tci Part B Insider - 2012 Issue 39

Hospices: Quality Reporting Burdens May Ruin Small Hospices

Hospice providers give CMS an earful on quality reporting proposals.Hospices are hoping to see a lot of changes to Medicare's quality reporting plans when the final rule spelling them out is published shortly.Chief among the complaints about CMS's proposals is the lack of any spiritual or psychosocial measures for inclusion in the first round of expansion.Background: After its voluntary test last year, CMS began requiring data reporting for two measures Oct. 1 --  the structural measure on whether a hospice has a Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) program that includes at least three quality...

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