Home Health & Hospice Week

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Peer At PEPPER Preview

Published on Fri Apr 10, 2015

CMS’s PEPPER contractor is offering a preview of the new HHA PEPPER in an April 30 WebEx session.

Reminder: Contractor TMF Health Qual-ity Institute will issue PEPPER benchmarking re-ports to HHAs for the first time in July (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXIV, No. 12).

Home Health & Hospice Week

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Peer At PEPPER Preview
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Home Health & Hospice Week

Peer At PEPPER Preview

Home Health & Hospice Week

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