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Get Ready To Collect These Hospice Data Items
Will ‘HIS’ data set become hospices’ OASIS?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services wants hospices to collect and report data on these seven National Quality Forum-appro-ved measures starting in 2014, the agency says in its 2014 hospice payment proposed rule (see related story, p.122):
• NQF #1617 Patients Treated with an Opioid who are Given a Bowel Regimen
• NQF #1634 Pain Screening
• NQF #1637 Pain Assessment
• NQF #1638 Dyspnea Treatment
• NQF #1639 Dyspnea Screening
• NQF #1641 Treatment Preferences
• NQF #1647 Beliefs/Values Addressed
Stay tuned: The Paperwork Reduction Act package related to the new Hospice Item Set (HIS) should post shortly, CMS says in the rule.
Source: CMS proposed payment rate update at www.ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2013-10389_PI.pdf
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