Evaluating Quality Outcomes & Star Ratings
- Room: Potomac C
- Session Number: 501
Monday, October 16, 2023: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Speaker(s)
Description
As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implements Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP), the home care landscape continues to become more competitive; agencies must track patient outcomes and train their staff to capture the appropriate and best results. In this session, Angie Karr of McBee, and Steve Pamer of Cleveland Clinic, will explain how these organizations collaborated to identify lower performing staff, monitor functional outcomes, evaluate and develop countermeasures to improve risk adjustment, develop platforms to improve staff performance and drive results including a 1.5-star rating improvement in Quality.
Topic(s)
Methodology
Course Level: Intermediate; 1.2 Accounting CPEs (NASBA/RE) 1 Nursing CNEs contact hours, 1 Nursing Home/Asst. Living Adm. CEs (NAB/NCERS)
Handout(s)
Additional Info
Learning Objective 1:
Identify strategies to monitor functional outcomes for HHVBP.
Learning Objective 2:
Describe how to improve staff performance in driving quality and star rating improvement.
Learning Objective 3:
Evaluate and implement strategies to improve risk adjustment.
Primary Target Audience:
Home Health