Another year brings another annual CMS update for home health agencies to navigate. Here at Optimal Healthcare Solutions, we understand administrators have limited time to sift through complex regulations. That’s why we’ve analyzed this year’s Final Rule to highlight the critical financial changes impacting your agency. This brief focuses specifically on the key payment adjustments…
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The cost of readmissions of clients to hospitals or ERs after discharge is substantial. Medicare is spending approximately $17.4 billion annually for people who return to the hospital or ER for the same reason they went in. The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), established in the Affordable Care Act, authorizes Medicare to reduce payments to…
Read articleDisasters are all around us. As a home health or home care agency, you need to be prepared! Nothing is worse than going to your office and seeing the roof of the building you’re in collapse. Water pouring in all over your records, forms, supplies, or more. The economic and operational losses for an unprepared…
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As you start or grow your agency, it is very important to have well-established policy & procedure manuals to guide you and keep you out of trouble. Creating or having a policy and procedure manual will help you better manage your employees, prevent law suites and grow your agency. If you don’t have updated manuals…
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In this post, I want to take a look at 5 things that can affect the growth and success of your agency. Some of these things you may question if they really can affect the growth of your agency. Let’s look at the 5-Blunders a little more in detail. Not knowing and understanding what a…
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Unlike other industries, where policies and procedure manuals are an option. Home health & home care agencies must have a Policies & Procedures Manual to operate the agency efficiently. Most agencies will need 2-4 manuals to guide and direct the success of the agency or they could be headed for failure in business if they…
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Being a Home Health or Homecare Leader can be stressful if you have never been in a leadership position, and now as the owner or new manager or administrator, you find yourself wondering what to do and how to lead your staff. For me, it was an easy transition to go from field nurse for…
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One of the most important aspects of operating your home health or home care agency is to have an updated policy & procedure manual. An updated manual is an absolute must and should be updated by the agency’s Governing body. There are 3 key reasons for having an updated policy & procedure manual. points for…
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Just because you want to start a home health or homecare agency doesn’t mean you should jump right into it. To tell you the truth too many agencies fail within 1-3 years of opening. Too often the agencies fail because the owner hasn’t done enough research to understand in detail what it takes to start…
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As a home health and home care consultant, I come across people who want to start a home health or home care business. Many come to me with no idea what home health or homecare offers, then there are some people who come to me wanting to start an agency with very little experience, knowledge,…
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