Home Health & Hospice Week

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Will An OASIS For Hospice Come Your Way Soon?

Get a glimpse of the hospice quality measures on CMS's requirement short list.Expect to see lower payment rates in 2014 if you don't collect hospice quality data starting this October.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services includes hospice quality data reporting requirements in its home health prospective payment system proposed rule for 2013. As previously announced, CMS will require two measures for reporting starting in October -- the structural measure on whether a hospice has a Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) Program that includes at least three quality indicators related to patient care; and National Quality Forum-endorsed measure #209 on pain management.CMS Simplifies QAPI Measurement ReportingIn its voluntary hospice quality data reporting period in 2011, CMS collected the QAPI measure. However, hospices also submitted free text entries on what quality indicators they collected. This time around, hospices will just say whether they have a qualifying QAPI program and check off [...]
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