Archives: 2018, June

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Hospice Utilization & Payment Public Use File

By Katie Wehri / Posted on: June 13, 2018

CMS is proposing to add Hospice Utilization and Payment Public Use File (Hospice PUF) data to Hospice Compare. The PUF data is derived primarily from hospice claims and the most current PUF data is from FY2015. The data would be in a segregated section of Compare as it contains information about hospice payments and utilization not quality measures.

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Pre-Claim Review Demonstration Coming Back?

By Melinda A. Gaboury, CEO / Posted on: June 7, 2018

CMS released a Comment Request, via the Federal Register, regarding Pre-Claim Review Demonstration being set to return on or after October 2018 in Illinois, Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, and Texas. The revised demonstration would last five years and Illinois will kick off the demonstration again and will be followed by Ohio and North Carolina and later Texas and Florida.

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