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Get Your Next CAHPS Exception Form In Soon

Published on Fri Jan 28, 2011

CMS also reveals PECOS backlog in forum. Don't rest on your laurels if you're exempt from HHCAHPS for 2012. The Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) program will require an annual exemption, said Lori Teichman with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in the Jan. 19 Open Door Forum for home care providers. The exemption forms that affect home health agency payments in 2012 were just due Jan. 21. But the forms that will affect 2013 will be available in a few short months on April 1. If you do not qualify for an exemption for 2013, you must submit CAHPS data starting with April 2011, Teichman told forum attendees. Remember: To qualify for an exemption, an agency must service 59 or fewer CAHPS survey-eligible patients in the year running from April 1 to March 31. For 2013, agencies will count patients from April 2010 [...]
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