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Evaluation of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model: Fifth Annual Report

Description
Evaluates the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model, which tests the impact of providing financial incentives to home health agencies in nine states: Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Massachusetts, Maryland, Nebraska, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington. Reports on the experiences of home health agencies and patients through 2020, the fifth performance year of the HHVBP Model, and the third year that agencies in the HHVBP states received a payment adjustment. Examines the impacts of the HHVBP Model on Medicare expenditures, healthcare utilization, quality of care and patient experience, and agency operations. Discusses rural access to high-quality home health agencies and the impact of HHVBP on rural home health patients.
Author(s)
Alyssa Pozniak, Marc Turenne, Eric Lammers, et al.
Date
04/2022
Type
Document
Organization
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Tagged as
Access · Healthcare quality · Home health · Medicare · Policy · Reimbursement and payment models · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Arizona · Florida · Iowa · Maryland · Massachusetts · Nebraska · North Carolina · Tennessee · Washington

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