tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2015 Issue 12

Home Health Quality of Care: Create Meaningful Distinctions Across Agencies, Says CMS

Get ready for the statistical clustering technique. If you thought that surveys were your only headache, just wait until the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) recently announced new survey-based star rating hits your agency. CMS held a Special Open Door Forum on May 7 to discuss and clarify issues regarding its initiative to post star ratings for home health agencies (HHAs) based on HHCAHPS patient survey data. This January, the “patient survey star rating” will join the “quality of patient care star rating” that CMS will begin posting in July.  2 Different Ratings...

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