Home Health & Hospice Week

Get the latest in an updated manual.

With less than a month left to go until the first Value-Based Purchasing performance year starts, there’s lots to keep tabs on. Add one more item to the list.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued an updated version of the Expanded Model Guide. “The Model Guide includes an overview of the expanded Model, information on eligibility and cohorts, quality measures used in the expanded Model, Total Performance Score (TPS) methodology and payment adjustment methodologies, and an overview of the performance feedback reports,” CMS says in a message to providers.

A link to the updated document is under the “FAQs & Model Guide” section at https://innovation.cms.gov/innovation-models/expanded-home-health-value-based-purchasing-model.