Automatically Included in Your Agency Manager™ Service!

Dramatically differentiate your home health agency from competing agencies, while improving revenue for your referring physicians and your agency!

Physician Access™ enables:

• Your physicians to access a single Web site and digitally sign all their orders on a regular basis with just a few mouse clicks.
• The physician's billing staff to automatically file home health-related insurance clams for certification and Care Plan Oversight (CPO) via Physician Access™ - providing thousands of dollars in additional physician practice revenue while also saving practice and agency staff time.

What does this mean for your referring physicians?

• Thousands of additional dollars in revenue for work they are already doing, but for which they may not be billing!
• No cost to your referring physicians for this powerful service.
• Nothing to download or install! All they need is a Web browser and an Internet connection.

What does this mean for home health agencies that use Agency Manager™?

• Significantly differentiate your agency from competitors.
• Collaborate with your participating physicians more easily. Now physicians can sign all their orders with just a few mouse clicks.
• No more faxes, calls, in-person visits spent trying to have physicians sign home care orders.
• A powerful new Agency Manager™ service at no additional charge!

Click here to schedule an online demonstration of Agency Manager™ and Physician Access™ from Kinnser.

What is patient certification for home care?

To be approved by most insurers, clinical services need to be provided during an approved home care certification episode. The certification episode is initiated when a physician signs a Plan of Care form, commonly known as a 485.

An episode of home health care covers 60 days of approved services. If a patient has continuing clinical needs after the initial 60 day period, a recertification - a new Plan of Care submission - is required to provide a subsequent episode of approved care.

What is Care Plan Oversight (CPO)?

Care Plan Oversight (CPO) services are billable activities provided by the physician who signed the Plan of Care. These activities include:

• Review of charts, reports, and treatment plans
• Communication with other health care professionals regarding care of the patient via phone calls or other verbal communication. Professionals may include, but are not limited to, home care nurses, therapists, and pharmacists
• Review of patient status reports.
• Modifications to the Plan of Care, including the review and signing of modification orders!

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services provide a more comprehensive list of allowable CPO services at www.cms.hhs.gov

What are the CPO documentation requirements?

CPO services, and the time necessary to complete those services, must be documented in the patient's chart. Physician Access™ provides participating physicians with a simplified method of documenting CPO activities, and alerts users when a claim for CPO reimbursement can be filed.

Can physicians who have been reimbursed for certification also bill for CPO activities?

Yes -- billing for CPO activities is separate than initiating a certification episode. Physicians are potentially eligible for reimbursement for CPO activities regarding all Medicare-eligible home health care patients.