Home Health & Hospice Week

Do your billers' job descriptions really match what they're doing? With your Medicare margins getting squeezed tighter and tighter, you need to work twice as hard to find efficiencies in your home health agency. Your back office billing department is an area that's likely ripe for an efficiency overhaul. Use these tips from billing expert Melinda Gaboury to help you get the most out of your staff and processes: 1. Eliminate duplication. One of your big-gest money-savers may not be an easy step to take. "There's so much duplication going on" in many HHAs, Gaboury said in her presentation at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice annual meeting in Las Vegas that drew about 5,000 participants. That's particularly true for "hard core paper agencies" Gaboury said in her standing room-only Oct. 3 presentation, "Achieving Efficiencies in Back Office Staffing & Structure." Eliminating the duplication will require a thorough [...]