Home Health & Hospice Week

You can now access Medicare payment data for home health from 2015. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted the home health agency Public Use File with data for 2015, including utilization, payment, submitted charges, and condition indicators, CMS says. "The PUF has information for 10,526 home health agencies, over 6 million claims, and $18 billion in Medicare payments," the agency notes.

The PUF is at www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Charge-Data/HHA2015.html.