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Outcome and Process Measure Reporting Answers

Here are the answers from yesterday’s outcome and process measure reporting quiz! a. True. Home Health Compare (HHC) will report only on short-term episodes for best practice process measures. If an agency implements a best practice in the first episode and the patient is recertified, M2400, intervention synopsis, will never capture implementation. b. False. [...]

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Outcome and Process Measure Reporting Questions

Test your knowledge about OASIS-C outcome and process measure reporting. Identify whether each statement is true or false. a. Home Health Compare will not report every best practice an agency implements. b. The “physician-ordered plan of care” for M2250, plan of care synopsis, and M2400, intervention synopsis, refers only to the document, commonly known as the [...]

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Public Reporting Facts, Part 2

Last week’s post offered insight into different publicly reported outcomes. Here is a detailed list of exactly what will be reported. What will be reported? A. Process (7 domains, 13 measures) B. Potentially avoidable events (clinical domain, one measure) C. Utilization outcomes (utilization domain, two measures) D. End result outcomes (clinical and functional domain, seven measures) A. Process Measures (13) Timely Care: Timely [...]

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Public Reporting Facts

Now that OASIS-C has been implemented, one of the biggest questions home health professionals have is how and when outcomes will be publicly reported. Here are some facts about public reporting and OASIS-C.  Stay tuned for a more detailed list of all publicly reported measures next week. 1. Process Measure Outcomes Care process measures include timeliness, [...]

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