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The Key to Your Success Under the Revised PPS
Episode Master is a web-delivered service that solves two fundamental problems for home care agencies: the need to maximize the quality of patient outcomes and the need to receive full payment for all provided services.
Maximizing Quality with Episode Master
Episode Master improves quality by analyzing patient data and identifying clinical irregularities. When irregularities are detected, Episode Master suggests edits that can be made to ensure the patient receives appropriate care. Your clinicians will use the information in the reports as a learning tool. They will become increasingly skilled at making proper assessments simply by using the reports and observing Episode Master’s edits and suggestions.
Ensuring that their patients receive the best possible care is a primary goal for every agency. Good outcomes are the outward manifestation of this goal. Simply put, Episode Master is your most effective tool for achieving the best possible outcomes and ensuring that every aspect of your care is documented properly.
Maximized Revenue
Your agency’s payments are directly linked to the OASIS assessment accuracy of your clinicians. An accurate assessment ensures that you will be fully compensated for the services you provide. In daily use, Episode Master identifies clinical inconsistencies and presents you with options clearly stating the financial impact of any change. But Episode Master doesn’t stop there.
A focus on individual OASIS performance is not only important within the episode, it is also important for trending individual and agency OASIS performance over time. Episode Master provides an overview of both your individual clinician OASIS performance over time as well as your agency as a whole. It puts everyone on the same page with a unified goal of improved operational efficiency.
Improved Efficiency
Times have changed. The payment level for home care services under the Revised PPS rules all but demands that agencies run at peak efficiency. Over the next ten years, operational efficiency will be the deciding factor between an agency’s success and failure. Episode Master should be an integral part of your operation. By molding your procedures around Episode Master’s central decision matrix you will drive efficiency throughout your agency.
The operational formula for improving home care efficiency is simple to understand: The Most Accurate Assessments = Best Possible Outcomes + Maximum Revenue.
How Episode Master Works
Episode Master works behind the scenes with Lewis’ back office systems, Prompt and Patron (including Patron Point-of-Care). A small software program is installed on your computer. Once the program is installed, you simply identify the patients and assessments you want analyzed from within the familiar confines of Prompt or Patron. Once you have selected your patients, uploading your data to the Episode Master processing center is as easy as a click of a desktop icon. You can view the reports at any time by logging on to the secure Episode Master site with your password.
