Patient Satisfaction:
CMS Pushes CAHPS Payment Back One Year
Published on Tue Oct 06, 2009
Delay doesn't mean you can put off compliance. The final rate update comes with many changes, but there's one in particular that's guaranteed to make your life a little bit easier. After a bevy of comments on its proposed requirement to force all agencies to use the Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) survey, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has decided to delay portions of the requirement for a full year. Good news: The CAHPS survey won't be linked to the quality reporting requirements for the annual payment update for another six months so that you can focus on transitioning to OASIS C. And the survey won't be tied to the annual payment update until 2012, according to the Home Health Prospective Payment System final rate update, released on Oct. 30 and slated for publication in the Nov. 10 Federal Register. In the time [...]