§ 484.370 — Process For Determining And Applying The Value-based Payment Adjustment Under The Expanded Home Health Value-based Purchasing (hhvbp) Model

(a) General. Competing home health agencies are ranked within the larger-volume and smaller-volume cohorts nationwide based on the performance standards in this part that apply to the expanded HHVBP Model, and CMS makes value-based payment adjustments to the competing HHAs as specified in this section.

(b) Calculation of the value-based payment adjustment amount. The value-based payment adjustment amount is calculated by multiplying the home health prospective payment final claim payment amount as calculated in accordance with § 484.205 by the payment adjustment percentage.

(c) Calculation of the payment adjustment percentage. The payment adjustment percentage is calculated as the product of all of the following:

(1) The applicable percent as defined in § 484.345.

(2) The competing HHA's Total Performance Score divided by 100.

(3) The linear exchange function slope.