Tackling Home Health Challenges Head-On
We empower your agency to overcome key issues and thrive in the competitive home health landscape:
- Overcome Staffing Challenges: Boost retention, accelerate recruitment, and enhance hiring processes to build and maintain a top-tier staff and leaders in operations, clinical management, and finance. Ensure consistent, high-quality care delivery and optimized fiscal performance.
- Strengthen Clinical Leadership: Empower your clinical managers through targeted training, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement in patient care.
- Achieve Operational Excellence: Streamline your processes from clinical management to cash flow, maximizing efficiency and financial performance across your organization.
- Optimize Visit Management: Ensure appropriate frequency and comprehensive documentation of visits, improving patient outcomes while maximizing reimbursement potential.
- Elevate Quality of Care: Maintain and enhance high care standards that directly impact reimbursement, boosting both patient satisfaction and your bottom line.
- Mitigate Financial Obstacles: Develop robust key performance indicator (KPI) reporting, financial analysis, and revenue cycle practices to effectively address the core challenges impacting the home health industry at large.
Our Comprehensive Home Health Consulting Services
- Interim Revenue Cycle Staffing: Keep your cash flowing throughout EMR transitions, staff turnover, and functional backlogs with our experienced professionals who seamlessly integrate into your team, ensuring continuity in billing, collections, cash posting, insurance verification, authorizations, orders tracking, and financial operations.
- Cost Reporting: Leverage our expertise as the nation’s leading preparer of Medicare cost reports. We ensure accurate representation of your business costs, crucial for determining labor shares and reimbursement rates.
- Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Preparation: Position your agency for success in the nationwide Home Health VBP model. We help boost key performance metrics, develop personalized action plans, and provide essential staff training.
- Strategic Planning & Market Development: Fuel growth with data-driven market analyses, targeting high-potential referral sources and identifying untapped market opportunities.
- Clinical Consulting: Stay ahead of regulatory changes with our unmatched clinical expertise. We help improve coding and OASIS accuracy, strengthen clinical documentation, and optimize clinical management practices.
- Operational Consulting: Streamline your processes for peak performance. We assess and refine your organizational structure, workflow, staffing models, and reporting to boost efficiency and profitability.
- Financial Consulting: Maximize your financial performance with our industry-leading tools and expertise. We offer profitability analysis, budgeting, contracting/credentialing support, cash flow optimization, and strategic financial planning tailored to home health operations.
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- Information Technology:
- EMR Consulting: Optimize your electronic medical record system for improved efficiency and compliance.
- IT Consulting: Ensure your technology infrastructure supports your agency’s goals and regulatory requirements.
- AI-Powered Operational Optimization: Leverage cutting-edge AI solutions to streamline workflows, reduce documentation time, and enhance clinician satisfaction.
- Information Technology:
- Compliance & Regulatory Risk Management: Navigate the complex regulatory landscape with our expert guidance, ensuring your agency stays compliant while maximizing reimbursement opportunities.
- Training, Education, and Development: Empower your team with our flexible training options, including virtual classrooms, on-site workshops, and customized programs tailored to your agency’s needs.
- Internal Staffing and Management: Keep your organization moving forward during transitions with our interim management and permanent placement solutions, from C-suite executives to key operational roles.
Bundling Our Services for Comprehensive Solutions
Boost your agency’s performance by combining our consulting services with:
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Coding & OASIS Review
Ensure accuracy and compliance
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Billing & Authorization Services
Streamline your revenue cycle
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Behavioral Health Integration
Comprehensive support for holistic care
Frequently Asked Questions
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Our consultants provide strategies for staff retention, recruitment, and training. We also offer interim staffing solutions to keep your agency running smoothly during transitions.
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We focus on the entire spectrum of home health operations, from clinical care to financial performance. Our holistic approach ensures that improvements in one area positively impact the entire organization.
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Our VBP consulting helps you understand performance metrics, implement quality improvement strategies, and position your agency for success in the value-based care model.
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Absolutely. Our IT consulting services include EMR optimization, implementation of efficiency-boosting technologies, and leveraging AI for improved operational performance.