Operational Excellence

Are You Ready to Succeed in 2025?

01/16/2025

As 2024 came to a close, a flurry of reported updates emerged that could impact your organization’s success in the new year, particularly regarding compliance, operational standards, and best practices. Throughout the home-based care continuum - home health, hospice and non-medical home care - there are important requirements to be addressed. Are you ready to tackle these head-on?

Changes and clarifications to state and federal regulations and reporting standards have been widely reported in industry news. The continued viability of programs, such as telehealth, has been recently updated. Forthcoming updates to publicly reported outcome and satisfaction data will report your agency's performance for consumers to review as they evaluate their agency choice.

Home health-related news included:
•    The CY 2025 home health final rule
•    Modifications to HIPAA provisions
•    Acceptance to Service Policies
•    Revisions to the Home Health Change of Care Notice
•    The extension of telehealth face-to-face services

You’ve likely read many of the updates regarding these and other issues, and perhaps you’ve even addressed some with your leadership and management teams.

One of the challenges that agencies face is addressing these issues in a systematic and holistic manner, to ensure that the cascading effect they have on your policies and procedures, documentation and scripting and training for staff are being addressed thoroughly. Ensuring that you are up to speed on all of the pertinent changes, both state and federal, and taking appropriate action can significantly benefit from reducing deficiencies and having satisfactory audit experiences.

Over our years of service to the home-based care industry, Corcoran Consulting Group has honed the tools we use to help agencies address and respond to change, prepare for audits, and drive improved performance. We offer operational review packages for each industry segment, each reasonably priced to ensure good value and an easily attained return on investment.

This is the ideal time to get a jump on 2025! Start the year off on the right foot and let your improved compliance and operational performance drive your results.

Click here to review our service packages, or call us at (203) 691-1319 to determine how we could best help you elevate your performance and reduce your exposure.