Home Health: HHA Outcomes Debut On The Web This Month
The home health quality initiative will be hitting the Web and local newspapers in late October, and that leaves home health agencies crying foul over misleading data.
The national rollout of the public patient outcome comparison will look much the same as the eight-state pilot program that launched in May. The initiative will post the same 11 patient outcomes on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Home Health Compare Web site.
And three of those outcomes will be highlighted in newspaper advertisements across the country when the program launches. CMS plans to run at least one ad per...
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