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Home Health & Hospice Week
2017 Newsletter
Industry Note: Re-Run These Hospice Reports
Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
Re-Run These Hospice Reports
Published on Fri Mar 17, 2017
If you’ve run any Hospice-Level Quality Measure Reports or Hospice Patient Stay-Level Quality Measure Reports with dates between Dec. 8, 2016 and Feb. 26, 2017, you’ll have to rerun them. “An issue was identified and corrected with calculations” in that date range, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says. See more information at
www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/Hospice-Quality-Reporting/HIS-Technical-Information.html
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