Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Home Health:

HHS LAUNCHES HOME HEALTH QUALITY INITIATIVE

As promised, the Bush administration has taken its health care quality improvement efforts into the home-health arena. Starting April 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will begin publishing results on 11 risk-adjusted outcomes measures for Medicare-certified home health agencies in eight states, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced Feb. 20. CMS will go national with the [...]
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