title: Redesigning for success: managing the prospective payment system.
abstract: Managed care and the new Medicare prospective pay system are dramatically changing the way home health agencies conduct their business. Agencies are busy downsizing, streamlining, and looking for creative ways to do more with less. Many industries have found success with process reengineering, the concepts of which are outlined in this article so that agencies may adapt them to "recreate" themselves. Practical measures are demonstrated through the steps one large home health agency has taken to address these issues.
authors.affiliation: Ayer Associates, Annandale, Va., USA.
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Ayer
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003253:Consultants; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D006278:Medicare; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011445:Prospective Payment System; D014481:United States