AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH: Ratings, Survey Results, and Analysis
CMS Five Star Rating (4 out of 5): , Patient Recommendation: 78%
480 NEW HOLLAND AVENUE, BUILDING 8, STE 8101 LANCASTER, PA 17602
717-291-8396
Data date: Jan 17, 2024
The Most Important Data about AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH
We've looked at a lot of home health care agencies; this is what we think you need to see first. Read through this even if you do not have much time. (It's the tl;dr section.)
The overall 5-star Rating for AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH is 4 out of possible 5 stars (with 1 being the lowest and 5 the highest rating). The average rating nationally for a home health care agency is 3. The agency is highly recommended by 66% of its customers. This is LOWER than the national average. The percentage of patients who gave AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH a rating of 9 or 10 was 78%. This is LOWER than the national average. The agency has been participating in Medicare since 06/28/1985. The agency costs MORE than the average agency nationally. The agency serves 119 ZIP codes.
To jump to a specific section of the review, here are the section headers: General Data, DTC rating, List of Services, Ratings, Service Area, Performance Measures, patient surveys, Medical Professionals.
The home health care database is based on data provided by U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). It is updated as new data is made available.
What is this page all about?
Below is everything shred of information that we can find about AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH, along with our best effort to make sense of the data. Our purpose here is to help you to make good decisions when picking a home health care agency and to keep you informed once you have chosen one. We know from personal experience that choosing a home health care agency is not something you do once and then you forget about it. When you choose a home health care agency, it is important to be aware of any changes, good or bad, so that you can stay as comfortable as possible. Changes in the agency, the people who work there, or the patients can all affect your care.
General Information on AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH
Data as of Jan 17, 2024
Address:
480 NEW HOLLAND AVENUE, BUILDING 8, STE 8101
LANCASTER, PA 17602
Medicare Provider Number: 397401
Participating in Medicare Since: June 28, 1985
Ownership Type: PROPRIETARY
Cost compared to national average: 101%
DTC Performance for AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH
The DTC-PAC measures assess successful discharge to the community from a PAC setting, with successful discharge to the community including no unplanned rehospitalizations and no death in the 31 days following discharge. Specifically, these measures report a provider’s riskstandardized rate of Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) patients/residents who are discharged to the community following a PAC stay, and do not have an unplanned readmission to an acute care hospital or LTCH in the 31 days following discharge to community, and who remain alive during the 31 days following discharge to community. Community, for this measure, is defined as home or self care, with or without home health services, based on Patient Discharge Status Codes 01, 06, 81, and 86 on the Medicare FFS claim. A statistical approach is used to calculate confidence intervals for the provider’s DTC rate. These confidence intervals are then compared to the national observed DTC rate to assign providers to performance categories for public reporting. The performance categories are (i) better than the national rate, (ii) no different from the national rate, and (iii) worse than the national rate.
DTC performance is Better Than National Rate for AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH.
Home Health Care Services
AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH offers 6 of 6 services tracked by CMS. A list showing the services offered and not offered is shown below.
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Ratings for AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed a detailed methodology for rating home health care agencies. The scores shown below are based on the The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Home Health Care Survey.
Rating Type | Rating |
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5-Star Quality Rating | 4: |
HHCAHPS Survey Summary Star Rating | 3: |
Star Rating For Health Team Gave Care In A Professional Way | 3: |
Star Rating For Health Team Communicated Well With Them | 3: |
Star Rating Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety | 4: |
Star Rating For How Patients Rated Overall Care From Agency | 2: |
Service Area Covered by AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH
AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH provides home health care services in these zip codes.
17001 17003 17011 17016 17019 17020 17022 17025 17026 17028 17033 17034 17036 17038 17039 17042 17043 17046 17050 17053 17055 17057 17064 17067 17070 17073 17078 17083 17087 17101 17102 17103 17104 17109 17110 17111 17112 17113 17302 17313 17314 17315 17317 17319 17322 17331 17339 17345 17349 17356 17362 17366 17368 17401 17402 17403 17404 17406 17408 17501 17502 17505 17506 17508 17509 17512 17516 17517 17518 17519 17520 17522 17527 17529 17532 17533 17535 17536 17537 17538 17540 17543 17545 17547 17550 17551 17552 17554 17555 17557 17560 17562 17563 17565 17566 17567 17568 17569 17570 17572 17576 17578 17579 17581 17582 17584 17601 17602 17603 17606 19320 19344 19401 19403 19406 19422 19428 19460 21811
Performance Measures for AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH
All of the measures included in HHC are proportions that show what percentage of patients or episodes experienced the process or outcome being measured. For all measures, except acute care hospitalization, a higher measure value means a better score.
Process of care measures tell you how often an agency gave the recommended care (like checking patients for depression when they start getting care). A score of 88% for a process of care measure is interpreted as 88% of the patients received the recommended care during their episode of care.
Question | Percentage |
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How Often Physician-recommended Actions To Address Medication Issues Were Completely Timely | 97.3% |
How Often The Home Health Team Determined Whether Patients Received A Flu Shot For The Current Flu Season | 84.5% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Walking Or Moving Around | 89.9% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Getting In And Out Of Bed | 89.8% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Bathing | 87.9% |
How Often Patients' Breathing Improved | 88% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Taking Their Drugs Correctly By Mouth | 85.2% |
How Often Home Health Patients Had To Be Admitted To The Hospital | 15.2% |
How Often Patients Receiving Home Health Care Needed Urgent, Unplanned Care In The ER Without Being Admitted | 9.6% |
Patient Survey Responses for AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH
Below is information compiled by CMS on the percentage of patients who respond to specific treatments and a comparison of the results for AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH to the national results for similar facilities.
Question | Percentage / Compared to National |
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Percent Of Patients Who Reported That Their Home Health Team Gave Care In A Professional Way | 86% (Nat: 88%) Lower |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported That Their Home Health Team Communicated Well With Them | 83% (Nat: 86%) Lower |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported That Their Home Health Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety With Them | 81% (Nat: 82%) Lower |
Percent Of Patients Who Gave Their Home Health Agency A Rating Of 9 Or 10 On A Scale From 0 (lowest) To 10 (highest) | 78% (Nat: 85%) Lower |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported YES, They Would Definitely Recommend The Home Health Agency To Friends And Family | 66% (Nat: 78%) Lower |
Medical Professionals Associated with AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH
These are the doctors who are affiliated with AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH.
- JEFFREY MATZONI ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - PHS PHYSICAL THERAPY LLC )
- KAMLESH ACHARYA ( FAMILY PRACTICE - PINNACLE HEALTH MEDICAL SERVICES )
- TSHERING SHERPA ( FAMILY PRACTICE - MYERSTOWN FAMILY PRACTICE PC )
- ELIZABETH MECK ( FAMILY PRACTICE - PENN STATE HEALTH COMMUNITY MEDICAL GROUP LLC )
- JAMES SPICHER ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - PENN STATE HEALTH COMMUNITY MEDICAL GROUP LLC )
- GEORGE LOOSE ( FAMILY PRACTICE - PINNACLE HEALTH MEDICAL SERVICES )
- MICHAEL LESER ( FAMILY PRACTICE - FAMILY PRACTICE CENTER PC )
- KATHLEEN KREIDER ( FAMILY PRACTICE - PENN STATE HEALTH COMMUNITY MEDICAL GROUP LLC )
- MICHAEL MANOLAS ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - PENN STATE HEALTH COMMUNITY MEDICAL GROUP LLC )
- TRILOCHAN SINGH ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - PENN STATE HEALTH COMMUNITY MEDICAL GROUP LLC )
- TIMOTHY WEAVER ( FAMILY PRACTICE - PENN STATE HEALTH COMMUNITY MEDICAL GROUP LLC )
- SCOTT SNYDER ( FAMILY PRACTICE - PENN STATE HEALTH COMMUNITY MEDICAL GROUP LLC )
- GAYLE SISBARRO ( FAMILY PRACTICE - PINNACLE HEALTH MEDICAL SERVICES )
- OWEN FOX ( FAMILY PRACTICE - PINNACLE HEALTH MEDICAL SERVICES )
- THOMAS SCOTT ( FAMILY PRACTICE - PENN STATE HEALTH COMMUNITY MEDICAL GROUP LLC )
- GISELLE JOSEPH ( FAMILY PRACTICE - WELLSPAN MEDICAL GROUP )