Hospices take note: the April 1, 2013 deadline to submit the NQF #0209 data for Payment Year 2014 in the Hospice Quality Reporting Program, or HQRP, is approximately two weeks away.
A recent note from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reminded hospices that facilities failing to submit and attest to their data will receive a 2 percentage point reduction in their Annual Payment Update (APU) for the FY 2014.
To comply with the 2014 HQRP requirements, hospice providers should currently be entering their NQF #0209 data on the data entry and submission website. CMS said hospices that have not already created a data entry account should do so immediately.
Hospices are required to submit their structural measure data by January 31, 2013 and must submit their NQF #0209 data by April 1. Providers that missed the structural measure deadline can still visit the data entry website, create an account, and enter their NQF #0209 data.