Quality
Calling All Home-Based Care Agencies: Participate in the 2025 Activated Insights Benchmarking Report Survey
January 17, 2025Join the hundreds of providers nationwide improving the industry by participating in the 2025 Activated Insights Benchmarking Report. Your confidential responses will help shape industry dialogue across North America and…
Home Health Quality Reporting Program (HHQRP) Updates and OASIS Submission Requirements
January 17, 2025The January 2025 refresh for the Home Health Quality Reporting Program (HHQRP) includes several key updates. New measures have been introduced, such as the Transfer of Health Information (patient and…
Home Health Rate Update Rule Corrections
January 17, 2025CMS has issued a correction notice for the CY 2025 Home Health Prospective Payment System Final Rule. The notice addresses typographical and technical errors in several tables and discussions, including:…
Register for the Hospice Quality Reporting Program webinar hosted by CMS on Thursday, December 12, 2024, from 1:00–2:00 PM. The webinar will include an Introduction to Hospice Outcomes and Patient…
October Home Health Care Compare Refresh Now Live
November 3, 2024The October 2024 quarterly refresh for the Home Health Quality Reporting Program is now available on Care Compare. This update includes revisions to Home Health (HH) Outcome and Assessment Information…
CMS Issues Non-Compliance Notifications for Home Health Agencies
November 3, 2024Attention home health agencies: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began notifying agencies identified as non-compliance with the Home Health Quality Reporting Program (HHQRP) for the 2025 Annual…
NOW AVAILABLE: HOPE Tool User Manual and Web Based Training
October 6, 2024The Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) Quality Measure (QM) User Manual Chapter for HOPE Process Measures is now available. This QM Manual chapter contains instructions on the calculation of HOPE-based…
Final HOPE Item Sets Released
September 20, 2024Starting October 1, 2025, hospices will begin using the Hospice Outcome & Patient Evaluation (HOPE) tool, which will replace the Hospice Item Set. The final HOPE tool, including HOPE Admission…
On Wednesday, August 21, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hosted the August 2024 HQRP Forum to provide information on the Fiscal Year 2025 Hospice Final Rule…
As Pennsylvania prepares to move to an 85% threshold for EVV compliance on January 1, 2025, PHA is committed to helping you stay prepared. If you missed our review in…
The Home Health Care CAHPS (HHCAHPS) survey results are now on Care Compare. Survey results are based on responses from patients who received care from Medicare-certified agencies in CY 2023. You…
NOW AVAILABLE IN iQIES – Preview Reports and Star Rating Preview Reports for the October 2024 Refresh
July 22, 2024For the most recent iQIES refresh, Home Health Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) and QRP claims-based measures have been updated. All OASIS and claims-based measures are now based on…
On July 3, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) notified hospices of non-compliance with Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) requirements for calendar year (CY) 2023, impacting their fiscal…
CMS Releases New HQRP Quarterly Update
July 1, 2024The latest quarterly Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) Update has been released via email, featuring crucial annual payment reminders and details on the FY 2025 reconsideration period. CMS has also…
Providers can now access the latest Provider Preview Reports via the Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reports (CASPER) application. Once released in CASPER, providers will have 30 days during which…
New Edition: HQRP Quarterly Q&As Now Available
June 3, 2024The HQRP Quarterly Q&A for Q1 2024 is now available. This Q&A includes selected questions received by the Hospice Quality Help Desk during the first quarter of 2024 (January 1…
Care Compare Quarterly Refresh – April 2024
April 29, 2024The April 2024 quarterly refresh for the Home Health Quality Reporting Program is now available on Care Compare. For this refresh, Home Health (HH) Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) will…
Hospice Item Set (HIS) Manual V3.02 Now Available
April 22, 2024An updated HIS Manual V3.02 is now available. The updates include an extension of the documents expiration date and several minor edits and date corrections. Updated documents include the HIS…
HHAs: Preview Reports, Star Rating Preview Reports for July Refresh Now Available in iQIES
April 8, 2024Home health providers can now access their Preview Reports and Star Rating Preview Reports for the July 2024 refresh in iQIES. For this refresh Home Health (HH) Outcome and Assessment…
In a post-acute care outreach email, CMS included that a new page has been added to help hospice providers with correcting demographic data. The page, “How to Update Hospice Demographic Data,”…
Hospices now have access to additional resources in the Provider Toolkit on the HQRP Requirements and Best Practices page, including three recently added guides: Additionally, CMS has added the Quarterly Q&A…
February 2024 Refresh Now Live on Hospice Care Compare
February 26, 2024The February 2024 quarterly refresh for the Hospice Quality Reporting Program is now available on Care Compare. Publicly reported hospice quality data, including the Hospice Item Set, CAHPS Survey Family Caregiver…
Hospice Preview Reports for the May 2024 Refresh Now Available
February 19, 2024Providers can now access the latest Provider Preview Reports via the Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reports (CASPER) application. Once released in CASPER, providers will have 30 days during which…
Notice: Hospice Item Set Manual Update
February 19, 2024The Centers for Medicare & Medicate Services has updated the Hospice Item Set (HIS) Manual to remove COVID-19 public health emergency references, revise the Annual Payment Update (APU) penalty to reflect the…
CMS Fact Sheet: Hospice Comprehensive Assessment Measure
February 19, 2024The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently shared a Fact Sheet for the Hospice Comprehensive Assessment Quality Measure. The document provides clarification on the measure and guidance on how to calculate…
Quarterly HHCAHPS Survey Results Reported on Care Compare
January 22, 2024Home health agencies (HHAs) are informed that Home Health Care CAHPS (HHCAHPS) Survey results from July 2022 to June 2023 are now accessible on the HHCAHPS website under the “Survey Preview Report”…
Now Available: Updated Guide to Home Health Help Desks
January 22, 2024The updated guide to Home Health Help Desks is now available in the “Downloads” section of the Home Health Quality Reporting Program Help Desks webpage.
CMS Releases Draft OASIS-E1 Instrument
January 8, 2024Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the draft OASIS-E1 All Items instrument, scheduled for an effective date of January 1, 2025. The accompanying OASIS-E1 Manual is…
The latest quarterly Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) Update was distributed to hospices via email at the end of December. This quarter’s update includes FY 2025 HQRP reporting reminders, upcoming training opportunities,…
The CAHPS Hospice Survey telephone and mail materials from the Quality Assurance Guidelines V10.0 (QAG V10.0) in all approved translations are now available. Survey vendors must use the revised CAHPS Hospice Survey materials beginning…
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) Releases Hospice Quality Reporting Program Report
November 6, 2023The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) has been developing a new Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) data collection tool – HOPE (Hospice Outcomes & Patient Evaluation). The HOPE is…
Last week, the quarterly Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) Update was distributed to hospices via email. This quarter’s update includes FY 2024 HQRP reporting reminders, public reporting updates, and upcoming training…
Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) added two new training resources to the Home Health Quality Reporting Program (QRP) Training webpage:
Updated HHQRP User Manual Now Available
February 13, 2023The Home Health Quality Reporting Program (HHQRP) Measure Calculations and Reporting User’s Manual has been updated to reflect quality measure changes implemented since the Manual Addendum Update in October 2020. These changes…
Hospice Quality Reporting Program Quarterly Update Available; Sign Up to Receive Updates Via Email
January 9, 2023The Q4 2022 Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) Update has been posted to the HQRP Requirements and Best Practices webpage. As a reminder, this is the last HQRP Quarterly Update that…
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