Five measures for the Home Health Quality Reporting Program are on the 2024 Measures Under Consideration (MUC) List  released on November 25 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). 

This list, developed in partnership with Battelle, a CMS-certified consensus based entity (CBE), documents all the quality and efficiency measures CMS will consider adopting, through the federal rulemaking process, in the next calendar year.

The five Home Health Quality Reporting Program inclusions specifically address changes to five CAHPS composite measures. Two of the proposed measure changes, Care of Patients and Communications Between Providers and Patient, if adopted could have significant impacts on the Expanded Home Health Value Based Purchasing model.

As part of this yearly process, CMS makes the measures publicly available and will seek input through public comments by the Battelle, the CBE.

Comments are due by December 30, 2024. LeadingAge is honored to have Jodi Eyigor, director, nursing home quality and policy, representing the post-acute care and long-term care community as part of the Pre-Rulemaking Measure Review advisory groups.