Home Health Connection - Easier to Navigate!
If you have not yet checked out the enhanced organization of your Connection inbox, you must do so! The new approach situates the dashboards into specific, relevant categories in the new Report Folios tab. For example, if you are a home health agency, your new PPS Impact Snapshot™ report focusing on LUPA and Outliers can be found in the PPS Impact Reports Folio. We encourage you to explore these new folios!

New PPS LUPA and Outlier Analysis!
A new OCS PPS Impact Snapshot™ report focusing on LUPA and Outlier Detail Analysis has been posted to client Home Health Connection accounts. Your agency will want to check out this new and complimentary report highlighting the differentiation of LUPA and Outlier patients' reimbursement under both the 2007 and 2008 PPS methodology.

To login into your Connection account, please click here.

Is your agency in the top 25 percent of Medicare- certified Home Health agencies? Find out today by downloading your copy of the 2007 HomeCare Elite. OCS and DecisionHealth™ together have brought this listing to our industry as the only performance recognition of its kind. This review recognizes the top 25 percent of Medicare-certified agencies whose performance measures in quality outcomes, quality improvement, and financial performance rank among the best and also identifies those honorees ranked in the Top 100 and Top 500.

To download a copy of the 2007 HomeCare Elite, press materials or our Data Methodology, please visit our HomeCare Elite page. If you have any questions regarding the HomeCare Elite, please send an email to 2007HCE@ocsys.com.

If you are attending the Hospice and Palliative Care Network of Maryland's 2007 Annual Conference, be sure to see Martha Tecca, Senior Director of Hospice and Peer Forum, present "OCS Data Collection Tool Snapshot" on November 8, 2007 from 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Martha will discuss the new performance management tool recommended for implementation by all HPCNM members - the MD QAPI Snapshot.

Planning on attending the NHPCO 8th Clinical Team Conference November 29 - 30, 2007, in New Orleans? Be sure to stop by Booth #130 and visit with OCS to learn more about the Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) CoP and what steps your agency can take to prepare. We will be there to help answer any questions you may have and provide you with the information you need to meet the Conditions of Participation.

OCS and Simione Consultants will team up to present "Countdown to PPS Refinements: Prepare Yourself before January 1, 2008."

In this web conference Christy Lang, Senior Director of Product Strategy, for OCS will lead participants in examining the impact of Prospective Payment System by patient characteristics such as patient volume, affiliation and setting based on patient data from more than a million Medicare episodes. Bill Simione, III, Principal, of Simione Consulting will provide participants with reimbursement grids to aid billers. These helpful charts plot S1-S5 severity ratings against visit timings and the number of therapy visits, plus those plotting functional and clinical domains. This web conference will also take you through several OCS tools that are available to agencies today to help in this last push of preparation for the PPS changes.

Even if you have begun preparations based on the proposed PPS Refinements, you will not want to miss this briefing.

Countdown to PPS Refinements: Prepare Yourself before January 1, 2008
Thursday November 8, 2007
10:00 a.m. PDT/1:00 p.m. EDT
Enroll Now!

Enroll today in one or more of these informative OCS Product Web Conferences and invite your staff to attend.

These informative OCS Product Web Conferences also touch on current issues, topics and trends in the Home Health, Hospice and Private Duty industries. Sign up today!

If you are looking for product training, please check out our Client Training Calendar.

Home Health Connection
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
10:00 a.m. PDT/1:00 p.m. EDT
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PatientView
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:00 a.m. PDT/1:00 p.m. EDT
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QAPI Snapshot
Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:00 a.m. PDT/1:00 p.m. EDT
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Past news is good news!
Past issues of the OCS Insight newsletters are available on our web site! Here you will find all issues archived in chronological order. If you missed a previous issue entirely or want to review a past article, you'll find all of them conveniently located on the news page of our web site.