Tag Archives: Quality Reporting

federal register • 29 may 2020

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CMS has published in the federal register:

  • A Proposed Rule for the Medicare Programs:
    1. Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Proposed Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2021 Rates;
    2. Quality Reporting and Medicare and Medicaid Promoting Interoperability Programs Requirements for Eligible Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals 
  • A Notice of Agency Information Collection Activities: Medicare Part D Reporting Requirements
  • A Notice of Agency Information Collection Activities:
    1. Manufacturer Submission of Average Sales Price (ASP) Data for Medicare Part B Drugs and Biologicals
    2. Retiree Drug Subsidy (RDS) Application and Instructions
    3. Value in Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Demonstration
    4. Withholding Medicare Payments to Recover Medicaid Overpayments and Supporting Regulations in 42 CFR 447.31
  • A Notice of Agency Information Collection Activities: National Implementation of Hospice Experience of Care Survey (CAHPS Hospice Survey)

federal register • 13 november 2018

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CMS has published in the federal register:

  • A Final Rule for the Medicare and Medicaid Programs:
    1. CY 2019 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update and CY 2020 Case-Mix Adjustment Methodology Refinements;
    2. Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model;
    3. Home Health Quality Reporting Requirements;
    4. Home Infusion Therapy Requirements; and
    5. Training Requirements for Surveyors of National Accrediting Organizations
  • A Notice for the Basic Health Program: Final Administrative Order

federal register • 22 august 2016

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CMS has published in the federal register:

  • Final Rules for the Medicare Program:
    1. Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2017 Rates;
    2. Quality Reporting Requirements for Specific Providers;
    3. Graduate Medical Education;
    4. Hospital Notification Procedures Applicable to Beneficiaries Receiving Observation Services;
    5. Technical Changes Relating to Costs to Organizations and Medicare Cost Reports;
    6. Finalization of Interim Final Rules With Comment Period on LTCH PPS Payments for Severe Wounds, Modifications of Limitations on Redesignation by the Medicare Geographic Classification Review Board, and Extensions of Payments to MDHs and Low-Volume Hospitals
  • A Notice for the Medicaid Program: Connecting Kids to Coverage Outreach and Enrollment Cooperative Agreement

federal register • 27 april 2016

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CMS has published in the federal register:

  • Proposed Rules for the Medicare Program:
    1. Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Proposed Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2017 Rates;
    2. Quality Reporting Requirements for Specific Providers;
    3. Graduate Medical Education;
    4. Hospital Notification Procedures Applicable to Beneficiaries Receiving Observation Services; and
    5. Technical Changes Relating to Costs to Organizations and Medicare Cost Reports

federal register • 05 october 2015

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CMS has published on the federal register:

  • A Correction to a Final Rule for the Medicare Program: FY 2016 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update and Hospice Quality Reporting Requirements
  • A Correction to the Final Rule for Medicare Program:
    1. Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2016 Rates;
    2. Revisions of Quality Reporting Requirements for Specific Providers, including Changes Related to the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program;
    3. Extensions of the Medicare-Dependent, Small Rural Hospital Program and the Low-Volume Payment Adjustment for Hospitals
  • A Correction to a Final Rule for the Medicare Program:
    1. Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities for FY 2016,
    2. SNF Value-Based Purchasing Program,
    3. SNF Quality Reporting Program, and
    4. Staffing Data Collection
  • A Notice of Agency Information Collection Activities concerning Off-cycle Submission of Summaries of Model of Care Changes

federal register • 17 august 2015

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CMS has published in the federal register:

  • Rules for the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2016 Rates; Revisions of Quality Reporting Requirements for Specific Providers, etc.
  • A Notice concerning the establishment of a new System of Records entitled “CMS Risk Adjustment Suite of Systems (RASS)”

federal register • 04 august 2015

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CMS has published in the federal register:

  • A Final Rule for the Medicare Program:
    1. Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities for FY 2016,
    2. SNF Value-Based Purchasing Program,
    3. SNF Quality Reporting Program, and
    4. Staffing Data Collection
  • A Correction to a Final Rule for the Medicare Program:
    1. CY 2016 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update;
    2. Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model; and
    3. Home Health Quality Reporting Requirements
  • A Notice of Agency Information Collection Activities concerning the Federally Qualified Health Center Cost Report Form

federal register • 01 may 2015

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CMS has published in the federal register:

  • A Proposed Rule for the Medicare Program: Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Prospective Payment System-Update for Fiscal Year Beginning October 1, 2015 (FY 2016)
  • A Notice of Agency Information Collection Activities:
    1. Part C Medicare Advantage Reporting Requirements and Supporting Regulations
    2. Medicare Part D Reporting Requirements and Supporting Regulations
    3. Skilled Nursing Facility and Skilled Nursing Facility Health Care Complex Cost Report Form
  • A Notice of Agency Information Collection Activities:
    1. Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Outpatient and Ambulatory Surgery (OAS CAHPS) Survey
    2. Use of Restraint and Seclusion in Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTFs) for Individuals Under Age 21 and Supporting Regulations

federal register • 30 april 2015

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CMS has published in the federal register:

  • A Rule for the Medicare Program:
    1. FY 2015 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update;
    2. Hospice Quality Reporting Requirements and
    3. Process and Appeals for Part D Payment for Drugs for Beneficiaries Enrolled in Hospice
  • A Proposed Rule for the Medicare Program:
    1. Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2016 Rates;
    2. Revisions of Quality Reporting Requirements for Specific Providers, Including Changes Related to the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program
  • A Notice of Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals concerning Electronic Health Record Incentive Program
  • A notice of the Application by the American Diabetes Association for Continued Deeming Authority for Diabetes Self-Management Training

HHS has published in the federal register:

  • A Correction to the CFR: Health Insurance Issuer Standards Under the Affordable Care Act, Including Standards Related to Exchanges