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Category: Hospice Today

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November 2022 Updates to Medicare’s Care Compare for Hospice Providers

The November 2022 quarterly refresh for the Hospice Quality Reporting Program is now available on Care Compare. Your hospice’s quality scores matter more than ever before. Take some time to review …

Hospice Billing / Hospice Today

Hospice Providers: Remember to File Your Self-Determined Cap by February 28th!

All hospices are required to file their self-determined cap each year, between December 31 and February 28. The 2021 Self-Determined Caps are due no later than February 28, 2022. If …

Hospice Billing / Hospice Today

Important Changes in the Hospice Item Set (HIS) Manual V3.00!

CMS has shared a new presentation that covers all the changes in the new Hospice Item Set (HIS) Manual. Click here to download the slides from the presentation, and continue …

Hospice Billing / Hospice Today

The 2022 Hospice Payment Proposed Rule from CMS

Spring is in the air! That means t-shirts, flowers, and everyone’s favorite: new rules from CMS! Let’s take a look at the 2022 Hospice Payment Rate Proposed Rule. There’s good …

Hospice Billing / Hospice Today

Hospice Providers: November 2020 Care Compare Quarterly Refresh is Available Now

The November 2020 quarterly refresh for the Hospice Quality Reporting Program is now available on Care Compare. Care Compare is the recently launched, streamlined redesign of eight existing CMS healthcare compare …

Home Health Today / Hospice Today / Medical Billing & Collections / Skilled Nursing

CMS will retire the original Compare Tools Websites on December 1st.

From CMS: “In early September, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released Care Compare on Medicare.gov, which streamlines our eight original health care compare tools.  Since then, you’ve …

Hospice Billing / Hospice Today

Hospice QRP November 2019 Technical Expert Panel Report

As part of the development of new hospice quality measures, Abt Associates, under contract with CMS, convened a Technical Expert Panel (TEP).  This report provides a summary of their first …

Hospice Billing / Hospice Today

HQRP Reporting Exemptions Have Expired. Stay on Top of Your Hospice’s Requirements with this Tip Sheet!

In order to relieve provider burden during the COVID-19 pandemic, CMS temporarily lifted several reporting requirements for hospices. These temporary flexibilities ended on June 30, 2020. Hospices are now expected …

Hospice Today

Hospice: Updates from CMS on the Development of the HOPE Tool and the Future of HQRP

The Hospice Outcomes & Patient Evaluation (HOPE) is a standardized patient assessment that CMS is developing for the HQRP. In theory, HOPE will provide hospices with “real-time patient assessments to …

Hospice Billing / Hospice Today

Hospice Provider Preview Reports for the August 2020 Refresh Now Available

From CMS: Hospice HIS provider preview reports and CAHPS Survey  provider preview reports have been updated and are now available. These two separate reports are available in your CASPER non-validation …

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