As hospice agencies expand in average daily census, they need to ensure they are optimizing their billing practices accordingly. With complex revenue cycle considerations, including Medicare reimbursement, and internal resources that are often spread thin, hospice operators are in a unique position to use optimized billing to grow the bottom line.
Continue readingWhy Transition to an Outsourced Biller?
As hospice agencies expand in average daily census, they need to ensure they are optimizing their billing practices accordingly. With complex revenue cycle considerations, including Medicare reimbursement, and internal resources that are often spread thin, hospice operators are in a unique position to use optimized billing to grow the bottom line.
Continue readingPerformance-Based Billing: A Game-Changer for Hospices
As hospice agencies expand in average daily census, they need to ensure they are optimizing their billing practices accordingly. With complex revenue cycle considerations, including Medicare reimbursement, and internal resources that are often spread thin, hospice operators are in a unique position to use optimized billing to grow the bottom line.
Continue readingHow to Work Remotely as a Hospice Agency
As COVID-19 has spread across the globe, no business or industry has been left unaffected – including hospice care. Everyone in this field has been quickly forced into adjusting operations, processes and more without any real preparation. These unique dynamics have forced agencies to work remotely and face challenges they’ve never thought about before.
Continue readingThree Things to Prepare Your Agency for Medicare Advantage Inclusion
As most hospice agencies and providers know, 2021 could bring about significant change for the vast majority of the industry in regards to Medicare Advantage inclusion.
Continue readingOur Unparalleled Service
Advanced Hospice Management has built a superior team of highly-trained and specialized professionals with decades of experience in the hospice billing industry.
Continue reading2020 Hospice Rebasing – What You Need to Know
This past August, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the 2020 hospice final rule. Included in this ruling are updates for the hospice wage index, payment rates and most importantly – the cap amount. As a result, this 2020 rule rebases payment rates for continuous home care, general inpatient care and inpatient respite care. Overall, CMS gave hospice a 2.6 percent increase, raising the annual cap to $29,964.78.
Continue readingOur New Online Reputation Management Service
Earlier this month, Advanced Hospice Management successfully launched an online reputation management (ORM) service that can be utilized separately or bundled together with our other offerings.
Continue readingWhy Maintain Regulatory Compliance
As a specialized hospice billing service, clients often come to us after experiencing major issues at a previous company. We constantly see hospices left in financial shambles after inadequate billing services fail to deliver the high level of attention and thought that hospice billing requires.
Continue readingWhat to Consider When Choosing A Hospice Billing Service
Selecting a billing agency or service is one of, if not the, most important decisions a hospice provider makes. Effective collecting impacts the entire operation, and the incorrect choice could easily lead to long-lasting negative repercussions.
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