HOSPICE - If You Forget, You Lose 2%

Medicare Certified hospices will be required to complete and submit a Hospice Item Set (HIS) Admission record and a HIS Discharge record for each patient admission or discharge on or after July 1, 2014.  Failure to submit the information will cause the individual hospice a 2 percent reduction in future Medicare Payments. The completed HIS records are submitted to the Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (IES) Assessment Submission and Processing (ASAP) Systems.  Hospice providers required to submit the HIS records must register for two separate user ID’s – a CMSNet User ID and a QIES User ID.  The online registration applications for the CMSNet User ID and the QIES User ID are now available.  The online registration link is https://www.qtso.com/cmsnet.html.

You can download the HIS forms and manual on the CMS website.  CMS has a Fact Sheet for The Hospice Item Set (HIS) at this web link http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/Hospice-Quality-Reporting/Downloads/HIS-Fact-Sheet.pdf.  CMS has also published at Hospice Item Set (HIS) Quarterly Questions and Answers at this web link http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/Hospice-Quality-Reporting/Downloads/April-2014-Q_A-Document-FINAL.pdf

Finally CMS has two YouTube Videos for the Data Collection Training of the Hospice Items Set (HIS) which were held on February 4^th & 5^th at the following links:

February 4^th Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Caeoezmix6M

February 5^th Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TClgfeVHGDQ

If you have any questions please call Richard Dixon at 321-473-8561.  Don’t forget to register for the Understanding the Proposed Hospice Payment Rate FY 2015 and Proposed Rules Webinar which will be held Live on June 19^th 2014 from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

http://www.dixonhsi.com/Hospice-Webinar.html