Hospice:
QIES Blackout Leaves Hospices Worried About Compliance
Published on Fri Feb 05, 2016
Double-check your HIS submissions. Plan ahead to avoid missing your 30-day Hospice Item Set submission deadline, the feds urge. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently announced that “all Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (QIES) systems will be unavailable from Wednesday, March 16 after 8 pm ET through Monday, March 21, 2016” (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXV, No. 5). [...]