Home Health Patient Survey Star Ratings
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a Special Open Door Forum (SODF) about a new set of star ratings for the CMS Home Health Compare website on Thurs., May 7, 2015 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
This is another opportunity to learn more about how CMS plans to use Home Health CAHPS survey results to create Patient Survey Star Ratings for the Home Health Compare website.
According to the announcement, "CMS plans to publicly report the (HHCAHPS) Patient Survey Star Ratings on Home Health Compare on www.medicare.gov starting in January 2016. The Patient Survey Star Ratings are in addition to the Quality of Patient Care Star Ratings which will start in July 2015."
This SODF will describe the rationale and overview of the HHCAHPS Patient Survey Star Ratings. It will give a detailed description of the methods for calculating the ratings and assigning stars.
The SODF PowerPoint Slides, Technical Paper, and FAQs can be found on these websites:
- http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/HomeHealthQualityInits/HHQIHomeHealthStarRatings.html
- https://homehealthcahps.org
To participate: use participant dial-in number: 1-800-603-1774 and conference ID #:96436960.
A transcript and audio recording of this SODF will be posted here for downloading.
Contact: Cheryl Udell, cudell@leadingageny.org, 518-867-8871