Home Health & Hospice Week
PROPOSED P4P DEMONSTRATION MEASURES AND THEIR WEIGHTS
Published on Tue Nov 21, 2006
Incidence of Acute Care Hospitalization (25%)
Incidence of Any Emergent Care (15%)
Improvement in Bathing (10%)
Improvement in Ambulation/Locomotion (10%)
Improvement in Transferring (10%)
Improvement in Urinary Incontinence (10%)
Improvement in Oral Medications Management (10%)
Improvement in Status of Surgical Wounds (10%)
Source: Abt Associates P4P Slide Presentation, www.cms.hhs.gov/DemoProjectsEvalRpts/downloads/HHPP_Presentation.pdf
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