Information
regarding Exemption Process from
CAHPS and Penalty for Not
Participating
Home health agencies are
required to participate in HHCAHPS by the fourth quarter of
2010 (with testing completed in
the third quarter of 2010) in
order to receive a full market
basked update in 2012, unless
they receive approval from CMS
for an exemption. Exemptions
will be given to agencies that
served fewer than 60
unduplicated Home Health CAHPS
survey-eligible
patients between April 1,
2009 and March 31, 2010.
Agencies must submit t requests
for exemptions before noon on
June 16, 2010. The exemption
submission request can be
submitted directly from the
following web site:
https://homehealthcahps.org/ForHHAs/ParticipationExemptionRequestForm.aspx.
(DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF
EXEMPTION PROCESS)
Medicare-certified home health
agencies that serve fewer than
60 unduplicated Home Health Care
CAHPS survey-eligible patients
over the course of the 12-month
period from April 1, 2009
through March 31, 2010 will be
exempted from participating in
the Home Health Care CAHPS
Survey for the calendar year
2012 annual payment update (APU). |
Agencies
seeking this exemption must provide a
count of the number of patients who meet
survey eligibility requirements that
their agency served between April 1,
2009 and March 31, 2010. The count of
the number of patients who meet survey
eligibility requirements must be
reported by completing and submitting
the online form below no later than
11:59 PM Eastern Time on June 16, 2010.
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Please
review the information below. When you
have made the count of patients served
by your agency between April 1, 2009 and
March 31, 2010, complete Steps 1-6 of
this online form.
Which patients should be included in
the count?
Your count should include patients your
agency served between April 1, 2009 and
March 31, 2010 whose care was paid for
by Medicare and/or Medicaid and who meet
the following survey eligibility
criteria.
-
Patients
who were at least 18 years of age at
the time they received home health
care from your agency;
-
Patients
who received at least two skilled
care visits from your agency between
April 1, 2009 through March 31,
2010;
-
Patients
who were not discharged to hospice
care during the time of service; and
-
Patients
who did not have "maternity" as the
primary reason for receiving home
health care.
Note that patients
enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan
and those enrolled in a Medicaid managed
care plan must be included in the count
if they meet the criteria listed above.
Do not include the following types of
patients in your count.
-
Patients
whose care was NOT paid for by
Medicare and/or Medicaid;
-
Patients
under 18 years old as of the date
you are submitting your count;
-
Patients
who received routine maternity care
visits only;
-
Patients
who were deceased as of the date you
are submitting your count;
-
Patients
who received hospice care between
April 1, 2009 and March 31, 2010;
and
-
Patients
who have formally requested that
your agency NOT release their
identifying information.
Exemption
submission requests can be submitted
directly from the following web site:
https://homehealthcahps.org/ForHHAs/ParticipationExemptionRequestForm.aspx.
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