Through its measure management initiative, CMS is reducing the number of measures reported to home health agencies in on-demand tally reports.
CMS will remove previously retired measures from these reports starting in January 2020. These retired measures are:
- Improvement in grooming;
- Improvement in toileting hygiene;
- Improvement in eating;
- Improvement in urinary tract infection;
- Stabilization in cognitive functioning;
- Improvement in anxiety level;
- Stabilization in anxiety level;
- Improvement in behavior problem frequency;
- Emergency department use with hospitalization;
- Depression interventions implemented during all episodes of care;
- Treatment of pressure ulcers based on principles of moist wound healing for all episodes;
- Drug education on high risk medications provided to patient/caregiver SOE;
- Falls prevention steps implemented for all episodes;
- Pressure ulcer prevention implemented for all episodes; and
- Pain interventions implemented during all episodes.