Long-Term Care Facilities

Offering a full range of healthcare services tailored to long-term care facilities

Long-term care facilities are on the rise, but so are their operating costs and healthcare compliance regulations. As the healthcare industry continues to change, organizations like hospice, retirement communities, skilled nursing facilities (SNF), assisted living centers, and home health agencies and are under pressure to gain operational efficiencies and increase revenues while facing an evolving reimbursement landscape.

Navigating the changes can be both complex and tedious, but having a trusted advisor who keeps you updated on industry standards and regulations lets you focus on providing quality services to your residents. Dean Dorton can provide assistance and leadership on a variety of strategic, financial, operational, and regulatory compliance matters focused on your facility,

Our long-term care clients rely on our team of healthcare experts to provide sound advice and insights regarding Medicare, Medicaid, and other payers as well as compliance standards and best practices. In addition to providing traditional audit, tax, and accounting services, Dean Dorton provides comprehensive array of services including advisory consulting, reimbursement, compliance and strategic business services to help you strengthen your financial operations.

Dean Dorton’s Long-Term Care Facility Services

We offer a full range of healthcare services tailored to long-term care facilities:

  • Affiliation/merger facilitation assistance
  • Analysis of billing and collection processes
  • Board education and development
  • CMS calculation of DSH appeal
  • Community benefit calculation and analysis
  • Deferred compensation consulting
  • Financial projections and business plans
  • Geographic wage index reclassification
  • Interim finance, accounting and departmental leadership
  • IT outsourcing and managed services
  • Joint ventures – strategic planning and implementation
  • Market assessments
  • Medical billing and credentialing
    • Individual and group practice credentialing
  • Occupation mix survey – facility impact analysis
  • Ownership transition
  • Process improvement
  • Strategic planning and implementation
  • Technology solutions – hardware and software support, outsourcing services
  • Valuation
  • Analysis of billing and collection processes
  • Cash acceleration and A/R clean-up
  • Coding and medical documentation analysis
  • End to end assessment and reorganization
  • Interim staffing and support
  • Managed care contract negotiations
  • Medical coding outsourced support services and review
  • Medical chart and documentation audit
  • Revenue cycle process redesign
  • Staffing analysis
  • Clinical research operations compliance
  • Coding and billing compliance review
  • Compliance program assessment
  • Compliance and Privacy Officer services
  • Conditions of Participation (CoPs) compliance
  • Data security
  • Governance and communication
  • HIPAA privacy and security assessments including mock HIPAA audits
  • HIPAA Information Technology (IT) Risk Assessment
  • Independent Review Organization (IRO)
  • Occupational fraud and identity theft
  • Patient safety
  • PCI compliance
  • Segregation of duties and internal controls
  • Whistleblower hotline program and management
  • Contractual relationships
  • Healthcare settlement items, appeals and operational improvement
    • Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH)
    • Medicare Bad Debt
    • Indirect and Graduate Medical Education (IME/GME)
    • Budgeting
  • Medicare and Medicaid Cost Reporting Services
  • Medicare and Medicaid Special Programs Reimbursement
    • Electronic Health Records Incentives
    • State Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH)
    • Provider tax
    • Inter-governmental transfers
    • Wrap payments
  • Reimbursement analysis
  • Revenue projections and proformas
  • Third-party payer contract negotiations and renewals

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