Eli's Hospice Insider
Get Ready To Submit Your Voluntary Quality Data
You can start working now on the data that you may submit Jan. 1. If you want to submit your hospice quality data during Medicare's voluntary reporting period, you now have some guidelines for doing so -- but they are officially draft ones. Although the
CMS will open the data submission period Jan. 1, although the reporting period actually runs from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31. The agency is waiting on Office of Management and Budget approval of the data collection form, which it expects to come through by January, it says.
You can enter your data in the system before Jan. 1, you just have to use the "save without submitting" option instead of the "save" option, CMS instructs in the 22-page User Guide.
In addition to basic identification information, the data submission form has four questions: (1) Does your hospice have a QAPI program that includes three or more quality indicators related to patient care?; (2) How many patient care-related indicators are included in your hospice's QAPI program?; (3) List the indicators in your QAPI program (up to 20); and (4) How much time did this take?
In Question 3, CMS instructs hospices to list information such as the number of patients to whom the indicator applies (numerator) and the overall number of patients admitted (denominator).
Note: More information and links to the form and User Guide are at www.cms.gov/LTCH-IRF-Hospice-Quality-Reporting/10_HospiceQualityReporting.asp.
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