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Know Your Hospice Compare Deadlines
Don’t confuse this winter with next winter. You’ve got until June 30 to review your Hospice Compare preview report and request review if you think it isn’t accurate. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ran the Hospice Provider Preview Reports June 1 and hospices have 30 days to review them, CMS says on its Hospice Quality Public Reporting website. Details on how to access your report in the CASPER system and how to request a data calculation review are available on the website at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/Hospice-Quality-Reporting/Hospice-Quality-Public-Reporting.html. This summer, CMS will display seven Hospice Item Set-based measures on Hospice Compare: Treatment Preferences NQF #1641; Beliefs/Values Addressed NQF #1647; Pain Screening NQF #163; Pain Assessment NQF #1637; Dyspnea Screening NQF #1639; Dyspnea Treatment NQF #1638; and Patients treated with opioid who are given a bowel regimen NQF #1617. Next Winter CMS will begin displaying CAHPS-based measures on Hospice Compare as well. Clarification: If you thought the “winter 2018” date CMS cited in the proposed rule for 2018 hospice payment for launching the CAHPS portion of Hospice Compare meant the end of next year, you were wrong. Public display of CAHPS measures on Hospice Compare will begin “early in the year of 2018,” a CMS official clarified in its May 3 Open Door Forum for hospice providers.
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