Benchmarks
07/21/2023
Agencies can expect a payment decrease in 2024 for 30-day home health periods, but payments for individual visits are expected to go up slightly.
07/13/2023
After increasing in 2021 and 2022, the national average for the 30-day period payment amount is expected to see its second consecutive decrease in 2024.
07/13/2023
MS rehab saw a 1 percentage point climb in the distribution of 30-day periods among clinical groupings in 2022, according to CMS data shared in the 2024 proposed payment rule. Respiratory, which increased significantly since the start of the pandemic, had only a slight decrease in total periods.
06/28/2023
Compare your 2022 Net Promoter Scores with the national averages. The data include year-over-year average customer satisfaction scores for over 111,000 Home Care Pulse experience surveys with home care customers.
06/22/2023
Employee referral programs ranked as the second most common care professional recruitment source for 2022, according to the Home Care Pulse’s 2023 HCP Benchmarking Report.
06/14/2023
Home health aides had the highest turnover rate, according to the 2022-2023 Home Care Salary and Benefits report.
06/07/2023
by: DecisionHealth Staff
Scores for some of the OASIS-based measures that drive HHVBP payments increased for those agencies in the pilot states when comparing the baseline years, 2013-2015, and the HHVBP years, 2016-2021 while some scores for ED use declined.
05/31/2023
While EHRs were used in a third of all cases to send medication information to other providers, a significant number of patients received information via this route.
05/25/2023
The percentage of time that clinicians mark “0 — Does not apply — I have not had any pain or hurting in the past 5 days,” for new OASIS-E item J0510 (Pain effect on sleep) varies greatly depending on the region that agencies operate.
05/25/2023
The percentage of time that clinicians mark “0 — Does not apply — I have not had any pain or hurting in the past 5 days,” for new OASIS-E item J0510 (Pain effect on sleep) varies greatly depending on the region that agencies operate.

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