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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

HOSPICE SPECIAL FOCUS PROGRAM PROPOSAL EXPECTED THIS SUMMER

Volume 23.09 The Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) of 2021 authorized the Secretary of Health & Human Services to create a Special Focus Program (SFP) which aims to address issues that place hospice beneficiaries at risk for poor quality of care through increased oversight and/or technical...

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HOSPICE PROGRAM INTEGRITY – FIRST AND FOREMOST IN THE MIND OF CMS

Volume 23.08 The 2024 Proposed Hospice Rule is only one indicator of the increased focus by CMS and federal legislators on hospice program integrity. CMS, in the 2024 Proposed Rule, has reported significant information regarding hospice utilization trends and other data signaling potentially...

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HOSPICE OWNERSHIP INFORMATION AVAILABLE

Volume 23.07 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“DHHS”) is releasing information on the ownership of over 6,000 hospices and 11,0000 home health agencies certified to participate in the Medicare program on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) website. DHHS is...

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Healthcare News

CMS UPDATES MEDICARE ENROLLMENT INSTRUCTIONS

 Volume 22.12 Effective December 5, 2022, certain modifications have been made to Chapter 10 of the Medicare Program Integrity Manual dealing primarily with “Ownership Disclosures”, “Electronic Funds Transfers”, and “Special Payment Addresses”. MM12880 - Provider Enrollment Instructions: Seventh...

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OIG REPORTS ON PROVIDER RELIEF FUND REQUIREMENT IMPROVEMENTS

Volume 22.11 In September 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) released a report entitled “HHS’s and HRSA’s Controls Related to Selected Provider Relief Fund Program Requirements Could Be Improved” (“Report”).  The OIG’s objective was to determine...

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MAJOR REVISIONS MADE TO HOME OFFICE COST REPORT

Volume 22.10 The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released Home Office Cost Statement, Form CMS-287-22 (“Home Office Cost Report”).  R1P248i | CMS The new Home Office Cost Report (CMS-287-22) is effective for cost reporting periods beginning on or after October 1, 2022, and...

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Home Health News

MEDPAC RECOMMENDS SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION TO HOME HEALTH PAYMENTS

Volume 23.04 MedPAC’s March 2023 Report to Congress included the following recommendation: “Our review of payment adequacy for Medicare home health services indicates that access is more than adequate in most areas and that Medicare payments are substantially in excess of costs. Home health care...

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NAHC and NHPCO Exploring Collaboration Opportunities

 Volume 23.03 The Health Group, LLC has been a member of both the National Association for Home Care & Hospice and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization for many years.  We are pleased to reprint the public news release issued by both organizations.  We see benefits to members...

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HOME HEALTH AGENCIES – END OF THE COVID-19 PHE

 Volume 23.02 CMS used emergency waiver authorities and other regulatory processes to better enable providers to rapidly respond to individuals impacted by COVID-19.  Currently, CMS is: Assessing the need for continuing certain blanket waivers based on current conditions and the planned end to the...

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