Conquering Your Hospice & Palliative Care Challenges
We empower you to excel in addressing the unique challenges in hospice and palliative care:
- Accelerate Patient Onboarding: Streamline your processes to begin care immediately, ensuring patients receive timely comfort and support.
- Optimize Medicare Reimbursement: Navigate the complexities of Medicare-only reimbursement with confidence, maximizing your financial stability while ensuring compliance with all documentation requirements.
- Elevate Quality of Care: Maintain and enhance the highest standards in end-of-life comfort, improving patient and family satisfaction.
- Boost Operational Efficiency: Strike the perfect balance between providing compassionate care and meeting organizational needs to ensure sustainable service delivery.
Our Comprehensive Hospice & Palliative Care Consulting Services
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Interim Revenue Cycle Staffing: Maintain financial stability throughout EMR transitions, staff turnover, and functional backlog with our experienced professionals who seamlessly integrate into your team, ensuring continuity in billing, collections, cash posting, insurance verification, authorizations and financial operations specific to hospice care.
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Clinical Consulting: Enhance your clinical operations with our unmatched hospice expertise. We help improve documentation accuracy, optimize care planning, and ensure compliance with hospice eligibility requirements.
- Financial Consulting: Maximize your financial performance with our industry-leading tools and expertise. We offer profitability analysis by level of care, budgeting, contracting/credentialing, cash flow optimization, and strategic financial planning tailored to hospice operations.
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Compliance & Regulatory Risk Management: With our expert guidance, navigate the complex hospice regulatory landscape, ensuring your organization stays compliant while maximizing appropriate reimbursement opportunities.
- Cost Reporting: As the nation’s leading preparer of hospice Medicare cost reports, we ensure accurate representation of your costs by level of care, which is crucial for determining reimbursement rates and maintaining compliance.
- Strategic Planning & Market Development: Fuel growth with data-driven market analyses, focusing on early patient identification and referral source education to increase length of stay and improve patient experiences.
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Operational Consulting: Streamline your processes for peak performance. We assess and refine your organizational structure, workflow, staffing models, and reporting to balance quality care with operational efficiency.
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Information Technology:
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EMR Consulting: Optimize your electronic medical record system for improved efficiency and compliance in hospice care delivery.
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- IT Consulting: Ensure your technology infrastructure supports your hospice’s goals and regulatory requirements.
- AI-Powered Operational Optimization: Leverage cutting-edge AI solutions to streamline workflows, reduce documentation time, and enhance clinician satisfaction in the hospice setting.
Training, Education, and Development: Empower your team with our flexible training options, including virtual classrooms, on-site workshops, and customized programs tailored to hospice-specific needs and challenges.
Bundling Our Services for Comprehensive Solutions
Elevate your organization’s performance by combining our consulting services with:
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Coding Review
Ensure accuracy and compliance in hospice coding
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Billing & Authorization Services
Streamline your hospice revenue cycle
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Behavioral Health Integration
Comprehensive support for holistic end-of-life care
Frequently Asked Questions
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Our operational consultants work with you to streamline intake processes, optimize staffing, and leverage technology to reduce time-to-care without compromising quality. We focus on rapid patient onboarding to ensure timely delivery of compassionate end-of-life care.
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We combine deep Medicare expertise with a compassionate understanding of end-of-life care. Our holistic approach ensures that your organization can provide the best possible care while maintaining operational excellence. We offer tailored solutions that address the specific challenges of hospice care delivery.
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Our compliance experts stay up to date with all Medicare regulations affecting hospice/palliative care. We provide guidance, training, and systems to ensure your organization remains compliant while maximizing appropriate reimbursement. This includes assistance with hospice eligibility documentation, level of care determinations, and claim submission processes.
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Absolutely. Our IT consulting services focus on implementing technologies that enhance care delivery and operational efficiency while maintaining the dignity and comfort of patients and families. We can help you select and optimize EHR systems, implement telehealth solutions, and leverage AI tools to reduce the administrative burden on your clinical staff.
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As the nation’s leading preparer of hospice Medicare cost reports, we ensure accurate representation of your costs by level of care. This is crucial for determining reimbursement rates and maintaining compliance. Our expertise can help you maximize appropriate reimbursement while avoiding compliance risks.
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We provide flexible training options including virtual classrooms, on-site workshops, and customized programs. Our training covers a wide range of topics such as regulatory compliance, pain and symptom management, the best practices for documentation, and leadership development for hospice administrators.
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While VBP is not yet implemented in hospice, we help organizations prepare for future quality initiatives. We assist in optimizing key performance metrics, developing personalized quality improvement plans, and providing staff training on hospice-specific quality measures to ensure you’re ready for any future VBP programs.