Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Post-training materials are now available for the Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP): Changes in the Hospice Item Set (HIS) Manual V3.00: What You Need to Know! webinar that was presented on Thursday, April 15, 2021. Training materials include: Presentation (including answers to knowledge checks): Document DownloadVideo…… Continue reading Post-Training Materials Now Available for the Hospice QRP: Changes in the Hospice Item Set (HIS) Manual V3.00 Webinar

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare On Wednesday, May 12, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a webinar to share updates on the Hospice Outcomes & Patient Evaluation (HOPE) assessment. During this webinar, CMS subject matter experts will discuss the following: HOPE background and objectivesHOPE development and testing…… Continue reading Hospice Quality Reporting Program Forum – May 12, 2021

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Hospice Quarterly Update for the first quarter of 2021 is now available. This update includes Hospice Quality Reporting Program highlights from January 2021 to March 2021, events and engagement opportunities for the second quarter of 2021 (April – June 2021), and selected questions and answers…… Continue reading HQRP Quarterly Update for 1st Quarter of 2021 Available

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The training materials for “Changes in the Hospice Item Set (HIS) Manual V3.00 Webinar” scheduled for Thursday, April 15, 2021 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET. are now available under the Downloads section on the HQRP Training and Education Library Webpage.  If you have not…… Continue reading Training Materials Available for The Changes in the Hospice Item Set (HIS) Manual V3.00 Webinar

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare On April 8, 2021, CMS issued a proposed rule that would provide routine updates to hospice base payments and the aggregate cap amount for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022. This proposed rule also includes a comment solicitation regarding hospice utilization. In addition, this rule proposes to rebase…… Continue reading Hospice Payment Rate Update for FY 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be hosting a webinar on Thursday, April 15, 2021 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. ET. The purpose of this training is to provide a general overview of the changes included in the Hospice Item Set (HIS) Manual…… Continue reading Changes in the Hospice Item Set (HIS) Manual V3.00: What You Need to Know

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Hospice Item Set (HIS) Manual V3.00(126 pages), effective February 16, 2021, is now available. HIS Manual V3.00 has been updated from V2.01 to reflect the removal of Section O and associated measures. TheHospice Item Set – Admission v3.00 and the Hospice Item Set – Discharge…… Continue reading Version 3.00 of the HIS Manual is Now Available

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare A new document, entitled “Common Questions-HQRP Claims-Based-Quality Measures: February 2021” is now available in the Downloads section of the Hospice Item Set (HIS) page. This document will give providers information and answers to some common questions about the HQRP including changes in the draft HIS Manual V3.00;…… Continue reading Update: Common Questions – Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) Claims-Based-Quality Measures: February 2021

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare In the February 11, 2021 edition of  MLN Connects, you’ll find this posting of valuable hospice resources (information in brackets added by me): An Office of Inspector General (OIG) report [38 pages – July 2019] found that most hospices have at least one deficiency in their…… Continue reading Hospices: Create an Effective Plan of Care

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Chapter 11_Processing Hospice Claims of the Medicare Claims Processing Manual was revised as of October 30, 2020 (implementation December 1, 2020), specifically Sections: 20.1.2 – Notice of Termination/Revocation (NOTR)30.3 – Data Required on the Institutional Claim to A/B MAC (HHH)40.2 – Processing Professional Claims for Hospice…… Continue reading Chapter 11 – Processing Hospice Claims Revised + Hospice Fact Sheet