The amount of data that home health agencies deal with every day can be overwhelming: assessment accuracy, outcomes, diagnosis codes, HHRGs, reports, RAPs, therapies. The decisions you make based on this data can affect state and federal regulatory compliance, fiscal intermediary audits, clinical practice, processes, outcomes, employees, patient/client care and financial performance.

Inaccurate data costs time, resources, quality outcomes, referrals and revenue. It can cause false outcomes that affect how you are reimbursed, evaluated and audited. It can affect the quality of your outcomes and the way you benchmark performance and practice. Data can also be compromised from inaccuracies in coding and documentation, multiple staff input or tools used to gather information. Compromised data affects your business line profitability.

Accurate, real-time data is vital to successful decision-making. The powerful combination of our Analyzer decision-support tool and our Performance Advisors service not only ensures the accuracy of your data, but turns it into information you can use to improve your clinical, operational and financial outcomes.


Analyzer is a flexible, powerful decision-support tool that helps home health agencies manage Medicare PPS episodes in real-time to achieve better outcomes. Our customers include Home Care Elite top agencies that are effectively using Analyzer to reduce LUPA rates, improve therapy utilization and ensure appropriate reimbursement.

Analyzer takes the mystery out of episode management by providing a real-time analysis of each episode before the discharge. When you can respond to PPS issues proactively, you enhance clinical operations, improve quality outcomes, ensure accurate revenue calculations and better manage risk. Businesses that use Analyzer see significant financial, clinical and quality improvements.

With Analyzer, you turn your data into actionable information. You can run dynamic queries and pre-formatted reports that enable you to:
  • Identify and understand your agency's business opportunities and challenges.
  • See where your business is doing well – and where it needs improvement.
  • Gain insight into your agency's performance so you can make the right decisions.
You can run Analyzer locally on an internal server or access it remotely and securely via the Web. It pulls data from other systems and databases you may be using and works with all major billing systems. It's HIPAA-compliant, so you don't have to worry about information privacy.

Analyzer: Improve Outcomes, Increase Income

Charles Sweet, CEO of Intrepid USA in Dallas, and Raj Walia, CEO of VNA Home Health Systems in Santa Ana, Calif., explain how Analyzer enables them to react proactively to issues with PPS episodes.


Analyzer features include:
  • Detailed utilization, outcome and financial reporting
  • OASIS assessment accuracy audits
  • A flexible forecasting tool for more effective episode management
  • Performance benchmarking against a large customer database
  • User defined key-performance indicators
  • An easy-to-use search tool

Analyzer: Bringing Innovation, Information and Intelligence to Home Health Care.



Performance Advisors is a specialized health care consulting service that helps you understand and improve your outcomes. Using Analyzer as the backbone of the service, our experts work with you to capture and benchmark key data to reveal opportunities to improve quality of care, financial performance and business operations.

Our health care business analysts provide guidance and support to successfully prepare you for Pay-for-Performance, Home Health Compare, audits and OBQI Guidelines. Our solutions utilize your own data as a benchmark for improvement.

We work with you to develop a customized information pathway with data captured and benchmarked from your agency. We summarize your information pathways, identify variations across your business, drill down to find specific causes, and help you develop proven business strategies that improve performance, drive compliance and reduce risk.

Performance Advisors Service: Managed Data, Measurable Gains

Charles Sweet, CEO of Dallas-based Intrepid USA, quantifies how HSS’ PA service has helped his company’s home health agencies increase their PPS reimbursement rates and improve overall business operations.