Posted on: March 30, 2020
CMS provided notice of the expansion of its Accelerated and Advanced Payment Program for qualifying Medicare participating providers to ensure liquidity throughout the COVID-19 crisis. The Program enables qualifying Medicare providers to receive an advance worth 3 months of average billings.
Read MorePosted on: March 30, 2020
Fifteen-year home health therapist and Vice President of Clinical Strategies for HealthPRO Heritage at Home, Jason L. Sasser, shares best practices and perspective on what the COVID-19 crisis means for home health providers during his interview for The Strategy Academy podcast series. Highlights from that discussion are summarized here:
Read MorePosted on: March 24, 2020
The National Association of Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) has released preliminary data specific to the early PDGM claims and trends. This is our first opportunity to be able to begin benchmarking performance compared to the trends that are occurring across the industry. Below you will find various different metrics that can be used to compare your agency performance under PDGM to the national averages of claims data submitted thus far.
Read MorePosted on: March 23, 2020
Our nation’s leaders are taking steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by issuing local, state, and federal measures. It’s important for the healthcare industry to understand what’s being recommended to protect and serve residents and patients. To that end, HealthPRO Heritage summarizes the differences between quarantine, isolation, shelter in place, and stay at home orders + what these measures mean for staff and patients.
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Posted on: March 23, 2020
| Therapists are exempted from sheltering at home & are permitted to continue working.* Even as states move to shelter-in-place directives, healthcare workers – including therapists – are deemed essential and play a critical role in the battle against COVID-19. |
Posted on: March 20, 2020
In the unfortunate circumstance that your community experiences a COVID-19 event, do you have a communication strategy in place?
Read MorePosted on: March 19, 2020
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, several important updates from CMS and the Department of Health & Human Services were posted over the last weekend. HealthPRO Heritage’s COVID-19 Task Force immediately released a summary about these updates (i.e.: waivers of the 3-day stay & the 60-day break).
Read MorePosted on: March 19, 2020
| Given the volume of information related to COVID-19, we wanted to take this opportunity to provide a resource for our therapists in the field who have many questions, concerns, anxieties, and curiosities about this situation and how HealthPRO Heritage is handling it. |
Posted on: March 18, 2020
March 18, 2020
MEMO TO: All HealthPRO Heritage Professionals
FROM: John Heller, Chief Executive Officer
RE: Encouragement & Guidance for Our Staff
As we all look to understand and respond to the growing complications related to COVID-19, it can become a challenge to balance our daily lives, concerns for family and friends and the responsibilities of our jobs.
Read MorePosted on: March 18, 2020
Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, HealthPRO Heritage has organized a multi-faceted approach to preparedness and promotion of safe treatments to our patients, and implementation of strict precautions to prevent the risk of the virus spreading. Our Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapists remain available and ready to serve the immediate patient care needs of our agency partners, many of whom are reporting staffing challenges.
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