by Noah Larsen | Jan 26, 2021 | Patient Experience
CMS recently announced that the Home Health Value Based Purchasing Model (HHVBP) may be expanded nationwide as soon as CY2022. The exact timeline will be published through upcoming rulemaking. Implemented in 2016, the existing model adjusts Medicare payments to home...
by Noah Larsen | Dec 1, 2020 | Patient Experience
Update: CMS finalized the majority of their Overall Star Rating proposals in a recent final rule, except for their proposal regarding the stratification of readmission measures under the new methodology based on dually-eligible patients. Other proposals, such as peer...
by Noah Larsen | Nov 23, 2020 | Patient Experience
During a recent OAS CAHPS vendor training, the OAS CAHPS Project Team covered some developments in the OAS CAHPS realm. They gave more detail on the OAS CAHPS mode experiment from 2019, where they tested a few new options, including web-only, web with mail follow-up,...
by Isaiah Dominguez | Oct 19, 2020 | Patient Experience
Update: Following feedback shared with CMS, CMS is now delaying the start date of the Radiation Oncology Model to July 1, 2021. The CAHPS® Cancer Care Survey start date has been pushed back to October 2021. In the summer of 2019, CMS proposed a new Radiation Oncology...
by Noah Larsen | Oct 15, 2020 | Patient Experience
In this webinar, Sandy Vandertie and Melody Hargis of Door County Medical Center share their foundational elements of success as a top performer and how to accomplish those steps with consistency throughout your inpatient and emergency department care. The presenters...