Home Health & Hospice Week
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Learn Health Equity Report Details
Published on Fri Jan 05, 2024
If you missed Medicare’s November question-and-answer session about its new Health Equity Confidential Feedback Reports for post-acute care providers, you can now circle back. CMS has posted the recording, slide deck, and transcript from the Q&A session at www.cms.gov/medicare/ quality/home-health/home-health-quality-reporting-training. For example: Although CMS published the reports for home health agencies, inpatient rehab facilities, long-term care hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities, “different types of PAC providers are not compared to one another,” the CMS speaker explained.
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