Improving your PACE Program

Many PACE providers have thrived since PACE evolved from demonstration status to permanent recognition by Medicare and Medicaid. While most existing PACE providers are doing some or most components of PACE very well, most PACE programs’ performance can be enhanced. Altitude Edge Consultants has significant experience in operating and expanding PACE operations to full potential. Through a variety of targeted services, Altitude Edge can offer a fresh approach to operating your PACE program, and help you to maximize its potential.

Strategic Planning: Altitude Edge offers strategic planning services for PACE providers that generate a clearer focus for the provider, resulting in more efficiency and effectiveness. Our strategic planning process includes:

• Setting realistic goals and objectives consistent with the organization’s PACE mission
• Communicating those goals and objectives inside and outside the organization
• Developing a sense of ownership of the plan
• Targeting limited resources on key priorities
• Providing feedback and measurement mechanisms.

Financial Analysis: Altitude Edge can help you to develop a pro forma for your PACE program or analyze your financial situation so the program can become more profitable and thrive.

Focus Group Research: If you are looking to get insight into how your community’s stakeholders perceive your PACE organization, Altitude Edge can organize and facilitate focus groups to help you to obtain an objective assessment. As a result, you will uncover important information that can be turned into actionable activities that can enhance your PACE program on many levels, including marketing, operations and enrollment. Altitude Edge will compile your focus group results to help identify opportunities for program improvement.

Enrollment Assessment and Planning: Building enrollment census for a PACE program is essential. Altitude Edge has the experience to help positively impact your enrollment.

Marketing Review and Planning: Getting the "word out" about your PACE program is critical. We will review your current marketing plan for PACE and help you to determine the most cost effective allocation of marketing funds to obtain maximum impact. With complete marketing services, Altitude Edge can create an entire integrated marketing plan for your PACE program and create all the marketing materials you will need to successfully introduce a PACE to a local community. 

PACE Operations Review and Optimization: Through our extensive experience, developing and operating PACE programs, Altitude Edge can help analyze your integrated operations and maximize efficiencies.

Medicare Risk Adjustment: With full risk adjustment now if effect, it is important PACE organizations understand the implication this will have on their revenues. Altitude Edge can help organizations understand and prepare for Medicare Risk Adjustment through analysis, planning and organizational alignment. 

Medical Quality Management: Successful PACE programs will review and adjust medical utilization based on patient efficacy and positive patient outcomes. Working closely with health care professionals, we are able to guide best practice protocols in ways that conserve valuable resources and maximize participant outcomes.

Leadership Development and Physician Training: If your PACE program is looking to expand or improve its PACE programs outcomes,  we can assist with leadership development and educate physicians involved with your program to maximize their effectiveness .

For more information, please contact:
Altitude Edge Consultants
info@altitudeedge.com