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Line Up Your CAHPS Vendor Before Deadline Hits In Q3

Published on Fri Feb 26, 2010

OASIS C, Home Health Compare also addressed in Open Door Forum. In just a few short months, you'll need to start submitting patient satisfaction survey data or risk your Medicare payments. The financial hit for not reporting Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) data won't take place until 2012. But unless you're willing to give up the 2 percent that will come off your Medicare payment rates if you don't report CAHPS data, you need to do a "dry run" of the tool in the third quarter of this year. "You've got to participate in a dry run" during July, August, or September, urged Elizabeth Goldstein with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in the March 10 Open Door Forum for home care providers. "The dry run is not optional." The reason it's called a dry run is because the data collected won't be publicly [...]
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