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Consulting Services
A Proactive Resource for Boards and Management
Loeb & Troper's industry expertise makes us a valuable resource for and advisor to boards and management. We combine issue-specific expertise with a "big picture" understanding of the health care industry that other firms cannot match. The consulting services we deliver include:
Strategic Planning
• Business development: strategic alliances, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, rightsizing, managed and long-term care planning, grant writing, strategic planning, program development, senior housing development.
• Facility planning and design: site assessment, project management for all regulatory components, ensuring quality of care with operational efficiencies.
• Executive and board decision-making tools: position papers, industry trends and forecasts, policy analysis, market research.
• Regulatory planning: licensure strategies, all facets of the Certificate of Need process, compliance, positioning for future markets.
• Governance and leadership: assessments, organizational structure, executive coaching.
• Boards: orientation, education, assessment, retreats, planning.
• Branding and marketing: strategy setting, education, project management, co-branding, focus group facilitation, vendor management.
Clinical Management Across the Continuum of Care
• Regulatory compliance and implementation: survey process (preparedness plans, mock surveys, exit interviews, plans of correction, including directed plans, informal dispute resolution, crisis management) and medical record documentation, including care planning.
• Documentation review, including MDS, OASIS and DRGs.
• Quality assurance/performance improvement: development of internal programs, benchmarking against peers, validation against internal processes.
Medicare A – Prospective Payment System management
Medicare B – Documentation reviews
Medicaid - Documentation reviews
• Operations: staffing (analysis, control systems), policy and procedures (review, revision, development), pre-opening/closing assistance, due diligence, operational reviews, new program development.
• Management training and staff development: to improve quality and compliance.
Financial Management and Reimbursement
• Financial planning and budgeting, cost analysis, forecasting, modeling.
• Response to third-party audits: liaison with government auditors, preparing responses, troubleshooting, negotiating settlements.
• Accounting manuals to help ensure proper procedures and compliance.
• Preparation of cost reports, consistent with regulatory requirements.
• Rates and reimbursements: preparation of appeals, rebasing analyses, reimbursement rate modeling.
• Financial forecasting and modeling.
• Billing and receivables review.
• Benchmarking studies: peer groups, geographic footprint.
