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The Health Group, LLC provides cost reporting, financial consulting, merger/acquisition, Medicare enrollment, strategic planning, and other financial management and compliance-related services to healthcare providers across the country. We serve freestanding, provider-based, proprietary, and tax-exempt healthcare providers of all sizes.

Our Affiliate

Gray, Griffith & Mays – Morgantown, PLLC provides financial reporting, accounting, business planning, assurance, and tax services to clients across the country. Our clients are both small and large. We offer out clients the experience of a large CPA firm but with the attention provided by a smaller firm.

The success of The Health Group, LLC is the result of quality service by experienced professionals in combination with our network of other professionals across the country.

Our Services

The Health Group, LLC provides an extensive array of financial and consulting services to its clients. We approach each client and each client service as unique based on the skillsets of the client’s personnel to ensure client needs are met.

Education

The Health Group, LLC provides live educational conferences and webinars on healthcare financial and compliance issues of importance. Registrations are now being accepted for the Hospice Financial Administration Conference scheduled for September 30 – October 1, 2024.

Hospice News

MANY HOSPICES CLAIMS REJECTED DUE TO PECOS FILE ERROR

Volume 24.16 Many hospices have experienced claim rejections resulting significant cash-flow disruptions because of reporting the certifying physician which did not match information in the Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (“PECOS”) Enrolled Physicians File.  Claims rejected relate...

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HOSPICE CARE ACT OF 2024 INTRODUCED

Volume 24.15 HOSPICE CARE ACT OF 2024 INTRODUCED  On Wednesday, Representative Earl Blumenauer introduced legislation, the Hospice Care Accountability, Reform, and Enforcement Act (“Hospice CARE Act”), which represents what would be the most significant hospice legislation since enactment of the...

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HOSPICE PREPAYMENT REVIEW EXPANDED

Volume 24.14 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has announced that prepayment medical review will be expanded in California, Arizona, Texas, and Nevada.  The expansion will reach existing providers; however, a small sample of claims will be reviewed followed by individual...

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Healthcare News

CMS RELEASES MEDICARE ENROLLMENT APPLICATION FEE FOR 2024

 Volume 23.08 CMS has announced a $709 calendar year application fee for providers that are: Initially enrolling in the Medicare program, Medicaid program, or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (“CHIP”), Revalidating their Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP enrollment, or Adding a new Medicare...

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CMS MOVES ON ADDITIONAL OWNERSHIP DISCLOSURES FOR NURSING FACILITIES

Volume 23.07 On November 15, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) placed on display at the Federal Register a Final Rule that will implement portions of section 6101 of the Affordable Care Act, requiring the disclosure of certain ownership, managerial, and other information...

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Home Health News

MEDICARE 2025 HOME HEALTH PAYMENT RATES RELEASED

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has released final 2025 home health payment rates.  The national standardized 30-day period payment amount has been computed as follows: 2024 National Standardized 30-day payment rate   $   2,038.13 2025 permanent behavioral adjustment...

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NAHC AND NHPCO SIGN AFFILIATION AGREEMENT

 Volume 24.03 The two largest organizations representing home care providers, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (“NAHC”) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (“NHPCO”), on June 10, 2024, signed an affiliation agreement. Beginning July 1, 2024, the...

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We offer unique career opportunities at the Health Group, LLC and Gray Griffith and Mays.