Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
Access Free CMS Training On New Hospice Quality Data Reporting
Published on Thu Nov 08, 2012
You can get some help from CMS on hospice quality data reporting and submission, starting Nov. 12. A WebEx training session on that topic will be available starting then at https://www.qtso.com/hospice.html, CMS says on the QIES Technical Support Office website. Reminder: Hospices must collect data on two measures -- Structural/QAPI and NQF #0209 -- from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 2012, CMS notes. Hos-pices must report the structural measure data by Jan. 31, 2013 and the NQF #0209 data by April 1, 2013.
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Home Health & Hospice Week
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Access Free CMS Training On New Hospice Quality Data Reporting
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