Home Health & Hospice Week

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These 7 Measures Will Go Low-Profile In 2019

Pain assessment measure trips up hospices. When the composite quality measure "Hospice and Palliative Care Composite Process Measure - Comprehensive Assessment at Admission" goes live on Hospice Compare next fall, these are the seven measures that comprise it that will be relegated to an "expandable/collapsible format under the composite measure itself" and their scores, according to the 2019 proposed rule: [...]
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