Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
Reminder: Your HQRP Data Is Going Up On Care Compare Soon
Published on Fri Sep 03, 2021
Don’t forget: Medicare’s Hospice Quality Reporting Program “will resume public reporting in February 2022,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in a new message to providers. “To help you prepare for upcoming refreshes, we updated the Key Dates for Providers webpage to reflect the status of public reporting through August 2022,” CMS says. See the page at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/Hospice-Quality-Reporting/Public-Reporting-Key-Dates-for-Providers.
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Home Health & Hospice Week
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