Value Added Services

The healthcare reimbursement system is undergoing rapid and significant changes. To succeed in this new environment, providers must first understand the new rules, then design strategies to change their healthcare delivery operations and support systems. Under a fixed reimbursement system, cost control is essential. Selecting, developing, and maintaining win-win ancillary partnerships are vital to winning at the game of Medicare and Managed Care.

Select Medical can offer our skilled nursing facility partners a menu of value added services to optimize cost effective and care effective operations in the new reimbursement environment. Facilities can choose specific value added options that are consistent with their own needs. These service options include:

		Facility training in MDS, RUGS III and / or PPS
		MDS Audits
		Training on Medicare Part B coding
		PPS financial analysis and projections
		Ancillary provider audits
		Assistance in negotiating and monitoring ancillary partnerships
		Managed care readiness audits
		Training in cost containment
		Assistance in negotiating managed care contracts