Benchmarks
03/27/2025
In its continued argument for payment cuts to agencies, MedPAC points to its analysis of fee-for-service Medicare margins for freestanding home health agencies, with a national average of 20.2% in 2023. But the data does show significant differences between small and larger providers.
03/20/2025
There were just two home health sales identified in the fourth quarter of 2024 — the lowest since the pandemic.
03/13/2025
A recent report in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety looked at the impact that employee trust in their leaders had on
professional satisfaction and high quality work in a survey of 353 health care workers.
03/06/2025
Discharge Function Score is not a top priority for quality improvement. It ranked fourth behind preventable hospitalizations, medication management and patient satisfaction.
02/27/2025
Home health agencies are struggling with standards around the care plan development and execution.
02/20/2025
Urinary tract infection was the number one inpatient diagnosis code for transfers to the hospital from home health.
02/13/2025
Agencies are relying on a variety of benefits to recruit and keep top clinicians.
02/06/2025
Your agency's Discharge Function Score is now publicly available on Care Compare, listed as "How often patients were at or above an expected ability to care for themselves and move around at discharge."
01/30/2025
The public is getting its first look at the home health quality measures around the Transfer of Health Information (TOH) to providers and patients. The national average is 80.13% for the TOH to subsequent providers and 89.57% for the TOH to patients. Results are based on OASIS assessments submitted from April 2023 to March 2024. 
01/23/2025
The latest hospice update at Care Compare shares collected data from 2022 and 2023 on nurse care minutes, visits in the last days of life and visits near death.

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