AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH: Ratings, Survey Results, and Analysis
CMS Five Star Rating (4.5 out of 5): , Patient Recommendation: 84%
425 ASHLEY RIDGE BLVD, SUITE 246 SHREVEPORT, LA 71106
318-865-8865
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 4.5 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 76% 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 84%. This is LOWER than the national average. The agency has been participating in Medicare since 04/24/1989. The agency costs LESS than the average agency nationally. The agency serves 58 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:
425 ASHLEY RIDGE BLVD, SUITE 246
SHREVEPORT, LA 71106
Medicare Provider Number: 197242
Participating in Medicare Since: April 24, 1989
Ownership Type: PROPRIETARY
Cost compared to national average: 100%
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 Same As National Rate for AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH.
Home Health Care Services
AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH offers 5 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 | 4.5: |
HHCAHPS Survey Summary Star Rating | 4: |
Star Rating For Health Team Gave Care In A Professional Way | 3: |
Star Rating For Health Team Communicated Well With Them | 4: |
Star Rating Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety | 4: |
Star Rating For How Patients Rated Overall Care From Agency | 3: |
Service Area Covered by AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH
AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH provides home health care services in these zip codes.
71001 71004 71006 71007 71009 71018 71019 71023 71024 71027 71029 71030 71032 71033 71037 71039 71040 71043 71044 71045 71046 71047 71049 71051 71052 71055 71058 71060 71061 71063 71064 71065 71067 71068 71069 71071 71072 71073 71075 71078 71082 71101 71103 71104 71105 71106 71107 71108 71109 71111 71112 71115 71118 71119 71129 71406 71419 71469
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 | 98.5% |
How Often The Home Health Team Determined Whether Patients Received A Flu Shot For The Current Flu Season | 73.9% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Walking Or Moving Around | 91.9% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Getting In And Out Of Bed | 93.3% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Bathing | 96.2% |
How Often Patients' Breathing Improved | 94% |
How Often Patients Got Better At Taking Their Drugs Correctly By Mouth | 89.5% |
How Often Home Health Patients Had To Be Admitted To The Hospital | 14.4% |
How Often Patients Receiving Home Health Care Needed Urgent, Unplanned Care In The ER Without Being Admitted | 11.7% |
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 | 87% (Nat: 88%) Lower |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported That Their Home Health Team Communicated Well With Them | 88% (Nat: 86%) Higher |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported That Their Home Health Team Discussed Medicines, Pain, And Home Safety With Them | 84% (Nat: 82%) Higher |
Percent Of Patients Who Gave Their Home Health Agency A Rating Of 9 Or 10 On A Scale From 0 (lowest) To 10 (highest) | 84% (Nat: 85%) Lower |
Percent Of Patients Who Reported YES, They Would Definitely Recommend The Home Health Agency To Friends And Family | 76% (Nat: 78%) Lower |
Medical Professionals Associated with AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH
These are the doctors who are affiliated with AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH.
- JENNIFER CYPHER ( PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT - LSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SHREVEPORT FACULTY GROUP PRACTICE )
- DAVID COLVIN ( FAMILY PRACTICE - CURANA HEALTH OF IOWA PLLC )
- STEVEN KAUTZ ( ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY - NATCHITOCHES MEDICAL SPECIALISTS )
- STEPHEN HOGE ( ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY - HIGHLAND CLINIC, A PROF MED CORP )
- VIKRAM CHATRATH ( ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY - WK BOSSIER ORTHOPEDIC AND SPORTS )
- EDWARD MORGAN ( ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY - WK ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC )
- MEGHAN HARRIS ( NEUROLOGY - WK PIERREMONT NEUROLOGY CLINIC )
- ANDREW MORITZ ( ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY - WK BOSSIER ORTHOPEDIC AND SPORTS )
- RICHARD HAYNIE ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - SHREVEPORT INTERNAL MEDICINE LLC )
- JAMES JACKSON ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - WK TRI-STATE MEDICAL CLINIC )
- JEFFREY GERMAN ( FAMILY PRACTICE - FAMILY PRACTICE ASSOCIATES OF )
- LAUREN LANDRY ( FAMILY PRACTICE - FAMILY PRACTICE ASSOCIATES OF )
- GERARDO SAN PEDRO ( CRITICAL CARE (INTENSIVISTS) - WK BOSSIER PULMONARY AND CRITICAL CARE CLINIC )
- WEN LIU ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - WK PIERREMONT HOSPITALISTS )
- ERIC SMITH ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - SHREVEPORT INTERNAL MEDICINE LLC )
- DAVID ABDEHOU ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - OAKDALE ESS LLC )
- CHARLES BAXTER ( FAMILY PRACTICE - LSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SHREVEPORT FACULTY GROUP PRACTICE )
- MARTHA WAFER ( EMERGENCY MEDICINE - SYNERGY INTERNATIONAL HEALTHCARE SERVICES, INC. )
- ROBERT SAVORY ( FAMILY PRACTICE - FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER )
- JACK BERG ( FAMILY PRACTICE - FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER )
- KEVIN CARTER ( FAMILY PRACTICE - LSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SHREVEPORT FACULTY GROUP PRACTICE )
- ROBERT SAUCIER ( FAMILY PRACTICE - HOSPITALIST MEDICINE PHYSICIANS OF TEXAS PLLC )
- JOHN MAYS ( ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY - WK BOSSIER ORTHOPEDIC AND SPORTS )
- JESSICA SMITH ( NURSE PRACTITIONER - HIGHLAND CLINIC, A PROF MED CORP )
- CHRISTOPHER EARNHARDT ( FAMILY PRACTICE - MINDEN FAMILY MEDICINE LLC )
- PAUL GUIDRY ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - CURANA HEALTH OF LOUISIANA LLC )
- SANJAYKUMAR SHAH ( FAMILY PRACTICE - WK URGENT CARE CENTER-PIERREMONT )
- BENJAMIN LEGGIO ( EMERGENCY MEDICINE - DESOTO REGIONAL FAMILY MEDICINE )
- IJEOMA ARUBALEZE ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - HOSPITALIST MEDICINE PHYSICIANS OF TEXAS PLLC )
- ASHOK KOMPELLI ( INTERNAL MEDICINE - SHREVEPORT INTERNAL MEDICINE AND )
- TRI PHAM ( FAMILY PRACTICE )