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The WellSky PDGM Resource Center

The Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) went into effect on January 1, 2020. Adapting to PDGM will take continued work and refinement across your entire organization.

WellSky is here to help you navigate and thrive in this new home health environment with the best software, services, and education in the home health industry.

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Optimizing for PDGM: How to refine your processes and succeed

Join Sharon S. Harder, president of C3 Advisors, LLC, and Jill Dyer, BSN, RN, HCS-D, HCS-O, President of JID Consulting and Coding, LLC, as they provide strategies for patient assessment, coding, care planning and revenue cycle management that will support your agency’s success under PDGM.

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Home Health & Hospice Compliance Alert: Winter 2019/2020 Edition

In this valuable resource, Sharon S. Harder, President of C3 advisors, LLC, maps out final updates and important areas of focus for home health and hospice providers as they embark on the new year.

Tip Sheet
Top 5 things to know about the 2020 Home Health Final Rule and PDGM

In this tip sheet, Sharon S. Harder, president of C3 Advisors, LLC, distills the complex PDGM story into a succinct list of key main points to ensure that agency leaders are focused on the most important aspects of PDGM.

Tip Sheet
Key Focus Areas: 30 Days to PDGM

This tip sheet from Fazzi Associates and Gina Mazza, BSN, RN, CPHQ, Senior Vice President of Regulations and Compliance at Fazzi, will help your agency prioritize crucial tasks in the final days before PDGM.

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Key Focus Areas: 45 Days to PDGM

This tip sheet from Fazzi Associates will help your agency stay on track with a checklist of important steps to take in preparation for PDGM.

Tip Sheet
Key Focus Areas: 60 Days to PDGM

This tip sheet from Fazzi Associates will provide you with a PDGM timeline to help you determine where you should focus your resources and how you should prioritize your tasks as you prepare for PDGM.

On-demand webinar
Thursday Thoughts: 10 minutes to OASIS success

In this 10-minute video, Cindy Campbell RN, BSN, MHA-Clinical Informatics, COQS, Director of Operational Consulting at Fazzi Associates, addresses why competence in assessment and capture of acuity must happen up front under PDGM.

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Thursday Thoughts: Point of care documentation

In this 15-minute video, Cindy Campbell MHA-Healthcare Informatics, BSN, RN, COQS, Director of Operational Consulting at Fazzi Associates, offers tips and tricks to help you establish best practices for point of care documentation that will create efficiency while elevating clinician satisfaction.

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Thursday Thoughts: PDGM and intelligent care management

In this 10-minute video, Cindy Campbell MHA-Healthcare Informatics, BSN, RN, COQS, Director of Operational Consulting at Fazzi Associates, discusses the importance of care management and how it will bring our team together while creating a standard of excellence in your agency's care delivery.

On-demand webinar
2020 Home Health Final Rule

The 2020 Home Health Final Rule will require substantial and rapid action from your agency. Join executive management consultant Sharon S. Harder, president of Chicago-based C3 Advisors, LLC, for a free webinar that will help you understand these new challenges and learn how to succeed.

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FAQs from the webinar: The 2020 Home Health Final Rule

The 2020 Home Health Final Rule was the topic of a recent 90-minute webinar presented by Sharon S. Harder, President of C3 Advisors. Now Ms. Harder provides extensive answers to 70 questions asked during the webinar in this new FAQ document.

On-demand webinar
Excel Health: Welcome to the new era: Why CMS changes may mean opportunities for home health and skilled nursing

Sharon Harder, president of C3 Advisors, LLC, will explain why new care networks and affiliations among diverse providers are essential to improving care coordination and achieving seamless transitions. Post-acute providers who know how to use internal and external data to make better decisions will have a distinct advantage in healthcare’s new era. This webinar will show you how.

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PDGM Clinical Team Prep FAQ

Preparing your clinical team for PDGM was the topic of a recent 60-minute webinar presented by Jill Dyer, BSN, RN, HCS-D, HCS-O – President, J.I.D. Consulting & Coding. Now Ms. Dyer answers some of the most popular questions asked during the webinar in this new FAQ document.

On-demand webinar
Preparing Your Clinical Team for PDGM

In this important 60-minute presentation, Jill Dyer, BSN, RN, HCS-D, HCS-O, President, J.I.D. Consulting & Coding will discuss the impacts of PDGM on clinical teams, explore documentation strategies to accurately capture all diagnosis codes, and share effective approaches for creating realistic, well-written plans of care.

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What every home health agency should know about the Patient Driven Groupings Model: Part I - Getting ready for PDGM

Your agency has less than a year to prepare for PDGM, and adapting will take time and effort. Prepare for PDGM with this helpful resource.

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What every home health agency should know about the Patient Driven Groupings Model: Part II - Digging deeper

Sharon Harder digs into the details of PDGM to provide you with a deeper and more thorough understanding of what lies ahead. This is one of the most extensive resources on PDGM available today.

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What every home health agency should know about the Patient Driven Groupings Model: Part III - Developing a PDGM action plan

Sharon Harder reveals practical strategies that will help you develop your action plan today.

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Getting ready for change with PDGM: areas to address now

Get insight and direction as you prepare for PDGM from renowned home health consultant Sharon Harder. This important white paper identifies the five key operational areas every management team should focus on.

On-demand webinar
PDGM: an overview for all home health leaders and staff

Get a comprehensive overview of the Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) from Gina Mazza, BSN, RN, CPHQ, Senior Vice President of Regulations and Compliance at Fazzi Associates.

Tip sheet
FAQs from the webinar: Getting a headstart on PDGM: an overview for all home health leaders and staff

Get answers to questions about PDGM. Read this FAQ tip sheet by Senior Vice President of Regulations and Compliance at Fazzi Associates, Gina Mazza BSN, RN, CPHQ.

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PDGM: Leadership and change management

Whether PDGM represents a gain or a loss for your agency will depend in large part on leadership. Agency leaders must show their teams how to cope and thrive in this time of change. In this important article, Gina Mazza, BSN, RN, CPHQ, shares helpful tips for agency leaders who are navigating highly significant changes today.

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Sharon Harder

Sharon S. Harder

Sharon S. Harder has over three decades of executive management experience in the health care industry. She has served in financial and operational leadership roles in a variety of health care organizations ranging from a major health care professional association to large post-acute health care providers. As President of C3 Advisors, LLC, Sharon engages with clients to develop and implement the strategic vision required to improve their profitability and competitive position in the rapidly transforming health care marketplace.

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Presenter: Jill Dyer, BSN, RN, HCS-D, HCS-O

People who choose a life of caring — and the organizations and communities they serve — deserve a special kind of support. So we help them to care smarter. Liberating them to focus on the people they serve. Providing solutions that make work flow, integrate insights, and update effortlessly.

Presenter

Presenter: Jill Dyer, BSN, RN, HCS-D, HCS-O

People who choose a life of caring — and the organizations and communities they serve — deserve a special kind of support. So we help them to care smarter. Liberating them to focus on the people they serve. Providing solutions that make work flow, integrate insights, and update effortlessly.

Presenter

Presenter: Jill Dyer, BSN, RN, HCS-D, HCS-O

People who choose a life of caring — and the organizations and communities they serve — deserve a special kind of support. So we help them to care smarter. Liberating them to focus on the people they serve. Providing solutions that make work flow, integrate insights, and update effortlessly.

PDGM Process Audit
Make crucial process improvements before PDGM goes into effect

Work directly with the PDGM experts at Fazzi to examine your agency’s processes from intake to billing. Get an in-depth analysis of your workflows and identify the changes your organization should implement to succeed under the new home health payment model.

Outsourced Coding
Save resources and increase reimbursement with improved coding accuracy

Coding process efficiency, OASIS accuracy, and communication between coding and clinical staff will be critical under PDGM. Fazzi is the industry’s largest provider of coding services and can help your agency improve in all areas. Plus, Fazzi can provide agencies with pre-claim alerts when documentation calls for a primary diagnosis code that does not fit into a PDGM clinical group.

Outsourced Billing
Get the capacity you need for the increased volume of 30-day billing

Billing for 30-day payment periods means higher volume in half the time. Engage outsourced billing services to increase your billing capacity, improve cash flow from denied claims, and uncover process inefficiencies through robust, real-time reporting.

HHCAHPS Services
Eliminate the headache of manual CAHPS reporting

Offload your HHCAHPS process to the experts at Fazzi. When you choose Fazzi as your HHCAHPS provider, you will enjoy a dedicated team assigned to your agency, real time access to completed surveys, on-demand benchmark reports, timely submission of your results to CMS, best practice trainings, and exceptional support. Reduce the hassle of HHCAHPS and maximize insights to improve care.

Learning Management System
Set your staff up for success with education for PDGM… and beyond

To succeed through PDGM and a myriad of other industry changes, arm your staff with educational resources from trusted experts at Fazzi. Fazzi’s Learning Center is your all-access pass to the training and development your agency needs to achieve the level of compliance, efficiency, and care quality required to thrive in the new payment model.

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About WellSky

People who choose a life of caring — and the organizations and communities they serve — deserve a special kind of support. So we help them to care smarter. Liberating them to focus on the people they serve. Providing solutions that make work flow, integrate insights, and update effortlessly. So they're able to anticipate — and exponentially increase — the impact of care.

People who choose a life of caring — and the organizations and communities they serve — deserve a special kind of support. So we help them to care smarter. Liberating them to focus on the people they serve. Providing solutions that make work flow, integrate insights, and update effortlessly. So they're able to anticipate — and exponentially increase — the impact of care.