Home Health & Hospice Week
Incorrect Hospice PEPPER Reports Go Out -- Again
Don’t base any big initiatives on your hospice PEPPER report data quite yet. About half of the PEPPER reports hospices recently received were incorrect, reports the National Association for Home Care & Hospice. They contained errors in the live discharge data.
Who gets it? "Any hospice having data in their recently-received PEPPER (version Q4FY12) for the ‘Live Discharges’ target area report for any of the three time periods (FY 2010, 2011 or 2012) will receive a corrected PEPPER," PEPPER contractor TMF Health Quality Institute told the trade group. That will total about 1,380 hospices. "If this report is blank (that is, there is no data reported for any of the three time periods for the ‘Live Discharges’ target area), the hospice will not receive a corrected PEPPER."
Hospices that will no longer receive a PEPPER report due to insufficient data will receive a letter, NAHC adds.
This is the second time TMF has had to send out corrected hospice PEPPER reports. Last fall, TMF had to reissue reports after making errors in hospices’ top terminal condition data (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXI, No. 38).
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