by Rowan Report | Jun 21, 2024 | Partner News, Vendor Watch
Axxess and SimiTree Partner to Launch Platforms
to Empower Home Health and Hospice Growth
Key Market, Referral and Utilization Data Available for Streamlined Decision-Making
DALLAS, June 20, 2024 – Axxess, the leading global technology innovator for healthcare at home, and SimiTree, a revenue cycle, coding, professional services, and talent management resource for post-acute and behavioral health organizations, today announced the launch of two new products designed to provide Axxess’ home health and hospice clients with even more valuable insights to strategically plan and drive growth.
With SimiTree’s Market Analysis Platform (MAP) home health and hospice providers can easily quantify their market position, including market share and trends, referral partner strength and competitor analysis. The platform offers key insights into service areas, changes in revenue, referral patterns, quality scores, and more.
“This partnership between SimiTree and Axxess is an incredible opportunity to bring together two organizations that equally strive for excellence, innovation, and making a positive impact on home healthcare,” said William Simione III, CEO . “Pairing our tools together will create an even more powerful technology suite that improves operating efficiency and contributes to better outcomes. It will also allow organizations in this space to take advantage of real-time data that will help them identify the best opportunities for growth. Together, we will continue to empower providers and create the best value possible.”
Axxess clients can now also leverage the new SimiTree Compass tool to help optimize home health visit utilization and resource management. This visit utilization guidance tool provides crucial data to help agencies make informed decisions, ensure consistent care and maintain appropriate documentation. SimiTree Compass includes information on standard visit ranges, LUPA likelihood, and visit discipline mix that is all presented in a user-friendly format tailored to clinicians and managers. Accessible early in the patient’s care episode, the system allows for quick lookups and adjustments to fit specific clinical profiles and agency needs without requiring changes to existing processes.
“We’re excited to partner with SimiTree to bring both of these cutting-edge solutions to our clients to further enhance their capabilities with Axxess,” said Chris Taylor, Senior Vice President of Channel Partnerships at Axxess. “The Market Analysis Platform aligns perfectly with our mission to empower home health and hospice providers with the tools they need to succeed. And by leveraging data and analytics from the SimiTree Compass tool, our clients can make informed decisions to optimize their operations and drive growth.”
SimiTree’s Compass tool is available to Axxess Home Health clients. The MAP tool is available to Axxess Home Health and Axxess Hospice clients.
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About Axxess
Axxess is the leading technology innovator for healthcare at home, focused on solving the most complex industry challenges. Trusted by more than 9,000 organizations that serve more than 3 million patients worldwide, Axxess offers a complete suite of easy-to-use software solutions that empower home health, home care, hospice, and palliative providers to make healthcare in the home human again. The company’s collaborative culture focused on innovation and excellence is recognized nationally as a “Best Place to Work.”
About SimiTree
SimiTree, a company that provides industry-leading, tech-enabled specialty revenue cycle management (RCM), coding, professional services, and talent management resources for post-acute and behavioral health organizations, was created by the merger of Simione Healthcare Consultants and BlackTree Healthcare Consulting in 2021. In 2022, SimiTree further expanded its RCM capabilities with its Imark Billing acquisition, and its behavioral health footprint with a strategic alignment with Infinity, a SimiTree company.
In addition to clinical, financial, and operational consulting, SimiTree offers a robust suite of outsourced services, including billing, coding, OASIS, Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) and Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI), and revenue cycle management; executive placement, interim management, retention consulting and other talent solutions; mergers and acquisitions support; compliance assessments and risk mitigation plans; sales and growth training; and benchmarking and data analytics. For more information, visit www.SimiTreeHC.com.
by Kristin Rowan | May 2, 2024 | Product Review
by Kristin Rowan, Editor
Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) addresses several pain points for care at home agencies: coding errors, timely reimbursement payments, and employee workload. Available as both full-service and SaaS products, RCM automation offers higher reimbursement rates, lower overhead costs, and overall better efficiency for your agency. Not having a RCM tool leaves your agency at higher risk for nonpayment, audits, and lengthy revenue cycles that impede your ability to manage your agency’s revenue.
Last week, I had the opportunity to talk with Michael Greenlee, Founder and CEO of HealthRev Partners. Hannah Vale, Chief Strategy Officer, joined him on the call. They told me about the HealthRev Partners’ launch of their new RCM tool, Velocity.
About HealthRev Partners
HealthRev Partners offers OASIS & POC Review and Coding assistance to home health, hospice, and palliative care agencies. The partnership program starts with an initial telephone conference, followed by a live review of documentation with an OASIS expert with recommendations for accuracy and compliance. Additionally, they have a precepting partnership program to enhance clinician performance and documentation practices. The RN guided program offers OASIS documentation review and correction sessions to ensure accurate and compliant documentation. Their solutions aim to maximize reimbursements with faster turnaround and higher accuracy.
HealthRev Partners Launches Velocity
On April 1, 2024, HealthRev Partners announced the launch of a new SaaS solution for Revenue Cycle Management, Velocity. HealthRev Partners designed Velocity to transform RCM for multi-site agencies. In addition to RCM, the tool offers operational insights for optimization and growth. Velocity focuses on real-time analytics and operational efficiency by centralizing data between locations. If you have an in-house RCM team, Velocity can be a stand-alone SaaS. However, if you need it, it can also be a full-service solution with outsourced coding and RCM experts on the Velocity team.
About Velocity
According to Michael Greenlee, many agencies lack tracking of their aging accounts receivable and the status of their claims. Without these, agencies can be leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars stuck in the revenue cycle without ever getting reimbursement from the claim. Velocity works with any existing EMR to pull data from coding and billing information. The built-in quality assurance (QA) solution is automated and customizable for charting and documentation. HealthRev Partners launched Velocity to help agencies overcome some of the pain points agencies have with RCM, billing, and coding.
Features
- Productivity and Accountability Reporting: Whether using Velocity as an outsourced solution or SaaS, instantly see time-stamped productivity reports, accuracy reports, and clinician QA scoring
- Ai powered tracking: All claims in the 61-90 day and over 90 day segments are brought into the system for tracking with a follow-up reminder for each claim, payment information, and reasons for nonpayment.
- Claims forecasting: Velocity shows the current financial status of the agency, and with enough data in the system, can provide revenue forecasts simply by entering a future date into the reporting system.
- Pre-built database: All charting codes are built into the system and are searchable by keyword or phrase to reduce coding errors and increase reimbursement rates
- Platform agnostic: For many agencies, switching to a different EMR system costs more than the sticker price on the solution. With Velocity, there is no loss of data because it holds previous EMR data when you switch.
- Advanced Funding: Partners with Velocity have access to their AR funds before claims are processed, with an immediate credit line of up to $100,000, or 80% of the agencies AR.
Differentiation
Whether you need a software solution for your in-house RCM team or are looking to outsource your billing and coding to a partner, choosing the right RCM team is essential for your success. With so many RCM companies available in the market, it can be difficult to choose the right one. To choose the right RCM partner, there are a few factors to consider:
How does the solution or company match with the mission and vision I have for my agency?
HealthRev Partners has an “aspiration to develop innovative solutions that create boundless opportunities for our clients to advance their mission.”
Does the solution have the right tools for my success?
The analytics tools in Velocity can by customized to each agency’s KPIs. Velocity offers a fully supported software solution, a SaaS solution, and everything in-between to provide each agency with the level of support they need to succeed. Clinician productivity reports calculate clinician reimbursement by month. This shows which of your clinicians needs additional training and which should be recognized for their achievements, which can help to decrease your turnover rates. Velocity will custom build additional dashboards and measurements, included in the cost of the software.
Is the software solution safe for my agency and my clients?
Velocity is a HIPAA secure platform and is undergoing SOC-2 certification to protect your organization and the privacy of your patients.
Does the software partner have my best interests in mind?
Have you ever talked to someone who is so passionate about what they do that their energy is contagious? That was my experience in talking with Michael Greenlee, CEO and Founder of HealthRev Partners. Our one-hour scheduled software review meeting turned into a two hour conversation about what Velocity is designed to achieve. We also talked about how much potential it has to help home health, hospice, and palliative care agencies to survive.
Greenlee’s goal for Velocity is to have 0 claims go past 90 days for any agency they work with. They train each of their team members to meet the needs of an individual customer before they touch the account. HealthRev Partners offers “white glove service” to make good agencies great and to help partners dominate their marketplace. Michael partners with agencies he believes in as much as he believes in his own company. “We’re passionate about securing success for home health, hospice, and palliative care agencies across the nation.”
Future Considerations
Michael, Hannah, and I talked at length about what might be possible with Velocity. (So much so that Hannah asked if I was available to attend their next planning meeting.) AI capabilities are evolving and maturing at a rapid rate. Generative AI will become the standard for software solutions in care at home in short order. Michael’s passion for elevating the efficiency and prosperity of his home health, hospice, and palliative care agency partners will undoubtedly lead to even more innovation. Hannah Vale offered, “Our goal is to further enhance the sophistication of the AI. We consistently heed client feedback to creatively address their evolving requirements.”
To book a demo with HealthRev Partners, click here.
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Kristin Rowan has been working at Healthcare at Home: The Rowan Report since 2008. She has a master’s degree in business administration and marketing and runs Girard Marketing Group, a multi-faceted boutique marketing firm specializing in event planning, sales, and marketing strategy. Additionally, she has recently taken on the role of Editor of The Rowan Report and will add her voice to current Home Care topics as well as marketing tips for home care agencies. Connect with Kristin directly kristin@girardmarketinggroup.com or www.girardmarketinggroup.com
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