Eli's Hospice Insider

If you haven’t done much to prepare for HIS, you at least can register for your User IDs to submit your Hospice Item Set information — both of them. Hospice providers required to submit the HIS records starting July 1 must register for two separate user IDs, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says — a CMSNet User ID and a QIES User ID. Also, each provider is allowed two CMSNet User IDs, which provide access to CMS’s private network where the QIES systems reside.

The CMSNet registration form is at https://www.qtso.com/cmsnet.html — scroll down to the second link under “Hospice/IRF/Swing Bed/ LTCH.” You’ll receive two separate emails with your User ID and password, which you can use to install CMS’s Juniper communications software, then log into the CMS Network.