Home Health & Hospice Week
Track Your HIS, CAHPS Reporting To Ensure Pay
Don’t forget you need to fulfill two separate reporting requirements to qualify for your full hospice payment update in 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reminds providers in a new message. Both requirements cover data from Jan. 1, 2019, to Dec. 31, 2019. Requirement #1: “For Hospice Item Set (HIS) data, remember that the timeliness threshold requirement for the FY2021 reporting year and beyond is 90 percent,” CMS says. “This means that to be determined compliant with HIS requirements, hospices must submit at least 90 percent of their HIS records on time (within 30 days of the patient’s admission or discharge date).” No size or newness exemptions exist for HIS reporting, CMS adds. More information is at www.cms.gov/medicare/quality-initiatives-patient-assessment-instruments/hospice-quality-reporting/hospice-item-set-his.html. Requirement #2: Hospices’ approved vendors must submit Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) satisfaction survey data to the CAHPS Hospice Survey Data Warehouse on a continuous monthly basis to be in compliance. Hospices can qualify for an exemption for size to the CAHPS requirement. More information is at www.hospicecahpssurvey.org.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- OASIS:
New IMPACT Act Items Weigh Down OASIS-D Transition
Warning: M1800 vs. GG items are big risk areas. If you’re finding the road to [...] - Assessment:
Use These 5 Tips To Tackle OASIS-D Challenges
Make sure staff know when rule of majority applies — and doesn’t. You can bet [...] - OASIS:
Make Sure Staff Know When Rule Of Majority Applies — And Doesn't
Clear up this point of M1800 vs. GG item confusion. Use the most recent OASIS-D [...] - Survey & Certification:
New CoP Guidance Limits Administrator Grandfathering
CMS issues 48 FAQs on HH Conditions of Participation. The drastically revamped Home Health Conditions [...] - Human Resources:
Get The Most Out Of Your Employees By Sharpening Your Performance-Appraisal Skills
Help your staff to build on their competencies. Don’t wait until the Patient-Driven Groupings Model [...] - Industry Note:
New Law Benefits Home Care — For Now
Extenders Act addresses Money Follows the Person. Home health agencies may still be waiting on [...] - Industry Note:
Point Physicians, Discharge Planners To New CERT Task Force Sessions
If you’d like your hospital referral sources to hear more about their duties from Medicare, [...] - Industry Note:
Track Your HIS, CAHPS Reporting To Ensure Pay
Don’t forget you need to fulfill two separate reporting requirements to qualify for your full [...] - Industry Note:
Connect Patients, Caregivers With New Medicare App
Medicare has a new app that may be helpful to your tech-savvy patients and their [...] - Industry Note:
MAC Warning May Press Your Buttons
Agencies served by CGS should beware this mistake commonly made by providers under medical review. [...] - Industry Note:
Nonprofits Ally In Oregon
The alliance model is catching on for non-profit hospices. In Oregon, Care Partners Hospice & [...] - Industry Note:
VITAS Opens Facility
VITAS Healthcare has opened an inpatient unit in Rockledge, Florida, says spacecoastdaily.com. Its new IPU [...] - Industry Note:
Michigan HHA, Senior Living Company Partner
Mary Free Bed at Home in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has partnered with West Michigan senior [...] - Industry Note:
Health System Sheds HH
Another hospital system has shuttered its home health and hospice units. Samaritan Health Services in [...]
