Companion to Getting Paid to Do the Right Thing
The scorecard, worksheets, reviews, and dated fact cards the chapters point to
Companion to Getting Paid to Do the Right Thing · Updated 2026-09-29
The chapters of Getting Paid to Do the Right Thing argue that between-visit care is a Medicare business and describe how to run one. This companion holds the working material: the scorecard, the role questions, the worksheets, the review agendas, the Monday Morning Page, the completeness checklist, and the Medicare program fact cards.
Nothing here replaces the book. The fact cards carry a date (“as of 2026”) because CMS rules and payment amounts change; they are kept here so they can be revised between editions. Check each card against the current CMS booklet and fee schedule before you plan on it.
- Scorecard and Monday Morning Page: the numbers to produce every month and the one page behind the weekly huddle.
- Role questions, worksheets, and operating reviews: the questions, one-page tools, and agendas for each role and meeting.
- Completeness checklist: what a mature operation can answer, program by program.
- Program fact cards: what each Medicare program buys, who qualifies, what has to happen, and the 2026 amounts.
In this section
- Produce Every Between-Visit Care Number by Program, Every Month
A practice running between-visit care should be able to produce every number on this page, by program, every month, without a week of spreadsheet work.
- Ask Each Role the Questions Only It Can Answer
Each role in a between-visit program sees a different part of it.
- Six One-Page Worksheets Turn Each Method Into Team Work
Each worksheet is a one-page tool that turns a chapter’s method into something a team fills in together.
- Three Review Agendas Keep the Meeting on Decisions
A review template keeps a monthly meeting on the numbers that matter and off the ones that are easy to report.
- Fill In the Monday Morning Page in Fifteen Minutes
This is the one page behind the weekly thirty-minute huddle in “The Operation Matters More Than Any Single Program.” Someone should be able to fill it in within fifteen minutes on Monday morning, before the first patient arrives.
- A Mature Between-Visit Operation Can Answer Every Question by Program
A mature between-visit care operation can answer every question below, program by program.
- Check Each Program Fact Card Against Current CMS Rules
Fact cards for the Medicare programs that pay for care between visits: what each buys, who qualifies, what has to happen, and the 2026 amounts.