Consulting Services

Your Key to Regulatory Compliance Success

ADVANTAGE Consulting and Education Services, Inc. follows a unique process that uses your organization's systems and policies, and our expertise to develop and implement Quality Assurance, Compliance, Education, and Support Systems to address your facility needs and to assist your facility in achieving regulatory compliance. ADVANTAGE consultants have provided training to the industry in all areas of achieving regulatory compliance, including how to read, utilize, and operationalize the Federal Register and Interpretive Guidelines.

The Pre-Survey ADVANTAGE™

How do you prevent regulatory distress and ensure regulatory success? Utilize The Pre-Survey ADVANTAGE™! Our team of nurses, social workers, and dietitians assess the facility's systems over three days in the same manner as the state surveyors. The Quality Indicators and Oscar reports are reviewed prior to the survey to determine potential areas of regulatory concern. Citation letters with recommendations for corrective actions are provided following The Pre-Survey ADVANTAGE™. Facilities that have followed through with the action plan have great confidence in the survey process and have consistently demonstrated regulatory success. Improve your regulatory success! Add The Pre-Survey ADVANTAGE™ to your risk management plan today!

System Support

Are you experiencing regulatory difficulties?
The ADVANTAGE System Support services help you achieve regulatory compliance. Our team works with facility managers to assess the effectiveness of systems and to educate staff on how to utilize those systems. ADVANTAGE has found that facilities generally have all of the systems needed to be in compliance. The key to success is identifying how to effectively utilize those systems to achieve compliance. The "hands on" approach of ADVANTAGE consultants assures team members learn through both training and demonstration.

Remediation Intervention

Are you in need of remediation?
Enforcement does not need to be negative. Take advantage of our positive approach and gain the positive results you are seeking. The ADVANTAGE team is considered the most user-friendly among our peers. We concentrate on solving problems, not pointing fingers. ADVANTAGE team members are certified temporary managers and monitors through the Michigan Public Health Institute. Their knowledge of the regulations and clinical practice guidelines have resulted in a 99% success rate in assuring Medicare and Medicaid licensure remains intact.

Medicare/PPS

Are you capturing your costs?
Reflect the true reimbursements you are entitled to by utilizing the ADVANTAGE Consulting Team. Inadequate reimbursements can negatively impact your bottom line. We work closely with your staff to implement proper PPS procedures to insure the accurate submission of MDS documents. We review resident records and assessments, and check encoding. We believe that increasing the accuracy of your submissions will allow you to truly capture your costs.