New Materials Available on Hospice Quality Reporting Program Website

Per CMS, training materials instructing providers on Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 Reporting Cycle data collection requirements are now available on the Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) website. To understand FY 2015 Reporting Cycle requirements, providers should review the HQRP Fiscal Year 2015 Reporting Cycle Requirements Fact Sheet, the User Guide for Hospice Quality Reporting Data Collection and the HQRP FY 2015 Reporting Cycle HQRP Training Slides available in the “downloads” section of HQRP Data Collection web page.

The User Guide and Training Slides instruct providers on data collection activities for the two required measures for the FY 2015 Reporting Cycle: the structural measure and the NQF #0209 Pain Measure. Providers will be required to submit data for both of these measures by April 1, 2014 in order to avoid a two percentage point reduction in their FY 2015 Annual Payment Update (APU).

Also available for provider review is the FY 2014 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update; Hospice Quality Reporting Requirements; and Updates on Payment Reform Final Rule. The final rule notifies providers of requirements for future Reporting Cycles of the HQRP.

Contact: Cheryl Udell, cudell@leadingageny.org, 518-867-8871