START A HOME HEALTH CARE BUSINESS
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If you are looking to start a Medicare-approved or Medicaid-certified home healthcare agency, 21st Century Health Care Consultants is a team of home healthcare consultants specializing in state-specific licensing processes, CHAP Medicare Accreditation, and CHAP Medicaid and Private Duty Accreditation.
Our home healthcare consultants understand what it takes to start and build a reputable home healthcare business from the ground up.
Offering ongoing support and home healthcare training, 21st Century Health Care Consultants will train, support, and guide your home healthcare business to success.
Our home healthcare business startup program will ensure that your home healthcare business has everything it needs to be a successful, compliant home healthcare agency that is a force to be reckoned with.
Your home health care business will become licensed, CHAP accredited, and trained to provide skilled home health care services and non-medical home care services if the effort to assist the elderly and disabled population with their daily living activities and provide medical support to ensure they remain in their home and lead quality, fulfilling life without the need of a long terms health care facility such as an assisted living facility or nursing home.
Home health care license requirements vary from state to state, from the type of insurance, your home health care business will need to secure, to the detailed staff requirements, no two states’ are exactly alike.
Our home health care training program will assure that your home health care business is doing everything it can to become and remain a profitable home health care agency in your community.
Home health care businesses are the preferred health care providers in the eyes of Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance companies. As hospitals are pressured to lower their readmission rates, your home health care business will be a driving force providing support, education, and home health care assistance to patients in need of care.
Starting a home health care business will prove to be challenging, yet rewarding and highly profitable. Home health care is a need, not a want; your client base is limitless.
21st Century Health Care Consultants team of home health care consultants will assist you from the process of incorporating your home health care business, to achieving state licensure and CHAP accreditation.
Once you are an accredited home health care business, you and your staff will enjoy a lifetime of ongoing support and training provided by our team of dedicated home health care consultants. Having worked in all states that are open to licensure, we are well informed and understand the state by state home health care licensure requirements.
Starting a home health care business does not have to be a difficult process.
Let our home health care consultants save you time and money by walking your home health care agency through each step of this difficult process.
Starting a home health care business is one of the best, if not the best opportunity you will have to start a business.
The demand for home health care services in the home is greatly increasing as the aging population rises and hospitals fight to keep their readmission rates low.
Home health care businesses benefit the entire community and are highly profitable with opportunities for reimbursement from Medicare, Medicaid, and other companies. One can only think of a few business opportunities that are as rewarding as starting a home health care business.
A home health care business has the opportunity to spare government programs like Medicare and Medicaid unneeded expenses, while greatly increasing the quality of life for the elderly and disabled population in need of medical services.
As a home health care business, your home health care agency will offer skilled medical home health care services and non-medical home care services to patients in need.
It is important to realize the difference between skilled medical home health care and non-medical home care.
Skilled medical home health care businesses offer home health care services to patients under doctors’ orders while non-medical home care businesses offer non-medical home care services and assistance with daily living that does not rely on doctors’ orders.
Anyone can receive non-medical home care services without a doctor’s guidance.
Starting a home health care business will require greater funding and a deeper staff requirement than it will start a non-medical home care business.
Once you decide which type of business you would like to start, you have 3 options.
You can start your home health care business or home care business on your own, with a home care franchise company, or with the help of a consultant.
Do you have the time and energy to achieve home care or home health care licensure, accreditation and gather all of the documents and policies necessary to operate your home health care business all while training staff and building patient resources? Not to mention, the ongoing home care training you and your staff will need to compete in the competitive home care market.
Many home care and home health care agency owners do not realize the many variables that exist when starting a home health care business.
Will you achieve home health care licensure as quickly as possible?
Will you undergo a flawless home health care accreditation audit?
Are you keeping in mind employee retention and possible struggles marketing your home health care business?
A home health care consultant can assist you with all of this.
Home health care franchise companies provide you with a name and a marketing plan, but you are on your own when it comes to the ongoing support and training your home health care agency will truly need.
If your home health care franchise or home care consultant does not employ a team of true home health care professionals, how great is their knowledge really?
Our home health care business consultants are a full-time staff of nearly 40 employees including home health care licensing specialists, registered nurses, and other specialists ready to assist your home health care business and guide you through the process of home health care licensure and home health care accreditation. All while offering home health care training and support to you and your staff.
Our home health care consultants will help you open a home health care agency or start a home health care business with no home health care startup royalty or franchise fees.
Our services are 100% guaranteed. Our home health care consultants will work with you until you are licensed and accredited and provide unlimited training for the lifetime of your home health care business.
The best part is, there are no ongoing fees.
You pay only one low cost, far less than the high cost of other, less knowledgeable, and smaller teams of home health care consultants that are forced to offer their services at such a high cost because of their small teams and insufficient turnaround times.
Home health care and home care franchise companies charge ongoing royalty fees and territory restrictions with no regard for your growing pains.
As the owner of a home health care business, only the state of New York requires that you have some form of home care experience.
In all other states, home care experience is not necessary to own and operate a home health care or home care business.
You will however need to employ the required staff dictated by your state’s home health care standards.
Our home health care business consultants will provide strategy and planning assuring a flawless startup.
Have you ever tried contacting the department of health in your state?
In most states, it is hard to contact the right person and you get the run around asking how to start a home health care business.
Our home health care consultants will educate you and assure you are ready and comfortable with the process before they will ever ask you if you are ready to move forward and take the next step towards starting your home health care business.
If you are considering opening a Home Health Care Agency then look no further.
Call us for a no-obligation consultation. (888) 850-6932 or to get the more detailed information you can visit our site at. www.1staccreditation.com
Basic Requirements to starting a Home health Care Agency
Some basic requirements are:
- Register your home health care business name
- Acquire your home health care business EIN and NPI numbers
- Acquire insurance
- Obtain home health care policies and procedures manuals in compliance with state and accrediting body standards
- Secure the required staff (as detailed in state and later, accrediting body standards)
- Achieve state home health care business licensure (in most states)
- Gather all of the operational documents necessary to start a home health care business
- Complete the 855a Medicare application (if you want to bill Medicare)
- Prepare for the Medicare capitalization requirement
- Know and understand the medicare accreditation process
- Take on 10 patients to achieve Medicare accreditation
- Enroll with an accrediting body
- Undergo Medicare accreditation survey (3 day audit)
- Complete a plan of correction (if required), hope that you get it all right!!!
And this is just the startup process.
Depending on the state your home health care business is located in, you will need 1 or 2 Registered Nurses to achieve home health care licensure.
Once you are ready to proceed with Medicare Accreditation, you will need 2 Registered Nurses and 2 Administrators. Other variables include home health care licensure time.
Some states offer licensure in as little as 2-3 months, while other states take as long as 18 months like New York. Most states will take around 4-6 months before you become a licensed home health care business, assuming you satisfy the state and get it right the first time.
There are also a few states that will give you a provisional home health care license, ask that you take on 1 to 3 patients, and then conduct a site survey auditing your patient charts. Other variables include your written business plan, commercial office space vs home office, etc.
Discussing home health care startups in broad terms as we are here, you need to understand that this is a business.