Pay-For-Performance: MedPAC Pushes Process Measures For HHA Quality
Home health is ready for P4P, report to Congress says
Patient outcomes won't be the only thing setting your pay level under pay-for-performance (P4P), if the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) gets its way. As far back as 2003, the influential advisory body to Congress recommended that Medicare use a portion of payments to reward providers for furnishing high-quality care or improving patient care, MedPAC notes in its June report to Congress. In 2005, the commission specifically urged Congress to implement P4P for home health agencies. A ready-made set of patient outcome measures is already available, MedPAC...
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