Home care can be tricky and you simply can’t afford to make mistakes. Through our auditing services, we will provide you with a snapshot of how your agency adds up in each of our specialized auditing areas. Our audit services include a private coaching session with one of our experts explaining the findings. Let FMS help you find areas for improvement and opportunity.
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Mock Audit and Consulting Services Today’s demands on home health/hospice administrators are greater than ever with Medicare cuts and new protocols. With a comprehensive on-site evaluation of your agency, Foundation Management Services, Inc. can assist in building on your staff’s strengths and recognizing your weaknesses through customized training and consulting. Our experienced staff will offer solutions and recommendations that will result in improved quality of care, cost-effective strategies and increased efficiencies.
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Under the current reimbursement system, there are no margins for error. FMS has the solution for accurate home care and hospice coding, sequencing, and optimal reimbursement. By partnering with an industry-leading service, your field staff and case managers will have more time to focus on quality patient care and proper documentation. Coding-To-Go gives your agency access to Certified Home Care & Hospice Coding Specialists (HCS-D & HCS-H), who are audited for accuracy.
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Even if you have dedicated coding staff, chances are your coders will take vacation days, have sick days, and sometimes need back-up support for an influx of new patients or difficult assessments. When that happens, call FMS for PRN help. Let FMS help you with all your outsource coding needs!
Welcome to the FMS Online University!
FMS Online University gives you the opportunity to choose from our ever-expanding online library. Our online education offers flexibility for your field clinicians to have access to education on demand.
FMS online training offers a comprehensive library providing training and education to most disciplines. You can choose online training to review a topic, to investigate a new specialty, or to gain in-depth knowledge. Training is rated by degree of difficulty and some are offered in a series.
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Does the majority of your staff need training? Let FMS come to you. Drawing from decades of experience, our team of experts provide onsite training in a wide variety of subject areas. This customizable education option is as cost-efficient as it is convenient.
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PDGM has added some twists and turns to the coding process. Agency leadership, clinicians, and coders need to have a thorough understanding of the primary and secondary codes to ensure success. This tool contains the comorbidity diagnoses eligible for case-mix adjustment and will help take some of the mystery out of the coding process.
A new coronavirus, called 2019-nCoV, has made its way from China to the US. In order to protect the safety of staff and patients, home health and hospice agencies should analyze their own risk and prepare their staff. This cheat sheet contains facts known at the time of publication, suggestions for staff and patient education, screening tool elements, and suggested documentation for your Emergency Preparedness Plan.
This cheat sheet is available for instant download upon purchase.
The PDGM: OASIS Guidance for Functional Impairment Assessment cheat sheet has detailed OASIS guidance for the completion of the eight items that contribute to the Functional Impairment payment adjustment. Accuracy of OASIS assessment of these specific items is vital to home health agencies under the new payment system beginning in January 2020. The guide is perfect for clinicians who complete OASIS assessments. A “Test Your Knowledge” section is useful for agencies to ensure clinicians have a good understanding of the many aspects of each OASIS item.
This step-by-step workbook will guide users through each aspect of the complex PDGM payment system and assist in understanding of the elements that drive accurate reimbursement. Clinical groups with codes, comorbidity codes/code groups, tables and additional data are provided in a color-coded, easy to read format. Agencies can use it to educate their coders, clinicians, and other staff on how the elements work together to establish the correct HIPPS code. It’s a must-have for agency managers and coders.
Changes in the home care regulations often lead to confusion and many concerns from referral sources. Our experts at FMS created an easy to read tool that covers each major area of PDGM and how that specific area affects the referral source. Arm your clinicians and sales team with this product today. This tool can be purchased in an easy 50 page tear-away pad for your agency needs.
Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) is a five-year demonstration project for home health agencies targeting to fight fraud and abuse in the Medicare home health program. Five states are designated to participate in the demonstration—Illinois, Ohio, Texas, Florida, and North Carolina. This cheat sheet is a helpful tool for identifying the important elements and requirements of RCD and includes tips to help prepare your agency.
