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Sam Smith Named Associate Member of the Year by Texas Association for Home Care & Hospice
Author: Kris Berry
Date: July 19, 2016
We would like to congratulate Sam Smith, the Senior Vice President of Business Development at Axxess, for receiving the Associate Member of the Year Award from the Texas Association for Home Care and Hospice (TAHCH)! This award recognizes an individual whose commitment to both TAHCH and the industry makes them stand... Keep Reading
How Home Health Agencies Can Stay Off the Fraud Radar
Author: Amy Baxter, Home Health Care News
Date: July 14, 2016
Home health agencies are under more scrutiny when it comes to fraud and improper billings than ever before. In a tougher operational climate with higher pressures and more regulations, home health agencies need to be aware of how to fully comply and avoid the fraud radar. “There is pressure out there,”... Keep Reading
Axxess Named One of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in Healthcare
Author: Kris Berry
Date: July 13, 2016
Modern Healthcare announces its 100 companies for the Best Places to Work in Healthcare for 2016. The recognition program, now in its ninth year, honors workplaces throughout the healthcare industry that empower their employees to provide patients and customers with the best possible care, products and services. Axxess recognizes that its... Keep Reading
Why Deloitte, Axxess and Methodist Health are contributing to a new $5.5M job growth fund
Author: Bill Hethcock, Dallas Business Journal
Date: June 14, 2016
John Olajide, president and CEO of Dallas-based software company Axxess, believes in the Dallas Regional Chamber’s mission of economic development, talent creation and talent attraction. Talent creation refers to educating the future workforce to be college and career ready, and talent attraction refers to luring the best and brightest from... Keep Reading
Axxess Named The Best Small Place to Work in IT by Computerworld
Author: Julia King, Computerworld
Date: June 13, 2016
Opportunities abound for technologists at this rapidly growing company, where big ideas that deliver business value are rewarded on the spot. The company's cultural hallmarks of innovation, openness and transparency are reflected in everything from the glass walls, the open floor plan and the light-filled atmosphere of its new seventh-floor offices... Keep Reading
How Axxess Embraces Diversity
Author: Matt Goodman, D Magazine
Date: May 31, 2016
The employee makeup at this young, Dallas-based healthcare tech company is 50/50 men to women, all the way up to its senior management. Diversity, says VP of HR Melody Lenox, is in its DNA—and has been from the beginning. “That diversity thinking, that inclusiveness, it’s not widely embraced or practiced throughout... Keep Reading
Three Questions With Axxess CEO John Olajide
Author: Evan Hoopfer, Dallas Business Journal
Date: May 20, 2016
When Axxess President and CEO John Olajide moved his company into its new office at 16000 Dallas Parkway nine months ago, he wanted to create an environment unlike other health care technology offices. Olajide launched Axxess in 2007 and it has grown organically, with no investment money. The Dallas-based technology company... Keep Reading
Axxess Partners With Emmitt Smith Charities to Support Children’s Education
Author: Kris Berry
Date: April 29, 2016
We are excited to share the video announcing our partnership with Pat & Emmitt Smith Charities for the Emmitt Smith Celebrity Invitational (ESCI) charity golf tournament this year. Our organizations share values of service and investment in educational opportunities for all children, and this partnership is a natural fit with... Keep Reading
Avoiding RAP Suppression
Author: Jennifer Gibson Osburn RN, HCS-D ICD-10-CM, COS-C, Senior Clinical Consultant
Date: April 28, 2016
Our last blog detailed the very real threat that agencies face in having their RAP payment suppressed for cancelling too many RAPs. There are plenty of steps that agencies can take to prevent CMS from suppressing their RAP payments. To ensure they don’t cancel too many RAPs, and to keep reimbursements... Keep Reading
The Reality of Zero-Payment RAPs
Author: Jennifer Gibson Osburn RN, HCS-D ICD-10-CM, COS-C, Senior Clinical Consultant
Date: April 27, 2016
Billing and revenue exchange is one of the biggest issues for home health agencies across the nation. Agencies without proper billing practices are facing challenges of delayed payments right now. Agencies must expertly examine and fine tune their auditing and billing policies to ensure that their Requests for Anticipated Payment... Keep Reading
Axxess CEO Receives Distinguished Alumni Award from University of Texas at Dallas
Author: Kris Berry
Date: April 22, 2016
John Olajide, the founder and CEO of the Dallas-based healthcare technology company Axxess, received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Texas at Dallas at an awards gala last night. Olajide started Axxess while studying computer science at UT Dallas. Since graduating in 2004, he has built Axxess into one... Keep Reading
Preventing Rehospitalizations, Part 3 – Improving Patient Outcomes at Home
Author: Shawn Hamilton, RN BSN, COS-C
Date: April 20, 2016
This is the third part in our blog series exploring how we can work with the discharging hospital and our home health staff to be effective members of the care transition team. You can read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Of course, once the transition has gone smoothly from... Keep Reading
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