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New Edition of the Guide to Home Health Care Agencies

April 2007

The Medicare website has a section called Home Health Compare . It has been  enhanced to improve the display of local home health agency performance. CMS provides this tool to assist people with Medicare, and their families, to choose the best home health agency. Users are able to review an agency’s past performance based on the care they require.

This tool provides you with information on how well the home health agencies in your area care for their patients. Keep in mind:

• The list of Home Health Agencies generated by your search criteria is based on the places where they have provided services in the past.
• The services that the agencies have available in these areas could change in the future. Contact the Home Health Agency to find out if they still provide the same services in your area.
• Newly Medicare-certified home health agencies may not appear in Home Health Compare for one year.
• Only Medicare-certified home health agencies are required to submit information about home health agencies.
• Agencies that exclusively serve children, or private pay, or privately insured patients are not listed here.

Their website has information on:

• Finding a Home Health agency.
• Quality measures to help you compare home health agencies.
• Your choices in selecting a Home Health agency.
• Your rights when you are a Home Health patient

For further information, visit the Medicare website.

 

 

 

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