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Health Care Reform Continues to Unravel this Week
By Stephen Tweed, CSP One of the hottest topics of discussion among private duty home care owners the first half of this year has been health care reform - the Accountable Care Act - and how it will affect the home care business. Our analysis shows that the law as written has the potential to have long term negative impact on many home care companies.But the biggest issue right now is the uncertainty. Owners are frustrated and concerned because they don't know how this law will affect their businesses and their personal lives.Read more... |
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How to Pay for Homecare: Convert a Life Insurance Policy into a Life Care Benefit
By Chris Orestis, CEO of Life Care Funding
Millions of seniors across the country needlessly abandon their life insurance policies as they begin planning for Senior Care. For many, they either cannot afford to pay the premiums or they plan to lapse or surrender their policies to qualify for Medicaid. What they don't realize is that they have the legal right to convert their policies into a Life Care Benefit Plan.
Converting a policy allows the senior to remain private pay - meaning they are not reliant on public assistance and can choose the form of care that they want: home care (Private Duty/Non-Medical and Skilled Medical), assisted living, skilled nursing, memory care, and hospice.
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Video of the Week: Controlling Operating Costs
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When increasing your billing rate, what guidelines do you use?
 There was a great question on our Linked In discussion group, Leading Home Care Network the other day. Thought you might like to see the response: Read more... |
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LinkedIn Group Update
 We are very excited to see that our discussion group, The Leading Home Care Network on LinkedIn has reached 4,300 members. This group has grown steadily over the past year, the continues to experience great interactive discussions.
Here are some of the most recent discussions in the group:
This is a closed group, and membership is limited to leaders in home health, hospice, and private duty home care companies. We do not allow vendors, recruiters, or people who are not related to home care. This limited membership means that all of the posts are relevant to you and the things that you are interested in reading and discussing. |
Private Duty Today is the leading electronic newsletter for owners, CEOs, and administrators of private pay, non-medical home care companies in the US and Canada. This newsletter is published by Leading Home Care ... a Tweed Jeffries company.
Permission to Reproduce. Articles from this issue may be reprinted by home care companies and home care associations. Permission is granted provided that the author and publication are given credit, and provided that the article is used verbatim in its entirety. All reprints must be accompanied by a mention of our website, at www.leadinghomecare.com and/or www.privatedutyacademy.org. Reprints of articles published online must have a link. Other use of this content is available with written permission only. To request permission, please email Jill@leadinghomecare.com. |
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Issue Number
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July 3, 2013
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All live web conferences are from 4:00 - 5:00 pm eastern time, unless otherwise noted.
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NEW Webinar Recordings in the Academy Store!
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The following web conference recordings have been added to the Academy Store: |
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CAREŠ Training Program by Barbara Akst (DVD Hard Copy)
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Your sales team has reached out into the community and your telephone is ringing. Is every member of your team who answers the phone able to convert inquiry calls into new business? If not, YOU can provide them with the training they need to succeed using the CAREŠ DVD training developed specifically for private duty homecare.
CAREŠ - A Relationship-Based Sales Training Program for Private Duty Homecare is a video training program designed specifically to help each team member who answers your phone increase business through the use of effective, relationship-based approaches that ultimately lead to lasting success.
The foundation of this program is built on genuine care for seniors and is reflected in the approach used throughout the training. The DVD provides insight into the skills and specific techniques that are required to help your business prosper. By investing in this video, you and your entire team will learn how to effectively use CAREŠ with all of your incoming calls and clients.
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