tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 18

Home Health: EXTRA, EXTRA - READ ALL ABOUT HHA QUALITY

Home health agencies, like nursing homes, are now making public reckonings of the quality of the care they provide - and other provider types are in for the same treatment. HHAs in eight states had their quality data made public May 1, with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services posting agency-specific data on 11 quality measures on the Medicare Web site. CMS a day later followed that move with newspaper advertisements laying out quality data on the HHAs. The move is part of a larger strategy to make health care providers more accountable for quality of care by...

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