You now have access to their first interim performance report (IPR) under Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP).
Results in 2023 will determine your final payment rate in 2025, with the potential to gain or lose up to 5% based on how your agency performs on key metrics when compared with agencies nationwide.
The July 2023 IPRs are now available on iQIES in the “HHA Provider Preview Reports” folder if your agency was Medicare-certified prior to Jan. 1, 2022. IPRs are not available to the public.
The data includes OASIS-based data from April 1, 2022, to March 31, 2023 — so three months of OASIS data that will impact your scores. Claims-based and HHCAHPS survey data is limited to 2022 data, so not reflecting 2023 data that will impact your scores.
The IPR provides feedback on your measure performance relative to achievement thresholds, benchmarks, improvement thresholds and the performance of your cohort.
CMS notes the IPR includes:
- Your agency’s interim measure performance scores and an interim Total Performance Score (TPS);
- Improvement, achievement, and care points reflecting your agency’s performance relative to your own performance and the performance of other agencies in your cohort, including the achievement thresholds and benchmarks for your cohort;
- Measure scorecard information to support your agency with understanding how each individual measure contributes to your interim TPS; and
- A Total Normalized Composite (TNC) Change Reference tab to assist you in understanding your performance on the individual OASIS items included in the two TNC measures.