Critical Access and Rural Hospitals
Are you achieving peak performance as a Critical Access Hospital (CAH)? Has the CAH designation provided the financial results you expected? Drawing on years of experience assisting rural hospitals, LarsonAllen will help you excel.
Your challenges
- Determining whether to pursue the Critical Access Hospital (CAH) designation
- Applying for the CAH designation
- Achieving peak operational and financial performance under the CAH designation
- Assuring accurate cost allocation
- Understanding how interim payments relate to current year costs
- Complying with CAH regulations
- Developing and maintaining clinical programs (skilled nursing, provider clinics, home care) that result in financial success
Our services for Critical Access Hospitals
- Audit, accounting, and tax
- Physician collaboration, modeling, and facilitation
- Reimbursement analysis
- Strategic capital planning
- Operations and performance improvement
- Cost report preparation
- Interim settlement analysis
- Feasibility and cash flow analysis
- Service integration studies
Our approach
LarsonAllen values personal, professional relationships, teamwork, open communication, and efficiency. Our CPAs, consultants, and advisors have years of experience providing insights on how to reach peak operating performance as a CAH. We help you understand the regulations and implications of being designated as a CAH, so that you can thrive in your community.
Our professionals stay on top of federal and state policy updates. You'll also benefit from our original research, statistics, and techniques developed specifically for the rural hospital industry—like the Critical Access Hospital Gold Standard Performance Summary.
Contact us for more information.