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CMS Puts Hospice Quality Reporting Training On Deck

Published on Fri Mar 02, 2012

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 [...]
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