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Get Up To Speed On HVLDL Specifics Before Measure Debuts Publicly In 2022
Do you know CHC, GIP, and respite patients don’t count? If you’re still struggling to get your hands around the new Hospice Visits in Last Days of Life quality measure, which took effect Jan. 1, some calculation details from Medicare might help. The patients excluded from this measure are those: who did not expire in hospice care; who received any continuous home care, respite care or general inpatient care in the final three days of life; and whose length of stay is not three days, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice notes in a question-and-answer set it developed on the measure. CMS plans to publicly report the measure by May 2022, it said in the 2022 hospice payment proposed rule (see Hospice Insider, Vol. 14, No. 6).
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Get Up To Speed On HVLDL Specifics Before Measure Debuts Publicly In 2022
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