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Prospective Payment System:

Dropping Quality Measures Might Also Drop Your Scores

CMS finalizes elimination of 34 measures. It’s always a pleasant surprise when Medicare reduces your workload, but the elimination of 34 quality measures could have an unintended consequence.

In its 2017 Home Health Prospective Payment System final rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services adopts its proposal to eliminate 28 Home Health Quality Improvement measures because [...]
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