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Industry Insights for Home Health Technology

The healthcare industry is ever evolving – with changing rules and regulations forcing agencies to shift processes to stay in compliance. Learn from our experts and keep your agency up to date with all things post-acute care and home health technology by exploring our available resources.

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Featured Resources

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OASIS-E Spotlight: Route of Current Reconciled Medication List Transmission to Subsequent Provider

Making sense of CMS guidelines is more challenging than ever after the launch of OASIS-E and the abundance of changes that go along with it. KanTime’s OASIS Spotlight series will spotlight specific OASIS items to simplify the ruling and help clinicians significantly improve their understanding of OASIS so they can move forward with accuracy. A2122: […]

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OASIS-E Spotlight: Provision of Current Reconciled Medication List to Patient at Discharge

Making sense of CMS guidelines is more challenging than ever after the launch of OASIS-E and the abundance of changes that go along with it. KanTime’s OASIS Spotlight series will spotlight specific OASIS items to simplify the ruling and help clinicians significantly improve their understanding of OASIS so they can move forward with accuracy. A2123: […]

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OASIS-E Spotlight : Provision of Current Reconciled Medication List to Subsequent Provider at Discharge

Making sense of CMS guidelines is more challenging than ever after the launch of OASIS-E and the abundance of changes that go along with it. KanTime’s OASIS Spotlight series will spotlight specific OASIS items to simplify the ruling and help clinicians significantly improve their understanding of OASIS so they can move forward with accuracy. A2121: […]

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Oasis-E Spotlight: Provision of Current Reconciled Medication List to Subsequent Provider at Transfer

Making sense of CMS guidelines is more challenging than ever after the launch of OASIS-E and the abundance of changes that go along with it. KanTime’s OASIS Spotlight series will spotlight specific OASIS items to simplify the ruling and help clinicians significantly improve their understanding of OASIS so they can move forward with accuracy. A2120: […]

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Humana Actively Pursuing Hospice Divestiture Strategies

Humana, who recently acquired Kindred at Home, is looking into divestiture strategies for the hospice section of Kindred at Home. Humana doesn’t seem to have much more information as of now, but their CFO Susan Diamond stated that there would be more information during the first-quarter earnings call later this month.  After announcing the acquisition, […]

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Tips for Getting the Most from Your EHR with SimiTree

Electronic health or medical record software comes with a hefty price tag – but many agencies never reap the full value of their significant investment in information technology. Until workflow processes have been customized and staff has been trained for optimal use, no EMR can offer optimal performance, and post-acute care providers won’t see the […]

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Key Barriers Could Limit Adoption of Home-Based Care Models

COVID-19 provided the post-acute care industry the opportunity to shake the healthcare market by turning the world’s attention to the home-based care model. It has been shown that the home-based care approach can boost patient satisfaction, lower cost, and improve the quality of care versus providing care in a hospital setting. However, there have been […]

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CMS Update: Expanded HHVBP Model

On January 1, 2022, CMS implemented the expanded HHVBP model to include Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies (HHAs) in all fifty states, Washington DC, and U.S. territories. The calendar year, 2022, will be the pre-implementation year.  CMS will provide resources and training to give agencies time to prepare and learn about the requirements of the expanded […]

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Why Political Roadblocks Threaten Home Health Care’s Biggest Policy in 2022

Since the start of 2022, there have been several policy concerns around home-based care. Home healthcare policies are considered timely and critical in the post-acute care industry; however, it seems in Washington D.C. that lawmakers do not see it that way. Some of the home healthcare policies expressed are the extension of the Acute Hospital […]

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NOA: Knowing the Risks and Lessons Learned Powerpoint Slides

SimiTree and KanTime joined forces and discussed the home health NOA. Some key points they made were: + Optimizing operations within the current Medicare NOA regulations + Challenges they have experienced with their customers + The status of various processing errors is still ongoing + KanTime Solutions to enhance your agency’s success Click below to […]

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Notice of Admission (NOA): Knowing the Risk and Lessons Learned Webinar

SimiTree and KanTime’s industry experts discuss the Notice of Admission (NOA) Below are some key points from the webinar: -Optimizing operations within the current Medicare NOA regulations -Challenges they have experienced with their customers -The status of various processing errors is still ongoing -KanTime Solutions on how to enhance your agency’s success If you would […]

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Q&A from the Are You Ready for the Home Health NOA Webinar

There was a lot of information to retain during the Are You Ready for the Home Health NOA webinar, so we added a PDGM Q&A document to help your agency understand the regulations for the NOA better. To access the Q&A, please click the download button below. If you would like to learn more about […]

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Understanding the Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM)

Change has been occurring left and right over the past year and a half, especially in the post-acute care industry. The most recent is the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), having changed their RAP adjustments three times over the past years. While juggling all these changes, post-acute care agencies need not worry as we go through […]

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PDGM No-Pay RAP to NOA Powerpoint Slides

Kim Spence, RN, and Greg Lotz from KanTime hosted a webinar for home health agencies about the transition from PDGM No-Pay RAP to the Notice of Admission or NOA. During the webinar they discussed: Why is there a change from RAPs to an NOA? What is the same What is different How KanTime will handle […]

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Is Your Agency Ready for the PDGM Notice of Admission?

Kim Spence, RN, and Greg Lotz hosted a webinar for home health agencies about the transition from PDGM No-Pay RAP to the Notice of Admission or NOA. During the webinar, they discussed: Why is there a change from RAPs to an NOA? What is the same What is different How KanTime will handle these changes […]

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Agency Management Software

Looking for a new agency management software to help with all of your agency’s needs? Look no further! Due to its configurable role-based dashboards, KanTime can be configured to virtually any role in the post-acute Home Healthcare industry. Configurations, as well are driven at its core by a rules engine focused on Payor, Line of […]