The recent news about Medicare fraud arrests further highlights why home health agencies committed to the highest standards of practice continue to choose Axxess. Axxess is an ANCC accredited consulting and technology vendor in the Home Health industry. The ANCC accreditation demonstrates Axxess’ commitment to promoting the highest standards for Home Health Care professionals and organizations. Our customers depend on us to keep them compliant and together we all help prevent fraud and abuse in our industry.
An important feature and benefit that Axxess’ AgencyCore software offers, is that it helps ensure compliance and eliminate errors. Organizations that want to be fraudulent will definitely not choose Axxess because we have built in tools into the software that promote best practice and supports organizations that want to do the right thing. If an organization’s goal is to fraudulently submit claims and cheat the system, then Axxess is the wrong tool for them because we make that extremely difficult.
We want the most successful and compliant organizations using Axxess because our software helps them do the right thing in a cost-effective and compliant manner. For instance, before you can create claims in our software, there are essential items that must be in place. All visit documents submitted go through a Quality Assurance center where home health agency staff review the documents before they are certified as “billable”. Once the visits are certified as billable, our software takes users through additional steps where you have to indicate they the patients have actually had a face-to-face encounter with the physician and that there are signed orders and care plans in place for the duration of the care provided to the patients.
We also have built-in tools that review the quality of the assessments performed on the patient to identify logical and clinical inconsistencies in the documentation. These are just some of the ways Axxess improves compliance for home health agencies. The best and most successful home health agencies continue to choose Axxess to improve patient outcomes, ensure compliance and grow their business.
To read about the recent Medicare arrests regarding fraud and abuse, please visit the Department of Justice website.