Assessing Home Health Care Quality for Post-Acute and Chronically Ill Patients: Final Report
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Assessing Home Health Care Quality for Post-Acute and Chronically Ill Patients: Final Report
Christopher M. Murtaugh, Ph.D., Timothy R. Peng, Ph.D., Stanley Moore, B.S., and Gill A. Maduro, Ph.D.
Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Center for Home Care Policy and Research
August 2008
PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2008/hhcqual.pdf (172 PDF pages)
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Assessing Home Health Care Quality for Post-Acute and Chronically Ill Patients: Final Report
Home health agencies serve patients with a range of health care needs including those with short-term post-acute needs and the chronically ill with more long-term needs. The purpose of this project was to examine the current approach to public reporting of Medicare home health agency quality with a particular focus on how quality measures perform
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Understanding Medicaid Home and Community Services: A Primer
Gary Smith, Janet O'Keeffe, Letty Carpenter, Pamela Doty, Gavin Kennedy, Brian Burwell, Robert Mollica and Loretta Williams
George Washington University, Center for Health Policy Research
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Understanding Medicaid Home and Community Services: A Primer
This Primer is designed to encourage use of the Medicaid program in a manner that minimizes reliance on institutions and maximizes community integration in a cost-effective manner. Its intended audience is policymakers and others who wish to understand how Medicaid can be used — and is being used — to expand access to a broad range of home a
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Pathway to the Future: How Workforce Development and Quality Jobs Can Promote Quality Care Conference Package
This document is the information package given to the attendees of the conference “Pathway to the Future: How Workforce Development and Quality Jobs Can Promote Quality Care.” The held in Washington, D.C. on May 23-25, 2004, and was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Labor.
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Study of Medicare Home Health Practice Variations: Final Report
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Evaluation of the Medicaid Health Home Option for Beneficiaries with Chronic Conditions: Final Annual Report - Base Year
This report presents first-year findings of the long-term evaluation of Medicaid health homes which were authorized in Section 2703 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for high-need, high-cost beneficiaries with chronic physical conditions or serious mental illness. The Urban Institute is conducting the evaluation to assess state care models and proc
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Study of Medicare Home Health Practice Variations: Final Report
The objective of this report is to summarize the findings from the quantitative and qualitative methods used to answer the key study questions. The report provides a description of the states, agencies, and patients that participated in the study. Quantitative data are used to (1) examine the influence of patient, provider, agency, and market/regu
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Understanding Medicaid Home and Community Services: A Primer, 2010 Edition
ASPE is releasing a 2010 update of "Understanding Medicaid Home and Community Services, A Primer". This is an update of the well-received document ASPE released in 2000 to address conflicting understanding and interpretation of Medicaid home and community-based services options. The 2000 "Primer," as it has come to be called, has served as a def
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Toward a National Health Information Infrastructure: A Key Strategy for Improving Quality in Long-Term Care
There has been growing interest in the use of electronic health information systems. The Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) emphasized as one of the Department's main priorities the use of information technology in health care. In November 2001, the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) issued a report to Secretary of
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Compendium of Home Modification and Assistive Technology Policy and Practice Across the States: State Profiles
Terry Moore, BSN, MPH
Abt Associates, Inc.
October 27, 2006
PDF Version (244 pages)
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Patterns of Care and Home Health Utilization for Community-Admitted Medicare Patients
Andrea Wysocki and Valerie Cheh
Mathematica Policy Research
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Analysis of Crosscutting Medicare Functional Status Quality Metrics Using the Continuity and Assessment Record and Evaluation (CARE) Item Set
November 2012
By: Anne Deutsch, RN, PhD, CRRN, Tracy Kline, PhD, Cindy Kelleher, MPH, Lisa M. Lines, MPH, Laurie Coots, MS, MA, Danielle Garfinkel, BA, Trudy Mallinson, PhD, Barbara Gage, PhD
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Evaluation of the Medicaid Health Home Option for Beneficiaries with Chronic Conditions: Annual Report - Year Two
Brenda C. Spillman, Elizabeth Richardson, Anna Spencer and Eva Allen
Urban Institute
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Toward an Evaluation of the Quality Improvement Organization Program: Beyond The 8th Scope of Work
This project developed an inventory of Quality Improvement Program (QIO) activities and then proposed methodologies to evaluate Medicare's QIO in the future. The contractor gathered information from publicly available sources, from CMS data when available, and from nine site visits to a variety of QIOs. Based on the findings, NORC developed a list
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Evaluation of the Medicaid Health Home Option for Beneficiaries with Chronic Conditions: Annual Report - Year Two
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Post-Acute and Long-Term Care: A Primer on Services, Expenditures and Payment Methods
ASPE awarded a small Professional Services Purchase Order to provide information to be used in the §4104(a). This Primer provides information on federal and state payment methods and sources of payments for Medicaid nursing facilities and Medicare skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, inpatient rehabilitation and long-term care hospi
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