tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 8

Home Health: HHS LAUNCHES HOME HEALTH QUALITY INITIATIVE

As promised, the Bush administration has taken its health care quality improvement efforts into the home-health arena. Starting April 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will begin publishing results on 11 risk-adjusted outcomes measures for Medicare-certified home health agencies in eight states, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced Feb. 20. CMS will go national with the effort in the fall. In the meantime, the results will be available in newspapers and over the Internet in Florida, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina, Wisconsin, and West Virginia. Medicare’s quality improvement organizations will work with...

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