Benchmarks
02/08/2024
COVID-19 continues to impact patient breathing in some patients, but agencies nationally are seeing improvement in the measure “How often patients’ breathing improved,” according to Care Compare results.
02/02/2024
Agencies increased salaries over the last year to attract and keep quality clinicians.
01/25/2024
Home health agencies are expecting more of their revenue to come from Medicare Advantage (MA) plans this year as enrollment grows
and payment rates decline for traditional Medicare fee-for-service.
01/11/2024
More than half of recent medical review denials from MAC Palmetto GBA were due to face-to-face encounter deficiencies.
01/04/2024
Agency leaders say detailed and timely clinician documentation was the biggest challenge, with physician education around documentation requirements coming in a strong second at nearly 50%.
12/22/2023
Recruitment and retention is expected to have the biggest impact on agency operations in 2024.
12/22/2023
With value-based payment adjustments largely dependent on hospitalization scores, it’s not surprising that is the top measure agencies said they’re focused on improving.
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).

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