Quality Outcomes
12/25/2025
Include a patient's other providers in your discharge planning process to move the needle on the stubborn Medicare spending per beneficiary measure that will be more important than ever beginning in 2026.
12/19/2025
Prepare for significant adjustments to your agency’s publicly reported scores around major falls as CMS plans to incorporate more data into the Falls with Major Injury quality measure.
12/19/2025
As the Trump administration promises to pave the way to making weight loss drugs more affordable and accessible to Medicare patients, your agency may be seeing more of these medications in the future. 
12/19/2025
This tool breaks down the new steps that will be added in determining your agency's score on Falls with Major Injury (FMI).
12/04/2025
Updates finalized in the home health payment rule include three new OASIS measures and the addition of the claims-based Medicare spending per beneficiary item.
12/04/2025
Responses to the updated survey won’t be publicly reported until Oct. 2027, but CMS will start using the responses from April 2026 when calculating star ratings. That makes staff understanding of the HHCAHPS changes critical from day one.
11/20/2025
CMS' plan for a shorter, easier HHCAHPS survey is coming at just the right time. New data for 2024 surveys finds response rates dropped nationally from 24% to 23%. Many states saw at least modest declines in response rates year-over-year.
10/30/2025
The following questions were answered by J’non Griffin, senior vice president/principal of coding and compliance with SimiTree, based in Hamden, Conn, and Apryl Swafford, QA manager with SimiTree.
10/30/2025
Boost your team’s ability to achieve and exceed patient safety and independence goals by developing a structured physical activity program that all members of the interdisciplinary team can help facilitate. This holistic approach to care can help reduce hospitalizations, falls and nonadherence to the plan of care, improving value-based reimbursement and publicly reported outcomes on Care Compare.
09/25/2025
Agencies that implement strategies to mitigate these concerns in the plan of care could see higher levels of patient engagement and adherence with the plan of care — improving the odds of a successful discharge.

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