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1 PDF TRACKING FORM TrackingJobNumber 63 Printed: 04/23/2002 DocumentTitle Per-Episode Prospective Payment forMedicare Home Health Care SharplyReduces Service Use Author ChristopherTrenholm DocumentDate 30-Dec-OO DocumentDescription: InterimReport Project Specifics SRNumber 94-082 ProjectNumber 500-94-0062 ProjectTitle EvaluationofPhaseII ofthe HomeHealthAgencyProspectivePayment Demonstration Awardee MathematicaPolicyResearch ProjectOfficer Meadow, Ann Principle Investigator Cheh, Valerie Funding Level 4013874 StartDate 09/30/1994 EndDate 04/30/2001 ProjectDescription: This contract is evaluatingPhase II oftheHome HealthAgency(HHA) Prospective PaymentDemonstration, underwhichHHAs are paidon aprospectivebasis foran episode ofcare reimbursedbytheMedicareprogram. (Phase I testedper-visit prospectivepayme 4 ^ Initiated (CIVIS): \sgalloway Date: 23-Apr-02 Accepted (IQ): Date: i Released (IQ): Date: Received (Sub): Date: 1 1 '1 Finished (Sub): Date: QC'd (IQ): Date: 1 4 Returned (IQ): Date: pproved (CMS): Date: j 1 version 1.0 RCefi&tj&fD$ for Wl«dkar« & Medicaid Se^fvk«$ Projects Database PDF TRACKING FORM TrackingJobNumber 121 Printed: 5/15/02 DocumentTitle Per-EpisodeProspectivePaymentforMedicareHomeHealthCare SharplyReduces ServiceUse Author ChristopherTrenholm DocumentDate 30-Dec-OO DocumentDescription: InterimReport#6 Project Specifics SRNumber 94-082 ProjectNumber 500-94-0062 ProjectTitle EvaluationofPhaseII oftheHomeHealthAgencyProspectivePayment Demonstration Awardee MathematicaPolicyResearch ProjectOfficer Meadow, Ann PrincipleInvestigator Cheh, Valerie Funding Level 4013874 StartDate 9/30/94 EndDate 4/30/01 ProjectDescription: This contractis evaluatingPhase II oftheHomeHealthAgency(HHA) Prospective PaymentDemonstration,underwhichHHAs arepaidonaprospectivebasis foran episodeofcarereimbursedbytheMedicareprogram. (PhaseItestedper-visit prospectivepayme Initiated (CMS): sgalloway Date: 15-May-02 Accepted (IQ): Date: ! Released (IQ): Date: Received (Sub): Date: Finished (Sub): Date: QC'd (IQ): Date: Returned (IQ): Date: «.; pproved (CIVIS): Date: version1.0 Contract No.: 500-94-0062 MPR Reference No. 8246-121 Per-Episode Prospective Payment for Medicare Home Health Care Sharply Reduces Service Use December2000 Christopher Trenholm Submitted to: Submitted by: Health Care Financing Administration Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. 7500 Security Blvd, (C-3-21-06) P.O. Box 2393 MD Baltimore, 21244-1850 Princeton, NJ 08543-2393 (609) 799-3535 Project Officer: Project Director: Arm Meadow Valerie Cheh Principal Investigator: Randall Brown ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In preparing this report, I received support from many colleagues for which I am grateful: Valerie Cheh and Randall Brown contributed their policy expertise and offered extensive and thoughtful comments throughout the research; Judith Wooldridge provided an excellent critical review; Barbara Phillips contributed to the background chapters through previous work; Elizabeth Stuart and Amy Zambrowski provided comprehensive and outstanding programming support; Marjorie Mitchell adeptlyproducedthereportwith assistance fromJenniferBaskwell, Denise Dunn, Cindy McClure, Jill Miller, and JaneNelson; and Laura Berenson provided skilled editorial support with help from Walter Brower and Patricia Ciaccio. Ann Meadow ofHCFA provided very useful comments to an earlier draft ofthe report. Any errors or omissions in this report are my own. iii