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Reminder: CMS Quality Reporting Deadlines Draw Near
In August 2011, CMS announced the requirements for the first year of quality reporting with which all Medicare-certified hospices must comply (per the nation’s new health care law). Now, a year later, the deadlines for data collection and submission are drawing near.
As illustrated in the timeline below: • By October 1, 2012, hospices must be prepared for data collection on two separate measures: NQF #0209 (aka the NHPCO Comfortable Dying measure) and a QAPI Structural measure.
Quality Reporting Timeline
FY2012 - 2013
1/31/2013 Deadline for submission of Structural measure data 4/1/2013 Deadline for submission of Comfortable Dying measure data
10/1/2013 Begin 2% market basket reduction for failure to participate in Quality Reporting
August 2012
October 2012 January 2013
April 2013
July 2013
October 2013 1/1/2014
10/1/2012 – 12/31/2012 Data collection for Structural measure and Comfortable Dying measure
1/1/2013 – 12/31/2013 Data collection for Structural measure and Comfortable Dying measure
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