Take care to meet the May 1 deadline to turn in your hospice CAHPS survey vendor authorization form. “Hospices must authorize an approved CAHPS Hospice Survey vendor to submit data on their behalf for the 2015 administration of the CAHPS Hospice Survey,” CMS says on the CAHPS website.
Remember: If you fail to submit CAHPS data, Medicare will cut your 2017 payment rates by 2 percent. More information is online at www.hospicecahpssurvey.org/Content/WhatsNew.aspx.