Expanded HHVBP Model: Revised Preliminary July 2023 IPRs Available in iQIES

Posted in Home Care, INDUSTRY NEWS

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP
Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare

Revised Preliminary July 2023 Interim Performance Reports (IPRs) Available in iQIES. Recalculation request deadline extended to Wednesday, August 16, 2023.

On Tuesday, August 1, 2023, CMS reissued the Preliminary July 2023 IPRs for all HHAs that are eligible to receive a report to address two display issues that caused some cells to incorrectly display blanks or “0.000”. Below is a summary of the issues identified for the Preliminary July 2023 IPR, published on July 20, 2023, and the solutions:

Issue #1: There are cases where “0.000” appears in cells that reference other cells in the report. One example is the column labeled Your HHA’s Performance Year Measure Value on the Improvement tab that pulls in measure values from the equivalent column on the Achievement tab. The column shows measure values on the Achievement tab but “0.000” on the Improvement tab. This display error occurs for Microsoft Excel users who do not have formulas enabled automatically.

Solution: CMS removed all dynamic cell references in the report to allow all HHAs to view values regardless of Microsoft Excel settings.

Issue #2: On the Measure Scorecard tab, the values listed in the Your HHA’s Weighted Measure Points column (column F) for the five individual HHCAHPS Survey-based measures (cells F22 through F26) were inadvertently displayed as blank cells.

Solution: The revised version of the Preliminary July 2023 IPR includes the display of the individual HHCAHPS Survey-based weighted measure points on the Measure Scorecard tab.

It is important to note that this display error did not affect the calculation of any values in the Preliminary IPR published on July 20, 2023, including the sum of HHCAHPS Survey-based measures (cell F27) and the sum of all measures/interim Total Performance Score (cell F28).

**The deadline to submit a recalculation request for the Preliminary July 2023 IPR is Wednesday, August 16, 2023. Instructions on how to submit a recalculation request are available on the Expanded HHVBP Model webpage.