Tag: Financial

SimiTree Home Health Billing and Collections: Mid-Year 2025 Results Show $18M in Recoveries.As we reach the midpoint of 2025, we’re reflecting on the meaningful progress we’ve made alongside our post-acute (palliative, home health, home care, and hospice)...

Unlock Revenue Potential with SimiTree’s PDGM Analysis eBook.Are You Leaving Revenue on the Table? PDGM has transformed home health reimbursement, but many agencies are unknowingly losing revenue due to documentation errors, case-mix...

The 2025 Medicare Advantage Shift: Is Your Home Health Agency Prepared?.The healthcare landscape is rapidly evolving, with Medicare Advantage (MA) poised to reshape home health operations in 2025. For agencies heavily reliant on Traditional Medicare,...

CMS Expanded HHVBP Model: April 2023 PIPR Available in iQIES.The April 2023 Pre-Implementation Performance Report (PIPR) is available to download from the Internet Quality Improvement Evaluation System (iQIES). Instructions on how to access...

LUPAs get trickier under latest PDGM recalibration, tighter reimbursement.Managing lower utilization payment adjustments, or LUPAs, is always tricky business for home health agencies, and SimiTree financial experts say the stakes will be even higher for...

Lean times: A look at Medicare’s 0.7% rate hike.Consultants offer 7 strategies to help counter uncertainty A sliver of an increase may be preferable to a decrease, but the consensus among home health stakeholders is that...

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...

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...