In response to the proposed changes to the current Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) just released on Friday, April 27th by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), OCS has designed a new comprehensive PPS Impact™ solution.

The proposed HH PPS changes may have significant financial and operational effects on the industry and your agency. PPS Impact™ will help your agency immediately understand the details of how your agency will be affected and how to thrive under the proposed rule.

Be on the look out for news coming from OCS on the posting of your PPS Impact™ reports to Connection, teleconferences and more!

To read the full press release on PPS Impact™, click here.

These informative OCS Product Web Conferences also touch on current issues, topics and trends in the Home Health, Hospice and Private Duty industries. Mark your calendars and invite your staff to attend!

Reduce ACH and EC with PatientView!
Thursday, May 3rd
10 am PDT/1 pm EDT
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Are You Ready For QAPI?
Wednesday, May 9th
Noon PDT/3 pm EDT
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MarketView - Understand Your Competitive Market
Thursday, May 10th
10 am PDT/1 pm EDT
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The Corridor Group, Inc. (TCG) and OCS have partnered to bring powerful, data-driven solutions to home care and hospice providers. With this relationship, TCG can tap into the OCS Data Warehouse, leveraging the power of over 20 million post-acute and chronic condition patient-level records, to capture agency-level information bringing objective decision-making to their consulting expertise.

Joint solutions include

- Best Practices Predictive Modeling Package
Focused on reducing hospitalizations and emergent care, this package includes OCS PatientView, the industry's best-of-bread predictive modeling service and TCG's proven analytical expertise in implementing and utilizing the data.

- Home Health Launch Package
Facilitating new entrants to the home health industry, this package combines OCS Home Health Connection with TCG's tools, manuals, education and consulting services to help agencies rapidly excel in providing top-level patient care and achieve financial success.

- Hospice Launch Package
The Hospice Launch Package facilitates new entrants to hospice by combining OCS QAPI Snapshot with TCG-s tools, manuals, education and consulting services. Using this package, new agencies will learn the intricacies of business and expedite their pathway to success.

In celebration of this release, we are offering promotional pricing until May 31, 2007. For more information or to purchase the packages, please visit the TCG Store here or email us at info@ocsys.com.

We value our Clients' feedback so that we may continue to provide the highest quality products and services.

Please take a few moments this week to complete the OCS Client Survey.

Login to Resources where you will find a link to the survey.

You have until Friday, May 4, 2007, to complete this survey.

If you are not a Client, and you have something you'd like to tell us, please send an email to info@ocsys.com or call us at 206.325.3396. We are very interested in what you have to say.