by John Reisinger | Aug 16, 2015 | Financial Fundamentals
Financial Fundamentals in Home Health: where have they gone? Financial Fundamentals in Home Health have greatly deteriorated since the inception of PPS. To succeed, HHAs will have to re-introduce them to their operations. Most HHAs do have some level of financial...
by John Reisinger | Aug 13, 2015 | 2016 HH PPS Rule, Change in Wage Indices, Home Health PPS Rule
Changes in Wage-Indices for CY 2016: After the transitional period of the Service Areas/Wage-Indices (only applicable to 2015) there are now going to be 509 distinct Service Areas, each with their own Wage-Index (there were 445 services areas in 2014). Every year I do...
by John Reisinger | Feb 6, 2014 | Budgeting and Forecasting, Budgeting in Home Health, Episodic Budgeting, Financial Analysis, Financial Management, Home Health PPS Rule, Patient Budgeting, Resource Planner
Proper patient-budgeting probably has the potential to make the quickest and biggest impact on your bottom-line. Since we in home health must continue to do even more with less, becoming more efficient and cost effective is a MUST for survival and growth. Powerful...
by John Reisinger | Oct 3, 2013 | Budgeting and Forecasting, Financial Management
Well, here we are again in the last quarter of the year (for those on a calendar year) and it’s time to start working on your budget for 2014. Well, at least for those that do budgets; which my experience has shown to be around 50% of the companies out there. I am not...
