CMS has recently posted frequently asked questions on its home health value based purchasing site.

The questions involve a dozen topics: EIDM registration; points of contact; implementation; OASIS measures; new measures; HHCAHPS measures; claims-based measures; data submission; scoring; reports; payments; miscellaneous.

Among the questions addressed:

  • How will this payment model impact newly certified agencies? 
  • Will the OASIS-based measures be calculated using OASIS assessments from all the beneficiaries that a HHA provides service or just the Medicare FFS population? 
  • Will the baseline data be individual, or based on all the other agencies in the nine states in the Model?
  • When will benchmarks and thresholds be available to competing HHAs?
Read an upcoming HHL for more details and analysis.