tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 37

Home Health: MedPAC Wants HHA Payments Tied To Quality

Advisory commission forges ahead despite industry's concerns.More than home health agencies' reputation may soon ride on their quality measures - cold hard cash could be on the line.The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission wants to tie home health agency payments to quality measures in the near future, the influential advisory body to Congress indicated in its Sept. 9 meeting.Despite industry reservations, MedPAC appears likely to recommend some sort of tie between payment and quality for HHAs. The main question is what quality indicators MedPAC will use.Currently MedPAC is considering two data sets Medicare already uses -...

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