tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 39

Home Health: HHAs Brace For Scrutiny Of their Patient Outcomes

Bathing, ambulation, oral meds in the national spotlight.  The Oct. 21 deadline for national rollout of the home health quality initiative may be pushed back, but it's still likely to be only a matter of days until the public is comparing home health agencies' patient outcomes. Physicians, discharge planners, patients and the public at large will be able to log onto Medicare's Home Health Compare Web site to look at patient outcomes soon after the original Oct. 21 launch date, a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services spokesperson said in the Oct. 7 Open Door Forum for home...

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