Evaluating Quality Outcomes & Star Ratings

As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implements Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP), the home care landscape continues to become more competitive; agencies must track patient outcomes and train their staff to capture the appropriate and best results. In this session, Angie Karr of McBee, and Steve Pamer of Cleveland Clinic, will explain how these organizations collaborated to identify lower performing staff, monitor functional outcomes, evaluate and develop countermeasures to improve risk adjustment, develop platforms to improve staff performance and drive results including a 1.5-star rating improvement in Quality.

Learning Objective 1:
Identify strategies to monitor functional outcomes for HHVBP.

Learning Objective 2:
Describe how to improve staff performance in driving quality and star rating improvement.

Learning Objective 3:
Evaluate and implement strategies to improve risk adjustment.

Faculty:

Angie Karr BSN, RN, HCS-D, HCS-O

Steven Pamer PT, MPA, GCS

Nursing 1.0 Contact Hours awarded.

Nursing Contact Hours for this module will expire on October 15, 2025.