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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 2021 Hospice Financial Management Academy scheduled for September 13-14, 2021.

Hospice News

CMS FINALIZES HOME HEALTH RULES – HOSPICES SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTED

Volume 23.22 Yesterday, CMS finalized the Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update which includes many provisions impacting hospices.  The following provider enrollment regulations were finalized: § 424.502 Definitions. Revises the definition of managing employee to include Hospice and...

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USE OF VOLUNTEERS

Volume 23.21 CMS waived the requirement for hospices to use volunteers (42 CFR §418.78(e)) during the Public Health Emergency (“PHE”); however, the requirement is again effective January 1, 2024.  Many hospices had difficulty complying with this requirement even before the PHE. Hospices need to...

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CONSIDERING PIP REIMBURSEMENT FOR HOSPICES

Volume 23.20 Most healthcare providers are not eligible for Periodic Interim Payment (“PIP”) reimbursement; however, hospices are eligible.  The beginning of a hospice’s fiscal year is the perfect time to request PIP reimbursement in lieu of being reimbursed as claims are processed.  Many hospices...

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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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MEDICARE ENROLLMENT PROVISIONS INCLUDED IN PHYSICIAN FEE RULE FINALIZED

Volume 23.06 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has finalized the CY 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rule.  Many enrollment-related provisions were included in the proposed rule.  The Health Group, LLC discussed the proposed rule at its Hospice Financial and Administrative...

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Home Health News

JUDGE ORDERS STATE TO PROVIDE PRIVATE DUTY NURSING CARE

Volume 23.07 The following was reprinted with permission of Elizabeth E. Hogue, Esq. On July 14, 2023, a Judge issued an opinion and order, in which he said that the State of Florida must provide services, including private duty nursing care, to medically fragile children who are living in nursing...

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NAHC ANNOUNCES LAWSUIT AGAINST CMS REGARDING HOME HEALTH PAYMENT RATES

Volume 23.06 On July 6, 2023, The National Association for Home Care and Hospice (“NAHC”) announced that it has filed a lawsuit against the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) which challenges the manner that CMS has reduced home health payment rates based on the payment rate...

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