Home Health & Hospice Week
NQF Recommends Dumping 11 Stabilization Quality Measures
Measures have topped out, advisory body judges. You may have fewer home health quality measures to deal with, if one advisory body gets its way. The National Quality Forum recommends that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services remove 15 of the 79 measures in the Home Health Quality Reporting Program, according to a new report, “Maximizing the Value of Measurement: MAP 2017 Guidance.” But home health agencies may not be happy with the suggestions. The list, on pp. 14-15 of the report available via a link at www.qualityforum.org/Publications/2017/03/Maximizing_the_Value_of_Measurement__MAP_2017_Guidance.aspx, includes 11 stabilization measures because performance may be topped out. CMS already eliminated six process measures from the HH QRP and 28 measures from the Home Health Quality Initiative in the 2017 PPS final rule released last October (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXV, No. 41).
Home Health & Hospice Week
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NQF Recommends Dumping 11 Stabilization Quality Measures
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