Visonex

11/22/2022

Standardized Hospitalization Rate (SHR), Standardized Readmission Rate (SRR) and the impact these have on transitions of care as well as quality outcomes and financial performance of a dialysis organization are important to understand. Visonex has a solution to keep you connected with information, even when the patient doesn't report the event. Learn more at www.visonex.com

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08/19/2022

Managing the Managed Care Plans can be a challenge. Understanding the impact you may see in relation to changes in patient coverage, impacts to your current contracting process and how this cycle can be controlled are all important as we begin "budgeting" season.

News topics related to the dialysis industry seem to range from focusing on therapy options, to changes in regulations, changes in submission of information and most recently reviewing the cost of End Stage Kidney Disease and its impact to insurance providers. On June 21, 2022 the Supreme Court in M...

07/05/2022

More than 40,000 dialysis patients spent the night in a skilled nursing facility this holiday weekend. Is there an opportunity for dialysis facilities to assist in care within this environment? How can dialysis facilities understand the Transition of Care that occurs with each transport and interact using existing Electronic Medical Record technology. Visonex's Records Request can assist in providing this solution for your team.

Skilled Nursing Facilities are often sought out by family members or patients who have chronic illness or for focused areas of rehabilitation. These short or long term stay facilities allow residents access to 24- hour care and needed physical therapy, occupational therapy, dressing changes, intrave...

04/18/2022

April is Transplant Awareness month. Understanding patient obstacles from evaluation to transplant surgery help with process improvement.

A recent study on Improving Access to Kidney Transplantation published in Kidney Me Volume 3, Issue 5 in September/October 2021 Edition, identified barriers as expressed from both Transplant Centers and Dialysis Centers. Pointing out primary concerns such as transportation, healthcare knowledge, mul...

03/14/2022

Staffing issues plague many dialysis facilities. While there is no easy overnight solution, one area to consider which does not require separate certification is Self Care Dialysis. Bridging the gap to Home Therapies and assisting in meeting ESRD Treatment Choices Models (ETC Models), this modality may provide a solution. Read more in our recent blog.
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03/02/2022

How are you calculating ultrafiltration rates? Are you able to associate those within your documentation or do you have calculators on your workstations? Learn more about Visonex's inclusive UFR calculator.
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02/09/2022

Visonex provides solutions to day to day operations in documentation. However, the industry continues to be presented with challenges to revenue and collections. learn more about Visonex's ability to navigate solutions with clients.

In the last ten years, dialysis billing, revenue and quality metrics have changed greatly. Beginning in 2011, dialysis payments from Medicare became a bundled payment. This change was to decrease the total cost of therapy. Additionally, in 2012 quality metrics became attached to the standard bundled...

01/12/2022

Dialysis facilities continue to work toward implementation of successful home programs. Visonex's EHR is prepared to assist in the growth of home programs with our Home Program Documentation, Machine Interfaces to both Tablo and NxStage, using Nx2Me into documentation and updating billing interfaces to capture TPNIES for 2022 and beyond.

Transitional Payment for New and Innovative Equipment and Supplies (TPNIES) add-on begins January 2022. Learn more about Tablo dialysis here!