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Medicare-certified home health agencies are required to use a standard set of data
items, known as OASIS (Outcome and Assessment Information Set) as part of a comprehensive
assessment for all patients who are receiving skilled care that is reimbursed by Medicare
or Medicaid. OASIS data are submitted by home health agencies to the States, and subsequently
transmitted to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. These data form the basis for
patient case mix profile reports and patient outcome reports that are used by home health
agencies for quality improvement and quality monitoring purposes and by state survey staff
in the certification process. Home health agency quality measures that appear on the CMS
Home Health Compare website are also based on OASIS data, and the data are used for case-mix
adjustment of per-episode payment.
This site reports state and national mean values for all outcome measures included in
the Outcome-Based Quality Improvement and Outcome-Based Quality Monitoring Reports that are
available to home health providers from CMS.
This site provides a State-by-State comparison of the 41 risk adjusted measures which is
data from year ending 6 months ago.
Stabilization, Improvement in ADLs, IADLs, Physiological and Utilization outcomes are displayed.
Reports available on this web site include the following:
The quality measures for the Home Health Quality Initiative that you see on HH Compare* are a subset of a larger set of OASIS outcome measures that are well known to the home health agencies. Each agency has the capacity to download from CASPER their individual risk adjusted and descriptive outcomes which compare self to self or self to national reference. *Home Health Compare Web site Refresh Schedule Home Health Compare is refreshed quarterly; in 2008, the refresh will occur as follows: Refresh Date Reporting Period March 27, 2008 - October 2006 – September 2007 July 18, 2008 - January 2007 – December 2007 September 18, 2008 - April 2007 – March 2008 December 18, 2008 - July 2007 – June 2008
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