Tracy M. Mroz ([email protected]) is an assistant professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, in Seattle. Davis G. Patterson is a research assistant professor in ...

Medicare covers home health benefits for homebound beneficiaries who need intermittent skilled care. While home health care can help prevent costlier institutional care, some studies have suggested ...

Recovering from an illness or injury can be easier with home health care, which provides you with a wide range of services to help you recover in the comfort of your home. Home health care helps you ...

Upgraded design eases patient access when shopping for healthcare services. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Thursday launched a "streamlined redesign" of eight existing healthcare ...

The Affordable Care Act of 2010 calls for transparent, easily digestible information on provider quality to be publicly reported and widely shared. Therefore, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently updated Home Health Compare to include a 5 star rating system to measure agencies’ relative, overall performance on nine of the 29 quality ...

This week the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched Care Compare, a streamlined redesign of eight existing CMS healthcare compare tools available on Medicare.gov. Care Compare provides a ...

Risk adjustment for patient experience measures needs to be modified by including the CMS Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCC) risk scores of home health beneficiaries. Conclusions: A negative ...