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Get Your HQRP Info From These New Sources
If you don’t know HIS from QIES from QRP, you can check out Medicare’s newest Hospice Quality Reporting Program Quick Reference Guide. The guide covers program basics and commonly asked questions and answers. See a link to the latest guide online at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/Hospice-Quality-Reporting/Reconsideration-Requests.html. Plus: You can learn more about the HQRP by using recently posted materials from Medicare’s “From Data to Measure” webinar training held Aug. 16. The session aimed “to help providers understand how CMS takes raw HIS data, calculates hospices’ performance on the HIS quality measures ... using the QM specifications, and determines publicly reported scores,” CMS says. Download the zip file containing the materials at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/Hospice-Quality-Reporting/Hospice-Quality-Reporting-Training-Training-and-Education-Library.html in the “Downloads” box at the bottom of the page.
Eli's Hospice Insider
- Regulations:
Medicare Includes Hospice In Its Regulatory Relief Proposals
Proposal aims to eliminate requirements related to aides, medication management, and facility staff training. While [...] - Survey & Certification:
Regulatory Relief Proposal For Medication Management Gets Mixed Reviews From Hospice Industry
Change would save hospices $80 million annually, CMS claims. Medicare is looking to take some [...] - Quality:
Medicare Charts New Course For Hospice Compare Additions
Subregulatory process will work fine, Medicare contends over industry objections. The decision to add quality [...] - Legislation:
Opioid Legislation Empowers Hospices To Help Head Off Drug Diversion
Long-awaited change regarding hospice drug disposal poised to become law. A common sense change allowing [...] - Hospice News:
CMS Goes Electronic-Only For Appeals Of Quality Data Payment Reduction
Paper appeals no longer accepted. If you think you’re going to be docked 2 percent [...] - Hospice News:
Get Your HQRP Info From These New Sources
If you don’t know HIS from QIES from QRP, you can check out Medicare’s newest [...] - Hospice News:
Is This Payment Snafu Causing Your Claims To Reject Incorrectly?
Watch out for a new hospice payment glitch. “Some claims are incorrectly rejecting for reason [...] - Hospice News:
Medicare Funds Palliative Care Quality Measure Work
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, in partnership with the National Coalition for [...] - Hospice News:
Know What HETS Is Telling You About Hospice Dates
Wondering exactly what you’re looking at in the HIPAA Eligibility Transaction System (HETS)? Medicare wants [...] - Hospice News:
Notorious Novus Case Yields Another Guilty Plea
A fourth defendant has pleaded guilty in the case against Novus Health, in which the [...]
