By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report Spending a few days with owners and administrators of non-medical home care agencies was an eye-opener. They deal with issues that would cause many entrepreneurs to look for a fast food or vertical blinds franchise to invest in. Here are some of the […]
by Tom Moverman, Esq (of the Lipsig Bronx firm since 1989, which focuses on personal injury, products liability, and medical malpractice). Patients put an enormous amount of trust in the hands of healthcare workers. Efforts to avoid breaking this trust must be continuously implemented. Nurses are required, both ethically and legally, to treat patients according […]
EVV Best Practice: The One Day Time Sheet by Ken Accardi, MBA and CEO Ankota As agencies move to Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) they will achieve numerous benefits, including regulatory compliance and increased speed for processing billing and payroll. As everyone knows by now, the 21st Century Cures Act instructs each state to develop […]
By David Cole, Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) Many providers have been wondering about the future of Medicaid waiver programs, in light of the efforts by Congress to reduce Medicaid benefits and funding. However, it appears that most of the waiver programs may be spared the sword this time around, and for some very good reasons. […]
by Ken Accardi (MBI. MBA. and CEO of Ankota Software Solutions for Home Care in Boston MA) Ginny Kenyon is one of the industry experts I learn from every time we speak. She is a principal at Kenyon Home Care Consulting, where she helps open home care agencies. Over the years, she has given Ankota […]
By Amy Shellhart, Vice President of Product Management, Change Healthcare Last week, in part I, Change Healthcare’s Amy Shellhart presented important findings by healthcare at home researchers presented in a 2016 article by Landers et al, titled, “The Future of Home Health Care: A Strategic Framework for Optimizing Value.” In part II of this article, […]
by Tom Underwood, CEO of Sandata Technologies (Washington, NY) Few businesses like the government telling them what to do or how to do it. That’s true in health care, as much as anywhere else. [Nonetheless,] the new electronic visit verification (EVV) mandate is here and it’s not going away. Consequently, home care agency executives have three […]
by Amy Shellhart, VP of Product Management, Change Healthcare “The Future of Home Health Care: A Strategic Framework for Optimizing Value” [which is the final report from the Alliance for Home Health Quality & Innovation, and which was published online on 10/20/2016 in Home Health Care Management 28 (4) and reproduced in: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1084822316666368] discusses four […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor and Publisher of Home Care Technology Report As payment models shift from volume to value, health care providers must meticulously document every step of their care plan and track results to prove they are providing consistent, high-quality care. Poor documentation carries severe financial penalties, including delayed or denied payments and fewer […]
by Kristi Bajer, BSN, RN and VP of Clinical Operations for OperaCare, LLC, If you are a home health agency owner or manager expecting to remain competitive in the Home Health Value Based Purchasing era, you cannot use the same old measure of success that worked for you when PPS was new. You may already […]
