Home Health Care News September 8, 2023
Home health agencies aren’t reporting more than half of falls involving major injury or hospitalization on patient assessments for Medicare beneficiaries, a recent report from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) found.
In order to compile this report, OIG looked for falls with major injury in Medicare hospital claims for home health patients, and then checked if these falls were reported in an OASIS assessment. OIG looked at assessments completed between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021.
The OIG study did not analyze why agencies did not report these falls.
“Reporting is a mechanism to monitor care – we want to be sure that we are improving not just the measure, but the care itself,” Katy Barnett, director of...
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