CMS Asks Hospice Providers to Review Preview Report Data by April 13

Hospices have until April 13 to preview the following two hospice reports before they go on public display in May: 

  • Hospice provider preview report: Review Hospice Item Set (HIS) quality measure results from the third quarter of 2018 to the second quarter of 2019; and
  • Hospice Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) provider preview report: Review facility-level CAHPS survey results from the third quarter of 2017 to the second quarter of 2019.

These are available in providers’ Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reports (CASPER) non-validation reports folders.  

Hospices can request the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to conduct a review it they believe the denominator or other HIS quality metric is inaccurate or if there are errors in the results from the CAHPS survey data. 

Additional information on these reports can be found at: 

  • HIS Preview Reports and Requests for CMS Review website (see here)
  • CAHPS Preview Reports and Requests for CMS Review website (see here)