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New National Home Health Operations Dashboard Report Helps Gauge Performance and Shape Direction of Future Operations

Benchmarking information for home health agencies is challenging to find. Eli Research and BKD Health Care Group have teamed up to develop a new operational dashboard report for home health agencies designed to help you operate more effectively. The National Home Health Operations Dashboard Report is an individually customized comparison of your home health agency’s utilization, cost and profitability data to those of an aggregated peer group of other home health agencies you select to the agencies in your home state and to agencies in the nation.

Eli and BKD built the Dashboard from some of the most complete data available for any benchmarking product on the market. The Medicare cost reports of freestanding and provider-based home health agencies, obtained directly from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, serve as the source for the Dashboard. Complex and powerful algorithms, developed by BKD specifically for this project, translate this data into meaningful indicators that have been organized in an easy-to-read and easy-to-reference format. Key indicators on the report include:

• Visits per episode
• Staff hours per visit
• Detail cost per visit by discipline
• Average case-mix weight
• Episode adjustment mix

• Average payment per episode
• Detail cost per episode
• Average profitability per episode
• Overall agency profit margin
• Salaries as a percent of total cost

View a sample report and download an order form. Complete the order form and fax your order to 417.865.0682. Please contact a BKD representative by phone at 417.865.8701 or by email at with any questions or to learn more about the Dashboard.

For More Information

Contact your BKD advisor or:

Mark Sharp
Home Care Center of Excellence Coordinator
417.865.8701