Benchmarks
12/22/2023
Agencies are looking at recruitment and retention, staff education and technology as priorities in 2024.
12/14/2023
The percentage of Medicare Fee-for-Service beneficiaries — aged 65 and up — who received a flu vaccine at the start of the season is down significantly from highs seen during the pandemic.
12/07/2023
Only 9% of agencies scored “better than the national rate” for the measure Home Health Within-Stay Potentially Preventable Hospitalization
(PPH).
11/30/2023
Agencies have seen improvement year-over-year in several publicly reported Care Compare quality measures, with the noteable exception of preventing falls with major injury, according to calendar year 2022 data released in the October refresh of Home Health Care Compare.
11/16/2023
Agencies nationally have seen steady improvement on the Care Compare item “How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed.”
11/09/2023
In justifying permanent payment cuts for home health providers, CMS notes in the 2024 final rule that the number of agencies operating under negative margins has not increased under PDGM.
11/02/2023
Wound care and endocrine patients required the most nursing visits from January to December 2022.
10/26/2023
“Requested records not submitted timely” was the top reason for denials for new hospice providers from April to June 2023.
10/19/2023
The national average was 84% for the HHCAHPS measure “How do patients rate the overall care from the home health agency?” according to Care Compare data captured from 984,076 surveys collected in 2022.
10/12/2023
Here’s a list of the top 10 primary diagnoses for the first half of 2023.

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