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Updated: January 10, 2005

 

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Contact CAHC:
Connecticut Assn for Home Care
110 Barnes Road, PO Box 90
Wallingford, CT  06492-0090
203.265.9931/203.949.0031 fax
Email: godbout@chime.org

 

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 CHARLES W. TIDD ASSOCIATES, LLC                                                                                                                   

 

 26 Brookwood Drive

Newtown, CT  06470

Contact: Charles W. Tidd

Ph: 203.426.5375

Fx: 203.426.5375

Email: charleswtidd@cs.com

 

Charles W. Tidd Associates, LLC. consultants in home care information management since 1994, assist home care agencies to be informed buyers and effective users of information systems.  Services include:

·        Evaluation and improvement of existing systems

·        Selection and implementation of new systems

·        Consultation in managing information systems investments

Paulette and Charley Tidd bring to their clients 68 combined years of management and information systems experience.  Charley is the principal author of Clinician’s Guide to PPS (NAHC, 2001).  He is a nationally recognized speaker on PPS issues and has been published in all home care journals. 

 

 

 DWORKEN, HILLMAN, LAMORTE & STERCZALA, PC                                                              

 

4 Corporate Drive, Suite 488

Shelton, CT  06484

Contact: Joseph A. Verrilli, CPA

Ph: 203.929.3535

Fx: 203.929.5470

Email: joev@dhls.com

 

Accounting, Auditing, Tax, and Consulting Services.

Web: www.dhls.com

 

 

 ELLIOTT INSURANCE                                                                                                                                     

 

P.O. Box 15

Plantsville, CT  06479

Contact: Gary Cardella

Ph: 888.276.5811

Fx: 860.276.8008

Email: gcardella@elliottinsgroup.com

 

Providing comprehensive liability coverage for home health care agencies including workers’ compensation.

 

 

 FGA SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS, INC.                                                                                                             

 

44 Stelton Road, Suite 315

Piscataway, NJ  08854

Contact:  John Morris, VP of Operations

Ph: 732.752.7052

Fx: 732.424.0084

Email: jm@fgainc.com

Web: www.fgainc.com

 

Since 1989, FGA has been providing software solutions, consulting services and support services to the Home Healthcare Industry.  Our integrated PROPHIT software application is a comprehensive solution for Homecare, Private Duty, and Hospice organizations.  PROPHIT’S comprehensive Billing, Executive Finance Reporting, and AR tracking, are just a few of the features that will help simplify and manage your operation.  FGA provides our PROPHIT software as an ASP solution, as well as providing Outsourcing services to help handle all Accounts Receivable management concerns.

 

 

 FRELE ASSOCIATES HOME CARE MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS                                          

 

36 Great Meadow Road

Redding, CT  06896

Contact: Maryellen Frele

Ph: 203.938.3335

Fx: 203.938.9926

Email: freleassoc@aol.com

 

Frele Associates Home Care Management Consultants is a leading home care management consultation firm offering a wide range of professional expertise including PPS management, operational analysis and reengineering, strategic planning, affiliation and merger negotiations, new business development, quality improvement, OBQI/OBQM, accreditation preparation, market analysis and planning, corporate compliance, hospice, HIPAA, and reimbursement regulations.

 

 

 H.M.S. HOMECARE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES, INC.                                                                       

 

8 Research Parkway

Wallingford, CT  06492

Contact: John Papandrea and Donna Galluzzo

Ph: 203.269.4667

Fx: 203.294.6711

Email: JohnP@HMSABC.com and DonnaG@HMSABC.com

 

Strategic Financial Management and Back Office Support Services (Accounting, Billing, Collections, Audit and Appeals Management and Information Systems).

 

 

 LEFKOWITZ, GARFINKEL, CHAMPI & DERIENZO P.C.                                                                         

 

10 Weybosset Street, Suite 700

Providence, RI  02903

Contacts: Stephen M. Garfinkel, CPA and Michael E. Criscione, CPA

Ph: 401.421.4800 or 800.927.LGCD

Fx: 401.421.0643

Email:   sgarfinkel@lgcd.com and mcriscione@lgcd.com

 

Certified Public Accounting and Business Consulting firm which provides Accounting and Auditing; Medicare Audits and Appeals; Cost Report and Income Tax Preparation; Corporate Compliance and Board Evaluation; Due Diligence Reviews; Buy/Sell/Merger Studies; Refinancing; and Budgeting.

Web: www.lgcd.com

 

 

 LETIZIA, AMBROSE & FALLS, P.C.                                                                                                              

 

One Church Street

New Haven, CT 06510

Contact: John Letizia

Ph: 203.787.7000

Fx: 203.787.7001

Email: lawyers@laflegal.com

 

Law firm representing employers and healthcare providers in the areas of corporate compliance, HIPAA, litigation, managed care, mergers & acquisitions, commercial closings, employment and workers’ compensation.

Website: www.laflegal.com

 

 

 LEWIS, INC.                                                                                                                                                       

 

8549 United Plaza Blvd, Suite 310

Baton Rouge, LA  70769

Contact: Ed Lakin

Ph: 225.709.2000

Fx: 225.709.2044

Email:   elakin@lewis.com

 

Home Health Information Management Software and Point of Care Software.

Web: www.lewis.com

 

 

 NATIONAL PRIVATE DUTY ASSOCIATION

 

8604 Allisonville Rd, Suite 260

Indianapolis, IN  46250

Contact: Todd Stallings, CHE

Ph: 317.844.7105

Fx: 317.575.8751

Email: info@privatedutyhomecare.org

 

The NPDA represents nearly six hundred private duty home care companies in 45 states and Puerto Rico.

Web: www.privatedutyhomecare.org

 

 

 PEACH & MCPHERSON, CPA                                                                                                                        

 

110 Washington Avenue

North Haven, CT  06473

Contact: James McPherson, CPA

Ph: 203.234.9426

Fx: 203.234.1548

 

Certified Public Accounting firm that provides accounting, auditing, and various other financial-related services to health care organizations. Other services include consultation services on reimbursement issues, including rate appeals, third-party contract negotiation, financial due diligence, financial projections and feasibility studies, and reviews of financial operations, including profitability analysis.

 

 

 REPONSE MEDICAL SERVICES                                                                                                                   

 

100 Prospect St, South Tower

Stamford, CT  06901

Contact: Victoria Griffith

Ph: 203.487.6077

Fx: 203.316.2817

Email: vgriffith@responseco.com

 

Career assistance.

Web: www.responsemedicalservices.com

 

 

 RJS ASSOCIATES, INC.                                                                                                                                               

 

RJS Associates, Inc., represented by over forty professional recruiters in out Hartford and Stamford offices, has been a leader in the recruitment and placement of Healthcare professionals since 1983.  Our contract/temporary company, Stewart Staffing Solutions, gives us full service capability in solving staffing needs.

 

RJS Associates, Inc.                                         Stewart Staffing Solutions, LLC

10 Columbus Blvd                                            10 Columbus Blvd

Hartford, CT 0610                                           Hartford, CT 06106

Phone: (860) 278-5840                                                Phone: (860) 278-5840

Fax: (860) 522-8313                                        Fax: (860) 8081830

Email: rjs@rjsassoc.com                                   Email: sss@stewartstaff.com

Website: www.rjsassoc.com                             Website: www.stewartstaff.com

 

 

 SIMIONE CONSULTANTS, LLC                                                                                                                    

 

4130 Whitney Avenue

Hamden, CT  06518

Fx: 203.287.1309

 

Contact: Mark Tsiames, Principal

Ph: 203.287.9288

Em: mtsiames@simioneconsultants.com

 

Contact: Suzanne Sblendorio,

Sr. Manager

Ph: 973.667.9485

Em: ssblendorio@simioneconsultants.com

 

For more than 30 years, Simione Consultants, LLC has been dedicated to the Home Care and Hospice industries.  Our consultants are industry experts with first hand experience in their areas of expertise.  Our services are tailored to your individual needs and reflect a keen understanding of the industry.  We provide operational, clinical, financial and strategic services to help you reach your goals of compliance, revenue maximization, and efficiency and effectiveness in clinical and business operations.  Whether you are new in business or established, large or small, we offer practical solutions to today’s problems to give you a leading edge for tomorrow.

Web: www.simioneconsultants.com

 

 

 SKEHAN AND ASSOCIATES, LLC                                                                                                                 

 

25 Old Hatchery Lane

Newington, CT  06111

Contact: Kimberly Skehan, RN, MS,

Principal

Ph: 860.665.0090

Fx: 860.665.0090

Email: kimskehan@sbcglobal.net

 

Health Care Management Consultation and Outsourcing Services. Specializing in Home Care - providing assistance with regulatory compliance/accreditation, utilization/data management and CQI/performance improvement.

 

 

 UHY ADVISORS                                                                                                

 

555 Long Wharf Drive

New Haven, CT  06511

Contact: Gregory Marazita,

Managing Director

Ph: 203.777.1099

Fx: 203.776.1065

Email: gmarazita@uhy-us.com

 

UHY Advisors (formerly Scillia Dowling & Natarelli Advisors) provides the highest quality accounting, tax and management consulting services to meet the challenging needs of the home care industry. Our scope of services includes: financial reporting; planning and preparation of federal, state and local taxes; and reimbursement consulting.

Web: www.uhy-us.com

 

 

 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATIONS OF NEW ENGLAND                                                              

 

200 Friberg Parkway, Suite 3005, Westborough, MA 01581

Contact: Philip R. Magnusson, CEO

Ph: 508.475.0210

Fx: 508.475.0207

Email: pmagnusson@vnane.org

 

The VNAs of New England (VNANE) is the largest network of non-profit home health care providers in New England. VNANE negotiates and manages contracts with managed care organizations and other purchasers for its members in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. (www.vnane.org , www.homecareoncall.com)

 

 

 WHITE OAK SYSTEMS, LLC                                                                                                                          

 

8 Research Parkway

Wallingford, CT  06492

Contact: Carl Caslowitz

Ph: 203.679.7702

Fx: 203.294.3411

Web: www.whiteoaksys.com

Email: info@whiteoaksys.com

 

     Staffed by experts in the fields of Information Systems and Home Health Care management, White Oak Systems has developed a revolutionary product for the administration and delivery of Home Health Care services called HomeRun.  HomeRun gives Case Management and Home Health Agencies the ability to integrate their clinical and financial data and manage their operations with a single software application.

     Both Home Health Care agencies and Case Management organizations benefit from the exceptional information system, management services and extraordinary customer service that is provided by White Oak Systems, as they are dedicated to helping organizations increase operational efficiencies, cut costs, increase revenue and maintain regulatory compliance.

 

 

 WIGGIN & DANA                                                                                                                                                          

 

One Century Tower, P.O. Box 1832

New Haven, CT  06508-1832

Contact: Jeanette Schreiber

Ph: 203.498.4334

Fx: 203.782.2889

Email: jschreiber@wiggin.com

 

Legal Services including regulatory, HIPAA and health information technology, reimbursement, compliance, government relations, managed care, risk management, labor and employment, employee benefits, legislative and government relations, patient care issues, corporate, tax and tax-exemption litigation.

Web: www.wiggin.com