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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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HSPN ELEVATE: Can It Be Done? Strategies to Reduce Documentation Burden while Increasing Audit and Survey Readiness

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Just because I’ve been in home health longer than I’ve been in hospice, we learned that in home health a long time ago that garbage in and garbage out. If you want to form a committee around what is the best way to improve that documentation again. They will have a better home-life balance.

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New Executives Tapped At Hospice Organizations Across Country

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“Over the years, Mrs. Whitley has led the organization through many challenges and opportunities to improve clinical care, documentation and operational efficiencies,” Harkey said in an announcement. Her passion to provide excellence in home health care and hospice is evident.”

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Pennant Group Retools for Efficiency in Troubled Labor Market

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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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AGG, New Day’s Bill Dombi: Hospices’ ‘Vibrant Evolutionary Path’ Spurs Legal Growing Pains 

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What we have found not just in hospice, but also in home health is that too many people dont go back to the basics and read what the rules and the regulations are to understand that sometimes theres issues in what gets passed down from one generation of staff to another. Its about going back to the basics.

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Enhabit CEO Jacobsmeyer: We’re Bringing Hospice, Home Health to Broader Market

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We’re trying to really recruit staff and talk about the benefits of the flexibility of working in home health and hospice and what that does for an individual clinician. It’s certainly to make sure that things don’t become even more burdensome from a documentation standpoint.

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

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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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