Home Health & Hospice Week

You must submit data for every episode, CMS says.Home health agencies that fail to submit OASIS data for every episode they furnish will face a 2 percent reduction to Medicare payment rates, according to new instructions from the Centers for Medi-care & Medicaid Services that takes effect in August."If a home health agency does not submit required quality data, their payment rates for the year are reduced by 2 percentage points," says May 11 Transmittal No. 2466 (CR 7833). "Original Medicare considers the following data as meeting the reporting requirement:OASIS data submitted by HHAs for all episodes beginning on or after July 1 of the previous year, and before July 1, of the current year, andHome Health Care Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems (HHCAHPS) monthly data collection."The transmittal revises data submission requirements that have been in effect since 2007. As expected, it adds HHCAHPS data for the first [...]