Home Health Quality Measures

The providers are the latest subjected to the CMS' five-star rating program, which helps consumers compare quality and safety at U.S. healthcare facilities. Of the more than 12,200 home health agencies She joined Modern Healthcare in 2014. A full-page ad in the Boston Globe warns readers about the overuse of antipsychotics in one specific nursing home. In 2012, the paper ran multiple stories on this topic. Meanwhile, CMS introduced a new initiative to improve behavioral health and reduce the The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) considers acute-care hospitalization (ACH) during home health to be one of the key quality measures for care given to homebound Medicare beneficiaries. Defined as the percentage of patients who had to be The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued its recommended core set of health home quality measures to states, according to an AHA News Now report. The measures apply to Medicaid-eligible children and adults, and align with the initial core Since 2013, Health Quality Ontario has reported on home care, looking at 11 different metrics. It tracks effectiveness measures like incontinence and communication problems, both of which worsened slightly between 2010/11 and 2011/12. For safety six of the pilot practices were “nurse-managed health centers.” Pilot participation was significantly associated with greater performance improvement on only one quality measure: nephropathy monitoring in diabetes. On 10 other quality measures .

as well as quality reporting projects geared towards home health, hospice, rehabilitation, and psychiatric facilities. MIPS has the most measures under consideration, with 35 suggestions, followed by the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program with 19 or the most valid measures of facility quality – both of which were principles outlined by CMS for the star ratings. Rating system for other health care providers, like home health and nursing homes, include measures such as patient satisfaction OBJECTIVES: (1) To demonstrate average length of service (ALOS) bias in the currently used acute-care hospitalization (ACH) home health quality measure, limiting comparability across agencies, and (2) to propose alternative ACH measures. DATA SOURCES/STUDY West Virginia Medical Institute, 3001 Chesterfield Ave., Charleston, WV 25304 Address correspondence to Charles P. Schade, M.D., M.P.H., West Virginia Medical Institute, 3001 Chesterfield Ave., Charleston, WV 25304; e-mail: cschade@wvmi.org. John G. .

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