tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 11

Home Health: CMS Whittles Home Health Compare Measures To 10

Risk adjustment problems keep 5 NQF-endorsed standards on the sidelines.Home health providers won't have to worry about publicly reported outcomes that aren't risk adjusted when the major revision to Home Health Compare hits this fall.That's thanks to a decision by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services not to adopt five of the 15 measures endorsed by the National Quality Forum for CMS' comparison of home health agency patient outcomes.CMS says it will adopt 10 of the measures NQF endorsed Feb. 7. But it won't take up four outcome-based quality monitoring measures, otherwise known as adverse...

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