Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
Put Your Peepers On Your New PEPPER Report
Published on Fri Aug 28, 2020
There’s still time to sign up for training on the newest home health agency PEPPER benchmarking data reports. Register for a Sept. 1 webinar on the new Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report, which includes statistics through December 2019, at https://pepper.cbrpepper.org/Training-Resources/Home-Health-Agencies. The session will cover “the history/background of PEPPER, a high-level review of the target areas, a walk-through of a sample PEPPER to include the new format, and guidance for accessing the PEPPER,” says PEPPER contractor the Reli Group.>
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