Health Directions, Inc.

Providing Innovative Home Health Care Solutions               

As a healthcare provider, the challenges you face are unique - how to provide the highest quality patient care, and, at the same time, contain or reduce your costs. To make your job more difficult, our industry now has to travel the uncharted course of the Interim and Prospective Payment Systems. Who's got the answers? Where can you get the help your agency needs to survive and to grow your business?

To meet and navigate through such demanding challenges in today's business environment, you will often need assistance - the kind of assistance offered by Health Directions, Inc. (HDI). HDI's staff of experienced home health care professionals understands the unique needs of the home health care industry and can provide assistance in a prompt, professional manner.

Health Directions Inc., a Kentucky corporation, has been providing management and consulting services to health care providers for sixteen (16) years. Health Directions, Inc. has always approached each client's needs by strategically researching the need in depth with accuracy and a true sense of urgency to achieve the needed results in a timely manner. HDI always provides individualized programs and systems for each of its clients. A few of the services provided by HDI are:

  • Strategic Planning

  • Comprehensive Case Management

  • Compliance Review

  • Claims Service Processing/Accounts Receivable

  • Human Resource Management

  • Accounting Policies and Procedures

  • Budgeting

  • Staff Development

  • Reimbursement Methodologies

  • PRRB & Intermediary Appeals

  • Medicare Coverage and Documentation

The journey continues - and has taken our industry from the Interim Payment System to the Prospective Payment System and may eventually lead to Pay for Performance. Additionally, we have had to face mutli-faceted changes within State Medicaid Programs as they struggle to capture fiscal solidarity.   The industry experts and leading consulting organizations predict that we will face industry consolidation and major restructuring and "right-sizing" of organizations as agency's continue to adjust operations to meet current needs.

"Business as Usual" will be the formula for many agencies demise. The usual services offered by the industries consulting organizations will still be needed, but, your partner to successfully charting your course must be innovative and provide services that can impact your agency with immediate results. That's why more and more health care facilities across the country are turning to Health Directions, Inc., a nationally recognized health care business network. This extensive resource network helps you access the highest quality products and services through a variety of cost-containment programs and services. While HDI has developed some of the most innovative and competitive programs in the industry, our clients say it is the manner in which the services are delivered that makes the difference.

New Programs and services that have been developed by HDI specifically to assist each client chart the course that is unique for them include:

  • Development/implementation of Case Management Programs

  • Managing costs through declining utilization

  • Development of Specialized Programs and Services/Market Needs Assessment

  • Developing tools to manage and analyze utilization and costs data

  • Productivity Enhancement Programs

  • Developing Information Systems

  • Internal Communications Program

  • Creating a cost-effective and market responsive home health care delivery system

  • Development of Strategic Alliances

  • Managed Care Relations/Contracting & Negotiations

  • Positioning your agency programs and services for change

Many of our clients are seeking programs and services that can deliver immediate results. The most pressing issues that our industry is facing is the reality of lower reimbursements, the unstoppable pressure to continue to cut cost, and the immediate reality of reduced cash flow.  Good news has arrived, Health Directions, Inc. is here to assist you in navigating a successful course.  Contact us today to obtain services developed specifically for the home health industry, including our "Insurance Services", and see the immediate impact with more than satisfactory results.

 

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