Certain Minnesota home care agencies which accept payments from Medicare and Medicaid for services rendered are not taking a recent national survey lightly. Recent CMS quality assurance parameters^[1] place this state just above three others in overall “quality”.^[2] Only Texas, Wyoming — and surprisingly Vermont — scored lower in 30 specific areas. An organization which represents these CMS-certified home health agencies has hired an East Coast consultant to jack up the state’s rankings within the next two years. Gotta love that Minnesota defiance and tenacity. | LINK | OASIS Parameters LINK

1. Dubbed OASIS: Outcome and Assessment Information Set — the set of data which follows a patient during each episode of home care per institution. [↩]
2. Quality parameters may be affected by inaccurate reporting, billing practices, varying administrative policies within each home healthcare institution and may not indicate the absolute quality of patient-focused medical care in Minnesota. [↩]

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