Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
HHS AHRQ Wants Your HCBS Scientific Information
Published on Fri Oct 13, 2023
Want to improve the HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Evidence Map on Home and Community Based Services? Now’s your chance. AHRQ is soliciting “published and unpublished pertinent scientific information [to] improve the quality of this review” it’s conducting of the HCBS resource, according to an Oct. 5 Federal Register notice. Submissions are due by Nov. 6. More information is at www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2023-10-05/pdf/2023-22131.pdf.
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