Percentage of home health quality episodes at the end of which the patient was discharged, with no formal assistance available, needing toileting assistance.

Number of home health quality episodes where the discharge assessment indicated the patient, was totally dependent in toileting, and remained in community without formal assistive services.

Number of home health quality episodes ending with a discharge during the reporting period, other than those covered by generic or measure-specific exclusions.

Home health quality episodes that end with inpatient facility transfer or death.

Not risk adjusted since 2019. Previously adjusted for variation in patient characteristics

Standardised Patient Assessments created using the OASIS assessment tool data. OASIS-based measures are created using counts of HH quality episodes.

Potentially Avoidable Event (PAE) measures are a subset of outcome measures that are derived from OASIS data but are not a part of the home healthQRP. PAE measures were developed as part of the Outcome-Based Quality Improvement (OBQI) initiative that preceded the home healthQRP. PAE measures are not reported on Care Compare but are available to home health agencies via internet Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (iQIES) reports.

www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/HomeHealthQualityInits/Home-Health-Quality-Measures Home Health Quality Measures – Potentially Avoidable Events www.cms.gov/files/document/home-health-pae-measures-table-oasis-d112-2019.pdf