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Expanded HHVBP Model: April PIPR and Updated Measure Calculation Resources

Reminder: April 2023 Pre-Implementation Performance Report Available on iQIES The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the April 2023 Pre-Implementation Performance Report (PIPR) to competing HHAs via the Internet Quality Improvement Evaluation System (iQIES). Instructions on how to access the PIPR are available on the Expanded HHVBP Model webpage under “Model Reports.” Need…

Expanded HHVBP Model: April 2023 PIPR Available in iQIES

The April 2023 Pre-Implementation Performance Report (PIPR) is available to download from the Internet Quality Improvement Evaluation System (iQIES). Instructions on how to access the PIPR are available on the Expanded HHVBP Model webpage under “Model Reports.” Need Help Understanding your PIPR? To assist HHAs in understanding the purpose, content, and use of the PIPRs, the HHVBP TA Team…

Expanded HHVBP Model Survey, Live Streaming Event, & January PIPR

Reminder: Expanded HHVBP Model Survey Open through 3/31/2023 The Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model Technical Assistance (TA) Team would like you to participate in a brief 15-minute survey designed to learn more about your home health agency’s (HHA’s) experience with the resources available for the expanded HHVBP Model and identify areas for future outreach…

Summary of the Recent CMS Open Door Forum

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) held a Home Health, Hospice, and DME Open Door Forum on February 23, 2023.  The summary of the Forum applicable to home health and hospice providers is below.

The most recent Hospice Care Compare refresh occurred in February.  As part of that refresh, CMS included an annual update of Provider Use File (PUF) data on Care Compare, which now includes data from 2018, 2019, and 2020.

CMS will host a Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) Spring Forum in late April, which will provide an overview of HQRP updates.  Registration will be available in mid-March, at which time additional information will be available.

Similar to the HHQRP, CMS has established a new Health Equity tab (https://www.cms.gov/hospice-qrp-health-equity) on the HQRP website , and the agency anticipates that the report from the Health Equity TEP, which was conducted last year, will be available in the spring.

Attendees were encouraged to submit any questions related to hospice quality to HospiceQualityQuestions@cms.hhs.gov.  Additional resources provided on the meeting agenda are:

NOW AVAILABLE IN QIES – Hospice Preview Reports for the May 2023 Refresh

Providers can now access the latest Provider Preview Reports via the Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reports (CASPER) application. Once released in CASPER, providers will have 30 days during which to review their quality measure results. Although the actual “preview period” is 30 days, the reports will continue to be available for another 30 days,…

Expanded HHVBP Model: January 2023 PIPR and First Performance Year Quick Guide

Reminder: January 2023 Pre-Implementation Performance Reports Available on iQIES CMS issued the January 2023 Pre-Implementation Performance Report (PIPR) to competing HHAs via the Internet Quality Improvement Evaluation System (iQIES). The PIPRs provide HHAs with data on their quality measure performance used in the expanded HHVBP Model, with comparison to HHAs nationally within peer cohorts. Instructions…

Expanded Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model HHVBP Newsletter – January 2023

The HHVBP Newsletter provides home health agencies (HHAs) with the latest information about the expanded HHVBP Model as well as important tools, news, and timely insights from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the HHVBP Model Technical Assistance (TA) Team. Please consider sharing this newsletter within your organization. Information in this edition…

NOW AVAILABLE IN iQIES – Preview Reports and Star Rating Preview Reports for the April 2023 Refresh

For this refresh, Home Health (HH) Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) will be based on the standard number of quarters. Due to the COVID-19 reporting exceptions, the claims-based measures have been calculated excluding Q1 and Q2 2020 data from measure calculations. For additional information, please see the HH QRP COVID-19 Public Reporting Tip Sheet in…

Now Available in iQIES: Preview Reports for the February 2023 Refresh

Providers can now access the latest Provider Preview Reports via the Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reports (CASPER) application. Once released in CASPER, providers will have 30 days during which to review their quality measure results. Although the actual “preview period” is 30 days, the reports will continue to be available for another 30 days,…

Expanded HHVBP Model: PIPR and New Resources Available

Available in iQIES: Expanded HHVBP Model Pre-Implementation Performance Reports As the expanded HHVBP Model prepares to start the first performance year on January 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the November 2022 Pre-Implementation Performance Report (PIPR) to all active home health agencies (HHAs). The PIPRs provide HHAs with data on…