Home Health & Hospice Week

Compliance:

Know This Timeline Exception

Medicare will give you some breathing room for quality improvement. Medicare did relent on one small area for the July 2017 Conditions of Participation deadline: the Quality Assurance Performance Improvement requirement. “A phased-in implementation time frame is appropriate for the requirement that [home health agencies] must conduct performance improvement projects because it will take additional time to collect the data [...]
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