Home Health & Hospice Week
New CAHPS Exemption Form Available For Small Hospice Providers
Are you small enough to get out of new CAHPS requirements for hospice? If so, you’ll need to fill out a survey participation exemption form.
On Jan. 5, CMS posted the Participation Ex-emption for Size Form at www.hospicecahpssurvey.org. Use the form to request exemption from CAHPS Hospice Survey calendar year 2015 data collection and reporting, CMS explains.
You have until August 12 to submit the form, but “hospices are encouraged to submit this form online via the CAHPS Hospice Survey Web site as soon as possible,” CMS urges.
Hospices are exempt if they have fewer than 50 survey-eligible decedents/caregivers in CY 2014, notes the National Association for Home Care & Hospice in a message to members. “CMS has previously advised that you make sure that your count is accurate (as opposed to estimating your count),” the trade group says.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Quality:
New 5-Star Rating System Likely To Mark You As Sub-Par In Consumers'Minds
Open Door Forum participants express concern about normal distribution model. It may already be too [...] - Outcomes:
Risk Adjustment May Make Or Break Your Star Rating
Plus: Vaccination measures raise questions. The risk adjustment CMS uses for Home Health Compare may [...] - OASIS:
Keep The Pedal To The Metal For OASIS-C1 Training
Both the ongoing transition and upcoming changes are training triggers. OASIS-C1/ICD-9 took effect Jan. 1, [...] - Hospice:
Know Your Notice Of Election Filing Exemptions
Hint: Pointing the finger at staffing problems isn’t going to cut it. Is your hospice [...] - HIPAA:
Neglect Your HIPAA Risk Assessment At Your Peril
A HIPAA Security Rule policy gathering dust on the shelf won’t do you any good. [...] - Industry Notes:
Get Manifestation Coding Right Or See Returned Claims
New coding-focused edit took effect Jan. 1. You’d better put a manifestation diagnosis coding refresher [...] - Industry Notes:
New CAHPS Exemption Form Available For Small Hospice Providers
Are you small enough to get out of new CAHPS requirements for hospice? If so, [...] - Industry Notes:
F2F, POC Problems Plague High-Therapy Claims
Face-to-face, plan of care and OASIS requirements continue to torpedo high-therapy claims in one Palmetto [...] - Industry Notes:
MedPAC To Congress: Rebasing Won't Harm HHAs
Home health agencies should be able to take rebasing reductions to Medicare reimbursement in stride, [...] - Industry Notes:
Pony Up More Than $500 For Revalidation,Enrollment
The paperwork headache isn’t the only pain involved with a revalidation request. Institu-tional providers — [...] - Industry Notes:
2 Non-Profit Hospices Join Forces In Buckeye State
Two Ohio non-profit hospices are teaming up. Hospice of Dayton and Cleveland-based Hospice of the [...] - Industry Notes:
IRS Mileage Rate Creeps Back Up From 2014 Level
Mileage rates are back up this year. The Internal Revenue Service-determined optional standard mileage rate [...] - Industry Notes:
Multi-State Chain Acquires Arizona Location
The Ensign Group has acquired Alarys Home Health, a Medicare and Medicaid certified home health [...]
