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HQRP Data Penalty Jumps From 2% To 4% Starting With January Submissions

Published on Fri Sep 17, 2021

Don’t get confused by Medicare’s language when it comes to how much your pay will get docked for failing to submit Hospice Quality Reporting Program data. Old way: “Since fiscal year (FY) 2014, failure for hospices to comply with quality data reporting requirements results in a two-percentage-point reduction to the APU for the corresponding [fiscal year],” CMS explains on its [...]
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