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Historical Active 198908-0938-011
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HOME HEALTH AGENCY (HHA) MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SURVEY REPORT FORMS FOR REVISED HHA CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION
Revision of a currently approved collection   No
Regular
Approved without change 09/25/1990
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 06/13/1990
The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) should be commended for designing a flexible survey process satisfying its OBRA 87 mandate. OMB approves the use of these forms through 1/92 under the following conditions: 1) HCFA will provide additional guidance to surveyors regarding clinical record and home visit selection. This may be accomplished through providing additional guidance issuance or revising section 2200 of the manual. Sampling approaches should be adopted from the Abt Associates "Final Report on Pilot Test for a Patient Oriented Survey for Home Health Surveys" 2) Question A.20 of the Home Health Functional Assessment Instrument should not impose paperwork requirements beyond the HCFA 485 and HCFA 486 3) no later than 1/91 the Department should develop a work plan to evaluate methods for improving interrater reliability in patient observation and deficiency weighting and summaries. The work plan should commit to clarifying the survey guidelines for resubmission for OMB review no later than 11/91.
  Inventory as of this Action Requested Previously Approved
01/31/1992 01/31/1992 06/30/1990
5,700 0 3,180
14,250 0 5,565
0 0 0