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Tap These New Resources For Quality Reporting Info

Published on Thu Aug 30, 2012

Hospices can turn to two new user guides and a training session.The specifics of Medicare's new hospice quality data requirements are coming into focus, and you'd better make sure you're complying by Oct. 1."We encourage providers to prepare for both their data collection, which begins Oct. 1, and their data submission, which begins Jan. 1," said Robin Dowell with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in the Aug. 22 Open Door Forum for home care providers.Providers should download and read both the User Guide for Hospice Quality Reporting Data Collection and the Technical User Guide for Hos-pice Quality Reporting Data Entry and Submission, Dowell instructed listeners. Links to the guides are online at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/Hospice-Quality-Reporting/Spotlight.html. While you can see the data entry instructions, the data entry website won't go live until Jan. 1, CMS notes on the site.CMS will furnish training on hospice quality reporting the week of Nov. [...]
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