When done right, paid advertising and search engine marketing are amazing tools to reach new patients and grow your business. By applying several basic tactics, you can start using powerful digital advertising platforms like Google and Facebook to target specific audiences and help ensure a steady flow of business for your practice. Click to View […]
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Hospice professionals help others face death and loss, while juggling interdisciplinary communications, quality compliance regulations and ever-evolving technologies. You are continually there for families and their dear ones who are passing away. But what about you? Get the eBook In caregiving professions, it is easy to get swept up in the needs of others and forget […]
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Diversity in the workplace is an on-going issue but it’s an issue with solutions. To build diversity, it takes forward-thinking initiatives, a reexamination of the hiring philosophy, and the support of the company’s decision-makers. One such supporter of diversity in the workplace is Net Health’s CIO, Jason “JJ” James. Recent social movements like Black Lives […]
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Net Health did something different recently. Nearly two hundred employees and their families gathered around their computer screens to take part in a landmark event in our company’s history – we called it a “Fireside Chat about Race”. The purpose of this event was to have a truly open conversation about the controversial but relevant […]
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Those of us who have worked in healthcare know that the best audit outcomes depend on good planning. And nowhere is this truer than in the wonderful, wacky world of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) where compliance audits are routine rather than the exception. As many of you will already know, effective planning takes […]
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For those of our Hospice colleagues who follow government policy, you may be wondering what’s going on in the evolving landscape of hospice value-based care modeling. I’m thinking specifically of the Primary Care First Serious Illness Population and direct contracting models. Truth be told, it feels like the conversation’s gone a bit cold. That said, if […]
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As if it’s not stressful enough for clinicians to balance scheduling, treating patients, and creating defensible documentation, they’re also expected to know the ins and outs of therapy coding and billing. Unfortunately, untangling the rules of insurance payers can often feel like a full-time job. This is where Net Health Therapy can help! Having an […]
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CMS published their proposed Hospice Payment Rate updates on April 14. The proposed rule has changes beyond the payment rate that will impact hospice. The changes include: Hospice Conditions of Participation (CoPs) Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) Home Health Quality Reporting Program (HH QRP) Routine updates to hospice base payments and aggregate cap amount for […]
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On April 8, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Prospective Payment System (PPS) Proposed Rule and gave us a glimpse into what the future might hold for SNFs. Sure, it’s full of the expected adjustments to rates and indexes, and it boasts […]
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Since 2013, the federal law has required a 2% reduction to the reimbursement (applied to the 80% of the allowed charge) that a participating provider would receive directly from Medicare; this reduction in payment is referred to as “sequestration” because a set percentage of money is automatically removed (or “sequestered”) from the amount of funding […]
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In this article, I will answer the following questions regarding the supervision requirements of a physical therapist assistant (PTA) by a physical therapist (PT) and an occupational therapy assistant (OTA) by an occupational therapist (OT) under Medicare Part B outpatient therapy services for calendar year 2021: What are the supervision requirements of a PTA or […]
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Don’t be pulled, lead!! Have you ever felt like you were being pulled in all different directions at once by different people needing you? I imagine that’s what healthcare providers often feel like when they’re asked to provide copies of patient records. There are patients, clinicians, insurance companies, and auditors all wanting copies of patient […]
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The skilled nursing industry has been hit hard by COVID-19 challenges, with skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) reporting more than 100,000 deaths in 2020 alone.1 Combined with the recent shift to the Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM), SNF processes are now in the spotlight as patients, their families and public health officials look to improve operational outcomes in […]
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Location, Location, Location!! This is the phrase realtors quote about the ability to get top dollar when selling a property and in healthcare, this is a phrase that can determine coverage and payment methods – who knew?? Therapy providers have some of the fewest restrictions when it comes to locations of just about any other […]
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Some welcome flexibilities and administrative relief are built into the final 2021 Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) rules for paying wound care professionals and outpatient hospitals. While some of the telehealth policies are being made permanent, CMS makes it clear that it does not have authority to continue telehealth benefits for patients in homes […]
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Rehab therapists may be facing a pay cut in 2021, but at least it won’t be as high as they were originally expecting, thanks to the Consolidated Appropriations and COVID-19 Relief Act of 2021, signed December 27, 2021.1 The final 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) rules announced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid […]
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