In an era of rapid technological advancement and evolving healthcare dynamics, Zimmet Healthcare Services Group, LLC (“ZHSG”) is proud to introduce our platform’s first application, CMI-Connect. Designed to spearhead innovation in the healthcare reimbursement landscape, CMI-Connect represents a new product category, offering Medicaid reimbursement software tailored to the acuity adjusted case-mix index (CMI) systems of each state.
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Netsmart advances data solutions suite through acquisition of CORE Analytics
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Aug. 08, 2022 — Netsmart announced today it has acquired CORE Analytics, the industry-leading skilled nursing facility (SNF) claims data analytics offering from Zimmet Healthcare. With the addition of Core Analytics, Netsmart Simple™is now the only solution suite in the market capable of calculating quality measures and Five-Star ratings leveraging Minimum Data Set (MDS), Payroll-Based Journaling (PBJ) and UB-04 claims data.
This new offering will enhance the Netsmart CareFabric® platform to expand data solutions and services for post-acute care organizations in the areas of quality measures reporting, benchmarking, assessment data and scrubbing, while increasing the quantity and quality of required data for health plans, Medicare and Medicaid. Through this acquisition, Netsmart now offers the most comprehensive SNF data analytics solution to integrate clinical, staffing and financial data to provide better intelligence and reimbursement optimization, with the aim of saving time for clinical and reimbursement staff.
Zimmet Healthcare Services Group Celebrates their Two RAC Master Teachers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 16, 2021
Nicole Ercolani
Zimmet Healthcare Services Group, LLC
732-236-5365 (Cell)
NicoleErcolani@zhealthcare.com
Zimmet Healthcare Services Group Celebrates their Two RAC Master Teachers
MDS-Based Services Strengthened
Morganville, NJ: Zimmet Healthcare Services Group (ZHSG) recognizes two RAC Master Teachers on their MDS education and quality improvement team. ZHSG is the only consulting group to tout two full-time staff with this distinction. This milestone is a major achievement for ZHSG as they broaden their existing MDS-based products and services to support nursing homes across the country.
Steven Littlehale, MS, RN, GCNS, BC Chief Innovation Officer, shared: “Having two full-time consultants on our team who are AAPACN Master Teachers assures that our array of MDS-based products, services, and education are second to none. Alicia Cantinieri, MBA, BSN, RN, RAC-MT, RAC-CTA, and Melanie Tribe-Scott, BSN, RN, RAC-MT, RAC-MTA, QCP, are exceptionally gifted leaders within our organization and extraordinary educators.”
This news comes in the wake of many recent initiatives and product/service releases from the company, including:
- Outsourced Clinical Reimbursement and MDS Management
- Five-Star Improvement and Monitoring
- Occupancy Development/Clinical Transformation
“Our training partners and master teachers make it possible for AAPACN to share our nationally recognized certification programs across the country. We appreciate Zimmet’s commitment to post-acute care and MDS education and support of Alicia’s and Melanie’s pursuit of Master Teacher status,” said Amy Stewart, MSN, RN, DNS-MT, QCP-MT, RAC-MT, Vice President of Education and Certification Strategy
To learn more about ZHSG products and services, upcoming Resident Assessment Coordinator Certification, and Advanced Certification workshops this year, click here.
Zimmet Healthcare Services Group, LLC, is a full-service consulting firm committed to developing innovative solutions to the challenges of operating in the post-acute care industry.
Zimmet Healthcare Launches CORE Analytics Platform
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Vincent Fedele
CORE Analytics
(732) 970-0733 vincent@zcoreanalytics.com
Zimmet Healthcare Launches Analytics Platform
“CORE” Redefines Skilled Nursing Facility Claims-Based Intelligence
Morganville, New Jersey – October 4, 2018 – SNF reimbursement is rapidly transitioning from a fee-for-service system to a value-based, managed model that presents significant financial risk to providers. This “race to the top” requires data-driven outcomes to quantify a provider’s value-proposition in the healthcare continuum.
CORE (“Claim Outcomes & Reimbursement Essentials”) applies proprietary intelligence to current SNF-specific and accretive peer-group data to produce meaningful and actionable insights. The CORE UB-04 intelligence solution generates comparative analysis, risk management support and reimbursement optimization logic – specifically designed for SNF financial and reimbursement professionals.
CORE was developed by Zimmet Healthcare Services Group, LLC (ZHSG), a leading post-acute care consulting firm servicing 2,500+ providers and industry stakeholders nationwide. ZHSG launched CORE as a distinct company in October 2018.
“Today’s SNF performance analytics either rely on dated MDS-driven elements that offer limited financial insight, or historic public claims that lack important variable-sensitivity. We got tired of explaining to our clients that the reporting they purchased had little practical relevance,” explained Marc Zimmet, President and Chief Executive Officer of ZHSG and CORE. He added, “SNF stakeholders need one standard tool that measures outcomes, episodic spend and variable care-cost related to current activity – the UB-04 is the only source with the detail and consistency needed for comparative integrity. Add the complexity of Medicare’s new Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM) and this level of sensitivity is an imperative.”
When aggregated across the continuum of care, CORE’s advanced reporting generates critical insight into provider efficiency, quality and cost – precisely the information that our upstream providers and payers use to measure post-acute network performance.
“The Medicare claim offers key performance indicators that the MDS cannot measure, notably ancillary costs (e.g. therapy, pharmacy, diagnostics), physician efficiency and preceding inpatient utilization – including length of the qualifying hospital stay,” explained Vincent Fedele, Chief Operating Officer of CORE. These variables are essential to comparative and predictive insight at the patient/disease/comorbidity-specific level.
Also embedded within the CORE database are comprehensive hospital metrics formatted to highlight post-acute referral patterns and the quality / efficiency of local competitors – providing the CORE user a significant advantage in the escalating battle for short-term SNF admissions.
CORE requires absolutely no integration with a SNF’s EMR or billing software; instead using Medicare’s standard electronic submission 837i protocols. “Our goal was to make the onboarding process as simple as possible” Fedele stated. “Integration / implementation costs and contract term commitments are nonexistent. A new client can be up and running within 15 minutes, with more precise data to improve a provider’s position in the context of healthcare reform.”
About CORE: Z-CORE Analytics, LLC
CORE Analytics is a scalable, start-up data intelligence software as a service solution providing market insights, reimbursement optimization, comparative analytics and risk management to the post-acute care industry. The company was developed by ZHSG and automates elements of longstanding proprietary, proven consulting services. CORE builds a facility-specific, accretive claims database with current utilization as the foundation. For more information, visit www.zcoreanalytics.com.
About ZHSG: Zimmet Healthcare Services Group, LLC
ZHSG is a full-service consulting firm committed to developing innovative solutions to the challenges of operating in the post-acute care industry. Founded in 1993, ZHSG is a leading provider of reimbursement / compliance, performance analytics, market strategy and transaction advisory support to 2,500+ post-acutecare providers and industry stakeholders throughout the country. The firm’s related companies offer outsourced management and technology solutions to improve healthcare quality and efficiency. For more information, visit www.zhealthcare.com.
