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5 Things No One Told Me Before I Launched an ACO

By | on 22, Oct 2012 |   APTA Physical Therapy Care Coordination transitional care Will Hicklen Care Transitions Accountable Care Organizations Avoidable Readmissions ACO ACO Technology

"If I had known then what I know now..."

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CMS Penalties for Avoidable Readmissions Have Started

By | on 02, Oct 2012 |   Health Care Reform Care Coordination transitional care Will Hicklen Accountable Care Organizations Avoidable Readmissions ACO Managing Post Acute Care

The entire healthcare world has known for a long time that yesterday was coming: the day that CMS started penalizing hospitals for what are called avoidable readmissions. That's right--THAT just happe[...]

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Population Health IT for ACOs

By | on 01, Oct 2012 |   Population Health IT Care Coordination thought leadership transitional care Will Hicklen Care Transitions Accountable Care Organizations ACO telehealth

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Storm Watch: Managing Care Transitions & Home Care In A Storm

By | on 04, Sep 2012 |   Geriatric Care Management HME Delivery Operations Home Health Aide Software Home Care Best Practices Care Coordination transitional care Home Care Technology Will Hicklen Care Transitions Home Care Scheduling Software ACO Technology

Storms threaten the delivery of healthcare services, but a little planning and some good technology can help hospitals, ACOs and post acute providers of all types. In the mid Atlantic, we've just ente[...]

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Performance Improvement in Managing Care Transitions

By | on 20, Jun 2012 |   Care Coordination transitional care Will Hicklen Care Transitions Accountable Care Organizations ACO ACO Technology

The Healthcare Finance Managers Association (HFMA) posted their most recent HFMA Education report, titled "Using Formal Process Improvement for Revenue Cycle Management." I am going to ask you to igno[...]

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Assumptions on In-House Home Health Agencies Debunked

By | on 19, Jun 2012 |   Private Duty Home Care Blogs Home Care Best Practices Care Coordination thought leadership transitional care Home Healthcare Delivery Management Home Care Technology Will Hicklen Care Transitions Avoidable Readmissions Managing Post Acute Care

Hospice and Hospital Market Research Provider Dispels Myths Regarding Post Acute Care Recent Healthcare Market Resources (HMR) research verifies that hospitals' "inhouse" agencies do not command a dom[...]

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Employers Look to Direct Contract with Doctors, What about Home Care

By | on 27, May 2012 |   Home Care Best Practices Care Coordination thought leadership transitional care Home Care Care Transitions

I came across a post on the American Medical News web site. Discussing the issue that more self-insured employers are considering direct contracting with healthcare providers. The drive health benefit[...]

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6 Lessons for Home Health Care from Fifty Shades of Gray?!?

By | on 03, May 2012 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Recommended Reading Private Duty Home Care Blogs Home Care Industry Elderly Care Care Coordination thought leadership transitional care HME DME Will Hicklen Home Therapy Therapy Software Accountable Care Organizations ACO Home Care Blogs Managing Post Acute Care Home Care Dispatch Learning

Maybe you don't want to give a copy of Fifty Shades of Gray to your elderly home care patients, but you might just learn some valuable things from the block-buster novel. If you are a physical therapi[...]

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Firing Home Healthcare Staff: The 10 Worst Things You Can Say

By | on 07, Feb 2012 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Recommended Reading Starting a Home Care Business HME Delivery Operations Home Care Industry Private Duty Agency Software Care Coordination thought leadership transitional care Home Healthcare Delivery Management HME DME Checklists Home Care Mobile Solutions Will Hicklen Home Care Home Health Therapy Software Physical Therapy software

Whether you are part of a hospital system like Johns Hopkins Home Care Group in Baltimore or an independent Physical Therapy agency like Rehab Maxx in Chicagoland, Ankota's customers must sometimes fa[...]

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If Home Care Gets Involved in Bundled Payments Does it Work?

By | on 09, Dec 2011 |   Elderly Care Health Care Reform Care Coordination transitional care Accountable Care Organizations ACO ACO Technology

Our friends at Boyd & Nicholas, "The Cost Report People" provide a weekly newsletter that is a nice overview of issues affecting home care. This week they included a nice summary of a story in Hea[...]

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Justification for Care Coordination between Hospitals & Home Care

By | on 22, Sep 2011 |   Elderly Care Care Coordination transitional care Home Care Accountable Care Organizations ACO ACO Technology

We at Ankota strongly believe that care coordination and home care are the keys to improved health care. The math is simple:

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The Best Way to Measure Home Care Quality

By | on 25, Aug 2011 |   Marketing Home Care Home Care Industry Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices Care Coordination transitional care Home Care

As a consumer, measuring quality is usually second nature. You can look at a restaurant or a handbag or a pair of shoes and almost immediately decide whether it's a quality product or not. Perception [...]

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