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The outsourcing process is an ongoing loop that involves working with your vendor partner to optimize your revenue cycle from assessment of needs through feedback on the outcomes of actions taken. Assessment – The first step of the process, likely begun during due...

Watch our interview with Curt Jackson, Executive Director of Bushwick Stuyvesant Heights Home Attendants, above! New York City was originally a single-payer environment for Medicaid services—HRA. The billing was largely automated and simple, with quick payment...

Each month, we interview a Sandata employee who lives the Sandata mission—to continuously improve healthcare with the most innovative technology. This month we spoke with Kelly Burgess, Vice President of I/DD Provider Sales, who has been with Sandata for 5 years....

The next important decision to make is partnering with the right vendor. With options to choose from, it can be difficult to narrow down your choices—each of them may have experience, a trustworthy team, and reliable services, but how do you know they are the best...

Family Home Care and Care at Home, two not-for-profit agencies in Brooklyn, New York, have a 40-year history of serving the New York Metropolitan area. While Family Home Care supports the managed care side of the business, Care at Home services private pay...

A home care agency’s revenue cycle—the series of steps related to reimbursement for services that occur from intake to payment—are the agency’s life blood. You can provide the best client care with excellent outcomes, and grow like a weed, but with the thin margins we...

Value-Based Payments (VBP) are new to many providers and are evolving in the Medicaid environment. Agencies that are not prepared to meet VBP requirements will not only miss an opportunity to maximize the clinical benefits for the clients they serve but will also put...

Each month, we interview a Sandata employee who lives the Sandata mission—to continuously improve healthcare with the most innovative technology. This month we spoke with Frances Mage, Project Manager of Home Care Professional Services, who has been with Sandata for...

March 16, 2023 – Hicksville, NY – Sandata is pleased to announce secure, centralized, and easy user access management with a new Single Sign-on (SSO) feature between the CareConnect and Sandata Mobile Connect (SMC) apps. This new feature enables users to log in to...

Preventing fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) in the Medicaid market is an on-going effort, with many providers, payers and vendors involved in the effort to improve the health care system. Sandata is committed to addressing FWA and working with our partners to develop...

What is value-based care, and what does it mean for your agency? In short, value-based care focuses on creating positive patient outcomes rather than fee-for-service reimbursement. The goal is to be pro-active, rather than reactive, and reward providers for helping...

What makes a partner valuable? What makes you work with them over a competitor? At Sandata, we like to think that it is our accountability to our clients and the industry—our commitment to listening to customer feedback, the marketplace, and, yes, even our...