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Hospice News:
HQRP Info Is At Your Fingertips
Published on Mon Mar 18, 2019 
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If the holiday rush kept you from tuning in to Medicare’s training webinar on hospice quality reporting, you now can catch up. The audio recording and training materials for the “Updates to Public Reporting in Fiscal Year 2019: Hospice Comprehensive Assessment Measure and Data Correction Deadlines” session are in a ZIP file in the “Downloads” box at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/Hospice-Quality-Reporting/Hospice-Quality-Reporting-Training-Training-and-Education-Library.html.
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