CHAP Accreditation is a must for home health care agencies. CHAP Accreditation is a critical next step for any home health care agency who has achieved state home health care licensure. Sure, you can start taking on patients once your home health care business is licensed, but how will your patients pay you for your services? Unless you are under the impression that your clients or their families are going to pay your home health care agency out of pocket, you will need to bill insurance companies, Medicaid and Medicare. If you want to have any of the options available to your home care business, CHAP Accreditation is a requirement for all 3. In rare cases, there may be a Medicaid Waiver program available to you without CHAP Accreditation, but this is rare and limits your home health care business and its future success.
In order to proceed with CHAP Accreditation, you will need to first identify whether or not you want to bill Medicare. If you do not want to bill Medicare, you will undergo CHAP Private Duty Accreditation. If you do wish to bill Medicare, you will need to proceed with the CHAP Medicare Accreditation process.
CHAP Private Duty Accreditation will require you to take on 8 patients prior to the CHAP Accrediting Body visiting your home health care agency to conduct the CHAP Private Duty Accreditation audit. CHAP Medicare Accreditation will require your home health care agency to take on 10 patients prior to the CHAP Medicare Accreditation audit.
Before you are able to proceed with CHAP Accreditation, you must first become a licensed home health care agency in your state unless your state does not require you to become a licensed home health care agency. If you are seeking CHAP Medicare Accreditation, you will need to complete the CMS 855A Medicare Application before enrolling with the CHAP Accrediting Body.
If you would like assistance with your state home health care license, 855A Medicare Application and CHAP Private Duty Accreditation or CHAP Medicare Accreditation, our home health care consultants are here to assist you and answer any questions you might have. If you proceed with CHAP Accreditation without having knowlege of the process, you will fail your CHAP Accreditation forcing you to revisit the process and more than $5,000 in fees all over again. Not to mention, there are many details and factors you need to be aware of before you even consider proceeding with the CHAP Accreditation process on your own. Staff requirements, Medicare capitalization, policies and common deficiencies are details that most are unaware of when they first decide starting a home health care agency is something they are looking to achieve. Do not go about this costly, time consuming process on your own. Our home health care consultants are just a phone call away and able to provide everything you need to successfully achieve CHAP Accreditation for your home health care agency. Call 888-850-6932 today to speak with our home health care consultants.
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