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 […]

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  by Liz Seegert Hospice providers take note – Hospice Item Set data collection is changing in 2014 and now is the time to begin preparing. This was the alert last week from Kim Roche, RN, BSN, MA, Nurse Consultant, Quality Measurement and Health Assessment Group, Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, CMS, with a […]

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