Home Health & Hospice Week
CMS Puts Hospice Quality Reporting Training On Deck
Keep your schedule free next month for CMS training on hospice quality reporting. The voluntary submission period for hospice quality data closed Jan. 31, CMS notes on its new hospice quality reporting website. More than 900 hospices submitted data, the agency reports. Next on CMS's timeline is mandatory data collection for two measures in the fourth quarter of 2012 (Oct. 1-Dec. 31). One of the required measures is the structural/QAPI measure that was collected during the voluntary reporting period. Hospices must submit data for that measure by Jan. 31, 2012. The other is National Quality Forum 0209/Pain measure, with data due by April 1, 2013. "Data for this measure will be collected by hospices at the patient level, but reported to CMS as aggregate data," the agency notes. "There is no CMS requirement for patient-level reporting at this time." Remember: "Failure to report by the data submission deadlines in 2013 will result in a two percentage point reduction to the market basket percentage increase for FY2014," CMS warns. CMS will furnish free web training for the data reporting requirements in April, the agency says. Watch for CMS to post more information on the training online at www.cms.gov/Hospice-Quality-Reporting.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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Brace For An OASIS Crackdown
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78 HHAs Put On Suspension At Once As Part Of Fraud Bust
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Home Care Companies Earnings Drop In Latest Quarter
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Reexamine Your Interpreter Responsibilities
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Zone 3 ZPIC Start Date Set For April
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CMS Puts Hospice Quality Reporting Training On Deck
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Use New HHABN Form By April
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Exception Process For Therapy Caps Signed Into Law
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Home Health Aide Is Most Sleep Deprived Job In U.S.
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Beware Claiming Therapy As Unrelated To Hospice
Reviewers are cracking down on what's considered unrelated to the terminal diagnosis. Question: Will Part [...]
