OCS educates Hospices on presentation of the Quality Measures and Public Reporting
Seattle, WA (Nasdaq) 29 September 2011
As a market leader in hospice empowerment for almost 20 years, OCS release an official statement about the recent announcement from the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on the move toward standardized quality measurement and ultimately the public reporting of hospices.
This statement is intended to inform and educate hospice provider. In addition to this information and help, hospice organizations address a confusion OCS is also a free webinar recording.
In January 2012, CMS
start voluntary disclosure of information that CMS accept as “structural measures”, the performance measurement activities in the fourth quarter of 2011 are performed. Hospices that this information is freely choose the names and definitions of measures, which they collect, but no records or patient count for these measures. OCS clients with QAPI Snapshot are already able to handle this template because the QAPI Snapshot Program already includes the measurement definition of CMS documentation required for the structural measures filings.
In January 2013, submission mandatory measure. As in the previous submission is voluntary, Hospice organizations submit structural measures, to measure the names and definitions are part of the performance metrics in Q4 2012 (prices and one is excluded) collected. CMS is also an additional levy in April 2013, the hospice that includes the rate for “Pain Comfort within 24 hours.” Hospices who choose not to submit this data will be in 2013, a 2 percent reduction in Medicare in fiscal year see 2014th
While the measures of voluntary hospices in 2012 and as a mandate in 2013 will not be publicly reported, CMS plans to use these comments to gain information collected through collective action across the entire industry filed. The possible public reporting of data by the hospice Affordable Care Act is required but no specific dates have been identified.
“Hospice measures have never been standardized by CMS. While this process is new hospice organizations, OCS has seen the development of standardized data to other care facilities,” said Roger Lord, Strategic Advisor for OCS. “When CMS takes the first steps for future unification of hospice measures and public reporting, it is important for hospice providers to help contribute to their future course of public reporting form.”
OCS has created a short pre-recorded lesson, learn to hospices and details on this topic. Visit the OCS QAPI Snapshot web page for the free webinar recording.
view About OCS and My Innerview
As a combined business unit of the National Research Corporation, OCS and My Innerview enable customers and partners over the entire post-acute continuum of care, including hospice, home health, nursing homes, assisted living and much more. The company provides market-leading solutions survey, predictive tools, data analysis, quality and results reporting, Financial Insights, and the nation’s largest comparative databases. OCS and My Innerview partner with more than 12,000 post-acute providers.
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National Research Corporation, in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, is a leading provider of performance measurement, improvement services and governance education in health care in the United States and Canada.
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