The 2015 Medicare Shared Savings Program Application and Toolkit are now available on the Shared Savings Program Application web page. Extensive instructions for applicants are presented in this article.
Medicare-certified hospices will be required to complete and submit a Hospice Item Set Admission Record and a Hospice Item Set Discharge Record for each patient admitted on or after July 1, 2014. The completed HIS records are submitted to the Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (QIES) Assessment Submission and Processing (ASAP) system. Hospice providers required […]
CMS has scheduled the next Home Health, Hospice & DME Open Door Forum. As part of the call, CMS has incorporated a special breakout session related to the Hospice Information Set (HIS) that will begin promptly at 2:40 p.m. HIS is a standardized, patient-level, data collection instrument but CMS emphasizes that it is not […]
