Home Health: 'HOME HEALTH COMPARE' SET TO GO LIVE, FLAWS AND ALL
Widespread errors with administrative data on the soon-to-be-unveiled Home Health Compare Web site will make checking that site a must for all home health agencies, once it's up and running.
Any day now, the site will begin comparing three patient outcomes for HHAs in eight pilot states. But it also will list administrative data - name, address, phone number, services provided, initial date of certification and type of ownership - for all agencies nationwide, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said in the Open Door Forum last month on the home health quality initiative.
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