Home Health & Hospice Week
News Of Painful Penalties For Noncompliance Due Any Day
Plus: SFP, hospice final rule loom large. It’s that time of year again — time to find out whether Medicare is docking your pay for quality reporting reasons. Notices of noncompliance for Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) data submission will be going out “later this month,” a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services official said in the agency’s July 12 Open Door Forum for home health and hospice agencies. Hospices determined to be out of compliance with QRP requirements for CY 2022 will see a resulting pay cut in 2024. Last year Medicare Administrative Contractors placed notifications into hospices’ CASPER folders in iQIES on July 13, but at press time those had not yet been delivered. Affected hospices will also receive notification letters via mail, CMS’ Jermama Keys explained to forum attendees. Other hospice topics covered in the forum include: The SFP proposal includes “increased regulatory oversight to address issues that put beneficiaries at risk,” CMS’ Thomas Pryor noted in the forum. (See targeting details, p. 201.) CMS didn’t finalize the SFP proposal in the 2022 home health rulemaking cycle because it followed commenter feedback to convene a Technical Expert Panel and used the TEP’s input on the program’s algorithm, selection, and graduation, among other items, Pryor explained. The proposed IDR procedure aligns with the IDR process already in place for HHAs, he pointed out. Last year CMS released the hospice final rule on July 27.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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News Of Painful Penalties For Noncompliance Due Any Day
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