Tag: Theresa Forster

NAHC Webinar: The Proposed FY2023 Hospice Payment Rule and Quality Updates

Wednesday, April 13, 1:00-2:00PM Eastern REGISTER NOW! Free to members! Sponsored by NetHealth On March 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed FY2023 rule providing guidance on projected payment rates for the coming year and forthcoming updates to the Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP). While the rule addresses “standard fare”…

NAHC Webinar: The Proposed FY2023 Hospice Payment Rule and Quality Updates

On March 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed FY2023 rule providing guidance on projected payment rates for the coming year and forthcoming updates to the Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP). While the rule addresses “standard fare” for an annual payment rule, CMS did include some policy proposals that will benefit the hospice community, including a proposed cap on wage index losses from year to year and plans to solicit input on a Hospice Special Focus Program through the formal rulemaking process.

NAHC’s hospice experts will discuss these issues and share some hospice data and insights from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC’s recent Report to Congress on Medicare Payment Policy.

Objectives:

  1. Discuss the proposed hospice payment rates and wage index changes planned for FY2023
  2. Describe forthcoming changes to the Hospice Quality Reporting Program
  3. Identify key policy issues in hospice care as outlined by MedPAC

Faculty:

  • Theresa M. Forster, VP for Hospice Policy & Programs, NAHC
  • Katie Wehri, Director of Home Health and Hospice Regulatory Affairs

REGISTER NOW!

Sponsored by NetHealth

 

NAHC Webinar: The Proposed FY2023 Hospice Payment Rule and Quality Updates

Wednesday, April 13, 1:00-2:00PM Eastern REGISTER NOW! Free to members! Sponsored by NetHealth On March 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed FY2023 rule providing guidance on projected payment rates for the coming year and forthcoming updates to the Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP). While the rule addresses “standard fare”…

NAHC Webinar: Final Hospice Survey Reforms: Implications for Providers

Friday, November 5, 2021 Noon to 1:00PM Eastern REGISTER NOW Free to NAHC members! In late 2020 Congress enacted significant changes to the hospice survey process, including creation of a “Special Focus” program for poor performing hospice providers, expansion of the remedies that CMS can use to penalize seriously deficient hospices, and requirements that CMS…

New NAHC Webinar: What the 2022 Hospice Final Rule Means for Payment & Quality

Wednesday, August 11, 2011 12:30PM to 1:30PM Eastern Register The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) will present an important new webinar, FY2022 Hospice Final Rule: What’s in Store for Hospice Payment and Quality Measures. The FY2022 final Hospice payment and quality reporting program update final rule was released on July 29.  While…

NAHC’s Theresa Forster & Katie Wehri Honored for Advocacy by NY Assn

The Home Care Association of New York (HCA) honored NAHC Vice President for Hospice Policy Theresa Forster and Director of Home Care & Hospice Regulatory Affairs Katie Wehri for their advocacy on behalf of hospice services, at the association’s virtual annual conference on May 5. The HCA Advocacy Award recognizes a provider agency or person who…

Hospice Expert Davis Baird Joins NAHC Advocacy

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) is proud to announce the addition of Davis Baird, the new Director of Government Affairs for Hospice. Davis comes to us from the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care, where he was the Policy and Advocacy Manager. Prior to that, he worked at the National Association of…

Do You Provide Home-based Pediatric Services? Respond to the NAHC Member Interest Survey!

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) is the largest organization representing the interests of home health, hospice, and home care providers across the nation, including the home caregiving staff and the patients and families they serve. NAHC’s members have a wide variety of service lines, and at this time we are very…

CMS Plans 2021 Pilot Test of Shorter, Refined Hospice CAHPS Survey

Since implementation of the Hospice Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) survey in 2015, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and other hospice stakeholders have submitted recommendations for improvements to the survey, including suggestions that the survey be shortened and that certain questions be modified to eliminate the potential for…

NGS Collaborative Medicare Summit goes Virtual, Expands to Include Hospice, Home Health, and Parts A, B Education

Medicare Part A, Part B and Home Health & Hospice providers and vendors from all Jurisdictions are invited to join the National Government Services Collaborative 2020 Virtual Part A/B, Home Health & Hospice Medicare Summit, scheduled for September 22 – 24. Registration is now open for this FREE live educational webinar event that will host 30 subject matter…