Home Health & Hospice Week

First IPR is nearly here.

Now that you’re nearly halfway through your first performance year under the Expanded Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model, it may be time to start focusing more on the program.

You can start with a July 27 live stream event, Overview of the Interim Performance Report (IPR): The July 2023 IPR. “Members of the HHVBP Model Technical Assistance (TA) Team will provide an overview of the data and information available in the IPR, which will help home health agencies (HHAs) monitor their performance during the calendar year (CY) 2023 performance year,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says on the Expanded HHVBP webpage.

Reminder: “Only CCNs with a Medicare-certification date prior to January 1, 2022, will receive a July 2023 IPR,” CMS says on the page.

The July IPR will be the first of its kind. Previously, CMS has issued Pre-Implementation Performance Reports (PIPRs). Instructions on how to access your HHA’s November 2022, January 2023, and April 2023 PIPRs are on the VBP webpage at https://innovation.cms.gov/innovation-models/ expanded-home-health-value-based-purchasing-model under “Model Reports.”

Register for the event at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/ register/WN_g2zQipY-ScimeuJnp7Nv8g#/registration.