Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
Take A Look At Your Next Hospice Compare Data
Published on Fri Dec 14, 2018
Don’t miss your chance for a sneak preview of your Hospice Compare data. Hospice provider preview reports and Hospice CAHPS Survey provider preview reports “have been updated and are now available,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in a message to providers. The reports contain hospices’ Hospice Item Set (HIS) quality measure results from Quarter 2, 2017 to Quarter 1, 2018 and their facility-level CAHPS survey results from Quarter 2, 2016 to Quarter 1, 2018, CMS explains. Providers can download the two separate reports from their CASPER non-validation reports folder, CMS instructs. Providers have 30 days to review their results, until Jan. 9.
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Home Health & Hospice Week
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