Say Goodbye to Home Health Compare… For Now.
Posted on April 22, 2010 in Coding Education
by Jennifer Warfield, RN, BSN, HCS-D, COS-C
All of us in home health knew that there would be some changes regarding our outcomes data, the addition of process measures and the Home Health Compare (HHC) data once OASIS-C began in January. We also knew there was still much to learn and many questions to be answered about the new process measures on OASIS-C. But did any of us think that we would have to face most of these changes and find the answers for ourselves? Probably not.
CMS announced several months ago that we would have a "blackout" period for OBQI data until next year and that we would not see the results of the data collected for the process measures from OASIS-C until late fall of 2010. Since then, I have heard quite a few people release a sigh of relief that they wouldn't have to worry about these things for at least 9 months. Absolutely not true.
Collection of data for the new process measures on OASIS-C and updated data for outcomes and potentially avoidable events began on January 1, 2010 with the implementation of OASIS-C. This month the Casper Report and HHC will be updated for the last time until there has been a sufficient amount of data collected to report accurate and useful results since the data from OASIS-C cannot be compared to data from OASIS-B1. The delay in reporting data after April only means that you will not have access to the quarterly data as you did prior to January 1. But any new data will be collected, compiled and reported starting this fall. The process measure data will be reported in September 2010 and the results from the outcome data will be reported in May of 2011.
Owners, directors, QI/PI and staff clinicians are still responsible for monitoring, collecting and deciding how to improve patient and agency outcomes during this "blackout" period. Remember, this data, even during the time you won't be able to access it, will still be publically reported.
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By Hanna Vermaas on Jun 24, 2010 at 04:53 pm