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Get Started On CAHPS Or Risk Your Reimbursement

Published on Wed Nov 04, 2009

The 2 percent reduction may be only the start of your worries. Most home health agencies are consumed with OASIS C beginning next month, but that shouldn't cause the new Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) requirement to fall off your priority list. Participation in CAHPS is voluntary, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' prospective payment system final rule for 2010, published in the Nov. 10 Federal Register. Watch out: However, agencies that don't submit CAHPS data will be subject to a 2 percent reduction in PPS payment updates starting in 2012, CMS spells out in the rule. Don't let the 2012 date fool you, industry experts warn. The rule actually requires HHAs to do a "dry run" of CAHPS data submission in the third quarter of 2010 and start submitting CAHPS data routinely by October of next year. Providers "will need to [...]
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