SimiTree Case Studies

Revolutionizing Home Health VBP Success with Targeted OASIS Education. In 2023, a Pennsylvania homecare agency’s home health division faced significant challenges regarding the OASIS measures for Value-Based Purchasing metrics. SimiTree addressed these challenges and improved the agency’s Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) performance.

Revolutionizing RCM: Transforming Processes Leads to Billing Wins for a Behavioral Health Organizati…. WellStone, a prominent behavioral health organization in North Alabama, faced RCM challenges due to outdated processes and inefficient use of their EHR. SimiTree Behavioral Health found bespoke solutions that transformed operational efficiency.

Enhancing Operational Efficiency: A Success Story in Process Improvement. This agency was struggling with a number of challenges, including a high LUPA rate, low productivity, an inefficient staffing model, and a negative net margin. As a result of SimiTree’s initiatives, the agency was able to achieve significant improvements in its operations and financial performance.

Closing the Gap on Behavioral Health Patient Collections. SimiTree Behavioral Health’s revenue cycle management expertise includes a patient-centric, technology-driven approach that has led to improvements in patient collections and untapped revenue for behavioral health providers, helping providers stay compliant in the face of rising patient financial responsibility.

How to Increase Collection Rates and Improve Patient Recovery for Substance Use Treatment Facilities. When a substance use treatment facility outsourced revenue cycle management services to SimiTree Behavioral Health, they saw substantial improvement in collection rates and a decrease in average accounts receivable age.

How to Turn a Substance Use Disorder Treatment Facility into a Thriving Mental Health Program. Partnering with SimiTree Behavioral Health allowed a substance use disorder treatment facility to expand its services to include mental health support, facilitating rapid expansion and increased charge volumes.

Low-Pay Recovery Efforts Address a Behavioral Health Organization’s Underpayment Issues. A look at how SimiTree Behavioral Health’s low-pay recovery services helped providers recover an additional 140% of underpaid claims, highlighting the substantial benefits of improving revenue cycle management (RCM) processes.

Utilization Review and Addiction Therapy Modalities. How SimiTree Behavioral Health increased the average utilization per patient across all clinics and authorized days per patient, demonstrating that an RCM company can help improve authorization activity and increase length of stay.

Retention Strategies in Home Health and Hospice. A continuing staffing shortage has home health and hospice agencies shuffling staff and getting creative, looking for new ways to continue seeing patients as a thinning number.

Revenue Cycle: The Transformation Underway for Post-Acute Payment Models. Why Managing the Revenue Cycle Is Becoming Much More Complex. As billing gets more complicated in the post-acute world, here’s a look at what’s prompting the changes – and where we’re headed.

Electrifying the Scoreboard – A Loss into a Win for a Home Health Dynamo. How SimiTree turned a large, multi-state home health care corporation’s devastating loss of a VP into a sales and growth win. 

Home Health Insights – A Clinician’s Guide to Creating a Compliant Care Plan. Pulling together the professional and comprehensive assessments and translating this information into a CMS-compliant, patient-specific, individualized Plan of Care can be an overwhelming and daunting.

Electrifying the Scoreboard. How SimiTree turned one client’s devastating loss of a VP into a satisfying win for sales and growth.

Don’t Wait to Prepare for HHVBP Success Starts Now. Home Health Value Based Purchasing or HHVBP was initially implemented as a model by CMS in 2016 to determine the impact financial incentives would have on home health agencies.

Retention Strategies. A continuing staffing shortage has home health and hospice agencies shuffling staff and getting creative, looking for new ways to continue seeing patients as a thinning number …

Revenue Cycle: The Transformation Underway. Why Managing the Revenue Cycle Is Becoming Much More Complex. As billing gets more complicated, here’s a look at what’s prompting the changes – and where we’re headed.