DOCTOR?S CHOICE HOME CARE: Ratings, Survey Results, and Analysis

The Most Important Data about DOCTOR?S CHOICE HOME CARE

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 DOCTOR?S CHOICE HOME CARE 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 65% of its customers. This is LOWER than the national average. The percentage of patients who gave DOCTOR?S CHOICE HOME CARE a rating of 9 or 10 was 72%. This is LOWER than the national average. The agency has been participating in Medicare since 03/27/1996. The agency costs MORE than the average agency nationally. The agency serves 267 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 DOCTOR?S CHOICE HOME CARE

DTC Performance for DOCTOR?S CHOICE HOME CARE

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 Worse Than National Rate for DOCTOR?S CHOICE HOME CARE.

Home Health Care Services

DOCTOR?S CHOICE HOME CARE offers 6 of 6 services tracked by CMS. A list showing the services offered and not offered is shown below.

Ratings for DOCTOR?S CHOICE HOME CARE

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 DOCTOR?S CHOICE HOME CARE

DOCTOR?S CHOICE HOME CARE provides home health care services in these zip codes.

75845 75862 75901 75932 75933 75936 75939 75949 75951 75956 75964 75966 77002 77003 77004 77005 77006 77007 77008 77009 77010 77011 77012 77013 77014 77015 77016 77017 77018 77019 77020 77021 77022 77023 77024 77025 77026 77027 77028 77029 77030 77031 77032 77033 77034 77035 77036 77037 77038 77039 77040 77041 77042 77043 77044 77045 77046 77047 77048 77049 77050 77051 77053 77054 77055 77056 77057 77058 77059 77060 77061 77062 77063 77064 77065 77066 77067 77068 77069 77070 77071 77072 77073 77074 77075 77076 77077 77078 77079 77080 77081 77082 77083 77084 77085 77086 77087 77088 77089 77090 77091 77092 77093 77094 77095 77096 77098 77099 77301 77302 77303 77304 77306 77316 77318 77320 77327 77328 77331 77335 77336 77338 77339 77340 77345 77346 77351 77354 77355 77356 77357 77358 77360 77362 77363 77364 77365 77369 77371 77372 77373 77375 77376 77377 77378 77379 77380 77381 77382 77384 77385 77386 77388 77389 77396 77401 77406 77407 77417 77422 77423 77429 77433 77435 77441 77444 77445 77447 77449 77450 77459 77461 77464 77469 77471 77474 77477 77478 77479 77480 77484 77485 77486 77488 77489 77493 77494 77498 77502 77503 77504 77505 77506 77510 77511 77514 77515 77517 77518 77520 77521 77523 77530 77531 77532 77534 77535 77536 77538 77539 77541 77545 77546 77547 77550 77551 77554 77560 77562 77563 77564 77565 77566 77568 77571 77573 77575 77577 77578 77581 77583 77584 77585 77586 77587 77590 77591 77597 77598 77611 77612 77619 77622 77627 77630 77632 77640 77642 77651 77656 77657 77659 77662 77663 77665 77701 77702 77703 77705 77706 77707 77708 77713 77840 77868 77873 77964

Performance Measures for DOCTOR?S CHOICE HOME CARE

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 DOCTOR?S CHOICE HOME CARE

Below is information compiled by CMS on the percentage of patients who respond to specific treatments and a comparison of the results for DOCTOR?S CHOICE HOME CARE to the national results for similar facilities.