HCAF Affinity Programs
AcuCARE HEALTH STRATEGIES: ACUBILL™
ALTERNATIVES: POLICY & PROCEDURES
MANUAL
Briggs' Volume Discounted Pricing
ELI’s home care
week subscription
OUTCOME CONCEPT SYSTEMS, INC. – OCS
OASIS
PRESS GANEY: SATISFACTION MEASUREMENT
SERVICES
STRATEGIC HEALTHCARE PROGRAMS (SHP)
WILLOW FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC
HCAF has an
affinity program with Acucare Health Strategies, a national
home care consulting firm, to work with HCAF members to enhance revenues and
maximize efficiency. Acucare Health Strategies offers
expertise, skills and assistance in supporting your agency with their AcuBill™ model for information technology, billing and
finance, and clinical and consulting services. The AcuBill™
model enables home care agencies to overcome threats to their success,
ultimately maximizing revenue, enhancing regulatory compliance, and focusing on
patient care.
AcuBill™ highlights:
1.
A complete software
system that provides point of care, scheduling, billing, A/R, payroll, and
financial reporting modules offered to Acucare’s
clients at NO COST!
2.
Reduce overhead and
back office expenses by up to 50%
3.
Rapid revenue cycle
to improve cash flow and reduce A/R to as low as 30 days
4.
Two (2) hours a
month of clinical consulting at no additional charge
5.
Online Performance
Improvement and record audits
HCAF Member Benefits:
Existing and new
HCAF members who become AcuBill™ clients will be
rebated their membership fee up to a maximum of $600.00 per year. Existing
members will be pro-rated from the agreement date and until the date of renewal
of the membership. Additionally,
existing and new HCAF members who become AcuBill™
clients will be rebated their educational programs fees for programs and
conferences provided by HCAF up to a maximum of $600.00 per year. Rebates are
processed at the end of every month and sent via regular mail. For details please call (877) 44-MO825 or
(877) 446-6825 ext. 3 or visit www.AcuBill.net
-- AcuBill™ is a trademark of Acucare
Health Strategies, Inc.
$50 Discount to HCAF Members
Developing a
thorough and accurate Policy and Procedure Manual for Florida Home Care is a
daunting task, to be sure. It would take someone with decades of experience in
our industry to undertake such a project. Glenda A. Burke, RN, founder of
Alternatives.. A Consulting & Education Service
has accomplished such a task. She has available, for purchase, a P&P Manual
that consists of the following items:
Policy Manual for Licensure
or Certification (the Certification Manual includes both sections) has each
policy tagged with G and H Tags and HIPAA and Infection Control policies
integrated. It includes a TABLE OF CONTENTS, Cover sheet with the HHA’s Logo,
some basic personnel policies and forms (e.g., annual evaluation and
confidentiality forms and Infection Control Logs.
Other items
include:
Over the years,
HCAF staff members have received many requests for a comprehensive P&P
manual for Florida home care. We thank
Glenda, a trusted source and long-time association member, for making this highly
valuable operational tool available, at a discount, to our members. Contact
Glenda at 850/866-0935 or altconedu@aol.com to order.
Process credit cards and receive
special member pricing through the HCAF credit card processing program. Accept every form of payment and provide
clients with the added convenience of paying by credit card. Opening a
professional merchant account is easy and the benefits to your agency are immediate! Credit cards attract clients and improve
cash flow while simplifying billing and reducing collections. If you are
considering accepting credit cards we encourage you to call our partner AMS to
learn more. Call 866.376.0950 or click here for more
information.
9% DISCOUNT TO HCAF
MEMBERS*
HCAF and Briggs
Corporation have entered into a group
volume discount plan for HCAF members.
The group discount agreement applies to the following BRIGGS' product
lines (refer to the Briggs Product Catalog):
§ Standardized Medical Record Forms (Briggs offers more than 2,500 standardized
"in stock" forms)
§ Custom Printed Materials (including flat, multi-part,
continuous computer forms, chart dividers, and envelopes)
§ Stock Tapes and Labels
§ Custom Produced Tapes and Labels
§ Charting and Nursing Station Supplies
§ Activities Products
§ Professional Resource Products
§ Medical Supplies
§ Rehab Therapy Products
Briggs has several
multi-branch locations to serve members.
The toll free line for ordering by phone is 1-800-247-2343 -- the toll
free fax number is 1-800-222-1996.
Briggs will send free forms and label samples, as well as catalogs upon
request. *9% discount on items in charting, documentation and education /
training; 2% discount on items in patient care and non-patient outcomes.
HCAF is pleased to
announce that it has signed a contract with the Community Health Accreditation
Program (http://www.chapinc.org) for
significant savings to our members seeking accreditation. The savings available
are substantial (remembering, too that CHAP fees are already below those
charged by JCAHO). Here are the savings:
CHAP will make
available to HCAF one copy of the OASIS Benchmark report, with a comparison for
HCAF members only, once 10 or more certified home health agencies have become
accredited. This will provide members
with valuable data which will help members determine their level of efficiency.
CHAP will provide
to HCAF one "Accreditation Workshop" per year at cost, and will be
available for any additional presentations that are requested by HCAF. The cost
and revenue of these additional presentations will be shared equally by CHAP
and HCAF.
Accreditation is more important
than ever now that AHCA is fully supportive of "deemed status". HHAs can get accredited, obtain "deemed
status" and avoid double surveys. In addition, third party payers still
look to accreditation in many cases when selecting a provider.
When executives and
decision-makers in home health need to know what’s shaping the industry and
why, they turn to the hard-hitting coverage in Eli’s Home Care
Week. Universally recognized as most trustworthy source in the industry,
Home Care Week cuts through government-speak and press release hype to reveal
what’s in store for home care providers. Covering HHAs, HME, hospices, and
infusion providers, Home Care Week is a resource no home health agency, owner,
or administrator should be without.
Sample stories include:
Members are entitled to savings of $50 when they
purchase or renew their Eli’s Home Care Week subscription! For members, if you are subscribing for the
first time, you will pay only $337 (regular new sale price is $387); if you are
renewing, you will pay only $387 (regular renewal price is $437). SUBSCRIBE TODAY, by calling Eli Research at
1-800/874-9180. Have your HCAF ID#
handy.
HIPAA Implementation Program: HIPAA compliance at your
fingertips! A unique, easy-to-use HIPAA software package.
Easy, Complete and Affordable… It’s like having a
personal HIPAA consultant! From assessment to implementation
– in one software package. Automated software in plain
English, featuring comprehensive gap analysis and an action task list to
achieve compliance. You will have every HIPAA form, policy and procedure
that you need. Your entire HIPAA Solution! Call a
Briggs representative at 1-877-307-1744 and request your free demo today.
8310CD HIPAA Compliance Tool for Home Care
(Demo at No Charge)
8314CD HIPAA Compliance Tool for Long-Term Care
(Demo at No Charge)
8311CD HIPAA “GetHIP”
Implementation Program ($950)
8312 HIPAA “GetHIP”
Staff Training Video Set ($450)
HCAF Members can
obtain special savings when they purchase The HIPAA “GetHIP”
Implementation Program and Staff Training Video Set. Order both items for $1295, for a savings of
over $100.
"I have
reviewed the HIP software product and I am amazed at its completeness, accuracy
and ease of use. We, in home care, finally have our own tool that will
eliminate our anxiety over complying with the HIPAA rule. HIP tames this
complex regulation and makes it possible for every size HHA to achieve full
compliance, in a timely manner; and to do so with very reasonable expenditures
of money, staff time and effort. Every HHA will benefit from HIP; every
HHA will conclude that the money spent to purchase HIP was among the wisest
expenditures it ever made." --- Gene Tischer, JD, Regulatory Compliance
Director, HCAF
HCAF has entered
into an agreement with Health Care Answering Services of Florida, a company
that provides answering service needs for home health agencies. This new program will provide HCAF members
with discounted rates as well as exceptional answering services. HCAS employs a carefully selected group of
health care trained operators, many of whom are multilingual and can
communicate in many languages. To learn
more about this service, call Joe at 1-888/422-7352 or visit their website at www.call4health.com.
HCAF has discovered
a premier Florida insurance agency to work with HCAF members on an individual
basis and design competitive comprehensive employee benefit programs. Sabal has extensive
experience with clients in the health care field, and has already helped many
of our members with their Workers' Compensation and General/Professional
Liability insurance needs.
Take advantage
of Sabal’s expertise by having them analyze your
current program and provide competitive alternatives for you. In addition to providing employee benefit programs, Sabal will work
with your Human Resources Department to make certain the programs run
smoothly. Sabal
will guarantee their services throughout the year with an agreed upon service
contract that includes a step-by-step outline of what assistance and service
they will provide. They have also
established a designated Account Management Team for HCAF members.
Call Ian Norris,
the HCAF designated consultant at Sabal,
at 1-800/716-9948 or 954/828-9948 (email: inorris@sabalinsurance.com). These programs
will provide you with quality, cost-competitive employee benefit products while
also generating an additional source of revenue to HCAF, which allows us to
keep your dues among the lowest in the nation.
LANGUAGE LINE SERVICE § In partnership with NAHC and Language Line Services,
HCAF members can now communicate clearly with virtually any patient, through
certified medical interpreters in 140 languages 24/7 at a generous
discount. To start your account today,
Contact Ed Cavazos at 877/735-9775 and have your HCAF Membership ID#
ready. See Our Online
Flyer For More Information!
10% DISCOUNT TO MEMBERS
ON ENTIRE NEVCO PRODUCT LINE
National Education
Video, Inc. (NEVCO) offers 10% discount to HCAF members on their entire
training video product line! Continuing education credit available. Call NEVCO at 1-800/252-5604 to place your
order. Identify yourself as an HCAF
Member and have your HCAF ID# handy when you call. (Browse video selections at www.nevcoeducation.com)
Special pricing is available to
HCAF members for the OCS-OASIS benchmarking program which features analysis of
individual home health agencies’ OASIS data as compared with aggregate OASIS
data.
Ensuring That You Know Your Data
Better Than Anyone Else: With more than 1400
installations nation-wide, OCS-OASIS® is the premier
OASIS-based clinical and utilization outcomes analysis tool. Why? Because OCS-OASIS
is the only program that combines sophisticated desktop reporting with
flexible, online benchmarking to help facilitate your OBQI and performance
improvement (PI) efforts.
Not Just Benchmarking, Flexible Benchmarking: If you are only benchmarking against national averages,
you are missing an important perspective. The home health Industry is diverse
and benchmark data varies accordingly. How do you compare to your peers? What
about other agencies in your state? How does your data change from
quarter-to-quarter? OCS exclusively offers flexible benchmark reporting against
the industry’s most comprehensive data warehouse. Define the reports you want
to run. Trend your benchmarks over time. Compare your agency by geography
(state, regional, and national norms), by agency characteristics (e.g. agency
size, profit status, etc.), or within a system.
Understand the Why Behind
Your Performance: OCS-OASIS is the only
program in the industry that provides you with the ability to drill down into your
data, right from your desk. Identify the root of a problem or the reason for a
particular success without the manual effort of digging through mounds of
information. Use this information to focus your OBQI efforts, prepare for the
public release of outcomes data, and ensure that you know your data better than
the surveyors. Let OCS-OASIS work for you by making it
a part of your PI team.
The industry leader in
benchmarking and outcomes, OCS provides home care organizations with
easy-to-use performance improvement and business intelligence tools designed to
help agencies strategically balance the cost/quality equation. OCS owns the
largest proprietary home health benchmark database. The OCS data warehouse
represents more than 1,000 agencies and 7 million records, providing enough
data to create compare groups by a number of different agency characteristics,
including geography (state, regional, and national norms), agency size, profit
status, affiliation, or setting. Visit www.ocsys.com for more details, or dial 206/325-3396.
As the largest
vendor of satisfaction measurement and improvement services, Press Ganey’s Home Health survey and solutions are specifically
designed to help home health agencies succeed in attracting and retaining loyal
patients, improving employee morale, and increasing revenue. In addition, Press
Ganey offers actionable data, solution resources, and
unparalleled customer service. Contact Natalie Beasley: 800/232-8032 or nbeasley@pressganey.com. We encourage you to visit www.pressganey.com
to learn more! Your HCAF Membership entitles you
to 10% discount from standard annual service fees!
Santrax collects and archives accurate data from off-site locations
in real-time via the telephone including:
§ Arrival time & departure times of the home health care
worker
§ Exact location of the home health care worker
§ Collects assessment information and standard tasks
accomplished by the home health care worker
§ Cuts administrative FTE costs
§ Eliminates missed visits to maximize revenue and achieve
positive health outcomes
§ Matches Plan of Care to tasks accomplished
§ Permanent, comprehensive electronic audit trail
PREDICTIVE & INSIGHTFUL REPORTS FREE TO MEMBERS
Phone: 805-963-9446 Website: www.SHPdata.com
Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP)
provides real-time analysis and alerts of documentation and coding errors that
are penalizing your agency's Medicare case mix points, payment and
outcomes. The SHP data service "sweeps" final claims,
OASIS, and other information from your software automatically and
complements your existing system. A host of reports, predictive
alerts, benchmarks and analysis tools are available for finance, clinical,
operations, and management performance.
It gives us
pleasure to announce yet another special program for members only, as an added
benefit for your membership support. We would like to introduce you to Willow
Financial Services, LLC, portfolio specialists for the health care market,
small business owners and individuals. They are committed to building sound
futures for clients by providing cutting edge insurance and financial products
that meet the business needs of the small business owner. For the HCAF member,
Willow Financial Services, LLC will provide tax and retirement planning
consulting, design and administer employee benefit programs (discounted 15-25%
on all types of retirement plans), and offer complimentary feasibility studies
(a value of $300-$500).
Retirement Plans:
Willow Financial Services offers a whole host of retirement plans legally
available today, such as 401(K), Profit Sharing, Defined Benefit, Simple
(IRA/401(K)), and SEPs. Specialty Plans:
Specifically geared to owners and key employees. Through the Insured Security
Life Program, an employer-sponsored wealth benefit plan, home health agencies
can bypass control group laws (i.e. agency owners who have multiple
corporations). Contributions are
guaranteed and not subject to market fluctuation, and the program allows owners
and key employees only to participate. Employer advantages include: (1) 100%
deductible; (2) Simple to install; (3) Economical; (4) Creditor proof. Employee advantages include: (1) Premiums tax
neutral; (2) Tax deferred growth; (3) Non-discriminatory; (4) Flexible. This
program is ideal for wealth accumulation, and can be used for buy / sell, as
well as key-person estate planning. Contact RICHARD A. ONORATO at 410/321-9847
or ronorato@willowfinancial.com for more details!