t Panic
• Clinician Approach to OASIS-E: Mastering the Key to the New Discharge Function Score
• CMS 2024 Home Health Final Rule: Your FAQs Answered
• CMS clarifies timeline for phasing out F2F telehealth allowances
• CMS Expanded HHVBP Model: April 2023 PIPR Available in iQIES
• CMS Expands Hospice Prepayment Review in Four States: What Providers Need to Know
• CMS Extends The Home Health Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) for 5 Years with Important Updates
• CMS Issues Final Rule For Home Health
• CMS issues Final Rule for Hospice FY2022
• CMS Issues Final Rule for Hospice Payments in FY 2024
• CMS just corrected another NOA glitch
• CMS moves forward with 25% pay reduction under RCD in Florida and North Carolina
• CMS proposes 2.7% pay increase for hospice in FY2023
• CMS Proposes Major Behavioral Health Medicare Changes to Improve Access to Care
• CMS publishes hospice survey changes with guidelines for surveyor training
• CMS Releases July Interim Performance Reports for HHVBP
• CMS rescinds new NP documentation requirement
• Complete Guide to Home Health Billing
• Consultant Spotlight: Camala Mueller, Senior Manager of Growth Solutions
• Consultant Spotlight: Meet Pam Wandrie, Coding and OASIS QA Specialist
• Cost Reporting: What Agencies are Getting Right and Wrong (and Why It Matters)
• COVID-19 Public Health Emergency renewed
• COVID-19 UPDATES IMPACTING HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE AGENCIES:
• Cracking the Hidden Job Market with 4 Tips from SimiTree’s Ryan Mattson, Director of Recruiting, Talent Solutions
• Creating an Effective Compliance Program
• Credentialing Headaches? Why a Consultant Might Be Your Lifesaver
• CY2024 Home Health Final Rule: What Agencies Need to Know
• Data Analytics: Unlocking Growth in Behavioral Health
• Data-Driven Staffing: Leveraging Analytics for Optimal Behavioral Health Staffing
• Efficient Revenue Cycle Management: Key Tips for Streamlining Insurance Billing Processes in Healthcare Agencies or Organizations
• Employee Spotlight: Meet Jennifer Malpica and Carlos Vasquez, Revenue Cycle Management Managers
• EMRs vs. EHRs FAQ: Exploring Digital Solutions in Home Health and Hospice
• End of Public Health Emergency (PHE): May 11
• Enhance Your NY Medicaid Cost Reporting Process with Expert Tips
• Enhanced Hospice Oversight Program: New Hospices Under Review in Four States
• Ensuring Regulatory Compliance in Behavioral Health RCM: Best Practices and Strategies
• Everything You Need to Know About Clinical Due Diligence in Home Health, Hospice, and Behavioral Health
• FAQ Guide to New and Revised CCBHC Quality Measures
• FIC Surveys have ended, but surveyors still look carefully at infection control
• Final hospice rule sets 3.8% increase for FY2023
• Financial Impact of Data Analytics in Behavioral Health
• Find your voice in the 2023 market with the right data and branding
• Finding the Right EHR
• From ABA to IDD: The Next Big Thing in Behavioral Health Investment
• Future-Proofing Your Healthcare Team: Insights from SimiTree’s Talent Solutions Experts
• GUIDE – Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience – What is required and how to apply? And how much can you get paid?
• Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: Revolutionizing Dementia Care
• Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions: 2023 A Year in Review
• Home Health & Hospice Staffing: Expert Success Strategies
• Home Health Agencies: Top Billing & Financial Mistakes to Avoid, as Highlighted by Home Health Care News featuring Lynn Labarta
• Home health and hospice billing errors, oversights could trigger audits as CMS renews Targeted Probe and Education.
• Home Health in the Medicare Advantage Maze: A Balancing Act
• Home Health IPR FAQs: Understanding Reimbursement and Strategic Insights
• Home Health Proposed Rule: Financial Breakdown (CY 2025)
• Home Health VBP: Lessons Learned from Year One
• Hospice Final Rule 2025: Key Updates and How SimiTree Can Help
• Hospice Final Rule FY 2025: Your Questions Answered – Webinar Recap
• Hospice Proposed Final Rule: Hospices to see payment increase in October
• Hospice Scrutiny is Here – Top 4 Things CMS is Targeting and How SimiTree Can Help
• Hospice Survey Changes
• How an EHR Assessment Can Benefit Your Behavioral Health Organization
• How Can a Revenue Cycle Management Assessment Benefit Your Behavioral Health Organization?
• How Data Analytics Can Be a Gamechanger for Client Outcomes
• How to choose the right outsourcing partner
• How to increase my home care, home health, and hospice admissions quickly: Be great at hospice sales today
• How To Love Your EHR
• How to prepare for VBP
• How to Use Intake Data to Improve Post-Acute and Behavioral Health Customer Service
• Hurricane Helene’s Impact on Healthcare Supply Chains: What Providers Need to Know
• Improve Patient Outcomes with Data Analytics in Behavioral Health
• Interim managers fill gap in tight labor market
• International Women’s Day: Celebrating Women Leaders in Healthcare at SimiTree
• Is your agency losing key employees?
• January 2022 Quarterly CMS Q&As have been posted
• Join SimiTree for a summer of OASIS-E learning
• Key Takeaways: CMS Releases CY 2025 Home Health Final Rule with Mixed Impact on Agencies
• Know your market. MAP your growth plan with a new analytics platform from SimiTree
• Leadership Shortage Heroes: 3 Ways Interim Leaders Keep Agencies Afloat
• Leveraging Data Analytics to Improve Performance in Behavioral Health RCM
• Mastering Behavioral Health M&A: Expert Insights for Psychiatry and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Success (Webinar Recap)
• Mastering Home Health and Hospice Billing in 2024: Expert Tips and Free Resources
• Mastering Home Health Order Management: Accelerate Cash Flow and Mitigate Held Claims
• Mastering the 36-Month Rule: Strategies for Hospice Agencies to Maintain Cash Flow Stability
• Mastering the New Home Health Conditions of Participation: Your Comprehensive FAQ Guide
• Mastering the New Home Health Conditions of Participation: Your Comprehensive FAQ Guide
• Maximizing Medicare Cost Reports for Success in Healthcare
• Maximizing Revenue and Growth: 3 Reasons your Home Health Agency needs SimiTree’s PDGM Analysis
• MBI Numbers Changing for Nearly 1 Million Medicare Beneficiaries Mid-October 2024
• Medicare Advantage: A Growing Challenge for Home Health Agencies
• Medicare Contracting Simplified: Your Comprehensive FAQ Resource
• Medicare Hospice Cap: A FAQ Guide for Hospice Agencies
• Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage: What Home Health Agencies Need to Know
• Meet the man whose team leads the nation in preparation of Medicare cost reports for home health
• Navigating Competitive Times in Healthcare: SimiTree’s 4 Ways to Attract & Retain Top Talent
• Navigating Compliance and Accreditation in Behavioral Health
• Navigating Fierce Competition in Home Health and Hospice Sales
• Navigating Home Health and Hospice Compliance: A Comprehensive FAQ Guide
• Navigating the Challenges of Post-Acute Care in the COVID-19 Era: Solutions and Strategies for Home Health Agencies
• Navigating the Challenges of Rural Behavioral Health Staffing
• Navigating the FY2024 Physician Proposed Rule: Unveiling Impacts on Home Health, Behavioral Health, Hospice, and Palliative Care
• Navigating the Home Health Proposed Rule and Its Impact on Your Agency
• New OIG Guidance Prompts Launch of J’non Griffin’s Weekly Compliance Report
• Newest version of OASIS-E now available for preview
• No fallout from proposed rate cut, as market takes wait-and-see stance
• NOA glitches: Working through RTPs, other issues
• OASIS-E Updates: Key Changes Your Home Health Agency Needs to Know
• OASIS-E: Are you ready for January 1, 2023?
• October 2023 Interim Performance Reports (IPRs) Now Available: CMS Releases New Guidelines
• October 2024 HHVBP IPRs Now Available: Review your performance and identify areas for improvement 
• October 2024 HHVBP IPRs Now Available: Review your performance and identify areas for improvement
• Oklahoma is becoming a Review Choice Demonstration state
• Opportunity Hunt – A Simple Tip for the Job Seeker: Resume Basics!
• Optimizing Veterans Benefits in Post-Acute and Behavioral Health: Key Insights from Industry Experts
• Outsourcing Diagnosis Coding and OASIS Reviews: Boosting Efficiency for Home Health Agencies
• Outsourcing vs. In-House Billing: What’s the Best Option for Your Behavioral Health Organization?
• Overcoming Challenges in Home Health: Insights from SimiTree’s Webinar on Home Health Proposed Rule 2025
• Overcoming Data Analytics Challenges in Behavioral Health
• Overview of Home Health Billing Codes
• Palmetto HQRP Non-Compliance: A Critical Wake-Up Call for Hospices
• Partnering for Success: 10 Tips for Post-Acute & Behavioral Health Agencies to Maximize Your Recruiting Efforts with SimiTree
• Patient-Centric Payer Solutions: How Payer Setups Shape Home Health and Hospice Reimbursements
• PDGM Audits FAQ: What to Expect from Audits for Home Health Professionals
• PHE extended for another 90 days
• Prepare Your Home Health and Hospice Billing for 2025: Essential Lessons from 2024
• Preparing for a Medicare Audit: A Checklist for Home Health Agencies
• Preparing for Post-COVID: Changes to Behavioral Health Telehealth Services
• Process Improvement: How One Agency Increased SIA Revenue By $80,000
• Proposed pay cut for home health requires new strategies for rising costs, tighter margins
• Provider Relief Fund reporting due March 31
• Public Health Emergency extended through October
• Public Health Expiration May 11: What Home Health and Hospice Agencies Need to Know
• Q4 training should focus on OASIS E for key reimbursement impact
• QA manager brings a down-to-earth approach clients, clinicians and coders find refreshing
• Quality reporting deadlines for hospice
• RAP vs. NOA: The 3 Big Changes
• Robust telehealth and integrated care refine home health risk stratification under VBP
• SimiTree consultants weigh in on retention strategies
• SimiTree experts offer advice as monkeypox declared PHE
• SimiTree Promotes Mike Simione to VP of Post Acute Data Analytics
• SimiTree Webinar Recap: Navigating the 2025 Home Health Final Rule Changes
• Streamlining Claims Submission and Denial Management in Behavioral Health
• Struggling with VBP Data? VBP IQ is Your Solution for Data Analysis Paralysis
• Successful Budget Strategies: How Do I Develop a Mitigation Plan?
• The 2025 Medicare Advantage Shift: Is Your Home Health Agency Prepared?
• The Booming Home Health Market: Trends and Opportunities for Healthcare Providers
• The Hospice Billing Playbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Success
• The Hospice CARE Act: A Landmark Reform for Medicare Hospice Benefits
• The right billing staff can help your home health or hospice agency grow.
• The Ultimate Revenue Maximization Guide for Home Health and Hospice Providers in Post-Acute Care
• The Vital Role of Fit in Leadership Hiring: Mitigating Clinician Burnout in Healthcare
• Tips for Getting the Most from Your EMR in 2022
• Too small to outsource? Agencies reconsider as margins tighten
• Top 3 Barriers to Behavioral Health Treatment
• Top 3 Struggles with OASIS-E: How to overcome increased workload, new data sets, and more
• Top Medical Billing Codes for Hospice RCM
• Top Tips for Successful Integration: Advice all home health, hospice, and behavioral health agencies need
• Transform Your Home Health VBP Data into Revenue Growth for 2025: Free Webinar
• U.S. Supreme Court gives go-ahead to CMS vaccine mandate
• Understanding Patient-Centered Outcomes Research for IDD Providers
• Understanding the Healthcare Practice Revenue Cycle
• Unlocking Home Health VBP Success: A Sneak Peek at Targeted OASIS Education
• Unlocking Success: Harnessing KPIs and Benchmarks for Optimal Behavioral Health Revenue Cycle Management
• Update to Medicare policy manual requires scope of practice documentation
• VBP in 2025: A Data-Driven Guide for Home Health Success (SimiTree Webinar Recap) 
• Virtual visits: Lingering reluctance, lack of billing keeps agencies from full potential
• What Are Payers Looking for at Utilization Review for Behavioral Health Treatment?
• What Happens During an IT Assessment of Your Behavioral Health, Home Health, or Hospice Organization?
• What is an IT Assessment and Does Your Behavioral Health, Home Health, or Hospice Organization Need One?
• What is the purpose of QAPI?
• Why Behavioral Health Staff Leave and How to Keep Them
• Why Your Behavioral Health Organization Needs an EHR Assessment

Compliance Reports

• A heads-up from the OIG for FY 2025: The OIG says it wants greater scrutiny; Are we listening?
• Be Ready for Anything: Commonly Cited Survey Items
• Before and after: A survey guide for behavioral healthcare providers
• Behavioral healthcare providers need to tighten clinical documentation for new RADV audits
• CCBHCs can leverage quality data under new certification criteria
• Compliance risks are escalating for behavioral health providers in 2024. Here’s why.
• Expanding telehealth provisions bring escalating compliance risk
• New SDoH assessment code requires attention to compliance details
• Providers face prep work under regulatory changes for SUD confidentiality
• Seven telehealth billing practices are red flags to the OIG
• Survey Guide for Behavioral Health: After the Survey
• Why your organization needs a HIPAA Privacy Assessment

Insider Articles

• 12 Tips for Managing Medicare Advantage Contracts
• 3 reasons to schedule a compliance assessment
• 4 strategies for scaling RCM as your agency grows
• 9 Important Hospice Changes for 2022
• A 2022 roadmap to Value-Based Purchasing in 2023
• Agencies target 3 key areas for VBP prep in Q4
• Agents of Change
• Are you making any of these 10 budgeting mistakes?
• Build a magnetic compensation model to attract the best and brightest
• Change Management: What leaders need to know about fear
• CMS shares plans for medical review when PHE ends
• CMS wants to change the VBP baseline year. Here’s what you need to know.
• CMS wants to stabilize hospice wage index
• Curbing Transportation Costs
• Data pinpoints where OASIS training most needed
• Defining Palliative Care: It’s Not Hospice Light
• Despite inflation, CMS proposes pay decrease for home health
• Ease of use is key feature for SimiTree’s new market analysis platform
• Embracing OASIS E: An early guide for clinicians, with notes on Final Guidance changes
• Expected increased survey scrutiny for unvaccinated agency staff
• Gamechangers: 5 strategies for a stronger 2023
• Gross margin impact for 2022: Sequestration, rising wages and new IRS mileage rates
• Growing a home health or hospice requires strategic planning
• Guidance updates for your summer reading list
• Home Health Revenue from MA on the Rise
• Home health, hospice labor costs rising steadily
• Hospice patient transport costs rising
• How does your agency measure nursing productivity?
• HQRP measures continue through FY2023
• Industry expertise delivers greater value to IT strategy
• Industry pushes back against proposed rule
• Is data driving your sales and marketing?
• Is your agency’s care coordination making the grade?
• Is your Plan of Care compliant?
• KPIs measure health of agency’s revenue cycle
• Launching a New Service Line in 2023?
• Lean times: A look at Medicare’s 0.7% rate hike
• LUPAs get trickier under latest PDGM recalibration, tighter reimbursement
• MA plans account for quarter of revenue
• New data offers glimpse into 2023 reimbursement for home health
• New G codes proposed for telehealth, but no pay
• New PIPR report addresses VBP payment questions
• New transfer and discharge billing procedure for hospice
• NOA and Crossover Periods of Care: It’s Complicated
• OIG intensifies compliance focus
• Preview of April Care Compare refresh now available
• Quality focus: What is the ‘right’ level of investment?
• Rapid growth and high-profile press highlight need for hospice compliance
• Ready, set, succeed: 3 ways to address leaner margins expected in 2023
• SDoH: Keys to improved outcomes, lower hospitalization rates
• Sequestration is back – with a 1 percent pay cut
• Shift in payors brings more work to billers
• SimiTree analysts expect data to reflect sizeable jump in direct care mileage cost
• SimiTree Senior Manager literally wrote the book on OASIS-E – and the new HCS-O study guide
• Staffing Scramble 2022
• Staffing Shortage Forces Overtime Scrutiny
• Start the new year with a cash infusion
• Supreme Court turns away 10-state challenge to vaccine mandate
• The 4-hour OASIS conundrum ahead for 2023
• Tips for going to market in 2023
• Tips for using home health and hospice data
• Under OCR scrutiny? RSVPing with RSPs may help
• Use data to reduce audit risk
• Use market intel to drive growth and referrals
• Well-defined roles, early participation key to MA success for home health and hospice
• What do workers want … really?
• What will change in VBP baseline year mean?
• What’s in your post-merger playbook?
• What’s the No. 1 deal killer?
• Who’s buying? A quick guide to buyers in the home health and hospice space
• Will home health rate cut be frozen?

Uncategorized

• 10 Strategies to Improve Behavioral Health Revenue Cycle Management
• 3 More Reasons to Outsource Billing to SimiTree in 2022
• Best Practices for Optimizing Revenue at Your SUD Treatment Center
• Complete Guide to Behavioral Health RCM
• Get Your PEPPER – Catch Medicare Red Flags Early and Identify Operational Opportunities
• Most Important KPIs for Substance Abuse RCM
• Orders Tracking: A Guide to Compliance, Patient Care, and Cash Flow in Home Health and Hospice
• Outsourcing Review Choice Demonstration Functions: A Solution to Staffing Struggles
• Top Billing Challenges Unique to SUD Treatment
• What are the Benefits of Outsourcing Behavioral Health Billing Services?
• What are the Most Used CPT Codes for Substance Abuse Billing?

Webinars

• Transform Your Home Health VBP Data into Revenue Growth for 2025: Free Webinar