Get the first-ever benchmarks that reveal the impact of the PPS changes on episode payments! Beat your competitors and boost profits using the analysis of how PPS changed therapy trends, coding, OASIS answers that determine payments and more with the 2009 PPS Benchmarks Handbook.
Get your hands on exclusive data gathered from leading benchmark vendors, government agencies, savvy consultants and home health agency executives. Home Health Line’s 2009 PPS Benchmarks Handbook gives you the numbers that determine industry success so that you know where your agency stands. Learn how the new PPS affected:
- Therapy trends – Avoid the pitfalls that caused agencies to underestimate therapy in 47% of episodes. Plus, see how for-profit agencies increased their episodes with 14 to 19 therapy visits while nonprofits added episodes with six to nine therapy visits – both financially advantageous categories in the new system.
- Case-mix – Reduce adjustments for final payments with accurate case-mix weights at the start of care. Agencies see a 2.8% difference between the SOC and final payments in 2008, compared with a 7.2% difference in 2007.
- Billing – Prevent payment delays and rejections by learning how to avoid what tripped up almost 30,000 claims during claims submission. And dodge being part of the 9% of agencies that received warnings about incorrectly billed supplies.
- Surveys – Keep your agency in compliance with the latest information on surveyors’ most watched-for deficiencies. Know how to avoid written plan of care deficiencies that snag 24.7% of agencies.
- Productivity – Discover how 36% of agencies used chart audits to boost productivity and ensure OASIS accuracy. Get tips and strategies to save your clinicians’ time dealing with new PPS changes.
You’ll also get:
- 500 pages of critical benchmarks, analysis and critical guidance from the most respected publications in the home care industry: Home Health Line, Home Care Outcomes, Success in Home Care, Diagnosis Coding Pro for Home Health and Private Duty Insider.
- A chapter on Medicare Managed Care that will help you track your patients’ exodus into Medicare managed care plans and offers tips to get the best deal from managed care companies. Learn about the surge of Medicare Advantage and its effect on your agency.
- Chapters on Private Duty and Hospice. Interested in growing your home health business into these lucrative areas? Here are 42 articles, charts and tables to help you take the temperature of the waters before diving in. Already serving private duty and/or hospice patients? You’ll learn how to benchmark your business against your competitors and national averages.
- New articles and tables in the Coding chapter and in the Billing chapter to help you make sure you’re getting all the payment dollars possible from your fiscal intermediary.
- 27 (still relevant?) valuable work tools, all proven successful by home health agencies, to help you operate more efficiently and profitably
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2009 PPS Benchmarks Handbook (8th Edition)
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Get the first-ever benchmarks that reveal the impact of the PPS changes on episode payments! Beat your competitors and boost profits using the analysis of how PPS changed therapy trends, coding, OASIS answers that determine payments and more with the 2009 PPS Benchmarks Handbook.
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