Evaluation of Home Health Pay for Performance Demonstration

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Title
Evaluation of Home Health Pay for Performance Demonstration
Project Officer(s)
William Buczko
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Task Order (MRAD)
Description
The Home Health Pay for Performance (HHP4P) demonstration is part of a CMS initiative to improve the quality of care furnished to all Medicare beneficiaries receiving care from home health agencies (HHAs). This demonstration aims to test the "pay for performance" concept in the HHA setting. Under this demonstration, CMS provides financial incentives to participating HHAs that meet certain standards for providing high quality care. Participation of HHAs in this demonstration is voluntary. CMS will assess the performance of participating HHAs based on selected measures of quality of care, then make payment awards to those HHAs that either achieve a high level of performance or show exceptional improvement based on those measures. The quality measures include acute care hospitalizations, use of emergent care, as well as outcome measures from the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS). This demonstration has selected 4 states/state groups, one from each region of the U.S.: MA, CT (East), IL (Midwest), CA (West) and GA, AL, TN (South). Within each state/state group, HHAs which elected to participate were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. The demonstration includes all Medicare beneficiaries that are treated by a participating HHA. Some beneficiaries in the demonstration are also eligible for Medicaid.
Funding
$447,032.00
Principal Investigator(s)
D. Hittle
Project Number
HHSM-500-2005-00022I/0001
Status
The demonstration began on January 1, 2008. The evaluation contractor has completed the first wave of site visits to 9 home health agencies and the first wave of the web survey of participants and has completed the project reports for these activities. The second wave of site visits and the web survey are currently underway. The evaluation contractor has also begun the baseline and Year 1 analyses. The period of performance was extended through September 30, 2011.
Awardee Address

13611 East Colfax Ave., Suite 100
Aurora, CO 80011
Estados Unidos

Awardee Name
University of Colorado, Health Sciences Center