Tag: Data Analytics

Finding the Right EHR.Selecting the best IT system is all about proper business alignment As the healthcare industry becomes more reliant on information technology, organizations can expect to implement...

How To Love Your EHR.As EHRs are adopted as standard practice across the healthcare industry, a growing number of providers are experiencing dissatisfaction with the inefficiencies and limited...

Tips for using home health and hospice data.By Brian MartinVP, SimiTree Financial Monitor We all know that data is critical to effective quality and financial management in today’s home health and hospice world. But it is...

Gamechangers: 5 strategies for a stronger 2023.In the bid to shore up tighter margins, most home health and hospice organizations tend to focus on the same tired performance aspects to do more with less: squeezing schedules and...

Use market intel to drive growth and referrals.By Christine Lang, MBA Director of Data Analytics Did you know that almost half of all Medicare patients are discharged from the hospital with no post-acute care? What...

MA plans account for quarter of revenue.Medicare Advantage is projected by industry advocacy groups to be the dominant form of Medicare within the next two years, and SimiTree data analysts say MA plans already account...

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...