Posting of the Calendar Year 2024 Home Health Prospective Payment System Final Rule

The calendar year 2024 Home Health Prospective Payment System Final Rule was published on November 2, 2023. The following are the Home Health Quality Reporting Program proposals that have been finalized: CMS finalized the addition of two quality measures to the HH QRP: the COVID-19 Vaccine: Percent of Patients/Residents Who Are Up to Date and the Discharge Function measures; the removal of two Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS)-based data elements: M0110-Episode Timing and M2200-Therapy Need; the codification of the previously finalized 90 percent OASIS data completion threshold policy in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR); and the public reporting of four measures: Transfer of Health (TOH) Information to the Provider-Post-Acute Care(PAC), TOH Information to the Patient-PAC, HH QRP COVID-19 Vaccine: Percent of Patients/Residents Who Are Up to Date, and the Discharge Function measures. CMS also summarized feedback on its request for information on future HH QRP measure concepts and an update on health equity in the HH QRP.

Visit the CMS website for more information at https://www.cms.gov/medicare/quality/home-health.