Home Health & Hospice Week
Polish Up These 10 Measures Selected To Calculate Your Star Rating
Acute hospitalization is included.
Medicare officials say they gave a lot of thought to which measures would go into home health agencies’ coming star ratings. Here are the measures they are proposing for the calculation.
Process Measures
1. Timely Initiation of Care
2. Drug Education on all Medications Provided to Patient/Caregiver
3. Influenza Immunization Received for Current Flu Season
4. Pneumococcal Vaccine Ever Received
Outcome Measures
5. Improvement in Ambulation
6. Improvement in Bed Transferring
7. Improvement in Bathing
8. Improvement in Pain Interfering With Activity
9. Improvement in Dyspnea
10. Acute Care Hospitalization
Note: The ACH measure is based on claims data, CMS clarified in the Dec. 17 Special Open Door Forum.
CMS will consider stakeholder input before finalizing the measures, CMS says on its website.
HHAs must have at least 20 complete quality episodes for data on a measure to be reported on Home Health Compare, CMS notes. To have a star rating computed for Home Health Compare, HHAs must have reported data for six of the 10 measures.
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