CMS is continuing to update resources ahead of the first performance year of the expanded Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) model.
That includes an updated FAQs with answers to questions about the preview reports and the planned interim and annual performance reports. New and updated responses also look at the difference between percentile rankings and the eventual adjusted payments and how risk adjustment tries to account for patients that aren’t expected to improve.
”Risk adjustment is necessary to account for differences in patient case mix among different HHAs that affect performance on outcome measures,” the FAQs state. “That is, age and pre-existing conditions impact how patients perform on outcome measures and risk adjustment accounts for the differing types of patients served by HHAs and enables comparison across HHAs.”