Free PPS Reform Webinars

In this FREE Webinar, GLMI covereded the major revisions included in the 2008 HHPPS Final Rule. It also provided a 'how to' covering the use of their Free PPS Calculator. This will help ensure that you are fully prepared for the impending changes by equipping you with the knowledge and tools to be successful in 2008.

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2007 Free PPS Calculator

The GLMI PPS Calculator provides a full analysis of your PPS episodes, with precise, to-the-penny calculations. Never before has this level of sophistication and accuracy been achieved in such an easy to use tool. The process of finding how to perform the exact equation took over two months of work, five years of data and 500,000 separate calculations. After incorporating this work into its Ubiquity for Homecare Software, GLMI tied it together with a stand-alone tool to share this knowledge with everyone in the home health industry.

In addition to this vital episode analysis, there is also a cost analysis portion of the tool. This will allow home health agencies to view their profitability at a glance, and provide essential information to allow administrators to make better informed decisions.

Some of the features of the PPS Calculator are:

• PPS Analysis
  • Expected, RAP, Final and Actual Payments
  • Graphical Representations of Pertinent Information
• Cost Analysis
  • Profit Margin and Break Even Analysis
• Scenario Planning
• And More!

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New Visitors

Trial 2007 Version Download and use the PPS Calculator. There is a trial limit of 20 uses. After the trial, you will have to register your copy. Full 2007 Version This version gives you the same version as above, but you will NOT be limited in how many times you can access it. During this download process you will be required to register your copy.

Current Customer

PPS Calculator is available on our 24/7 support site. You can access the calculator by clicking on the link below and signing in to your Parature account.

On Wednesday, August 22, CMS announced its final ruling to the home health prospective payment system (HHPPS). This final rule incorporates sweeping changes to case mix calculation, Oasis questions and final compensation calculations. For a full break down of the changes, please refer to the final rule (CMS-1541-FC).

You can rest easy knowing that GLMI is already working on incorporating these changes into the Ubiquity system to ensure that you are compliant with changes. However, this does not mean that your job is done! Please take the time to look over all of these changes and determine how your agency will be affected! To help in this process, GLMI has put together a fully functioning 2008 PPS Calculator to provide a full analysis of the 2008 HHPPS reform.

Key Features:

• OASIS questions that are going to be used in the new rule (including diagnosis codes)
• Case Mix scoring, grouping and weighting for both the beginning of the episode and, if therapies need to be changed, the end of the episode
• NRS scoring, grouping and weighting
• Payment analysis, including: Expected Payment, RAP Payment, Final Payment, Actual Payment, Episode Type (Regular, LUPA, Outlier, PEP), Outlier Threshold, Medicare Input Costs and variations based on visit information
• Cost analysis, including: Variable costs, Variable fixed costs, Fixed costs, Contribution Margins, Operating Income, Profit Margins and Break Even Analysis
• All of the information is available to be printed or saved for later reference

Installing:

• The download and installation of the tool implements what is known as a “Click Once” deployment.  What this means for users is a very easy, streamlined installation.  From our web site, you simply have to download and run the setup, answer ‘Yes’, ‘Install’, and/or ‘Accept’ a few times, and the program does the rest, requiring minimal user interaction.  This ensures that the tool is installed the right time, every time.
• This tool does require some necessary software to be able to run: Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 and Crystal Reports for .Net 2.0.  If the installation does not find these on the user’s computer, it will automatically download and install them for you.  Again, this means minimal user interaction, and lowers the required computer competency level for users.

Using:

• When the user is actually creating scenarios within the tool, they will be using an interface that is designed to flow Top to Bottom and Left to Right.  This is the generally accepted layout for programs and documents.  The easy layout will enable users to get right into the program and start using it with little to no prior knowledge of how the tool works.
• The tool also has quick links to important online materials that they will need to have access to, including: 2008 Federal Register, OASIS and a summary of changes to PPS.  This will ensure that users will have everything they need to understand the coming changes at the tips of their fingers.

Updating:

• Once the tool is installed and ready to go on the computer, it will perform automatic updates.  This ensures that the user will always have the most up to date version, and will enable us to quickly implement any changes that need to be done on any scale.  We will be able to make the required changes and have them propagate down to everyone that has installed the tool.  This again will require little user interaction, simply clicking ‘Update’ when the program detects an update and prompts the user for an action.

Download 2008 PPS Data Model

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