Home Health & Hospice Week

Quality:

Ready Or Not, You're Publicly Judged On These 7 Measures

Plus: Expect 8 more CAHPS measures to go live soon.

Unless you don’t meet the data threshold requirements for Hospice Compare, these are the measures for which you are displaying data on Medicare’s newest outcomes comparison website:

  • Treatment Preferences — National Quality Forum #1641
  • Beliefs/Values Addressed — NQF #1647
  • Pain Screening — NQF #1634
  • Pain Assessment — NQF #1637
  • Dyspnea Screening — NQF #1639
  • Dyspnea Treatment — NQF #1638
  • Patients treated with opioids who are given a bowel regimen — NQF #1617.

And you’ll show more patient-satisfaction-driven data when the CAHPS-based measures go live this winter, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services indicated in its 2017 payment rule:

  • Rating of Hospice
  • Hospice Team Communications
  • Willingness to Recommend
  • Getting Hospice Care Training
  • Getting Timely Care
  • Getting Emotional and Religious Support
  • Getting Help for Symptoms
  • Treating Family Member with Respect.

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