Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

If you’re concerned about improving your quality data, now might be the time to prioritize improving your practice measures.

Medicare’s Hospice Compare website is now available for patients, partners, and competitors to scrutinize providers’ quality data. The site contains information from about 3,900 hospices and covers seven “National Quality Forum-endorsed Hospice Item Set quality measures,” notes the CMS fact sheet about the site.

Read the Hospice Compare fact sheet at: www.cms.gov/Newsroom/MediaReleaseDatabase/Fact-sheets/2017-Fact-Sheet-items/2017-08-16.html.

The data highlights the differences amongst providers and offers an inside look at how well particular hospices are meeting the required quality measures, suggests the release. The site “compares hospice providers based on whether the provider assesses the patient’s goals of treatment preferences and other quality indicators,” says the CMS fact sheet. This timely information can be advantageous for families and providers trying to find the hospice with the highest ratings and best fit for each patient’s treatment needs.

“The Hospice Compare website is an important tool for the American people and will help empower them in a time of vulnerability as they look for information necessary to make important decisions about hospice care for loved ones,” CMS Administrator Seema Verma says in the release. “The CMS Hospice Compare website is a reliable resource for family members and caregivers who are looking for facilities that will provide quality care.”

Resource: Visit the new Hospice Compare website at www.medicare.gov/hospicecompare.