tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 37

HHAs: Get Ready For Quick P4P Phase-In

IOM recommends measure including clinical outcomes, efficiency and patient centeredness.The sooner the feds bring pay-for-performance (P4P) programs to home health agencies (HHAs), the better. So concludes a new report from the influential Institute of Medicine (IOM), a non-governmental advisory panel.Positive results: P4P programs in hospitals are already saving Medicare money while improving care--and the same could be true in HHAs, the study suggests.The report is noteworthy in two respects, observes Judy Adams of LarsonAllen in Chapel Hill, NC: It adds new support for the value of pay-for-performance to Medicare across the continuum of care and it...

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