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Our thorough review of your current operations will help you enhance productivity, balance FTEs, and control expenses. After examining your facility's RUG distribution, ADL scoring, therapy utilization, management of Part B services, and coding practices, we'll draft a plan for operational adjustments that will help you maximize reimbursement and utilize available resources more efficiently.
Fleming-Advanced Outcomes Design Consulting can help you improve your profit margin with a billing practices review and comparison of billing and collections. From bill preparation to industry payment trends, our analysis and recommendations can help you recover the greatest reimbursement for your services.
You need to secure payment for your services, but navigating the system of pre- and post-payment review can be tricky. Let us put our experience with claims review and denial management to work for you.
Being competitive in rehabilitation means offering a level of care and services that stands out from your competition. We will help you identify and emphasize your strengths, and gauge market demand to guide you in product diversification or specialization.
Keeping beds occupied requires a strong marketing plan. Fleming-Advanced Outcomes Design Consulting will help you develop and implement a marketing plan so you can maintain a high average daily census by placing emphasis on direct marketing and case finding.
Long range planning in an environment of regulatory change is important to the health of your organization. We can help you accurately assess and arrange for staffing, space and bed needs, clinical education, and certificate of need submissions in response to new industry policies and demographics. Let our policy expertise and industry predictions help you set your strategic plan for the coming years.
During the planning stage of cross-unit reorganization, our individualized market analysis can help you determine the appropriate level of care and number of beds for your unit and the correct skill mix for your facility based on market demographics.
The increasing industry focus on medical necessity for rehabilitation demands that your documentation of medical necessity be precise and accurate. Using the Medicare conditions of participation, local coverage determinations, and knowledge of industry trends, we will review your clinical documentation to ensure that all items to support medical necessity are present. Then we'll follow up with guidance and training to fine-tune your documentation practices for future justification of medical necessity.
Fleming-Advanced Outcomes Design Consulting recognizes your commitment to quality improvement. We will work with you to develop program-specific quality improvement plans designed to produce exceptional outcomes for your facility, and for your patients.
Whether you are looking for outside analysis of a specific situation or want to develop an internal process for ongoing audits to maintain compliance with industry regulations, we can help. We will perform an independent assessment and help you develop and implement a compliance plan for continued self-evaluation.
Deciphering medical chart documentation into the right combination of answers for the MDS is essential in order to properly represent burden of care. With our chart reviews we will check to make sure that burden of care is fully documented both in the chart and on the MDS, and offer guidelines on how to improve documentation and coding where necessary.
Preparing for accreditation surveys can be time-consuming and resource-intensive. Our survey readiness plan sets up a timeline of goals for you to meet so that you can easily prepare for a unit survey. We also offer mock surveys to appraise your operations against accreditation standards. And if you do not have the resources to gather all necessary documentation and information, we can perform on-site survey preparation for you.
Analyzing your patients' feedback can reveal valuable information about your facility's public face. We can help you interpret patient satisfaction feedback into meaningful procedural and service changes to increase overall satisfaction and turn satisfied patients into new patient referrals.