SimiTree Insider Articles

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...

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...

Under OCR scrutiny? RSVPing with RSPs may help.Recent changes require policy edits, staff training  Q. When is an RSVP, the French initialism meaning “respond, please,” more than proper etiquette? A. When the...

The 4-hour OASIS conundrum ahead for 2023.By J’non Griffin, RN, MHA, HCS-D, COS-C, HCS-HPrincipal, SVP, Coding & OASIS Among a gauntlet of issues ahead for home health providers in 2023 lies a thorny clinical...

Agencies target 3 key areas for VBP prep in Q4.Home health agencies are targeting key performance areas such as acute care hospitalization, emergency department use, care coordination and patient satisfaction in a bid to improve...

What’s the No. 1 deal killer?.In the world of mergers, acquisitions and consolidation, the path to signing the deal is fraught with thorny complications that can bog down the process, open a Pandora’s box of...

Shift in payors brings more work to billers.Agencies could be blindsided by new staffing demands A new dynamic is shaping up in the back offices of agencies of all sizes, where billers are seeing ballooning workloads based...

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...