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Start Working On Your HH Compare Measures To Prep For P4P

Published on Thu May 10, 2012

Tip: Put some resources into quality improvement. The timeline for a home health pay for performance system is hazy, but you can bet on its arrival, experts say. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services appears on board with the idea of a P4P system, now called Value-Based Purchasing (see related story, p. 138). "Implementation of a full scale home health VBP program will be a crucial next step in ongoing efforts to link payment to performance for home health services," CMS says in a report on home health VBP recently sent to Congress. "Home health VBP can help ensure that Medicare patients have access to timely, safe and effective home health services, protect the vulnerable home health population, and better allocate resources toward value." On one hand: CMS can't whip a VBP system into place overnight. "A congressional mandate is needed in order for [a VBP system] to go [...]
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