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Regulations:

Claims Become Source For Hospital, ER Measures

Published on Thu Aug 30, 2012

But the hospitalization change takes place only on your CASPER reports.Your hospitalization and emergency department outcome measures may get more accurate, now that the source for the information is changing.Old way: Formerly, home health agencies' CASPER reports and the Home Health Compare website based Acute Care Hospitalization and Emergency Department use without hospitalization on agencies' own submitted OASIS data.New way: Now, HHAs' CASPER reports include claims-based ACH and ED use measures, Robin Dowell of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said in the Aug. 22 Open Door Forum for home care providers. The CASPER reports also include the OASIS-based ACH measure, but the OASIS-based ED measure is gone from the report altogether, Dowell added.The OASIS-based ED measure will also be eliminated from Home Health Compare starting in October, a CMS source explains to Eli. CMS finalized the move to remove the OASIS-based ED measure last year.CMS still bases the [...]
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