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Pennant Group Retools for Efficiency in Troubled Labor Market

Hospice News

Providers have increasingly sought methods for streamlining clinical teams’ administrative tasks, for instance, including time spent on documentation. “We Pennant also hopes that investing in efficiency will lighten the headwinds brought on by the unfavorable trends in home health reimbursement. For 2023, the U.S. aggregate cut.

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What Hospices Can Learn from Home Health Agencies on New Program Integrity Rules

Hospice News

The earlier experiences of home health providers informed those recommendations as well. “We We borrowed from the experiences in home health with the proposals that we advanced the CMS including the 36-month rule, So if we see the hospice rules have an impact like the home health ones, then it will do its job,” Dombi said.

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HSPN ELEVATE: The Common Thread Linking Documentation, Satisfaction, and Revenue Protection

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Hospice News: Today we will talk about threads of clinical documentation and satisfaction and also revenue protection. We had a lot of this in home health, and now it’s hospice’s turn to be scrutinized. ” We teach things like defensive documentation, which is unfortunate that we have to teach that, but we do.

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Beyond Dollars & Cents: Maximizing Sellers’ Returns in Hospice M&A?

Hospice News

In the last decade, the proportion of deals completed in home health and hospice by private equity ballooned from 30% to 50%, according to a recent report from The Braff Group. Careful documentation that supports reported revenue and profit margins can help hospices show their economic worth at the negotiating table, Braff continued.

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What you need to know about the home health value-based purchasing

AlayaCare

According to a survey on VBP conducted by AlayaCare and Home Health Care News (HHCN), 42% of care providers project that value-based contracts will account for more than half of their revenue in the next 3-5 years. The post What you need to know about the home health value-based purchasing appeared first on AlayaCare.

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What you need to know about the home health value-based purchasing

AlayaCare

According to a survey on VBP conducted by AlayaCare and Home Health Care News (HHCN), 42% of care providers project that value-based contracts will account for more than half of their revenue in the next 3-5 years. How can I prepare my agency for the upcoming VBP roll-out? What benefits can I expect from HHVBP? Optimized outcomes.

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Post-PHE Hospice Regulation: How Telehealth Rules Will Change

Hospice News

“With the regulation that applies only to patients who are receiving the routine home care level, hospices may think they won’t be able to do these visits virtually anymore, and that’s where it gets very confusing.” This would require codes to identify telehealth visits, similar to what is being implemented in home health claims.”

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