Portion of Hospice PEPPERs to be Reissued

TMF Health Quality Institute, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) contractor for the hospice Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) has alerted the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) that they have identified a problem in the recently-released Hospice PEPPER (see NAHC Report, March 7, 2013).  As a result,…