MED-CARE HOME HEALTH SERVICES INC.: Ratings, Survey Results, and Analysis

The Most Important Data about MED-CARE HOME HEALTH SERVICES INC.

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The overall 5-star Rating for MED-CARE HOME HEALTH SERVICES INC. is 2 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 60% of its customers. This is LOWER than the national average. The percentage of patients who gave MED-CARE HOME HEALTH SERVICES INC. a rating of 9 or 10 was 68%. This is LOWER than the national average. The agency has been participating in Medicare since 06/08/1995. The agency costs MORE than the average agency nationally. The agency serves 59 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.

General Information on MED-CARE HOME HEALTH SERVICES INC.

DTC Performance for MED-CARE HOME HEALTH SERVICES INC.

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 MED-CARE HOME HEALTH SERVICES INC..

Home Health Care Services

MED-CARE HOME HEALTH SERVICES INC. offers 6 of 6 services tracked by CMS. A list showing the services offered and not offered is shown below.

Ratings for MED-CARE HOME HEALTH SERVICES INC.

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.

Service Area Covered by MED-CARE HOME HEALTH SERVICES INC.

MED-CARE HOME HEALTH SERVICES INC. provides home health care services in these zip codes.

33004 33009 33019 33020 33021 33023 33024 33025 33026 33027 33028 33029 33060 33062 33063 33064 33065 33066 33067 33068 33069 33071 33073 33076 33114 33134 33222 33301 33304 33305 33306 33308 33309 33311 33312 33313 33314 33315 33316 33317 33319 33321 33322 33323 33324 33325 33326 33327 33328 33329 33330 33331 33332 33334 33351 33441 33442 33703 33990

Performance Measures for MED-CARE HOME HEALTH SERVICES INC.

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.

Patient Survey Responses for MED-CARE HOME HEALTH SERVICES INC.

Below is information compiled by CMS on the percentage of patients who respond to specific treatments and a comparison of the results for MED-CARE HOME HEALTH SERVICES INC. to the national results for similar facilities.