Home Care Health Policy-The Impact of the Affordable Care Act and Subsequent Legislation
The healthcare policy experts who authored the Affordable Care Act included a multitude of challenging changes for the home health provider community. Included are physician care plan reviews, new billing time limits, increased fraud & abuse audit funding, a redefined anti-kickback statute, small business tax credits, new criminal background screenings, compliance plans, and Face-To-Face Physician Encounter Requirements. Intimate knowledge and exploration of the business implications of this legislation and subsequent health policy will be important for smart providers.
Richard K. Dixon, of Palm Bay, Florida, is President and CEO of Dixon Healthcare Solutions, Inc., a national health care consulting firm specializing in Home Health and Hospice. A former Medicare auditor, his experience includes operations consulting, budgeting, preparation of Medicare and Medicaid cost reports and reimbursement management consulting. Mr. Dixon has 25–plus years of experience in health care, including VP Finance for several large home health providers with annual revenue up to $32 million. He is a sought-after speaker for state and national health care association meetings and is a member of Who’s Who in American Business.
Louisiana Providers – A Cost Report Study
Louisiana home health providers have not had such intense challenges since BBA ’97. ZPICs, HEAT, PPACA, and MedPAC provide an alphabet soup sure to cause indigestion for even the most astute management team. Knowing where your agency stands compared to your competition, the state, and national norms has never been more important.
The HCLA Board of Directors approved a project to gather Louisiana cost reports from 2007 – 2009, through the Freedom of Information Act, to provide our state’s agencies with insightful clues about trends in the areas of utilization, census, length of stay, direct care costs, and more. Each attendee will receive an invaluable packet that includes cost report summaries, agency by agency (blinded to protect privacy of provider), for all free standing providers. In addition, each attendee will receive a custom spreadsheet for their own individual agency highlighting activity from 2007-2009. The owner-administrator will walk away from this summit with a new understanding and appreciation of their degree of preparedness for the road ahead.
Duane Blackwell, MBA of Alexandria, LA. has worked in home health for 14 years. He has served as CEO of a Louisiana based, ten-location Medicare certified home health provider. He guided them through the successful sale of the agency, and now directs providers across Louisiana and Texas via his consulting company. SOSO Solutions, LLC provides management consulting services to Medicare certified post-acute providers (primarily hospital based and free standing home health providers. Practice areas of focus include financial management, market intelligence and the management of change.
Each attendee will receive one agency specific data report. Additional reports for different Medicare provider numbers may be requested for an additional fee – Call HCLA office 337-231-0080 for details.
March 3, 2011
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