Home Health & Hospice Week

Quality:

Get To Know Your New HCI Components

Find out what ‘burdensome transitions’ are.

Your potential patients, referral sources and more soon will see your Hospice Care Index measure on Care Compare. Are you ready to see how you measure up to your peers?

The HCI will include data on these 10 areas:

  1. Continuous Home Care (CHC) or General Inpatient (GIP) Provided
  2. Gaps in Skilled Nursing Visits
  3. Early Live Discharges
  4. Late Live Discharges
  5. Burdensome Transitions (Type 1) — Live Discharges from Hospice Followed by Hospitalization and Subsequent Hospice Readmission
  6. Burdensome Transitions (Type 2) — Live Discharges from Hospice Followed by Hospitalization with the Patient Dying in the Hospital
  7. Per-beneficiary Medicare Spending
  8. Skilled Nursing Care Minutes per Routine Home Care (RHC) Day
  9. Skilled Nursing Minutes on Weekends
  10. Visits Near Death

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