OCS announces the release of the PPS Impact™ Toolkit, the third offering in the PPS Impact™ product suite.

The PPS Impact™ Toolkit provides home care agencies with a comprehensive collection of patient subset comparative analyses, with dashboards and a financial modeling calculator.

This modeling calculator allows agencies to deeply evaluate the effects of case weight, reimbursement, profit, and therapy on operations and clinical performance expected under the proposed changes to the current Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) recently released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Click here for more information.

The 2007 OCS Summit is going on the road!

This annual gathering of industry leaders will be held just prior to the 2007 NAHC Annual Meeting in Denver on Saturday, October 6, 2007, at the Colorado History Museum!

OCS clients, industry leaders and invited guests will come together for a one-day learning intensive program focused on helping your agency achieve results that demonstrate the value of Home Care and Hospice.

Space at this highly anticipated event is limited, so be sure to sign up today so you don't miss out!

Complete the registration form by August 15, 2007 to take advantage of the Early Bird deadline!

Email Crystal Schaeffer at crysch@ocsys.com with any questions or concerns.

Make your plans today to be in Denver for the 2007 OCS Summit!

See You At IAHC!

We hope to see you and your team members at the Iowa Association for Home Care 2007 Annual Conference in West Des Moines, June 12- 13.

Be sure to stop by the OCS booth to learn more about the partnership between OCS and IAHC to provide the PPS Impact™ Snapshot and PPS Impact™ Dashboard reports to IAHC members.

For more information, be sure to check out the News at IAHC.

OCS At AHHIF

If you'll be attending the Associated Home Health Industries of Florida 2007 Annual Conference & Trade Show, June 19 - 22, at the Omni Orlando Resort, we look forward to seeing you!

Be sure to catch Bill Bassett present "Business Practices to Successfully Grow Your Private Duty Business" on Friday, June 22, from 3:30 - 5:30pm. Be sure to stop by Booth #50 to find out all the latest information on PPS.

Download News at AHHIF here.

We look forward to seeing you on the road!

In an effort to help you fully understand and assess the impact that the proposed Home Health PPS refinement rule, released on Friday, April 27th, will have on your agency, we have created a series of web conferences to help you understand the details of the changes and to help you learn how you can thrive in the new payment system.

The first in the series of web conferences, The Proposed PPS Rule and What it Means to Your Agency, took place on May 24th. This session reviewed the details of the proposed rule and reviewed comparative examples on how reimbursement will change for different agencies.

The second web conference in the series, The Proposed PPS Rule and Strategies for Agency Success, will take place on Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 10am PDT/1pm EDT.

This session will cover more details of how the proposed rule will impact agencies, looking at therapy, diagnosis and other factors. Then the session will highlight operational, clinical and financial strategies for agencies' success in these changing times.

Space is limited in these web conferences, offered at no charge, so be sure to enroll today.

The Proposed PPS Rule and
Strategies for Agency Success
Wednesday, June 6th
10am PDT/1pm EDT
Enroll Now!

Dialing and WebEx instructions, including a link to the handouts, will be delivered to your email inbox on the morning of the day of the web conference you have enrolled in.

It's not too late to sign up for the Universal Leadership Roundtable, presented by Universal Healthcare Services Associates, Inc (UHSA) on June 14th-15th in Atlanta.

Melinda Moore, BSN, RN - OCS Director of Strategy & Planning, will be there to discuss the OCS PPS Impact™ Snapshot report overview.

For more information on the conference, please visit UHSA's website at www.shop.uhs ainc.com

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