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Get A Glimpse Of Your Hospice Quality Reporting Future

Published on Thu Jun 07, 2012

You might want to work on your pain management strategies first.Required quality reporting for hospices begins in the fourth quarter this year, but the Cen-ters for Medicare & Medicaid Services already is making plans for the next steps in the process.Background: More than 900 hospices submitted voluntary quality data on their QAPI programs for the fourth quarter of 2011, noted CMS's Robin Dowell in the May 23 Open Door Forum for home health and hospice providers. Hospices reported whether they had a QAPI program that included three or more quality indicators related to patient care, and then listed those indicators.Now CMS's hospice quality data contractor RTI has analyzed all that submitted data in a new report. Hospices submitted more than 6,700 indicators that RTI grouped under 35 topics."The topic Pain Assessment or Management had the largest number of QAPI indicators reported (1,225)," which was 86 percent of the total indicators [...]
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