Home Health & Hospice Week
Annual PEPPER Reports Are Not In The Mail -- Download Them Instead
The new Hospice Program for Evalu-ating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER), with statistics through September 2013, is now available, CMS says in a message to providers.
CMS has made two changes to the report. First, the “Live Discharges” target area now includes all beneficiary episodes, not just those with a length of stay less than 25 days, the agency notes.
Another difference: The “State” comparison group now includes all hospices in a state. Previously, the “State” comparison group included all hospices in a state that were in the same MAC jurisdiction. As a result, state percentiles will differ from the previous PEPPER release.
Access your report and more information at www.pepperresources.org. PEPPER contractor TMF Health Quality Institute is no longer mailing paper copies of the report, so you’ll have to download it from the site, TMF says.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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Annual PEPPER Reports Are Not In The Mail -- Download Them Instead
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