Therapy In Home Health: A New Day (How the Senate finance committee's report & findings, regarding home health therapy care & delivery, can affect your agency)
Posted on October 10, 2011 in Education Featured-writers
by Arnie Cisneros, PT
Dear Reader,
Home Health Strategic Management is offering a free webinar regarding the spotlight on therapy relating to reforms, audits, and the Senate Finance Committee's report on abusive therapy practices from the top publicly traded homecare providers. The result of the Senate findings, released earlier this week after a year-long investigation of concerns raised by the April 2010 Wall Street Journal on therapy billing trends, highlights the subjective approach employed in the creation and delivery of therapy care. Home Health providers are right to be concerned that audits of their therapy platforms and practices may soon follow.
HHSM, clinical leaders in the recent utilization and audit scrutiny seen across the industry, will provide insight into the findings of the Committee that will be relevant to all providers and clinicians in an free emergency webinar next week. Arnie Cisneros, P.T., HHSM President and the most progressive voice in Home Health, will explain the CMS and Med Pac concerns revolving around therapy, and outline areas of concern regarding the wholesale re-wiring of rehab in the evolving PPS model. In addition, the practices identified in the Senate report will be reviewed to help identify areas where you or your clinicians may be vulnerable.
Do you have over-utilization concerns regarding your therapy programs? Are the inclusion and volumes of rehab present in your episodic claims defensible by current and future standards? Have you relinquished control of therapy content and lengths of stay to your employed or contracted rehab professionals? Or are you making the same mistakes of many providers in employing convenient rationale to support care; the exact type of care now in the crosshairs of auditors, reform-minded regulatory bodies, and program safeguard contractors? It is important to remember that fraud and abuse are not the only concerns: waste and in-efficiency are also targeted, and these exist in all agencies in some shape or form.
The 60 minute webinar will be held Thursday, October 13th, 1:00 - 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (additional times will be offered if necessary). It will be free to all HHSM Newsletter subscribers, HHSM sponsor clientele, and members of your state association. Your use and support of the HHSM message has led us to extend this invitation to your association and members to join us in this exciting and necessary event.
Enrollment details are listed below. Feel free to include as many staff members as possible for this important information regarding your exposure to audits and denials in your therapy claims.
To register for the webinar, please click here.
©2011 Arnie Cisneros, PT. All rights reserved.
About the author:
Arnie Cisneros, PT, president of Home Health Strategic Management, has provided clinical services, program development and management consultation in the areas of geriatric rehab, sports medicine and home health since 1979. His clinical background is primarily orthopedic based from his tenure with The Ohio State University SportsMedicine Department. He is renowned for his adaptation of traditional care philosophies to address current and future healthcare initiatives. His status as a currently practicing clinician provides a working level insight into program development and care consultation needs for Home Health providers. He authors "Home Health Forum", a bi-weekly column addressing contemporary homecare issues and is a contributor to "The Remington Report", Caring, and Decision Health publications. He presents nationally on homecare topics including S.U.R.C.H. - UR for Home health, OBQI Case Conference, and PPS/P4P strategies.
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