Amedisys reviews

To meet production, you are required to make 25 home visits a week. If you have 25 scheduled visits and several are cancelled by patient or cannot reach pt then you are put on an "Action Plan". This is similar to a probationary time. BUT, if you see 30-40 patients in a week, you don't get any recognition UNLESS it is negative because you didn't get your visits transmitted by early the next morning. You are worked like a dog and you can forget about home life or a social life because there is NO WAY you can get everything done for your patient in the one hour time allotment, plus the POC completed. You end up giving this company many hours a week of your own time. 7 visits a day is a busy day, then you are called to do PRN visits, make all your own phone calls to MD's, write your own orders, follow up on labs, and so on. A regular workday is 8 hours. If you have 7 visits or more, they don't take into consideration the time it takes to get from point a to ppoint b to point c...and heaven forbid if you have to race a lab to the hospital inbetween. What exactly the Case Managers job is, it's beyond me...I have no clue anymore. Most of the time they are doing work that the DOO is behind in. I have worked in the Home Health care industry for over 25 years and this is the first time I have ever worked for a company that doesn't care about their employees. All they care about is how many Medicare patients they can admit and keep recerting over and over.....EVEN if the patient is well and out driving every day !!

LOTS of off the clock time required. Your are held to a strict productivity standards higher than most home health companies. The company absolutely lies about how they take care of their employees. They just don't and they don't care. It's profit driven. They don't pay what the government reimburses for mileage. PTO is used a lot for making up your hours which you don't always have control over. You don't have a say about your schedule and it gets changed constantly without your knowledge or permission. No continuity of care. They keep patients on the schedule that should be discharged. They take high acuity patients that are not appropriate for home health. High turnover! They use lots of agency staffing that will get your patients in times of low census to keep them busy even though you are short. Lots of meetings! No educational reimbursement for continuing ed hours to maintain your license. However they have an exhausting list of classes you must take or be written up and taken off the schedule until you complete. Hours and hours worth. They also make it very time consuming and difficult to get reimbursed for taking these classes on your own time. Hard to take vacation time. I got covid 2 x and they didn't pay me while quarantined. I had to use PTO. They also made it VERY difficult to return to work because of their policy that requires a physician to write a return to work letter. They purport that they pay employees that get covid but they didn't. They keep very difficult non compliant patients on the schedule. Don't believe the hype. You will work approximately 10+ hours/week for free. Yes, you can get a company vehicle that will cost approx $200.00/month. That said, you are their slave if you do. For sure not your 1st year and only if you are exceeding the productivity hours expected of you. for me it was 36 visits per/week. You will be expected to work weekends if you don't get your patients done. Missed visits are expected to be made up. No pay if you go to a patients house and they are not home even though they confirmed the visit the night before. The EMR platform is HCHB. Easy to use but very time consuming.