Appendix Figure 7. Time-trend data for home health agencies: improvement in transferring (top) and improvement in upper-body dressing (bottom).

All rates are calculated as 12-month averages, ending with the last day of the month shown. "0" represents the 12-month period ending the month before the start of the contract. For the national group, the average number of facilities across all periods is given. All other groups include only home health agencies with valid data in the first and last time points shown. For these quality measures, higher scores indicate better performance. IPG = identified participant group; SOW = Scope of Work. For a given measure, the IPG-select subgroup consists of IPG providers that elected to focus on that measure, and the IPG-other subgroup consists of IPG providers that selected other measures.