Homehealth care agencies across the country are fighting lower reimbursements and staffing crisis while caring for their patients. Any home health care agency spends numerous hours calling, texting, and emailing necessary information to their field staff daily while busy caring for their patients. These tasks often cause distractions & confusion, which can compromise quality patient care, lower patient satisfaction, delay in reimbursement, and a spike in operational expenses. Furthermore, The Request for Anticipated Payment (RAP) submission timeline effective Jan 1st, 2021, is five calendar days from the SOC. The RAP submission requirements such as completed OASIS, Physician orders, Plan of care have to be met by home healthcare agencies. Suppose any agencies fail to meet these set requirements, and timelines wont be met. In that case, it might lead to penalties for cash flow issues, Compliance Risk, and Productivity concerns for home healthcare agencies.
The national average for submitting RAPs has been 12 days from the SOC. The first penalty on failure to submit a RAP timely would be equivalent to 17% of the episodic payment, and in case of a LUPA, all visits performed prior to the submission of the RAP will not be reimbursed.
Such significant changes call in for immediate workflow enhancements that involve resources and technology to cater to home health agencies needs. Supreme Rehab Services, with the partnership of HOMECARE2GO® PLATFORM, have launched this innovative HIPAA compliant app to assist home healthcare agencies in creating smarter workflows to achieve the following.
● Understanding available Staffing Network before accepting cases
● Maximize the Workflow Efficiencies
● Smarter Tags & Design with Easy Search & Filters
● Streamlining Care Coordination & One on One Conversations
● Tracking Progress with time and date
● Report Valid HIPPS code on the RAP (Coming Soon)
● Monitor the RAP countdown (Coming Soon)
● Meet the Submission Guidelines for the RAP (Coming Soon)
● Spotting LUPAs Related to RAPs (Coming Soon)
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