Eli's Hospice Insider
Double-Check Your Quality Data Before It's Too Late
Don’t miss your chance to review your Hospice Compare data for the next refresh. “Hospice provider preview reports and Hospice Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Survey provider preview reports have been updated and are now available,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in a message to providers. Hospices have until June 30 to review the newest reports, which cover Hospice Item Set (HIS) quality measure results from Quarter 4-2016 to Quarter 3-2017 and CAHPS survey results from Quarter 4-2015 to Quarter 3-2017. Remember: “Should a provider believe the denominator or other HIS quality metric to be inaccurate or if there are errors within the results from the CAHPS survey data, a provider may request CMS review,” the agency reminds providers. Where to find them: “These two separate reports are available in your Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reports (CASPER) non-validation reports folder,” CMS explains in the message. More information on accessing the reports is at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/Hospice-Quality-Reporting/Downloads/Hospice-Provider-Preview-Report-Access-Instructions.pdf and www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/Hospice-Quality-Reporting/Downloads/Hospice-CAHPS®Provider-Preview-Report-Access-Instructions-Final-12-1-17.pdf.
Eli's Hospice Insider
- Quality:
Quality Takes Center Stage In Proposed Hospice Rule
Check out new time frames for Hospice Item Set data review. You’d better pay close [...] - Regulations:
Rule Raises Idea Of IT Conditions of Participation
Electronic health information exchange in the works, reg signals. Before you find yourself slapped with [...] - Reimbursement:
CMS Clears Up Drug, DME Reporting Confusion
You aren’t required to switch to new reporting methodology — although you’ll probably want to. [...] - Fraud & Abuse:
Hospices Pay Out Millions In Fraud Cases
Hospice coughs up $3 million for integrity agreement settlement. A whistleblower lawsuit filed by hospice [...] - Hospice News:
MAC Offers Helping Hand With Documentation Tool
Does your documentation process involve the items on this checklist? In light of increasing medical [...] - Hospice News:
Hospices Must Wait A While Longer For TPE Results
Home health agencies are getting some vital Targeted Probe & Educate info from HHH Medicare [...] - Hospice News:
Hospices Should Serve For End-Stage Renal Disease Patients, Study Suggests
Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease aren’t receiving as much hospice care as they should. So [...] - Hospice News:
Check Out Your Latest Hospice Compare Data
If you haven’t looked at Medicare’s Hospice Compare website since May 16, now’s the time [...] - Hospice News:
Hospice Director Of Operations Turns Star Witness In Salacious Texas Case
Mainstream news stories outlining Medicare hospice fraud and abuse are enough to undermine confidence in [...] - Hospice News:
New MedPAC Commissioners Fail To Include Hospice Rep ® Again
The newest crop of MedPAC commissioners is heavy on physicians and light — extremely — [...] - Hospice News:
Give Your Staff A Helpful Heads Up About New Mileage Deduction Limitations
If you don’t pay the full Internal Revenue Service mileage rate to your employees for [...] - Hospice News:
Cut Through MBI Confusion With Latest Medicare Instructions
Don’t worry about getting your patients’ new Medicare numbers before they do using the newly [...] - Hospice News:
Double-Check Your Quality Data Before It's Too Late
Don’t miss your chance to review your Hospice Compare data for the next refresh. “Hospice [...]
