Home Health & Hospice Articles by Topic: HHCAHPS

In Focus: Patient Survey rating has agencies seeing more stars on Home Health Compare

• Homecare E-News, Issue 11, March 14, 2016

  In January, CMS posted the first Patient Survey Star Rating information on the Home Health Compare...

Patients who experience a decline in their condition upon their discharge from home health are impacting our outcome scores.

• Homecare Q&A, Issue 1, January 3, 2016

  You are correct, M1034 is risk adjusted. Please be sure clinicians are answering response “3...

My agency is desperately working on improving its "timely initiation of care" score on the HHCAHPS. Any tips?

• Homecare Q&A, Issue 21, November 3, 2015

  The measure is derived from the percentage of home health episodes of care during which the...

What happens to patients who can self-inject but cannot pre-fill insulin syringes?

• Homecare Q&A, Issue 9, May 3, 2015

  What happens to patients who can self-inject but cannot pre-fill insulin syringes?

Will home health remain exempt from overtime compensation in most circumstances like it has for 40 years?

• Homecare Insider, Issue 1, January 5, 2015

  Will home health remain exempt from overtime compensation in most circumstances like it has for 40...