Hospice:
Submit Your Hospice Quality Data This Month
Published on Fri Jan 20, 2012
OMB approves new reporting form. A sea change in how Medicare will pay for hospice begins this month. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will begin collecting quality data for hospices, although at this point the collection is voluntary. Background: In its fiscal year 2012 payment rule for hospices, CMS required pay for reporting in 2013 (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XX, No. 28, p. 217). But CMS instituted voluntary reporting starting this month. "Voluntary reporting of the structural measure data with specific quality indicators ... would allow us to learn what the important patient care quality issues are for hospices and would serve to provide useful information in the design and structure of the quality reporting program," CMS explains in the rule. Hospices have until Jan. 31 to report data on a web-based form newly approved by the Office of Management and Budget, said CMS's Robin Dowell in the [...]
