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Hospice Quality Reporting Starts In January

Published on Tue Jul 05, 2011

The two initially reported measures are just the beginning, CMS says. The hospice 2012 wage index update isn't all about the money, it also contains a huge change to the way hospices will operate under Medicare. The new requirement for quality reporting is the highest-impact provision in the rule published in the Aug. 4 Federal Register, believes Judi Lund Person with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Starting in 2013, hospices must report one pain management quality measure and one structural measure. The required quality measure is National Quality Forum Measure #0209, "Percentage of patients who were uncomfortable because of pain on admission to hospice whose pain was brought under control within 48 hours." The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services considered a number of other measures, but this one was the most applicable to the general hospice patient population and was the most expediently collected, the agency says [...]
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