How to Minimize Income

I have never been inside an agency that has too much cash on hand but if you happen to be one who would like to earn a little less money, I can help. Follow the steps outlined below to minimize your income and prevent the problem of not knowing what to do with all your extra money.

1. Do not invest in ICD-9 or OASIS training for your staff. They can read the internet just like everyone else.
2. Make sure that every patient in your agency is scheduled to be seen by a nurse once a week for nine weeks. It doesn’t matter how many or how few visits are needed to provide good care. What’s important is that it is easy to follow a 1w9 pattern.
3. Do not waste your time putting in processes to manage therapy. You only stand to make money if therapy is tightly managed and missed visits are made up as quickly as possible.
4. Make frequent use of the hospital. Not only will you lose money by providing extra care to patients discharged from the hospital but your patients might just be safer there if you are planning on implementing any of these measures.
5. Do not provide any management training for your nurses. Simply expect that because they are ideal clinicians that they will know how to manage a business and staff.
6. Finally, hire your staff indiscriminately. Anyone with an R and an N behind their name can do OASIS. If you are bound and determined to keep extra cash to a minimum, treat the nurses as though they are disposable and easily replaceable. Certainly that is the case if you are not looking for loyal, qualified employees.

Anyone who tries any of these strategies, please post a comment so we can evaluate their effectiveness.